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Topic: The Invention of Love

	Courtly Love
		Idealized "love" goes against the utilitarian economics of marriage, and passion was forbidden by the Church, so until the courtly version came along, Love was duty and "Luv" was sinful.
		Love is now a cult -- a sort of religion but outside of normal religion -- and a code -- outside of feudalism but similarly hierarchical.
		In courtly love, the sinner (against the laws of love) asks the mother of the love god, Cupid's mother Venus, to intercede on his behalf with Cupid or Eros, who is the god of love.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medieval/love.html (1697 words)

	A change of pace--INVENTION OF LOVE
		Invention of Love is an excellent script; can't say I prefer it to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead or Arcadia, but I did find reading it very enjoyable.
		When I saw a clip of "Invention of Love" at the Tony's a couple of years ago, I was interested in the story so I went out and bought the play, read it, and I'm confused.
		I, too, saw The Invention of Love (partially because of Robert Sean Leonard, partially because it was Tom effing Stoppard) and found it to be classic Stoppard, on par with Travesties.
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=76024 (933 words)

	Invention of Love
		The dialogue in the first act of The Invention of Love incorporates a great deal of Latin, allusions that, no doubt are illuminating to scholars, but will leave most contemporary audiences wondering what they have missed.
		There is no real plot or dramatic line to The Invention of Love; it is more like an unfolding series of incidents exploring its themes, its momentum carried remarkably well by the sheer verbal virtuosity and intellectual challenge of Stoppard's exposition.
		Housman's revelation of his love to Jackson is beautifully written and executed, believable and moving as it plays out the bittersweet scenario.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/InventionofLove.htm (547 words)

	Triumph of Love
		The Invention of Love at the Wilma is a daring and gorgeous theatrical risk in every possible way, and it turns out to be the best kind of risk: the one that ends in triumph.
		One of Invention of Love’s most powerful scenes is between Housman and England’s most celebrated victim, Oscar Wilde (George Tynan Crowley) as they wait on shore for death’s boatman.
		We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention." The genius of the play and this superb production is that it sweeps us into both the invention and the seeing past it — that deeply human act of hindsight managing to be both ruthlessly honest and miraculously compassionate.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/022400/ae.theater.love.shtml (567 words)

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		Love was either a mere pleasant game, an agreeable diversion, a healthful exercise of body and mind; or it was a tragic madness, an overwhelming force, a ruinous disease.
		The concept is expanded on in the Judaic-Christian tradition of loving God: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might" (Deuteronomy 6:5) and loving "thy neighbour as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18).
		The love of God requires absolute devotion that is reminiscent of Plato's love of Beauty (and Christian translators of Plato such as St Augustine employed the connections), which involves an erotic passion, awe, and desire that transcends earthly cares and obstacles.
	www.uwec.edu /taylorb/LOVE/BCKGRNDS/Greek/Greeks.doc (3689 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Invention' imitates poet's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		So it may be easy to forget that Stoppard originally built his reputation as a playwright more on the cool wit of his prose than a flair for heated romantic intrigue.
		Invention, which opened Thursday at the Lyceum Theatre, is a brilliantly written, frequently hilarious and often quite moving study of one man's pursuit of personal fulfillment, but it hasn't a sensual or sentimental bone in its body.
		The love that this unlikely romantic hero invents may not be the kind that burns up a stage, but via Stoppard, it's clearly the real thing.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/2001-04-02-invention-of-love.htm (512 words)

