Editing Tom Stoppard

{{Short description|Czech-British playwright (born 1937)}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| honorific_prefix=[[Sir]]
| name             = Tom Stoppard
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OM|CBE|FRSL|HonFBA}}
| image            = Tom Stoppard.jpg
| alt              = 
| caption          = Stoppard in 2022
| birth_name       = Tomáš Sträussler
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1937|7|3}}
| birth_place      = [[Zlín]], [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]] (present day [[Czech Republic]])
| occupation       = {{hlist|Playwright|screenwriter}}
| spouses          = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Josie Ingle<br />|1965|1972|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Miriam Stoppard|Miriam Stern]]<br />|1972|1992|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Sabrina Guinness]]<br />|2014}}}}
| partner          = [[Felicity Kendal]] (1991–1998)
| children         = 4, including [[Ed Stoppard|Ed]]
| education        = [[Pocklington School]]<br>[[Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling]]
| period           = 1953–present
| genre            = {{hlist|Dramatic comedy|[[tragicomedy]]}}
| signature        = 
| website          = {{URL|https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/tom-stoppard}}
| awards           = [[List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard|Full list]]
}}
'''Sir Tom Stoppard''' ({{ipac-en|ˈ|s|t|ɒ|ˌ|p|ɑː|d}};<ref>{{cite encyclopaedia|encyclopaedia=Collins English Dictionary|title=Definition of 'Stoppard'|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stoppard}}</ref> born '''{{lang|cs|Tomáš Sträussler|italic=no}}''', 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.<ref name=sal>{{cite web |last=Reiter |first=Amy |date=13 November 2001 |title=Tom Stoppard |url=https://www.salon.com/2001/11/13/tom_stoppard/ |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |access-date=9 October 2008}}</ref> He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and [[political freedom]], often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.<ref name="OCTP"/> He was [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom|knighted]] for his contribution to theatre by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] in 1997.

Born in [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]], Stoppard left as a child [[refugee]], fleeing [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|imminent Nazi occupation]]. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946, having spent the previous three years (1943–1946) in a boarding school in [[Darjeeling]] in the Indian [[Himalayas]]. After being educated at schools in [[Nottingham]] and [[Yorkshire]], Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright.

Stoppard's most prominent plays include ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' (1966), ''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]'' (1972), ''[[Travesties]]'' (1974), ''[[Night and Day (play)|Night and Day]]'' (1978), ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' (1982), ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'' (1993), ''[[The Invention of Love]]'' (1997), ''[[The Coast of Utopia]]'' (2002), ''[[Rock 'n' Roll (play)|Rock 'n' Roll]]'' (2006) and ''[[Leopoldstadt (play)|Leopoldstadt]]'' (2020). He wrote the screenplays for ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985), ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' (1987), ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' (1990), ''[[Billy Bathgate (film)|Billy Bathgate]]'' (1991), ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' (1998), ''[[Enigma (2001 film)|Enigma]]'' (2001), and ''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' (2012), as well as the [[HBO]] limited series ''[[Parade's End (TV series)|Parade's End]]'' (2013). He directed the film ''[[Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)|Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' (1990), an [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead|adaptation of his own 1966 play]], with [[Gary Oldman]] and [[Tim Roth]] as the leads.

He has received [[List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard|numerous awards and honours]] including an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], three [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Award]], and five [[Tony Awards]].<ref name=utop>{{cite news | title=Stoppard play sweeps Tony awards | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6739885.stm | work=[[BBC News]] | date=11 June 2007| access-date=5 October 2008}}</ref> In 2008, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in [[Culture of the United Kingdom|British culture]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=The 100 most powerful people in British culture|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3672604/The-100-most-powerful-people-in-British-culture-1-20.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3672604/The-100-most-powerful-people-in-British-culture-1-20.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=9 November 2016|access-date = 9 May 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was announced in June 2019 that Stoppard had written a new play, ''[[Leopoldstadt (play)|Leopoldstadt]]'', set in the Jewish community of early 20th-century [[Vienna]]. The play premiered in January 2020 at [[Wyndham's Theatre]].<ref name="Brown, Mark">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jun/26/jewish-district-inspires-tom-stoppard-personal-new-play-leopoldstadt|title=Jewish district inspires Tom Stoppard in 'personal' new play|author= Brown, Mark|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=26 June 2019|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> The play went on to win the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play]] and later the 2022 [[Tony Award for Best Play]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Wolf|first=Matt|date=26 October 2020|title=2020 Olivier Awards: Better late than never as Dear Evan Hansen and Tom Stoppard win top awards|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/west-end-features/2020-olivier-awards-better-late-than-never|access-date=2 October 2021|website=London Theatre Guide}}</ref><ref name="broadway.com">{{cite web|title=Tom Stoppard's Olivier-Winning Leopoldstadt Sets Dates for West End Return|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/200675/tom-stoppards-olivier-winning-leopoldstadt-sets-dates-for-west-end-return/|access-date=2 October 2021|website=Broadway.com}}</ref>

==Early life and education ==
Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler,<ref name="Kois">{{cite web |last1=Kois |first1=Dan |title=Tom Stoppard Doesn't Trust Biographies. Now He's the Subject of One. |url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/02/tom-stoppard-life-biography-hermione-lee.html |website=Slate Magazine |access-date=24 February 2021 |date=23 February 2021}}</ref> in [[Zlín]], a city dominated by the shoe manufacturing industry, in the [[Moravia]] region of [[Czechoslovakia]]. He is the son of Martha Becková and Eugen Sträussler,<ref name="Kois"/> a doctor employed by the [[Bata Shoes|Bata shoe company]]. His parents were non-observant Jews.<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jun/22/books.featuresreviews |title= And now, the real thing |work= 'The Guardian |first=Stephen |last=Moss |date=22 June 2002 |access-date=10 February 2010}}</ref>  Just before the [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia]], the town's patron, [[Jan Antonín Baťa]], transferred his Jewish employees, mostly physicians, to branches of his firm outside Europe.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/dk9e6.htm+tom+stoppard+mother+beck%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26client%3Dsafari| title = Theresienstadt memorial archive ''Tom Stoppard Discloses his Past''| access-date = 21 February 2010| archive-date = 6 November 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161106023725/http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/dk9e6.htm%20tom%20stoppard%20mother%20beck%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26client%3Dsafari| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jun/22/books.featuresreviews "And now the real thing"] ''The Guardian'', 22 June 2002. Retrieved 10 October 2010</ref> On 15 March 1939, the day the [[Nazism|Nazis]] invaded Czechoslovakia, the Sträussler<ref name="Kois"/> family fled to [[Singapore in the Straits Settlements|Singapore]], where Bata had a factory.

