{"id":58766,"date":"2025-11-29T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/british-playwright-tom-stoppard-known-for-shakespeare-in-love-screenplay-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:04:18","slug":"british-playwright-tom-stoppard-known-for-shakespeare-in-love-screenplay-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/british-playwright-tom-stoppard-known-for-shakespeare-in-love-screenplay-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"British playwright Tom Stoppard, known for &#8220;Shakespeare in Love&#8221; screenplay, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998&#8217;s &#8220;Shakespeare In Love,&#8221; has died. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>United Agents said in a statement Saturday that Stoppard died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language. It was an honour to work with Tom and to know him,&#8221; the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/29\/647c5dea-946d-4ca0-8940-170048aa0435\/thumbnail\/620x413\/875ef177b51e6e8d4836fbe3038980d0\/gettyimages-1258628873.jpg#\" alt=\"The 76th Tony Awards - Press Room \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/29\/647c5dea-946d-4ca0-8940-170048aa0435\/thumbnail\/620x413\/875ef177b51e6e8d4836fbe3038980d0\/gettyimages-1258628873.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/29\/647c5dea-946d-4ca0-8940-170048aa0435\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/f9c41d6b5092017d2610ac959c22731d\/gettyimages-1258628873.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Tom Stoppard at the 76th Tony Awards held at the United Palace Theatre on June 11, 2023 in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Steve Eichner\/WWD via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stoppard was born in the Czech Republic in 1937. His family fled to Singapore after Nazi Germany&#8217;s invasion in 1939. He, his brother and their mother fled again when Japanese forces closed in on the city in 1941. His father died trying to leave the city. His mother married an English officer in 1946, and the family moved to postwar Britain. The 8-year-old Tom &#8220;put on Englishness like a coat,&#8221; he later said, growing up to be a quintessential Englishman who loved cricket and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>Stoppard first worked as a journalist before turning to theater in the 1960s. Stoppard was often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation and was garlanded with honors, including a shelf full of theater gongs.<\/p>\n<p>His brain-teasing plays ranged across Shakespeare, science, philosophy and the historic tragedies of the 20th century. Five of them won Tony Awards for best play: &#8220;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead&#8221; in 1968; &#8220;Travesties&#8221; in 1976; &#8220;The Real Thing&#8221; in 1984; &#8220;The Coast of Utopia&#8221; in 2007; and &#8220;Leopoldstadt&#8221; in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote plays for radio and television including &#8220;A Walk on the Water,&#8221; televised in 1963, and made his stage breakthrough with &#8220;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,&#8221; which reimagined Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; from the viewpoint of two hapless minor characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stoppard was a strong champion of free speech who worked with organizations including <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PEN<\/a>\u00a0and Index on Censorship. He claimed not to have strong political views otherwise, writing in 1968: &#8220;I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was especially true of his late play &#8220;Leopoldstadt,&#8221; which drew on his own family&#8217;s story for the tale of a Jewish Viennese family over the first half of the 20th century. Stoppard said he began thinking of his personal link to the Holocaust quite late in life, only discovering after his mother&#8217;s death in 1996 that many members of his family, including all four grandparents, had died in concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leopoldstadt&#8221; premiered in London at the start of 2020 to rave reviews; weeks later all theaters were shut by the COVID-19 pandemic. It eventually opened on Broadway in late 2022, going on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyawards.com\/shows\/leopoldstadt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">win<\/a> four Tonys.<\/p>\n<p>Dizzyingly prolific, Stoppard also wrote many radio plays, a novel, television series including &#8220;Parade&#8217;s End&#8221; (2013) and many film screenplays. These included dystopian Terry Gilliam comedy &#8220;Brazil&#8221; (1985), Steven Spielberg-directed war drama &#8220;Empire of the Sun&#8221; (1987), Elizabethan romcom &#8220;Shakespeare in Love&#8221; (1998) \u2014 for which he and Marc Norman shared a best adapted screenplay Oscar \u2014 code breaking thriller &#8220;Enigma&#8221; (2001) and Russian epic &#8220;Anna Karenina&#8221; (2012).<\/p>\n<p>He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for his services to literature.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tom-stoppard-dies-playwright-shakespeare-in-love\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998&#8217;s &#8220;Shakespeare In Love,&#8221; has died. 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