425 Tom Stoppard (with Scott Carter)
The History of Literature
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Tom Stoppard and the New Movie, Shakespeare in Love
Stoppard has been writing plays for over 60 years. The most autobiographical might be the character that originally was played on broadway, which is a very successful playwright who's having an affair. And so i think that's probably the closest that he has to an autobiographical depiction. He had a deal with universal, to work on xisting projects are to do rerights. But after seeing shakespeare in love they asked him if he'd like to get his first draft signed.
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