 guys what's up I am Arbhata Karwa and I just finished watching a very very hilarious movie that is Rosenkerns and Guildestern are dead. If you are wondering whether I was watching Shakespeare's Hamlet. No I was not watching Hamlet I was watching a movie which is based on a play written by Tom Stooper and in this video lecture I am going to talk about many such plays written by Tom Stooper who is one of the most important playwright that you must study if you are preparing for UDC net English Retro-ator. Before we look at the works written by Tom Stooper I would like to bring to your notice one fun fact Tom Stooper was educated in Darjeeling in India so if anybody of you have any connection with Darjeeling I am pretty sure that you are not going to forget this guy ever after. Apart from it he also wrote the screenplay of a very very famous movie which is called Shakespeare in Love and this movie is a must watch for all the literature aspirants and specially those who love Shakespeare because it presents the life of Shakespeare in such a beautiful way that you cannot help watching that movie again and again. This is a problem that I face whenever I watch Shakespeare in Love I cannot put my headphones down I cannot turn off the screen of my computer I am glued to the screen it is such a fantastic movie. So coming back to Tom Stooper he has also written a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. If you have not heard of Anna Karenina I am pretty sure that you must have heard this beautiful quotation that if you look for perfection you will never be content and this particular quote is from the book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and Tom Stooper has written a film adaptation of this book. So this was a short introduction to the life of Tom Stooper. Now let's jump into his famous work Rosenkerns and Guildestern are Dead. Tom Stooper was writing a play called Rosenkerns and Guildestern meet Leo. This was a one act play which Tom Stooper was writing and gradually he changed the title and he changed the entire setting of the play and finally the output the final product was Rosenkerns and Guildestern are Dead and this is first major play written by Tom Stooper. As you can see from the title the title has been taken from Hamlet where Horatio towards the end of the play delivers a line from which the title has been taken. Apart from it this play basically talks about the off-stage life of the two minor characters of Hamlet were the two childhood friends of Hamlet Rosenkerns and Guildestern and we find that in this play these guys both of them are executed without even understanding the reason why they are executed. If you look at the play you look at the summary of the play you'll see that it has similarities to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Goodall. So in Waiting for Goodall you will find that the two characters they are playing games in order to pass their time similarly in this play Rosenkerns and Guildestern both of them keep on flipping coins in order to pass their time and they are waiting for the main characters to come up and give a purpose to their life. So that is the major plot of this play Rosenkerns and Guildestern are dead. The next work that we are going to talk about is Travis Tees. It is a play written by Tom Stooper and it was recently asked in January 2017 net exam but what is important about this play is that it talks about a lot of writers and a lot of plays so it has literary association and references of various literary works and that is the reason why this play becomes important from the point of view of net. So we find that the play is set in Zurich Switzerland during the World War first time and the main protagonist is Henry Carr who meets three main literary figures of this age in Zurich and he's talking about the experience that he had with all these people. Who are these three literary figures? First one is James Joyce the writer of Ulysses. The second person is Lenin who started the movement of Dadaism and the third person is Tristran Zara who is our main political leader of Russian Revolution. So you find that all these three people coming from different branches of knowledge come together in this play and Henry Carr tries to talk about his experiences with all these writers. Apart from it if you are an Oscar Wilde fan then there's a surprise for you in this play because we find a lot of reference of Oscar Wilde's play importance of being earnest. Henry Carr was a person who acted in Oscar Wilde's play importance of being earnest and he recalls his experience as an actor throughout the play and he also tells us that when he was acting and playing the role of Elginon at that time James Joyce was the business manager. So you can see James Joyce in a completely different light and towards the end of the play we find that Henry Carr and James Joyce have a fight and finally they start a legal battle which has been taken to the court. So if you look at this play it is a very very interesting play having a lot of literary references and thus it becomes important from net point of view. Travestries is important but what is more interesting is Tom Stooper's Arcadia. If you're wondering Arcadia sounds quite familiar don't worry I'm pretty sure that you must have heard Philip Sidney's Arcadia and you're confusing that work with the work of Tom Stooper. So let me tell you that Philip Sidney wrote a long prose work called Arcadia dedicated to Countess of Pembroke whereas Tom Stooper wrote Arcadia which is a play and this play has got a very very interesting character whose name is Thomasina. Thomasina is a very intelligent girl who is researching in mathematics and her tutor's friend is Lord Byron the famous romantic poet. So you find that another literary references there in Tom Stooper's play. He loved talking about writers and life of writers so even in Arcadia he talks about life of Byron and also he's talking about Byron's daughter's life. If you look at the character Thomasina you'll see that her character is based on Byron's daughter so Byron's real-life daughter inspired Tom Stooper to write Arcadia and thus this literary work is also important from net point of view. There are a lot of other writers a lot of other works that need your attention. 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