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The Invention of Love

Tom Stoppard

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two
Time & Place
London, Victorian Era, Gentlemen’s Club
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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We invented Oscar, we bodied him forth. Then we floated him. Then we kited the stock.

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...their houses were ugly inside and out, their dress dowdy, their husbands dull, their wives plain, and their opinion on art worthless. Meanwhile, Oscar himself has never done anything.

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 57-58.

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Read a review of The Invention of Love by The New Yorker, including a brief biography of A.E. Housman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/lost-horizon

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