The Invention of Love
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The Invention of Love is a play by Tom Stoppard that explores the life, unrequited love, and intellectual legacy of poet and scholar A. E. Housman through a blend of biography, fantasy, and classical allusion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Invention of Love canonical | 5 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
play
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theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
| awarded |
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
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surface form:
Evening Standard Award for Best Play
New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play ⓘ
surface form:
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
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| BroadwayOpeningYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| character |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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surface form:
Alfred Douglas
Benjamin Jowett ⓘ John Ruskin ⓘ Moses Jackson ⓘ Oscar Wilde ⓘ A. E. Housman ⓘ
surface form:
old A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman ⓘ
surface form:
young A. E. Housman
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directorOfPremiere | Richard Eyre ⓘ |
| examines | intellectual legacy of A. E. Housman ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical play
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drama ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
dense classical reference
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metatheatrical elements ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | A. E. Housman ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | blend of biography and fantasy ⓘ |
| notableProduction | Broadway production at the Lyceum Theatre ⓘ |
| premiereLocation |
National Theatre in London
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surface form:
National Theatre, London
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| producedBy |
National Theatre in London
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surface form:
National Theatre
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| publisherOfText | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| setting |
Oxford
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River Styx ⓘ
surface form:
the River Styx
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| settingPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| structure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| subject |
A. E. Housman
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Oxford classicists ⓘ Victorian poetry ⓘ classical allusion ⓘ classical scholarship ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| theme |
Victorian morality
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aestheticism ⓘ classical philology ⓘ conflict between emotion and intellect ⓘ memory and regret ⓘ repression of homosexuality ⓘ the cost of scholarship ⓘ |
| timeStructure | shifts between past and afterlife ⓘ |
| writer | Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.