Shipwreck ( Coast of Utopia-2)

Shipwreck

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

Tom Stoppard’s other work includes Enter a Free Man, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink and The Invention of Love. His radio plays include: If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In the Native State. His work for television includes Professional Foul and Squaring the Circle. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman) and Enigma.

PLAYS

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead^*

Enter a Free Man^*

The Real Inspector Hound^*

After Magritte^*

Jumpers^*

Travesties^*

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land^*

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour^*

Night and Day

Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth^*

The Real Thing

Rough Crossing

Hapgood

Arcadia

Indian Ink

The Invention of Love^*

Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I^*

Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III^*

TELEVISION SCRIPTS

A Separate Peace

Teeth

Another Moon Called Earth

Neutral Ground

Professional Foul

Squaring the Circle

RADIO PLAYS

The Dissolution of Dominic Boot

“M” Is for Moon Among Other Things

If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank

Albert’s Bridge

Where Are They Now?

Artist Descending a Staircase

The Dog It Was That Died

In the Native State

SCREENPLAYS

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)

FICTION

Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon

* Available from Grove Press

Shipwreck

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

TOM STOPPARD

Copyright © 2002 by Tom Stoppard

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First published in hardback and paperback in 2002 by Faber and Faber Limited, London, England

Printed in the United States of America

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stoppard, Tom.

      Shipwreck / Tom Stoppard.

         p. cm. — (The Coast of Utopia; pt. 2)

      eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9530-2

     1. Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870—Drama.   2. Bakunin, Mikhail

   Aleksandrovich, 1814–1876—Drama.   3. Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich,

   1811–1848—Drama.   4. Russians—France—Drama.   5. Revolutionaries—Drama.

   6. Paris (France)—Drama.   7. Anarchists—Drama.   I. Title.

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I am gratefully indebted to Trevor Nunn

for encouraging me towards some additions

and subtractions while The Coast of Utopia

was in rehearsal

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS