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Violence
Barely any
No violence; a duel is mentioned but offstage
Language
Barely any
Clean literary dialogue; no profanity
Sexual Content
Some
An affair and its consequences in the 1809 sections; restrained
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The philosophical weight of entropy, genius, and the asymmetry of time; one of the most intellectually satisfying plays ever written
What this book is about
Tom Stoppard's brilliant play alternates between 1809 and the present day at a country estate, where a girl's mathematical genius and an affair's consequences echo through time—while in the present, researchers try to reconstruct what happened from fragments. Arcadia is one of the great works of English theater: funny, sad, and philosophically dazzling.
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