Before the [[Japanese occupation of Singapore]], Stoppard, his brother, and their mother fled to [[British Raj|India]]. Stoppard's father remained in Singapore as a British army volunteer, knowing that as a doctor, he would be needed in its defence.<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/> When Stoppard was four years old, his father died.<ref>Bloom, p.13</ref> The writer long understood that Sträussler had perished in Japanese captivity, as a [[prisoner of war#Empire of Japan|prisoner of war]].<ref name="Tom Stoppard 1994 p91"/><ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/ram/ajtstoppard.ram BBC] [[John Tusa]] Interview (Audio 43 mins). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/stoppard_transcript.shtml Transcript]</ref> The book ''Tom Stoppard in Conversation'' describes this, but the author later revealed the subsequent discovery that his father had been reported<ref name="Kois"/> drowned on board a ship, bombed by Japanese forces, as he tried to flee Singapore in 1942.<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/>

In 1941, when Tomáš was five, he, his brother Petr, and their mother had been evacuated to [[Darjeeling]], India. The boys attended [[Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling|Mount Hermon School]], an American multi-racial school,<ref name="Tom Stoppard 1994 p91">Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). ''Tom Stoppard in Conversation'',  p. 91, University of Michigan Press</ref> where the brothers became Tom and Peter.

In 1945, his mother, Martha, married British army major Kenneth Stoppard, who gave the boys his English surname and moved the family to England in 1946.<ref name=sal/> Stoppard's stepfather believed strongly that "to be born an Englishman was to have drawn first prize in the lottery of life"—a quote from [[Cecil Rhodes]]—telling his 9-year-old stepson: "Don't you realize that I made you British?"<ref name="Write"/> setting up Stoppard's desire as a child to become "an honorary Englishman". He has said, "I fairly often find I'm with people who forget I don't quite belong in the world we're in. I find I put a foot wrong—it could be pronunciation, an arcane bit of English history—and suddenly I'm there naked, as someone with a pass, a press ticket". This is reflected in his characters, he observes, who are "constantly being addressed by the wrong name, with jokes and false trails to do with the confusion of having two names".<ref name="Write"/> Stoppard attended the Dolphin School in Nottinghamshire, and later completed his education at [[Pocklington School]] in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], which he hated.<ref Name="BBC"/>

Stoppard left school at 17 and began work as a journalist for the ''[[Western Daily Press]]'' in Bristol, without attending university.<ref name="BBC"/> Years later, he came to regret the decision to forgo a university education, but at the time, he loved his work as a journalist and was passionate about his career.<ref name="BBC"/> He worked at the paper from 1954 until 1958, when the ''[[Bristol Post|Bristol Evening World]]'' offered Stoppard the position of feature writer, humour columnist, and secondary drama critic, which took him into the world of theatre. At the [[Bristol Old Vic]], at the time a well-regarded regional [[repertory theatre|repertory company]], Stoppard formed friendships with director [[John Boorman]] and actor [[Peter O'Toole]] early in their careers. In Bristol, he became known more for his strained attempts at humour and unstylish clothes than for his writing.<ref name=sal/>

==Career==
=== Early work ===
Stoppard wrote short radio plays in 1953–54 and by 1960 he had completed his first stage play, ''A Walk on the Water'', which was later re-titled ''Enter a Free Man'' (1968).<ref Name="BBC"/>
He has said the work owed much to [[Robert Bolt]]'s ''[[Flowering Cherry]]'' and [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[Death of a Salesman]]''. Within a week after sending ''A Walk on the Water'' to an agent, Stoppard received his version of the "Hollywood-style telegrams that change struggling young artists' lives." His first play was optioned, staged in [[Hamburg]], then broadcast on British Independent Television in 1963.<ref name=sal/> From September 1962 until April 1963, Stoppard worked in London as a drama critic for ''Scene'' magazine, writing reviews and interviews both under his name and the pseudonym [[William Boot]] (taken from [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s ''Scoop''). In 1964, a [[Ford Foundation]] grant enabled Stoppard to spend 5 months writing in a Berlin mansion, emerging with a one-act play titled ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet King Lear'', which later evolved into his Tony-winning play ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''.<ref name=sal/>

In the following years, Stoppard produced several works for radio, television and the theatre, including ''"M" is for Moon Among Other Things'' (1964), ''A Separate Peace'' (1966) and ''If You're Glad I'll Be Frank'' (1966). On 11 April 1967&nbsp;– following acclaim at the 1966 [[Edinburgh Festival]]&nbsp;– the opening of ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' in a [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] production at the [[Old Vic]] made Stoppard an overnight success. ''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]'' (1972) places a professor of moral philosophy in a murder mystery thriller alongside a slew of radical gymnasts. ''[[Travesties]]'' (1974) explored the '[[Oscar Wilde|Wildean]]' possibilities arising from the fact that [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[James Joyce]], and [[Tristan Tzara]] had all been in [[Zürich]] during the First World War.<ref name="OCTP"/>
Stoppard has written one novel, ''Lord Malquist and Mr Moon'' (1966), set in contemporary London. Its cast includes the 18th-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual [[James Boswell|Boswell]], Moon, and also cowboys, a lion (banned from [[The Ritz London Hotel|the Ritz]]) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the Risen Christ.

