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ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard  OLD FIRE STATION THEATRE, OXFORD 17-20 JAN 2001 Box Office 01865 794490

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Arcadia links...

 

Eden Prairie High School’s Arcadia page.  An ongoing project, with stacks of great material on Stoppard, the play, it’s characters, and it’s connections to history, literature, art, maths etc.  Includes four fun facts about monkey bites

 

Tim Beardsley’s Arcadia review for Scientific American

 

An essay about the improved steam engine (which puts Mr Noakes into an ecstasy that he, and it, and the modern age should all coincide)

 

Allyn Jackson’s excellent essay for the American Mathematical Society, about Arcadia and the second law of thermodynamics.

 

Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia.  Another site with an emphasis on the mathematics of Arcadia.

 

An excellent glossary of terms used in Arcadia.  Part of a bigger site dedicated to the study of Arcadia

 

A fairly concise summary of the plot of Arcadia with some brief hyperlink annotations.

 

A short essay on the origins of the Arcadia’s title and the meaning of Arcadia 

 

A short essay on Stoppard, from CurtainUp. the internet theatre magazine

 

 

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Daily Information.  Oxford's daily listings bible.

 

 

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