Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage

Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage

by Tom Stoppard (Author)

Synopsis

Tom Stoppard's magnificent trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now Stoppard's crowning achievement (David Cote, Time Out New York) has been collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author, and includes the definitive text used during Lincoln Center's recent celebrated run. The Coast of Utopia comprises three sequential plays that chronicle the story of a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in what The New York Times calls brilliant, sprawling . . . a rich pageant.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 06 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 0802143407
ISBN 13: 9780802143402

Media Reviews
Contains some of Stoppard's best writing. Nobody in the theater today can match him for a combintaion of sinuous argument, intellectual elan, and sheer coruscating wit. The dialogue has a leaping, athletic energy: excitement of the mind and the heart.
Beautiful...The meanings of the play cohere as you watch, not as narrative but as poetry, and keep growing in recollection.
Refreshingly ambitious in its sweep...It's packed with reflections on idealism and political change that still have clout today.
Intelligent, lucid, eloquent and enlivened by the author's wit and eye for the absurd.