how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers
- Written by Fergus Edwards, Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania
Tom Stoppard, who has died at 88, was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful playwrights of our age. He won his first Tony Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968, and his last for Leopoldstadt in 2023.
His life was extraordinary. Born Tomáš Straussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in 1937,...





