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The Invention of Love is a play by Tom Stoppard, first produced in 1997, which portrays the life of A. E. Housman, examining his friendships, academic work, and poetry at different points during his life, with particular focus on his unrequited love for his "greatest friend and comrade Moses Jackson", who as a straight man, could not reciprocate Housman's affections. Many critics consider it his masterpiece, but it is exceptionally abstruse, full of references and allusions to the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary, academic, and artistic landscapes, the social scenes of those times, the history and literature of classical antiquity, and a whole lot of untranslated Latin and Greek. |
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The Dandy |
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The Dandy: Several characters. Pater is explicitly described as a "dandy". Oscar Wilde himself, having been The Ghost for the first three-quarters of the play, shows up towards the end of Act II. Bunthorne, from Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Patience, who appears briefly at the beginning of Act II, also probably qualifies. |
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The Ghost |
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Oscar Wilde himself, having been The Ghost for the first three-quarters of the play, shows up towards the end of Act II. |
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Ancient Grome |
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Ancient Grome: Steadily averted throughout the play, as one would expect where the cast consists almost entirely of classical scholars, but played straight in one scene, Jackson confuses Latin and Greek. |
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Flowery Insults |
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Flowery Insults: Quite a few. |
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Self-Abuse |
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Self-Abuse: Hilariously equated with being a diligent student as equally damaging to one's soul. |
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Take That, Critics! |
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Take That, Critics!: Housman gets a pretty good shot off while discussing lost Athenian plays that are known because they were mentioned by critics. |
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Gayngst |
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Gayngst: Lots of characters, but particularly Housman and Chamberlain. |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: As Charon poles Housman across the River Styx: When Housman meets his younger self: |
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Acquired Error at the Printer |
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Acquired Error at the Printer: The play provides several completely serious examples, such as a long discussion on a misplaced comma in a printed edition of Catullus completely changing the meaning of a line. |
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Incompatible Orientation |
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Incompatible Orientation: Jackson's inability to return Housman's affections drives much of the play. |
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Ambiguous Syntax |
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Ambiguous Syntax: An example between Housman and Chamberlain while watching Jackson compete at an athletics meet. |
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Homoerotic Subtext |
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Homoerotic Subtext: Jowett chews out a professor for exchanging homoerotic letters with a student, and then shortly after describes a Latin poem in some very…explicit terms. |
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The Ferryman |
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The Ferryman: Charon himself takes both Housman and Oscar Wilde across the River Styx into Elysium. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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Driven to Suicide: Subverted. Chamberlain at one point had suspected Housman of this—"I thought, the river, and no two ways about it"—but Housman "turned up again, dry as a stick." |
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Lovable Jock |
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Lovable Jock: Jackson is this. |
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Nature Lover |
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Nature Lover: Ruskin, who comes in for a bit of gentle mocking for this. |
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I Hate Past Me |
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I Hate Past Me: Deconstructed. Housman meets his younger self a few times during the play, and his reactions to the person he used to be are…mixed, at best. |
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Secret-Keeper |
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Secret-Keeper: Housman and Chamberlain for each other. |
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Deadpan Snarker |
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Deadpan Snarker: Everybody gets some choice snark in, but the grown-up A. E. Housman is the undisputed master. |
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Audience Monologue |
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Audience Monologue: Occurs a few times, particularly to end both acts. In the monologue at the end of the first act, the audience takes the place of Housman's class of students. |
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Damned by Faint Praise |
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Damned by Faint Praise: A few examples, especially when characters criticize each others' poetry. |
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Da Editor |
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Da Editor: W. T. Stead, in Act II, is the editor of a newspaper largely responsible for the rise of the "new journalism" in the Victorian era. |
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