Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul image
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul image

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul

Books | Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Tom Stoppard
It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.
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Author
Tom Stoppard
Pages
188
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published Date
2011-05-16
ISBN
080219527X 9780802195272

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