| 词条 | The Invention of Love |
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| name = The Invention of Love | image = Invention of love.jpg | image_size = | caption = Cover of the Grove Press edition | writer = Tom Stoppard | chorus = | characters = A. E. Housman Alfred W. Pollard Charon John Ruskin Benjamin Jowett Jerome K. Jerome Henry Labouchere W. T. Stead Frank Harris Robinson Ellis John Postgate Walter Pater Oscar Wilde | mute = | setting = The river Styx | date of premiere = October 1, 1997 | country of Origin = {{flagicon|UK}} UK | original language = English | series = | subject = A. E. Housman | genre = Drama }} The Invention of Love is a 1997 play by Tom Stoppard portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman, focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate. The play is written from the viewpoint of Housman, dealing with his memories at the end of his life, and contains many classical allusions. The Invention of Love won both the Evening Standard Award (U.K.) and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (U.S.) Considered by many to be Stoppard's finest play, it has been called "esoteric".[1] In fact, to demystify the play's many historical and academic references, the New York production team provided the audiences with a 30-page booklet on the political and artistic history of the late-Victorian period.[2] Harold Bloom, a scholar of Walter Pater, contends that the character of Housman and those in his circle are fabulated for dramatic effect, and the play's difficulties are not historical but its own. This clarified, he cited it in 2003 as Stoppard's "masterpiece to date".[3] SynopsisThe play begins with A. E. Housman, dead at age 77, standing on the bank of the river Styx. About to board the ferry to the afterlife – captained by a petulant Charon – Housman begins to remember moments from his life, starting with his matriculation at Oxford University, where he studied Classics. The play unfolds in short scenes that trace, primarily, Housman's relationship with Moses Jackson, for whom he harboured a lifelong unrequited love. The scenes also explore late-Victorian artistic ideals, and Housman's intellectual growth into a preeminent Latin textual scholar. Throughout the play, the older Housman comments on and occasionally talks to the characters, including his younger self. Production historyThe play premièred at the Cottesloe Theatre in the Royal National Theatre, London, on 25 September 1997, moved later into the larger Lyttelton Theatre, and then transferred to the Haymarket Theatre in 1998. The old Housman was played by John Wood and the young Housman by Paul Rhys. The director was Richard Eyre.[4] The production won the 1997 Evening Standard Award for Best Play.[5] The play premiered in the U.S. at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater in 2000.[6] The play opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on 29 March 2001 and closed on 30 June 2001. Directed by Jack O'Brien, the cast starred Richard Easton as the older Housman and Robert Sean Leonard as the young Housman. Both actors won 2001 Tony Awards for their performances, as Best Actor and Best Featured Actor, respectively.[7] Awards and nominations
References1. ^{{cite news |title=An Abundance of Wit On the London Stage |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=14 December 1997 |work=The New York Times|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9506EFDE153CF937A25751C1A961958260}} 2. ^{{cite web |last=Spencer |first=David |date=2001 |url=http://www.aislesay.com/NY-INVENTION.html |work=Aisle Say (New York) |title=The Invention Of Love |accessdate=2015-05-26}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=Tom Stoppard |series=Bloom's Major Dramatists |year=2003 |publisher=Chelsea House |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0-7910-7032-8 |oclc=12724332 |last=Bloom |first=Harold |authorlink=Harold Bloom |edition=1st |chapter=Introduction |page=11}} 4. ^RNT premiere 5. ^Evening Standard Award {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213032426/http://albemarle-london.com/awards/AwardWinners.php?Award_Type=Evening%20Standard%20Awards&Year=1997 |date=2010-12-13 }} Retrieved on 8 October 2009 6. ^{{cite web |title=A.C.T. History |url=http://www.act-sf.org/home/about/history.html#2000 |publisher=American Conservatory Theater}} 7. ^"'The Invention of Love' Broadway" Playbill, accessed 28 February 2016 External links
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