Book description
Tom Stoppard's dramatisation for BBC TV of Parade's End by Ford
Madox Ford will bring new readers to the novel as well as giving
Stoppard's audience much that is original to his inventive version of
a masterwork of modernist English literature. This is the story of
Christopher Tietjens, the 'last Tory', his beautiful, disconcerting
wife Sylvia, and the virginal young suffragette Valentine Wannop who
completes this triangle of love among the English upper class before
and during the Great War.
Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day,
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real
Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the
trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include
If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?,
Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and Inthe
Native State. Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the
Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed,
Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.
