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The Invention of Love (Paperback)

de Tom Stoppard (Author)
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Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard's new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".

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It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene.

On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson-the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated-but whose passion was truly the fatal one?

"Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit."-Matt Wolf, Variety

"Tom Stoppard at his best; manipulative, inquisitive, irresistible . . . a master at work."-Sunday Times (London)

"So beautifully constructed that the playwright seems to be discovering his play only one jump ahead of the audience. It has that sense of surprise and wonder."-Vincent Canby, The New York Times

"A magical memory play which meanders like an elaborate dream . . . Stoppard has been inspired to write the most emotionally powerful and enthralling play of his career. Never before has he written with such exciting eloquence."-Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

"Some of the finest, most passionate, and most disarmingly brilliant dramatic writing that he has given us."-Alastair Macaulay, The Financial Times

Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, and The Real Inspector Hound.


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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Invention of Love Poetry, Nov. 17 2002
It opened in 1997, and the wind it brought to Los Angeles said, "Mr. Housman was queer." Well, no, the play says no such thing, these are not the memoirs of an old queen, although none other than Oscar Wilde is brought on toward the end as a figment of Housman's imagination to retail such goods in a shocking representation that puts me ahead of myself in this piece.

The actual subject of the play is the invention of love poetry by Propertius (or some other Roman poet) twenty centuries ago. This proceeds as a philological examination backwards, naturally, against an imaginary representation of Housman's life in his mind. The entire point is to create a simulacrum of emotions reflecting the condition of Propertius, by generating an elaborate masterpiece of artificial construction toying rather dangerously with the real.

It's all a game, but it grows more and more unstoppered until you have the real sense that Stoppard has let the play loose entirely: shame and confusion reign as Wilde is mocked (this is prepared with dazzling and daring care by introducing Bunthorne from Patience with the famous satire), until, in the best piece of writing Stoppard has produced, Housman unweaves the mess in the end.

The famous opening of Jumpers, involving a lady on a swing and a waiter with a tray, either has nothing on this, or amounts to what it all adds up to.

The Grove Press edition, which features on its back cover the pointed assertion that I am wrong and the wind had it right all along, rather humorously contains small alternate insertions (in parentheses) from the Royal National Theatre production, which give the text the incidental look of a variorum.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Beautiful play about art and homosexual love, Janv. 15 2002
Par Walker E. Rowe III "Walker Elliott Rowe" (Castleton, VA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I like this play because it blends the aesthetic with the dramatic. It's aesthetic because it discusses the great works of literature with the great writers and critics of that time. It's dramatic because this discussion provides an interesting background to an issue that makes difficult the lives of the main characters A.E. Houseman and Oscar Wilde: homosexual love. For Houseman the problem is unrequited love. For Oscar Wilde it is a charge of sodomy.

The point of classical scholarship is to study Greek and Latin works-that is the vocation of the scholars in this play. According to Oscar Wilde, to be an "aesthete" means to believe that all beauty emanates from Greek writing and sculpture particularly sculpture of the nude male form. In the play A.E. Houseman and his scholarly contemporaries-Ruskin and Pater--point out that much Latin and Greek poetry was written by one man who was in love with another. What makes the play ironic is how this aspect of these ancient cultures flies in the face of contemporary Victorian mores. To wit: the characters in the play are homosexual and that was a crime in 19th century England.

Every work of art must have a point or it's pointless. The point in this play is how the definition of love has come full circle since ancient Greece: what was once socially acceptable, boy love (i.e. pedophilia), is now anathema. And what is at best today grudgingly tolerated, homosexual love, was common practice in ancient Greece at least among the dramatists, poets, and philosophers. Stoppard writes: "Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented." Hence the title: "Invention of Love".

When Houseman died he had been successful in his career but not in his desire for eros: He says "the grave's a fine and private place but none I think there do embrace".

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1.0étoiles sur 5 the king of the erudites, Janv. 12 2002
Warning: This play is nothing like R&G Are Dead or Arcadia. The Invention of Love is boring, erudite, and trifling. The constant referencing of Classical poetry is painful to wade through. The concept behind the play is interesting but the execution is directionless and unengaging. There isn't a single line of dialogue that doesn't include italized Latin squashed into an otherwise strong sentence. Surely there is merit to using Latin but Stoppard overdoes it and as a result, the play is worthlessly pedantic. I wouldn't recommend it to my mortal enemy.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The best Stoppard yet
As in many of his recent plays, Stoppard plays with and juxtaposes two eras, but this one has more humanity and depth of character than even Arcadia. Read more
Publié le Sep 26 2001 par Mark R. Chartrand

5.0étoiles sur 5 Five stars is not enough!
Stoppard's genius shines through in this touching play. This is a literary masterpiece for anybody who enjoys Victorian or Greek writing. Read more
Publié le Aoû 22 2001 par anodos

1.0étoiles sur 5 impenetrable showmanship
After witnessing the emotional honesty of The Right Thing, I was certain that Mr. Stoppard was going to produce a stirring and evocative examination about unrequited love... Read more
Publié le Mai 12 2001 par C. Demel

5.0étoiles sur 5 Brilliant and Luminous, Stoppard at his Best
The Invention of Love, in my opinion, Tom Stoppard's best play, opens with A.E. Housman being ferried across the River Styx by Charon, relieved to be dead at last. Read more
Publié le Oct. 19 2000

4.0étoiles sur 5 Is there a deep structure here?
I confess to be slightly perplexed by this play. Let me say up front that to my mind it is not quite as good as the masterpiece of "Arcadia", nor quite up to the level of "Indian... Read more
Publié le Juil 7 2000 par M. L. Arnautov

5.0étoiles sur 5 A *must* before seeing the play
I bought it to get ready to attend the SF showing, which I had to miss, so the best experience still awaits me. Read more
Publié le Avril 28 2000 par mwv

5.0étoiles sur 5 A *must* before seeing the play
I bought it to get ready to attend the SF showing, which I had to miss, so the best experience still awaits me. Read more
Publié le Avril 28 2000 par mwv

4.0étoiles sur 5 Erudite? Yes! Not Emotional? Never.
At first glance, Tom Stoppard's newest work, THE INVENTION OF LOVE, exists as a scholarly presentation of A.E. Read more
Publié le Avril 26 2000 par kenyie

2.0étoiles sur 5 Difficult, Disappointing
Heresy? Stoppard is, by all means, brilliant. It's a wonder that he hasn't been awarded the Nobel Prize yet, although, as we all know, this is no indication of greatness. Read more
Publié le Avril 21 2000 par tksc

5.0étoiles sur 5 Devastating and moving play about love and devotion...
It's a hard play to read, an easy one to see, and worthwhile in each case. As much wit as may be expected from the writer of Shakespeare in Love (in fact, some of the same jokes)... Read more
Publié le Mai 1 1999

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