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Stoppard
[ stop-erd ]
noun
- Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
Stoppard
/ ˈstɒpɑːd /
noun
- StoppardSir Tom1937MBritishCzechWRITING: playwright Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)
Example Sentences
Stoppard’s professor may have been misled by David Hume’s famous argument that “reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
But there was also curly-haired Queen guitarist Brian May and playwright Tom Stoppard.
Both volumes feature interviews with everyone from Roman Polanski to Tom Stoppard to Beth Ditto.
At 73, Stoppard is intense and charming—and now he pauses to reconsider what he's just said.
During preview performances for the Broadway production, Stoppard sat in the audience taking notes.
"It still surprises me how many Bernards there can be," Stoppard says.
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