{"product_id":"tom-stoppards-arcadia-9780826496218","title":"Tom Stoppard's Arcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career. \u003cbr\u003eWith its engaging alteration between past and present \u003ci\u003eArcadia \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Fleming is Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University, USA. He has conducted extensive research in the Tom Stoppard Archive at the University of Texas and is the author of Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos (University of Texas Press)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492168732946,"sku":"9780826496218","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54237f46-40a7-434d-b9ed-10c13b30b0fc.jpg?v=1730574583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tom-stoppards-arcadia-9780826496218","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}