Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt

ABSTRACT: This article considers Tom Stoppard's latest play, Leopoldstadt, which premiered at Wyndham's Theatre London on 25 January 2020, and closed after eight weeks due to the London theatres shutting down because of coronavirus. The fate of the play mirrors its major preoccupations: th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Style. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. - 54(2020), 4, Seite 473-487
1. Verfasser: Baker, William (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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Schlagworte:Stoppard Leopoldstadt anti-Semitism fate Vienna the Holocaust
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