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Start: You’re my only friend who migh...

Housman

The Invention of Love

Tom Stoppard

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

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You’re my only friend who might understand, don’t let me down. If I’m disrespectful it’s because it’s important and not a game anyone can play.

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End:

… scholarship is a small redress against the vast unreason of what is taken from us--it’s not just the worthless that perish, Jesus doesn’t save.

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 71.

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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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