Hapgood: A Play

By Tom Stoppard

Book Overview

Does light come in waves or particles? Experient 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 get what you interrogate for.' Dual natures, of light and of people, are the theme of Tom Stoppard's espionage thriller. Kerner's secret research is being leaked to Moscow. Is Ridley the double? Or is Kerner a triple? Hapgood is the person to find out, and maybe it will need two of her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571198570
• ISBN13: 9780571198573
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"

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