=== 1980s ===
In the 1980s, in addition to writing his own works, Stoppard translated many plays into English, including works by [[Sławomir Mrożek]], [[Johann Nestroy]], [[Arthur Schnitzler]], and [[Václav Havel]]. It was at this time that Stoppard became influenced by the works of Polish and Czech absurdists. He has been co-opted into the [[Outrapo]] group, a far-from-serious French movement to improve actors' stage technique through science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outrapo.voila.net/page4/index.html|title=L'acteur cérébral|last=von Bariter|first=Milie|work=Contrainte du moment|publisher=Outrapo|access-date=6 September 2008}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1982 Stoppard premiered his play ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]''. The story revolves around a male-female relationship and the struggle between the  actress and the member of a group fighting to free a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath during a protest. The leading roles were originated by [[Roger Rees]], and [[Felicity Kendal]]. The story examines various constructs of honesty including a [[play within a play]], to explore the theme of reality versus appearance. It has been described as one of Stoppard's "most popular, enduring and autobiographical plays."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/11362609/archive-telegraph-theatre-reviews-tom-stoppard-plays.html|title=The Telegraph's original verdicts on Tom Stoppard's plays|last=Baddeley|first=Anna|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=29 January 2015|access-date=16 July 2019|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

The play made its [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] transfer in 1984 which was directed by [[Mike Nichols]] starring [[Jeremy Irons]] and [[Glenn Close]] in the leading roles with a supporting role by [[Christine Baranski]]. The transfer was a critical success with ''[[The New York Times]]'' theatre critic [[Frank Rich]] declaring, "The Broadway version of ''The Real Thing'' - a substantial revision of the original London production - is not only Mr. Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/06/theater/theater-tom-stoppard-s-real-thing.html|title= THEATER: TOM STOPPARD'S ''REAL THING''|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= 6 January 1984|accessdate= 14 June 2022|last1= Rich|first1= Frank}}</ref> The production went on to earn seven [[Tony Award]] nominations, winning five awards for [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]] as well for Nichols, Irons, Close, and Baranski.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/04/theater/real-thing-and-la-cage-dominate-the-tony-awards.html|title= 'REAL THING' AND 'LA CAGE' DOMINATE THE TONY AWARDS|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= 4 June 1984|accessdate= 14 June 2022|last1= Freedman|first1= Samuel G.}}</ref> This would be Stoppard's third Tony Award for Best Play, following ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' in 1968 and ''[[Travesties]]'' in 1976.

In 1985, Stoppard co-wrote with Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown a feature film, the [[satire|satirical]] science-fiction dark comedy ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985). 
The film received near universal acclaim. [[Pauline Kael]] critic for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' declared, "Visually, it’s an original, bravura piece of moviemaking...Gilliam’s vision is an organic thing on the screen—and that’s a considerable achievement".<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/brazil|title= Movies: Brazil|magazine= [[The New Yorker]]|accessdate= 14 June 2022}}</ref> 
Stoppard along with Gilliam and McKeown were nominated for the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]], losing to ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]''. He went on to write the scripts for [[Steven Spielberg]], ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' (1987) and ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' (1989). Spielberg later stated that though Stoppard was uncredited for the latter of the two, "he was responsible for almost every line of dialogue in the film".<ref name="Empire: Features">{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/indy/day17/ |title=Empire: Features |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |access-date=8 July 2009}}</ref>

For his 1985 appearance on BBC Radio 4's [[Desert Island Discs]] Stoppard chose "Careless Love" by [[Bessie Smith]] as his favourite track; he also selected [[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]] in two languages by [[Dante Alighieri]] as his chosen book and a plastic football as his luxury item.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mnb0 | title=BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Tom Stoppard }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p009mnb0 | title=Desert Island Discs - Tom Stoppard - BBC Sounds }}</ref>

=== 1990s ===
In 1993, Stoppard wrote ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'', a play in which he explores the interaction between two modern academics and the residents of a [[Derbyshire]] country house in the early 19th century, including aristocrats, tutors and the fleeting presence, unseen on stage, of [[Lord Byron]]. The themes of the play include the philosophical implications of the [[second law of thermodynamics]], [[Romantic literature in English|Romantic literature]], and the [[English landscape garden|English picturesque style of garden design]].<ref name =act>{{cite web | url = https://www.act-sf.org/content/dam/act/education_department/words_on_plays/Arcadia%20Words%20on%20Plays%20(2013).pdf | title = Words on Plays: Arcadia | author = Perloff, Carey | date = 2013 | access-date = 11 October 2020 | website = act.sf | archive-date = 27 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210327191914/https://www.act-sf.org/content/dam/act/education_department/words_on_plays/Arcadia%20Words%20on%20Plays%20(2013).pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The first production premiered at the [[Royal National Theatre]] directed by [[Trevor Nunn]] starring [[Rufus Sewell]], [[Felicity Kendal]], [[Bill Nighy]], [[Harriet Walter]] and [[Emma Fielding]]. It won the 1993 [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play]]. A year later the play made its transfer on [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] starring [[Billy Crudup]], [[Blair Brown]], [[Victor Garber]] and [[Robert Sean Leonard]]. The production was well received with [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' writing, that while "There are real difficulties with this production...[there are] also great pleasures, not the least of which are Mark Thompson's sets and costumes. Mostly, though, there are Mr. Stoppard's grandly eclectic obsessions and his singular gifts as a playwright. Attend to them."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/31/theater/theater-review-arcadia-stoppard-s-comedy-of-1809-and-now.html#:~:text=%22Arcadia%22%20demands%20something%20more%20than,by%20two%20sets%20of%20characters.|title= THEATER REVIEW: ARCADIA; Stoppard's Comedy Of 1809 And Now|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= 31 March 1995|accessdate= 14 June 2022|last1= Canby|first1= Vincent}}</ref> The production received three [[Tony Award]] nominations including [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]] losing to [[Terrence McNally]]'s ''[[Love! Valour! Compassion!]]''.

Stoppard gained acclaim with the feature film ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' (1998), which he wrote. The film, a [[romantic comedy]], focuses on a fictional story involving [[William Shakespeare]] and his romance with a young woman who is an inspiration for the play ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. The film starred an ensemble cast including [[Joseph Fiennes]], [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Geoffrey Rush]], [[Colin Firth]], and [[Judi Dench]]. The film was a critical and financial success and went on to earn seven [[Academy Awards]] including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. Stoppard received his second career Oscar nomination and first win for [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]. He also received the [[BAFTA Award]], and [[Golden Globe Award]] for his screenplay.

