Tom Stoppard's intellectually dense play "The Invention of Love" is an exercise in self-indulgence for the playwright. He has a slender concept obscured by layers of academic banter, literary allusions, parody and pages of dialogue showing off his grasp of Victorian analysis of Latin texts. -
Wistful 'Invention of Love' Will Woo Some but Not All
Tom Stoppard's intellectually dense play "The Invention of Love" is an exercise in self-indulgence for the playwright. He has a slender concept obscured by layers of academic banter, literary allusions, parody and pages of dialogue showing off his grasp of Victorian analysis of Latin texts.-
By Michael J. Toscano