Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Arcadia posters

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Sir Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

Born Thomas Straussler in

Czechoslovakia.

30 plays, 34 books, 9 movies,

13 television productions,

and 8 radio programs.

1968 “Rosencranzt & Guildernstern Are Dead.”

Tony Award

“Arcadia” by Nicolas Poussin(1594-1665)

Self Portrait Poussin

Derbyshire, England

Derbyshire, England

“Arcadia” Set Design

Props

Props

“Arcadia” performed inDunedin, New Zealand 1998

Lord Byron had joined the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi in 1824, during the war of independence, when he contracted marsh fever and died.

Thomasina Coverly

Septimus Hodge

Costume 1800’s

Men’s Clothing 1800’s

Boy’s Clothing 1800’s

Sportman’s Clothing 1800’s

Sportman’s Clothing 1800’s

Woman’s Clothing 1800’s

Rules of Civility

Landscape Architects

Capability Brown

Humphry Repton

English Landscape

Salvator Rosa Landscape

Landscape

Math

Isaac NewtonPierre de Fermat

Fermat's last theorem

Fermat's last theorem says that this equation can't be satisfied for n greater than 2

Chaos game yields an image of a fern called Barnsley fern

Fractals

Simeon Denis Poisson Poisson's work was mentioned in scene7 page 81 when Thomasina and Septimus discussed about the waltz. He explained how the waltz related to Poisson's demonstration, "the equation of the propagation of heat in a solid body"

Chaos Theory

The Mandelbrot set puts some geometry into the fundamental observation.

It gives an algorithm for computing bulbs.

Others

Walpole

ThackerayMilton

Virgil

Peacock

Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849) founder of the waltz dynasty

A Waltz/Vienesse Waltz routine done by the assistents at Tanecni Skola Progress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBrFAUWSSQ

England to Martinique

Dahlias