=== 2000s ===
''[[The Coast of Utopia]]'' (2002) was a trilogy of plays Stoppard wrote about the philosophical arguments among Russian revolutionary figures in the late 19th century. The trilogy comprises ''Voyage'', ''Shipwreck'', and ''Salvage''. Major figures in the play include [[Michael Bakunin]], [[Ivan Turgenev]], and [[Alexander Herzen]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Coast of Utopia: Voyage | url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/The%20Coast%20of%20Utopia%3A%20Voyage+1334.twl | publisher=Royal National Theatre | date=2008 | access-date=12 October 2020 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518091558/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/The%20Coast%20of%20Utopia:%20Voyage+1334.twl | archive-date=18 May 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The title comes from a chapter in [[Avrahm Yarmolinsky]]'s book ''[[Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism]]'' (1959). The play premiered in 2002 at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] directed by Trevor Nunn in total spanning nine hours. The play received three [[Laurence Olivier Award]] nominations including Best New Play, ultimately losing in all its categories. In 2006 it made its Broadway premiere in a production starring [[Billy Crudup]], [[Jennifer Ehle]], and [[Ethan Hawke]]. The play received 10 nominations winning seven awards including for [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]], Stoppard's fourth win in the category.

''[[Rock 'n' Roll (play)|Rock 'n' Roll]]'' (2006) was set in both [[Cambridge]], England, and [[Prague]]. The play explored the culture of 1960s rock music, especially the persona of [[Syd Barrett]] and the political challenge of the Czech band [[The Plastic People of the Universe]], mirroring the contrast between liberal society in England and the repressive Czech state [[History of Czechoslovakia#Aftermath|after the Warsaw Pact intervention]] in the [[Prague Spring]].<ref name =rnr>{{cite web | url = https://www.act-sf.org/content/dam/act/Words%20on%20Plays/PDFs/Rock%20%27n%27%20Roll%20Words%20on%20Plays%20(2008).pdf | title = Words on Plays: Rock'n'Roll | author = Broderson, Elizabeth | date = 2008 | access-date = 11 October 2020 | website = act.sf }}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Stoppard served on the advisory board of the magazine ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'', and was instrumental in its foundation, giving the opening speech at its launch.<ref>{{cite web|author=Tom Stoppard |url=http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/Speech-at-the-Standpoint-Launch |title=ONLINE ONLY: Speech at the Standpoint Launch |work=Standpoint |date=13 June 2008 |access-date=8 July 2009}}</ref> He is also a patron of the [[Shakespeare Schools Festival]], a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |title=Shakespeare Schools Foundation Patrons |website=Shakespeare Schools Foundation |access-date=12 July 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211165434/https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stoppard was appointed president of the [[London Library]] in 2002 and vice-president in 2017 following the election of [[Tim Rice|Sir Tim Rice]] as president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/patron-president-trustees-staff/patron-and-president|title=Patrons and Presidents|last=artonezero|publisher=londonlibrary.co.uk|access-date=28 February 2017|archive-date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301011734/http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/patron-president-trustees-staff/patron-and-president|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== 2010s ===
For [[Joe Wright]], Stoppard adapted [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' into the [[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|2012 film adaptation]] starring [[Keira Knightley]]. Film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' praised the film and Stoppard writing, "Stoppard — himself a master of puzzle-like construction in fine plays including Arcadia — supplies an excellently clean, delicately balanced script."<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://ew.com/article/2012/11/16/anna-karenina-review/|title= Anna Karenina review|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate= 14 June 2022}}</ref>

In 2012, Stoppard wrote a five part limited series for television, ''[[Parade's End (TV series)|Parade's End]]'', which revolves around a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette. The series premiered on [[BBC Two]], starring [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] and [[Rebecca Hall]]. The series has received widespread acclaim from critics with ''[[The Independent]]''{{'}}s [[Grace Dent]] proclaiming it "one of the finest things the BBC has ever made".<ref>{{cite news |author= Dent Grace |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/grace-dent-on-television-parades-end-bbc2-8113316.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/grace-dent-on-television-parades-end-bbc2-8113316.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Grace Dent on Television: Parade's End, BBC2 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=9 September 2012 |access-date=23 December 2012 |location=London}}</ref> ''[[IndieWire]]'' declared, "''Parade’s End'' is wonderful accomplishment, smart, adult television".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.indiewire.com/2013/03/recap-parades-end-brings-dense-miniseries-to-a-quiet-close-in-finale-101069/|title= Parade's End' Brings Dense Miniseries To A Quiet Close In Finale|website= [[IndieWire]]|date= March 2013|accessdate= 14 June 2022|archive-date= 14 June 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220614141737/https://www.indiewire.com/2013/03/recap-parades-end-brings-dense-miniseries-to-a-quiet-close-in-finale-101069/|url-status= dead}}</ref> Stoppard received a [[British Academy Television Award]] and [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination for the series.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-st-emmys-benedict-cumberbatch-parades-end-sherlock-20130718-story.html|title= Emmys 2013: Benedict Cumberbatch on 'Parade's End|website= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date= 19 July 2013|accessdate= 14 June 2022}}</ref>

It was announced in June 2019 that Stoppard had written a new play, ''[[Leopoldstadt (play)|Leopoldstadt]]'', set in the Jewish community of early 20th-century [[Vienna]]. The play premiered in January 2020 at [[Wyndham's Theatre]].<ref name="Brown, Mark"/> The play went on to win the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Wolf|first=Matt|date=26 October 2020|title=2020 Olivier Awards: Better late than never as Dear Evan Hansen and Tom Stoppard win top awards|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/west-end-features/2020-olivier-awards-better-late-than-never|access-date=2 October 2021|website=London Theatre Guide}}</ref><ref name="broadway.com"/> The play then transferred to [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]], opening on 2 October 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dowd |first1=Maureen |title=Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/theater/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-broadway.html |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 September 2022}}</ref> It was nominated for six [[76th Tony Awards|Tony Awards]] and won four, including [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]].

