About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: English people of Czech descent, Tom Stoppard, Anne of Bohemia, Jan Kaplicky, Ernest Gellner, Dominic Raab, Herbert Lom, Walter Trier, Emil Wolf, Dan Luger, Jan Pinkava, Roberto Weiss, Arnold Dolmetsch, Karel Reisz, Georgina Bouzova, John Tusa, en k Kottnauer, Theodore Wratislaw, Chris Marustik, Jan Kavan, John A. Westlake, Czech migration to the United Kingdom, Ivan Margolius, Walter Susskind, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Edita Brychta, Arno t Wiesner, Willi Soukop, Eva Ji i na, Michael Farr, Felix Moscheles, Daria Klimentova, Gustav Haloun, Stanislav Heller, Gottfried Finger. Excerpt: Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL (born Toma Straussler 3 July 1937) is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. In 1939, Stoppard left Czechoslovakia as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946. After being educated at schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. He has been married twice, to Josie Ingle (1965-1972) and Miriam Stoppard (1972-1992), and has two sons from each marriage, one of whom is actor Ed Stoppard. Stoppard was born Toma Straussler, in Zlin, a "Shoe Town," in the Moravia regi...
