Book contents
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Frontispiece
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Influences
- Part III Ideas
- Part IV Aesthetics
- Part V Politics
- Chapter 19 Ideology
- Chapter 20 Communism
- Chapter 21 The Cold War
- Chapter 22 Human Rights and Censorship
- Chapter 23 Empire, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
- Part VI Page, Stage, and Screen
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 19 - Ideology
from Part V - Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2021
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Frontispiece
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Influences
- Part III Ideas
- Part IV Aesthetics
- Part V Politics
- Chapter 19 Ideology
- Chapter 20 Communism
- Chapter 21 The Cold War
- Chapter 22 Human Rights and Censorship
- Chapter 23 Empire, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
- Part VI Page, Stage, and Screen
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Political issues that had been consciously ignored or downplayed in Stoppard’s earlier work emerge strongly in the later plays. Topics like ideology formation and the philosophical frameworks of political commitment form the explicit subject of his epic Coast of Utopia trilogy, which traces Russian thought in the century before that country’s Communist revolution and lie underneath much of Leopoldstadt as well.
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- Tom Stoppard in Context , pp. 157 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021