== Screenwriting ==
Stoppard has also co-written screenplays including ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' (1998) and ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' (1989).<ref name="Empire: Features"/> Stoppard also worked on ''[[Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith]]'', though again Stoppard received no official or formal credit in this role.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/tom-stoppard-interview-ive-always-been-strangely-eclectic| title = TimeOut New York interview| work = Time Out New York| date = 17 September 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-20050519 ''Rolling Stone'' magazine article]. Retrieved 19 February 2010</ref> He worked in a similar capacity with [[Tim Burton]] on his film ''[[Sleepy Hollow (film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/nov/30/tvandradio.television2 Morris, Mark (30 November 1999). "Get me Tom Stoppard"]. ''[[The Guardian]]''  Retrieved 9 May 2020.</ref> His radio production, ''[[Darkside (radio play)|Darkside]]'' (2013), was written for BBC Radio 2 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of [[Pink Floyd]]'s album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.<ref name="DarkSide"/>

==Themes==
=== Existentialism ===
''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' (1966–67) was Stoppard's first major play to gain recognition. The story of ''[[Hamlet]]'' as told from the viewpoint of two courtiers echoes [[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]] in its double act repartee, existential themes and language play.<ref name="OCTP">"Stoppard, Tom"  ''The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance''. Edited by Dennis Kennedy. Oxford University Press Inc.</ref> "Stoppardian" became a term describing works using wit and comedy while addressing philosophical concepts.<ref name="OCTP"/> Critic Dennis Kennedy commented<ref name="OCTP"/>:<blockquote>It established several characteristics of Stoppard's dramaturgy: his word-playing intellectuality, audacious, paradoxical, and self-conscious theatricality, and preference for reworking pre-existing narratives... Stoppard's plays have been sometimes dismissed as pieces of clever showmanship, lacking in substance, social commitment, or emotional weight. His theatrical surfaces serve to conceal rather than reveal their author's views, and his fondness for towers of paradox spirals away from social comment. This is seen most clearly in his comedies ''[[The Real Inspector Hound]]'' (1968) and ''[[After Magritte]]'' (1970), which create their humour through highly formal devices of reframing and juxtaposition.</blockquote>Stoppard himself went so far as to declare  "I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness."<ref name=sal/> He acknowledges that he started off "as a language nerd", primarily enjoying linguistic and ideological playfulness, feeling early in his career that journalism was far better suited for presaging political change, than playwriting.<ref Name="BBC"/>

=== Intellectuality ===
The accusations of favouring intellectuality over political commitment or commentary were met with a change of tack, as Stoppard produced increasingly socially engaged work.<ref name="OCTP"/> From 1977, he became personally involved with human-rights issues, in particular with the situation of political dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe. In February 1977, he visited the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries with a member of [[Amnesty International]].<ref name=sal/> In June, Stoppard met [[Vladimir Bukovsky]] in London and travelled to Czechoslovakia (then under communist control), where he met dissident playwright and future president [[Václav Havel]], whose writing he greatly admires.<ref name=sal/><ref Name="BBC"/> Stoppard became involved with ''[[Index on Censorship]]'', Amnesty International, and the [[Committee Against Psychiatric Abuse]] and wrote various newspaper articles and letters about human rights. He was instrumental in translating Havel's works into English. ''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (play)|Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'' (1977), "a play for actors and orchestra" was based on a request by conductor/composer [[André Previn]] and was inspired by a meeting with a Russian exile. This play, as well as ''[[Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth]]'' (1979), ''The Coast of Utopia'' (2002),  ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (2006), and two works for television ''[[Professional Foul]]'' (1977) and ''Squaring the Circle'' (1984), all concern themes of censorship, rights abuses, and state repression.<ref name="OCTP"/>

Stoppard's later works have sought greater interpersonal depths, whilst maintaining their intellectual playfulness. Stoppard acknowledges that around 1982 he moved away from the "argumentative" works and more towards plays of the heart, as he became "less shy" about emotional openness. Discussing the later integration of heart and mind in his work, he commented "I think I was too concerned when I set off, to have a firework go off every few seconds... I think I was always looking for the entertainer in myself and I seem to be able to entertain through manipulating language... [but] it's really about human beings, it's not really about language at all." ''The Real Thing'' (1982) uses a [[Metatheatre|meta-theatrical]] structure to explore the suffering that adultery can produce and ''The Invention of Love'' (1997) also investigates the pain of passion. ''Arcadia'' (1993) explores the meeting of [[chaos theory]], historiography, and landscape gardening.<ref name="OCTP"/> He was inspired by a [[Trevor Nunn]] production of [[Maxim Gorky|Gorky]]'s ''[[Summerfolk]]'' to write a trilogy of "human" plays: ''The Coast of Utopia'' (''Voyage'', ''Shipwreck'', and ''Salvage'', 2002).<ref Name="BBC"/>

Stoppard has commented that he loves the medium of theatre for how "adjustable" it is at every point, how unfrozen it is, continuously growing and developing through each rehearsal, free from the text. His experience of writing for film is similar, offering the liberating opportunity to "play God", in control of creative reality. It often takes four to five years from the first idea of a play to staging, taking pains to be as profoundly accurate in his research as he can be.<ref Name="BBC"/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Miriam and Tom Stoppard, NYC.jpg|thumb|alt=Man and woman posing closely together indoors|Miriam and Tom Stoppard, New York City, circa 1985]]

=== Family and relationships ===
Stoppard has been married three times. His first marriage was to Josie Ingle (1965–1972), a nurse.<ref name=stade>{{cite book|last1=Stade|first1=George and Karen Karbiener|title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, Volume 2|date=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8160-7385-6|pages=467–69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7pVTz46T3cC|access-date=9 October 2015}}</ref> His second marriage was to [[Miriam Stoppard|Miriam Stern]] (1972–92); they separated when he began a relationship with actress [[Felicity Kendal]].{{sfn|Kelly|2001|pp=33–34}}{{sfn|Kelly|2001|pp=242–243}} He also had a relationship with actress [[Sinéad Cusack]], but she made it clear she wished to remain married to [[Jeremy Irons]] and stay close to their two sons. Also, after she was reunited with a [[Richard Boyd Barrett|son she had given up for adoption]], she wished to spend time with him in Dublin rather than with Stoppard in the house they shared in France.<ref name="IT">{{cite news |title=Tom Stoppard: A Life — A great biography of a great playwright |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/tom-stoppard-a-life-a-great-biography-of-a-great-playwright-1.4377923 |newspaper= [[The Irish Times]] |author= Roche, Anthony |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> He has two sons from each of his first two marriages: Oliver Stoppard, Barnaby Stoppard, the actor [[Ed Stoppard]], and Will Stoppard, who is married to violinist [[Linzi Stoppard]].{{sfn|Kelly|2001|pp=242–243}} In 2014 he married [[Sabrina Guinness]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite news |date=8 June 2014 |title=Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard marries brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness in Wimborne  |work=[[Bournemouth Echo]] |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11264225.playwright-sir-tom-stoppard-marries-brewery-heiress-sabrina-guinness-in-wimborne/ |access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref>

Stoppard's mother died in 1996. The family had not talked about their history and neither brother knew what had happened to the family left behind in Czechoslovakia.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/d-k9e6.htm+tom+stoppard+mother+beck%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26client%3Dsafari| title = Theresienstadt memorial archive website''Tom Stoppard Discloses his Past''| access-date = 21 February 2010| archive-date = 2 April 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170402081322/http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/d-k9e6.htm+tom+stoppard+mother+beck%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26client%3Dsafari| url-status = dead}}</ref> In the early 1990s, with the fall of communism, Stoppard found out that all four of his grandparents had been Jewish and had died in [[Theresienstadt concentration camp|Terezin]], [[Auschwitz]], and other camps, along with three of his mother's sisters.

