Arcadia
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“Arcadia,” perhaps his crowning achievement, may not be as sprawling but it’s just as intellectually ambitious.
From Los Angeles Times
And certainly “Arcadia,” Mr. Stoppard’s time-traveling story that embraces the history of English gardens, advanced mathematics, Lord Byron and the unquenchable thirst for knowledge, ranks high among the great plays of the past several decades.
The 1993 play, “Arcadia,” is one of his most critically acclaimed works.
Plays like Arcadia, Jumpers and the work which first made his name, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, were sometimes criticised for lacking emotional depth, for being too much show and too little substance.
From BBC
More successes followed in the 1970s and 1980s, including "Arcadia", which in 2006 was one of four works shortlisted by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as the best book ever written about science.
From Barron's
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