Volume 47, Number 13 · August 10, 2000
The Tale of Two Housmans
By Daniel Mendelsohn
The Invention of Love
a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Blanka Ziska. February 9-April 2, 2000, at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia.
The Invention of Love
by Tom Stoppard
Grove, 102 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Tom Stoppard's play about A.E. Housman opens with a perceptive bit of shtick. As the curtain rises, the eminent Cambridge Latinist and author of A Shropshire Lad has just died at the age of seventy-seven—the year is 1936—and is waiting to be ferried across the Styx. Charon, the infernal ferryman, is waiting, too: he keeps peering over 'Professor Housman's' shoulder, looking for the other passenger he thinks he's supposed to be picking up:
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