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The Surface Brilliance of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' Inhibits Appreciation of the Underlying Design, Discuss?
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The Surface Brilliance of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' Inhibits Appreciation of the Underlying Design, Discuss? In a lecture at the University of California in January 1977, Stoppard himself admitted that there might be some idea content lurking beneath the surface. He was referring here to the underlying design of his plays. This underlying design refers to puns and metaphors intricately dispersed throughout the play, along with themes that only reveal themselves upon closer inspection. The surface brilliance of Stoppard's plays is something that is clearly evident to all that read or watch Arcadia. It is full of linguistic flair such as hyperbole and apostrophe giving it immediate audience appeal, the sarcasm and innuendos only add to this, immediately giving the play a sense of comedy and also serve to emphasise the plot. But then 'Stoppard had always written plays of ideas disguised as comedy, or as he says, plays that' make serious...
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