WRITER

Tom Stoppard

1937 - Today

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Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Stoppard has received more than 3,021,312 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Tom Stoppard is the 2,892nd most popular writer (up from 3,310th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 405th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Czech Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The real thing
Comedy
A comedy about a famous playwright whose second wife is trying to merge "worthy causes" with her art as an actress. She has met a "political prisoner"
1982
Stoppard
1991
Travesties
1975
Artist descending a staircase
Art
1973
Arcadia
Drama
Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out.
19934 / 5
Rough crossing
1985
Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
Fiction in English, Eccentrics, Kafkaesque
1966
Иванов
British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Classic Literature
"In Ivanov, Anton Chekhov's first full-length play, Chekhov created a portrait of a man plagued with self-doubt and despair. Considered one of Chekhov's most elusive characters, he seeks more in life than the self-absorption and ennui he sees in his contemporaries. Tormented by falling out of love with his dying Jewish wife, Ivanov, on her death, proposes to the young daughter of a neighbor, but, as the wedding party assembles, a final burst of his habitual indecisiveness has fatal results."--Jacket.
1923
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
English drama, Motion picture plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Motion picture)
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
1967
Jumpers
Drama, American Dramatists, Biography
1972
Reigen
German drama, Translations into French, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
1903
The real thing
British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Comedy, English drama
1982

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tom Stoppard ranks 2,892 out of 7,302. Before him are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Bernardo Atxaga, Antiphanes, Fazil Iskander, Yūko Tsushima, and John Fletcher. After him are Francisco Ayala, Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Walter Pater, and Budd Schulberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tom Stoppard ranks 218. Before him are Joe Viterelli, Barbara Jones, Édith Scob, Barbara Steele, Lluís Martínez Sistach, and Tomas Venclova. After him are Klim Churyumov, Miguel Trovoada, Peter Stein, Richard Bright, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, and Harris Yulin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Tom Stoppard ranks 361 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigfried Giedion (1888), Fritz Mauthner (1849), Jiří Sobotka (1911), Jiří Raška (1941), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), and Bretislav III (1200). After him are Anne of Bohemia (1290), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Josef Beran (1888), Rudolf Beran (1887), Ivan Mládek (1942), and Oskar Nedbal (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Tom Stoppard ranks 39. Before him are Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Josef Jungmann (1773), Józef Czapski (1896), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Petr Chelčický (1390), and Fritz Mauthner (1849). After him are Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Karel Kryl (1944), Viktor Dyk (1877), Vladislav Vančura (1891), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), and Jiří Wolker (1900).

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