Arcadia

By Susan Davidson

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Washington, DC 20003
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is set in an English country house between 1809 and 1812 and in the present. Its themes are order and disorder, scientific theory and everyday life, the past and present. “It’s wanting to know that makes us matter,” one of the characters says.