	CNN.com - Career - Careerists on Broadway: Love's labors - April 12, 2001
		And in "The Invention of Love," the emotional underscoring of a poet's career is the focus of Tom Stoppard's script.
		There's a career quip right at the beginning of Stoppard's "The Invention of Love." It's 1936 and the poet A.E. Housman is met at the river Styx by the mythic ferryman on his way to Hades.
		"The Invention of Love" is based in the poet's diary, Stoppard having learned from it that Housman ("A Shropshire Lad," 1896) had spent his life and career -- he was a formidable Latin scholar in Oxfordian academic circles -- pining for a young man who never returned his affections.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/CAREER/trends/04/12/broadway (1372 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: The Invention Of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That’s why it would be inappropriate to consider The Invention of Love a strict biographical drama, for dogged adherence to his characters’ true natures is not this playwright’s ultimate goal.
		It examines the timeless subject of repressed (and suppressed) love, in the context of the artistic, intellectual and spiritual conflicts engendered by the Aesthetics movement in 19th-century England, as reflected in the life of poet/scholar A.E. Housman.
		Both Invention and The Real Thing, for example, rely on principals whose central passion appears to be the written word but whose lives ultimately are shaped more profoundly by the power of love.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/118/invention-love.html (612 words)

	Aisle Say (Chicago): THE INVENTION OF LOVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With The Invention of Love, however, Stoppard has proven himself to be the modern day equivalent of George Bernard Shaw.
		Houseman, however, loves only in theory, a love that would never be returned.
		In Houseman we see a man whose entire life is comprised of scholarship and analysis, the two things that deprive him of the ability to invest himself in his emotions.
	www.aislesay.com /CHI-INVENTION.html (464 words)

	The Invention of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to Oscar Wilde, to be an “aesthete” means to believe that all beauty emanates from Greek writing and sculpture particularly sculpture of the nude male form.
		And what is at best today grudgingly tolerated, homosexual love, was common practice in ancient Greece at least among the dramatists, poets, and philosophers.
		Stoppard writes: “Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented.” Hence the title: “Invention of Love”.
	walkerrowe.com /love.html (296 words)

	Love's' Sweet Sorrow / Tom Stoppard's challenging play plunges into the heart of desire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Through all the dense clouds of language that fill ``The Invention of Love,'' the wary, frozen expression of an Oxford classics student shines with the glittering clarity of ice.
		At its heart, the play is a meditation on the elusiveness of verifiable knowledge and the punishing vagaries of love and art.
		Art -- the perpetual invention of the loved one -- is Wilde's motto.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/15/DD1462.DTL (1225 words)

	THE INVENTION OF LOVE
		The Invention of Love opened at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, on September 25, 1997.
		The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene." -- From the Grove Press edition
		ACT Opening-Night Party a `Love' Fest for Playwright -- Society chit-chat from The Chronicle.
	www.sff.net /people/mberry/inventio.htp (344 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Invention of Love: Livres en anglais: Tom Stoppard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene.
		On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson-the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings.
		As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts.
	www.amazon.fr /Invention-Love-Tom-Stoppard/dp/0571192718 (514 words)

	THE INVENTION OF LOVE
		The Invention of Love was inspired by English poet and classicist A. Housman (1859 - 1936).
		The poem describes the poetÕs fight with love and love drives away the poetÕs carefully hewn apathy, cynicism and emotional complacency; that is until Horace sees the young athlete Ligurinus running across the Fields of Mars.
		The Invention of Love, about A.E. Housman, opened at the National Theatre in October 1997 and received itÕs American premiere at ATC in California followed by a highly successful East Coast premiere at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0001/love/PNlove.shtml (19275 words)

	The Invention of Love - Tom Stoppard
		"The Invention of Love may well be my favorite Stoppard play of all time: it combines the cleverness of Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with the emotional richness of The Real Thing and Arcadia, only more so.
		It is fellow student Moses Jackson that Housman loves, admitting it finally to him and to himself (though Jackson wants none of it).
		It is the impossibility of that love that also drives Housman's life, an odd scholarly life of long silences and odd preoccupations.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/stoppt/invent.htm (1636 words)

