Stoppardian Drama:

The approach towards a text through a postmodernist
and counter-postmodernist consciousness brings into
mind new methods and theories of criticism like New
Historicism. This study, however, is not merely
committed to an analysis of the postmodernist aspects
of (Czech-born British playwright) Tom Stoppards
drama with a New Historicist stance; rather it aims
to exploit or make use of the New Historicist hints
to understand what Stoppard strives to do while
writing his plays, because there are striking
parallelisms between Stoppards technique of creating
his plays and the...