The aim of this book is to gain insight into the relations of meaning and perspective in Tom Stoppards plays. To see the connections I propose to examine the plays from the angle of the philosophy of language. Accordingly, the idea of relative meanings in drama can be connected to Ludwig Wittgensteins ideas on the use of a word. In the course of this book the philosophers line of thought shall be applied to three plays: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Jumpers and Doggs Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth which represent distinct perspectives: the historical, the philosophical, the linguistic and...