In 1998, following the deaths of his parents, he returned to Zlín for the first time in over 50 years.<ref name="BBC"/> He has expressed grief both for a lost father and a missing past, but he has no sense of being a survivor, at whatever remove. "I feel incredibly lucky not to have had to survive or die. It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life."<ref name="Write">[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/sep/06/stoppard.theatre "You can't help being what you write"]. ''[[The Guardian]]'', 6 September 2008</ref>

In 2013, Stoppard asked [[Hermione Lee]] to write his biography.<ref name="IT"/> The book was published in 2020.

===Political views===
In 1979, the year of [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[1979 United Kingdom general election|election]], Stoppard noted to Paul Delaney: "I'm a [[Conservative Party (UK)|conservative]] with a small c. I am a conservative in politics, literature, education and theatre."{{sfn|Kelly|2001|p=151}} In 2007, Stoppard described himself as a "timid [[Libertarianism|libertarian]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1675613-2,00.html|title=Theater: Elitist, Moi?|date=25 October 2007|magazine=Time}}</ref>

The [[Tom Stoppard Prize]] ({{Langx|cs|Cena Toma Stopparda}}) was created in 1983 under the [[Charter 77]] Foundation and is awarded to authors of Czech origin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://art.ihned.cz/c1-51939310-cenu-toma-stopparda-ziskala-linhartova-za-knihu-ktera-vznikala-40-let |title=Cenu Toma Stopparda získala Linhartová za knihu, která vznikala 40 let |language=cs |work=[[Hospodářské noviny]] |date=26 May 2011 |access-date=30 September 2013 }}</ref>

In 2014, Stoppard publicly backed [[Media Standards Trust#Hacked Off|"Hacked Off"]] and its campaign towards press self-regulation by "safeguarding the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-alfonso-cuaron-maggie-689289|title=Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfonso Cuaron, Maggie Smith Back U.K. Press Regulation|author=Georg Szalai|date=18 March 2014|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>

== Legacy and honours ==
=== Awards ===
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard}}
In July 2013 Stoppard was awarded the [[PEN Pinter Prize]] for "determination to tell things as they are."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23502671 |title=Sir Tom Stoppard wins annual Pen Pinter prize |work=BBC News |date=31 July 2013 |access-date=31 July 2013}}</ref>

In July 2017, Stoppard was elected an [[Fellow of the British Academy|Honorary Fellow]] of the [[British Academy]] (HonFBA), the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|date=21 July 2017}}</ref> Stoppard was appointed Cameron Mackintosh Visiting {{not a typo|Professor}} of Contemporary Theatre, [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]], for the academic year 2017–2018.

Stoppard has been represented in various forms of art. He sat for sculptor [[Alan Thornhill]], and a bronze head is now in public collection, situated with the Stoppard papers in the reading room of the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00179.xml |title=Inventory of Tom Stoppard papers and location of bronze head |publisher=Research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080 |access-date=8 July 2009 |archive-date=18 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218060829/http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00179.xml |url-status=dead }}</ref> The terracotta remains in the collection of the artist in London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alanthornhill.co.uk/sm_011.htm |title=image of Stoppard bust by sculptor Alan Thornhill |publisher=Alanthornhill.co.uk |access-date=8 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629183519/http://alanthornhill.co.uk/sm_011.htm |archive-date=29 June 2009  }}</ref> The correspondence file relating to the Stoppard bust is held in the archive of the [[Henry Moore Foundation]]'s [[Henry Moore Institute]] in [[Leeds]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=584 |title=HMI Archive |publisher=Henry-moore-fdn.co.uk |access-date=8 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112193428/http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=584 |archive-date=12 January 2009}}</ref>

Stoppard also sat for the sculptor and friend [[Angela Conner]], and his bronze portrait bust is on display in the grounds of [[Chatsworth House]].

===Archive===
[[File:Tom Stoppard at University of Texas at Austin.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Harry Ransom Center]], 1996|alt=Stoppard at the [[Harry Ransom Center]], 1996]]
The papers of Stoppard are housed at the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the University of Texas at Austin. The archive was first established by Stoppard in 1991 and continues to grow. The collection consists of typescript and handwritten drafts, revision pages, outlines, and notes; production material, including cast lists, set drawings, schedules, and photographs; theatre programs; posters; advertisements; clippings; page and galley proofs; dust jackets; correspondence; legal documents and financial papers, including passports, contracts, and royalty and account statements; itineraries; appointment books and diary sheets; photographs; sheet music; sound recordings; a scrapbook; artwork; minutes of meetings; and publications.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00179p1
| title = Tom Stoppard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
| website = norman.hrc.utexas.edu
| access-date = 29 February 2016
}}</ref>

==Published works==
;Novel
* 1966: ''Lord Malquist and Mr Moon''

