Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. <i>Arcadia</i> is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career. <br/>With its engaging alteration between past and present <i>Arcadia </i>offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory entropy the Second Law of thermodynamics iterated algorithms fractals and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science.