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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read a play by Tom Stoppard, I feel reborn.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically, let us summarize my rhapsodizing thus: I want Tom Stoppard to write my life.<br/><br/><em>HOUSMAN: Scholarship... [is] where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, w...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1948336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though true to his usual loquacious brilliance, Stoppard is a bit indulgent in this work. I found myself rolling my eyes after fourteen obscure literary references and nineteen syllable words. All right Tom, we know you're brilliant. Quit showing off. Just write us a thought-provoking story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second Stoppard play that I've read that obsesses on the nature of man's quest for knowledge, examines the motives of the industries (if you want to call them that) of people who are paid to do it, and tries to make the audience answer, really, what the benefit is of knowing obscure bits of know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57376525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seeing as I have spent almost the last decade of my life toiling in the trenches of a dying Classics department, this work was bound to have a particular and personal appeal for me. But beyond that The Invention of Love is a most eloquent rumination on the psychic tension that arises from inspiratio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75256088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Poet or Scholar</strong><br/><br/>Singapore Jade had been insisting that I read this Stoppard play for quite some time, and finally made it impossible for me to put her off by giving me a copy the other day. Plays don't come alive to me until I see them performed, and The Invention of Love struck me, on fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29292179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i heard this was coming to broadway (years ago now) and thought to myself, i really don't know how they are going to pull that off - because, well, there isn't really a lot of <em>action</em> in the play. through a twist of fate my sister and i got tickets to the opening night of previews for dirt cheap and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1983316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if anyone else wrote the same premise i wouldn't read it]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard (1998)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it was a love story. Silly me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tender and tragic exploration of poet A.E. Housman's life and his deep unrequited love for a college classmate, Moses Jackson.  You will get extra juice out of this play if you are familiar with classical Greek mythology and literature and the prevailing beliefs of the Victorian period.  Definitel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15502512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seen in SF, ACT production circa 2000. I've never seen (or read) Stoppard I didn't like, but this one was memorable: a story about Housman and an unrequited lifetime of love, and Housman's dignified, repressed homosexuality in a time when Wilde's flamboyant, showy brand was grabbing all the headline...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35021295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Confusing - it takes two or three reads to really understand all the layers to this play, and I have to confess I'm not sure how it could ever be performed on stage. But it's beautiful, complicated, and absolutely heartbreaking - and terribly witty. This is Tom Stoppard at his absolute best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly my favorite Stoppard yet. The narrative structure, more properly termed the narrative wandering, based around a (many) river, was confusing in a way that made reading the play enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I (re)discovered my own sad taste for poetry that has a pleasant meter with this play. I went out and read many poems by A.E. Housman but I'm still behind on Jerome K. Jerome and Wilde.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boring as heck.  Perhaps I'd think of this more reasonably had I not suffered through the three-hour performance, but as it was, I was traumatized by the experience.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exquisite.<br/><br/>There is no other word for this play.  You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll speak in cliches...  Honestly, I was blown away.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I HAVE SEEN THIS PLAY SIX TIMES.  FIVE TIMES IN LONDON AND ONCE IN NEW YORK.  SIX TIMES.  And I don't even like Tom Stoppard.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My boyfriend gave me a copy of this play, so it has set up residence in my heart. We also went to see it performed--and it was quite good!]]></body>
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