;Theatre
* 1964: ''A Walk on the Water''
* 1965: ''The Gamblers'' – based on the novel ''[[The Gambler (novel)|The Gambler]]'' by [[Dostoevsky]]
* 1966: ''Tango'' – adapted from [[Sławomir Mrożek]]'s play and Nicholas Bethell translation, premiered at the [[Aldwych Theatre]]
* 1966: ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''
* 1968: ''[[Enter a Free Man]]'' – developed from  ''A Walk on the Water''
* 1968: ''[[The Real Inspector Hound]]''
* 1969: ''Albert's Bridge'' – premiered at St. Mary's Hall in [[Edinburgh]]
* 1969: ''If You're Glad I'll Be Frank'' – premiered at St Mary's Hall in [[Edinburgh]]
* 1970: ''[[After Magritte]]'' – frequently performed as a companion piece to ''The Real Inspector Hound''
* 1971: ''Dogg's Our Pet'' – premiered at the [[Almost Free Theatre]]
* 1972: ''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]''
* 1972: ''[[Artist Descending a Staircase]]''
* 1974: ''[[Travesties]]''
* 1976: ''[[Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land]]'' – first performed on 6 April 1976
* 1976: ''[[15-Minute Hamlet]]''
* 1977: ''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (play)|Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'' – written at the request of [[André Previn]] (the play calls for a full orchestra)
* 1978: ''[[Night and Day (play)|Night and Day]]''
* 1979: ''[[Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth]]'' – two plays written to be performed together
* 1979: ''[[Undiscovered Country]]'' – an adaptation of ''[[Das Weite Land]]'' by the Austrian playwright [[Arthur Schnitzler]]
* 1981: ''[[On the Razzle (play)|On the Razzle]]'' – based on ''[[Einen Jux will er sich machen]]'' by [[Johann Nestroy]]
* 1982: ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]''
* 1982: ''The (15 Minute) Dogg's Troupe Hamlet'' – revision of 1979 play, Stoppard's contribution to eight one-act plays by eight playwrights performed as ''Pieces of Eight''
* 1983: English libretto for ''[[The Love for Three Oranges]]'' (original opera by [[Sergei Prokofiev]])
* 1984: ''[[Rough Crossing]]'' – based on ''Play at the Castle'' by [[Ferenc Molnár]]
* 1986: ''[[Dalliance]]'' – an adaptation of [[Arthur Schnitzler]]'s ''[[Liebelei (play)|Liebelei]]''
* 1987: ''[[Largo Desolato]]'' – a translation of a play by [[Václav Havel]]
* 1988: ''[[Hapgood (play)|Hapgood]]''
* 1993: ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]''
* 1995: ''[[Indian Ink (play)|Indian Ink]]'' – based on Stoppard's radio play ''[[In the Native State]]''
* 1997: ''[[The Invention of Love]]''
* 1997: ''[[The Seagull]]'' – a translation of the play by [[Anton Chekhov]]
* 2002: ''[[The Coast of Utopia]]'' – a trilogy of plays: ''Voyage'', ''Shipwreck'', and ''Salvage''
* 2004: ''[[Enrico IV]]'' (Henry IV) – a translation of the Italian play by [[Luigi Pirandello]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/henry-iv-donmar-warehouse-londonbrgone-missing-gate-londonbrmad-bush-london-562854.html|title=Madness – it's just another act|last=Bassett|first=Kate|date=9 May 2004|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=7 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207174343/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/henry-iv-donmar-warehouse-londonbrgone-missing-gate-londonbrmad-bush-london-562854.html|archive-date=7 February 2009}}</ref> First presented at the [[Donmar Warehouse|Donmar Theatre]], London, in April 2004.
* 2006: ''[[Rock 'n' Roll (play)|Rock 'n' Roll]]''  – First public performance 3 June 2006 preview at the [[Royal Court Theatre]].
* 2010: ''The Laws of War'' – a contribution to a collaborative piece for a one-night benefit performance in support of [[Human Rights Watch]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/cries-from-the-heart-2010-presents-the-laws-of-war|title=The Laws of War at The Royal Court Theatre|publisher=[[Royal Court Theatre]]|access-date=24 September 2011}}</ref>
* 2015: ''[[The Hard Problem]]''
* 2020: ''[[Leopoldstadt (play)|Leopoldstadt]]''

;Original works for radio
* 1964: ''The Dissolution of Dominic Boot''
* 1964: '''M' is for Moon Amongst Other Things''
* 1966: ''If You're Glad I'll be Frank''
* 1967: ''Albert's Bridge''
* 1968: ''Where Are They Now?'' – written for school radio
* 1972: ''[[Artist Descending a Staircase]]''
* 1982: ''[[The Dog It Was That Died]]''
* 1991: ''[[In the Native State]]'' – later expanded to become the stage play ''[[Indian Ink]]'' (1995).
* 2007: ''On Dover Beach''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/a/al/alan_howard_reads.html|title=Alan Howard Reads|publisher=RadioListings.co.uk|access-date=1 June 2011|archive-date=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128193845/http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/a/al/alan_howard_reads.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2012: ''Albert's Bridge'', ''[[Artist Descending a Staircase]]'', ''[[The Dog It Was That Died]]'', and ''[[In the Native State]]'' have been published by the [[British Library]] as ''Tom Stoppard Radio Plays''<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2012/june/the-british-library-publishes-four-original-recordings-of-tom-stoppards-radio-plays-for-the-first-ti| title=''Tom Stoppard Radio Plays''| publisher=British Library, press release, 25 June 2012| access-date=1 August 2018| archive-date=10 August 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810084601/https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2012/june/the-british-library-publishes-four-original-recordings-of-tom-stoppards-radio-plays-for-the-first-ti| url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2013: ''[[Darkside (radio play)|Darkside]]'' – written for BBC Radio 2<ref name=DarkSide>{{cite web|url=http://tuppencemagazine.co.uk/entertainment-news/sir-tom-stoppards-pink-floyd-inspired-dark-side-comes-bbc-radio-2/|title=Tom Stoppard's Dark Side comes to BBC Radio 2|work=Tuppence Magazine|date=16 April 2013|access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref>

;Television plays
* ''A Separate Peace'' transmitted August 1966{{sfn|Hodgson|2001|p=41}}
* ''Teeth''
* ''Another Moon Called Earth'' (containing some dialogue and situations later incorporated into ''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]'')
* ''Neutral Ground'' (a loose adaptation of [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Philoctetes (Sophocles play)|Philoctetes]]'')
* ''[[Professional Foul]]''
* ''Squaring the Circle''
* 1970: ''The Engagement'', a television version of ''The Dissolution of Dominic Boot'' on ''[[NBC Experiment in Television]]''{{sfn|Kelly|2001|pp=78–80}}

