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Twentieth-Century Literature

Introduction to Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard which was concerned with the relationship of the past and present, certainty and uncertainty, order, and disorder. Gobert (2015) says it has been named as one of the best science-related works written by the royal institution of Great Britain in 2006. The play is divided into 7 parts. The genre of Arcadia is somewhere between tragedy and comedy as it involves some elements of classical tragedy, the nobility of the characters and the foreknowledge of Thomasine’s death, how characters interpret and interact with each other with their epigrammatic dialogues.

The play of Arcadia moves back and forth by the actors across centuries with a view to find the truth in the relationships, love versus intellect, math, science, nature, and the universe all against the charming British empire. The time is split in the story as the present day....