The Invention of Love

Tom Stoppard

• 05 december 2023
• 9780802160782

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“Vintage Stoppard in itsintelligence and wit.” —Variety

It is1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be deadat last—yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger selffrom the vantage of death, Housman thinks back to the man he loved, who couldnot return his feelings, and considers the Oxford of his youth, suffused withthe flamboyant influence of the Wildean Aesthetic movement and the restrictionsof High Victorian morality. Winner of the Evening Standard’s Best PlayAward, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman’s imagination as if adream, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and the passion displacedinto poetry.