;Film and television adaptation of plays and books
* 1975: ''[[Three Men in a Boat (1975 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'' adaptation of [[Jerome K. Jerome]]'s novel for BBC Television
* 1975: ''The Boundary'' co-authored by [[Clive Exton]], for the BBC
* 1978: ''[[Despair (film)|Despair]]'' – screenplay for the film directed by [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], starring [[Dirk Bogarde]], based on the novel by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
* 1979: ''[[The Human Factor (1979 film)|The Human Factor]]'' – a film adaption of the novel by [[Graham Greene]]
* 1985: ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' co-authored with [[Terry Gilliam]] and [[Charles McKeown]], script nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]
* 1987: ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' first draft of the screenplay
* 1989: ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' final rewrite of [[Jeffrey Boam]]'s rewrite of [[Menno Meyjes]]'s screenplay
* 1990: ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' screenplay for the 1990 film of the [[John le Carré]] novel
* 1990: ''[[Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)|Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead]]'' – won the [[Golden Lion]] and which he also directed
* 1998: ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' co-authored with [[Marc Norman]]; script won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]
* 1998: ''[[Poodle Springs]]'' teleplay adaptation of the novel by [[Robert B. Parker]] and [[Raymond Chandler]]
* 2001: ''[[Enigma (2001 film)|Enigma]]'' film screenplay of the [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] novel
* 2005: ''[[Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith]]'' dialogue-polish of [[George Lucas]]'s screenplay
* 2005: ''[[The Golden Compass (film)|The Golden Compass]]'' a draft screenplay, not produced
* 2012: ''[[Parade's End (TV series)|Parade's End]]'', television screenplay for BBC/HBO of [[Ford Madox Ford]]'s [[Parade's End|series of novels]]
* 2012: ''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'', film screenplay of the [[Leo Tolstoy]] novel
* 2014: ''[[Tulip Fever]]'', film screenplay of the [[Deborah Moggach]] novel

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book|last=Hodgson|first=Terry|title=The Plays of Tom Stoppard: For Stage, Radio, TV and Film |year=2001 |publisher=Icon|location=Duxford, England|isbn=1-84046-241-8}}
* {{cite book|editor-last=Kelly|editor-first=Katherine E.|title=The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard |year=2001 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-64592-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWCYII2jrGgC}}

==Further reading==
* [[Bloom, Harold]], ed. ''Tom Stoppard''. Bloom's Major Dramatists series. New York: [[Chelsea House]], 2003, {{ISBN|0-7910-7032-8}}.
* Cahn, Victor L. ''Beyond Absurdity: The Plays of Tom Stoppard.'' Madison, N.J.: [[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]], 1979.
* [[Dick Corballis|Corballis, Richard]]. ''Stoppard. The Mystery and the Clockwork'' Oxford, New York, 1984.
* Delaney, Paul. ''Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision of the Plays'' London, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990.
* Fleming, John. ''Stoppard's Theater: Finding Order Amid Chaos'' Austin: [[University of Texas Press]], 2001.
* Hunter, Jim. ''About Stoppard: The Playwright and the Work.'' London: [[Faber and Faber]], 2005.
* {{cite magazine |author=Lane, Anthony |df=mdy |date=March 1, 2021 |title=O lucky man! Tom Stoppard's charmed and haunted life |department=The Critics. Books |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=57–62 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/tom-stoppards-charmed-and-haunted-life <!--|access-date=2024-08-26-->}}
* [[Londré, Felicia Hardison]]. ''Tom Stoppard'' Modern Literature Series. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981.
* Purse, Nigel. ''Tom Stoppard's Plays. Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony''. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
* Stoppard, Tom & Delaney, Paul (eds). ''Tom Stoppard in Conversation'' [[University of Michigan Press]], 1994.
* Südkamp, Holger. ''Tom Stoppard's Biographical Drama.'' Trier: WVT, 2008.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Tom Stoppard}}
{{wikiquote}}
{{Portal|United Kingdom|Biography|Theatre}}
* [https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4340559A/Tom_Stoppard Bibliography] at [[Open Library]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160312024517/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f55767a Tom Stoppard] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
* [http://www.sondheimguide.com/Stoppard/index.html A Tom Stoppard Bibliography]. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
* [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00179p1 Tom Stoppard Papers] and the [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01301 Robert May Collection of Tom Stoppard] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]], [[University of Texas at Austin]]
* {{IMDb name|0001779}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110102090341/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth254 British Council profile] Retrieved 9 May 2020.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/ram/ajtstoppard.ram BBC] [[John Tusa]] Interview (Audio 43 mins). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/stoppard_transcript.shtml With transcript]. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/tom-stoppard.shtml BBC profile]. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
* {{Charlie Rose view|1541}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname= Tom Stoppard}}
* [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2467/the-art-of-theater-no-7-tom-stoppard Guppy, Shusha (Winter 1988). "Tom Stoppard, The Art of Theater No. 7", ''Paris Review'' interview]
* {{C-SPAN|65877}}
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lfcbk Stoppard talking about his life] on BBC Radio 4's ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]'' in April 2017

{{Tom Stoppard}}
{{Navboxes
|title = Awards for Tom Stoppard
|list =
{{AcademyAwardBestOriginalScreenplay 1981–2000}}
{{Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{David Cohen Prize}}
{{Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{GoldenGlobeBestScreenplayMotionPicture 1981–2000}}
{{John Whiting Award}}
{{Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay}}
{{Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement}}
}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stoppard, Tom}}
[[Category:1937 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century British dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:21st-century English dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners]]
[[Category:Best Screenplay Golden Globe winners]]
[[Category:Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners]]
[[Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to England]]
[[Category:Directors of Golden Lion winners]]
[[Category:Drama Desk Award winners]]
[[Category:Jewish English writers]]
[[Category:English libertarians]]
[[Category:English male dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:English male journalists]]
[[Category:English male screenwriters]]
[[Category:English people of Czech-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:English radio writers]]
[[Category:Exophonic writers]]
[[Category:Fellows of St Catherine's College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature]]
[[Category:Honorary Fellows of the British Academy]]
[[Category:Jewish dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Knights Bachelor]]
[[Category:Laurence Olivier Award winners]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of Merit]]
[[Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:People educated at Pocklington School]]
[[Category:Writers from Bristol]]
[[Category:Writers from Zlín]]
[[Category:Prix Italia winners]]
[[Category:Stoppard family]]
[[Category:Theatre of the Absurd]]
[[Category:Tony Award winners]]
[[Category:Writers Guild of America Award winners]]
[[Category:Czech expatriates in India]]
[[Category:British expatriates in India]]