阿卡狄亚

Arcadia
Arcadia
剧作家	Tom Stoppard
首演日期	13 April 1993
首演地点	Lyttelton Theatre; Royal National Theatre; London
原语言	English
主题	History, science, philosophy, mathematics, love, death
类型	Comedy/drama
设定	A Derbyshire country estate in both the past (1809, 1812) and "the present"

《阿卡狄亚》 (1993)，是英国戏剧家汤姆·斯托帕德的一部戏剧，探讨了过去和现在、秩序与混乱、确定性和非确定性之间的关系。许多评论家都认为这是斯托帕最好的作品。^[1] 2006年，大不列颠皇家学院将其选为史上最佳科学相关作品之一。^[2]

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人物

托马西娜·科弗利:13岁(后来16岁)，克鲁姆伯爵夫妇的女儿，她是个早熟的天才。在科学界和数学界尚未普遍接受热力学第二定律和混沌理论时，她已然理解了它们^[3]^[4]
塞普蒂莫斯·霍奇：托马西娜的老师，拜伦的朋友。
杰拉拜：科弗利家的管家。
埃兹拉·查特：不成功的诗人。
理查德·诺克斯：克鲁姆伯爵夫人的园艺师，他将花园的古典的阿卡狄亚式风格转换成流行的哥特式。

^ Fleming 2008，第1 页"Tom Stoppard has ranked as one of the most significant contemporary playwrights…many critics cite Arcadia as [his] finest play."
^ Randerson, James (2006) "Levi's memoir beats Darwin to win science book title （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）," The Guardian, 20 October 2006, accessed 30 March 2012.
^ Tom Stoppard’s "Arcadia," at Twenty – The New Yorker. [2023-02-11]. （原始内容存档于2014-02-19）.
^ Gale Edwards, 1994, Director of "Arcadia" for the Sydney Theatre Company. [2023-02-11]. （原始内容存档于2020-03-14）.

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Fleming, John. Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-292-72533-1.
Fleming, John. Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia". Modern Theatre Guides. London: Continuum. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8264-9621-8.
Rush, David. A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8093-2609-9.
Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia: A Play in Two Acts. Samuel French. 1993. ISBN 978-0-573-69566-7.
Wilson, Raymond J., III. Gardens in Stoppard, Austen and Goethe. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (编). Analecta Husserliana 78. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. 2003: 59–66. ISBN 978-1-4020-0858-0.
Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia, L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections, radio play (2009). Full-cast performance featuring: Kate Burton, Mark Capri, Jennifer Dundas, Gregory Itzin, David Manis, Christopher Neame, Peter Paige, Darren Richardson, Kate Steele, Serena Scott Thomas, and Douglas Weston. ISBN 978-1-5808-1596-3. (Available as e-audiobook through OverDrive.)