Full Stoppard: What I’m Reading Now

Tom Stoppard is the greatest living English-language playwright. Full Stop. I’m sorry, but I will not accept any BlogBacks on this. Not even from Terry.
So when I learned that his trilogy, “The Coast of Utopia,” was stopping at Lincoln Center, I immediately Telecharged my tickets.
And good English major that I still am, I went out and bought the text, which I am now very happily reading. A recent NY Times article provided a whole list of volumes that we’re supposed to study to prepare for these plays. But for me, the best preparation to see a play is read the play.
There are certain authors whose sensibilities speak directly to one’s own. For me, it’s Stoppard. Now, if I can just sort out those four Russian sisters. (Of course, he had to go Chekhov one better!)