Hapgood: A Play

by Tom Stoppard

Book Overview

Does light come in waves or particles? Experiment will show either: the experimenter can choose. 'A double agent is like a trick of the light, ' Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spycatcher. 'You... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571151604
• ISBN13: 9780571151608
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Spies and physics

A spy-thriller jest on wave/particle theory (and The Heisenberg Principle), which depends for its solution on twins.

Beware for the Intellectually Simple

This is probably my favorite play - but a word a warning. It is one of the most complex plays on the market, so watch out. It may require one having to draw out scenes and re-read parts, and even then, it can be confusing at parts. It's about double agents and english/russian spies combined with extremely complex science and physics, so if you like that kind of thing, this book is right up your alley. I also recommend some of Tom Stoppard's other plays: Dirty Linen, The Dog It Was That Died, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Indian Ink. And of course, his classics: Arcadia and Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dea