further exploration
These are the main books that Tom Stoppard used to write Travesties, plus a few more that we found useful!
James Joyce
Blamires, Harry. The New Bloomsday Book: a Guide Through Ulysses. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Budgen, Frank. James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses. Oxford: Oxford UP. 1989.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.
Gross, John. Joyce. New York: The Viking Press, 1970.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. London: Egoist Press, 1922.
Tristan Tzara and the Dada Movement
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Motherwell, Robert, ed. The Dada Painters and Poets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1951.
Richter, Hans. Dada, Art and Anti-Art. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
Tzara, Tristan. First Poems. Berkeley: New Rivers Press, 1976.
Lenin
Gorky, Maxim. Days with Lenin. New York: International Publishers, 1932.
Krupskaya,Nadezhda. Memories of Lenin. Trans. E. Verney. New York: International Publishers, 1930.
Lenin, V.I. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. London: Penguin, 2010.
Payne, Robert. The Life and Death of Lenin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.
Ulam, Adam B. Lenin and the Bolsheviks. London: Fontana/Collins, 1969.
Wilson, Edmund. To the Finland Station. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
World War I: Memoirs and Images
Ashhurst, George. My Bit. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press, 1987.
Hodder Williams, J.E. One Young Man. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
Taylor, A.J.P. Illustrated History of the First World War. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964.
Tom Stoppard
Delaney, Paul. Stoppard in Conversation. Ann Arbor, MI:U of Michigan P, 1994.
Gussow, Mel. Conversations with Stoppard. New York: Grove Press, 1996.
Hunter, Jim. About Stoppard: the Playwright & the Work. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
Kelly, Katherine E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
Nadel, Ira. Tom Stoppard: A Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Page, Malcolm. File on Stoppard. London: Methuen, 1986.
And of course…
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London: New Mermaids, 1997.