	The Invention of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After reading and seeing on stage Tom Stoppard's masterpiece Arcadia, I went on a Stoppard reading spree, ending on The Invention of Love, a difficult play that is definitely less approachable at a first glance than for instance The Real Thing.
		All in all, The Invention of Love is a beautiful and moving elegiac play about a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) let himself live his love.
		As they cross the River Styx, Housman sees his earlier self in a boat with his collegiate friends, and thus "The Invention of Love" is set into motion.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0571192718 (169 words)

	'Invention of Love' is brainy, thought-provoking drama North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside ...
		That's the case with Stoppard's Tony-nominated "The Invention of Love," in its San Diego premiere at Cygnet Theatre.
		"The Invention of Love" is a dream play based on the real-life Oxford-educated scholar who was revered for his Latin translations, his stoic, pastoral poems ("The Shropshire Lad" being the best known) and his long-secret homosexuality.
		"The Invention of Love" is complex and multilayered.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/08/25/entertainment/theater/82405112026.txt (1134 words)

	Welcome to Theatre Reviews Limited
		In "THE INVENTION OF LOVE," Stoppard appears to be offering a scholarly rebuttal to the recent flurry of drama about Oscar Wilde.
		Thus, Housman at age 77 not only observes his younger self but, in some of the most imaginatively-written and moving scenes, actually confronts the young man he once was, with all the hope and promise and few of the disillusions that would follow.
		When the Oxford dons argue, their conversation often turns to Classical love which dwelled strongly on love between men or between men and boys.
	www.theatrereviews.com /inventionlove.html (910 words)

	Wistful 'Invention of Love' Will Woo Some but Not All
		Though much of the dialogue is clever, and some passages are lyrical and lovely, it is generally left to the actors to make this muddle palatable.
		A scene between the older Housman and his 22-year-old self is the heart of the play, highlighting Housman's apparent duality as a man dedicated to poetry and scholarship, love and self-denial.
		Their dialogue, a discussion of love and friendship and the power of poetry, provides the few moments of emotional heat this play is capable of producing.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020100908.html (741 words)

	Invention of Love Tom Stoppard
		Apparently in reality the student never knew about this [Housman's love was the classical Achilles/Patrokles kind not the physical kind]; but in the play Stoppard has the student's girl friend become suspicious, causing a confrontation between the two men that ended [in a polite and civilized manner] whatever relationship there was.
		A third strand was the role of the artist in society, using Housman and Wilde as counterpoints.
		Stoppard presents Wilde as the misunderstood artist who lives freely and as a result is penalized by a coarse society and Housman as the withdrawn, closeted artist who suffers from unrequited and unrevealed love.
	www.hudsoncity.net /theater/inventionoflove.html (891 words)

	Invention of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But under all the surface stodginess is a quietly urgent love story, a summing-up of a life.
		The Invention of Love resonates along a half-dozen layers of meaning; Stoppard nests puns in his scenes as well as in his dialogue.
		Wilde appears not just as Wilde but also as Bunthorne, a Gilbert and Sullivan character based on Wilde; Housman’s school friends row a boat along a river that could be the Styx or the Thames, and morph into the characters of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog).
	www.radiofreemike.com /invention.html (1006 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Susannah Clapp on Stoppard's The Invention of Love
		They discuss classical portrayals of male friendship and Sophocles's definition of love: 'A piece of ice held tight in the fist.' They consider the idea that knowledge and taste are incompatible pursuits.
		The Invention of Love is a parade ground for Stoppard's talents and for his tics.
		An oblique reference to Lewis Carroll is made early on in The Invention of Love, and there is more than a hint of Carroll in the play's staging.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,726580,00.html (555 words)

	TIME.com: The Invention Of Love -- Mar. 13, 2000 -- Page 1
		Invention, having its U.S. East Coast premiere at Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, is no exception.
		On one level, the play is about A. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth.
		It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101000313-40341,00.html (279 words)

	the Invention Of Love, a CurtainUp review
		Ben Porter, as the young Housman, is also impressive and convincing, but he does not bring the same vulnerability to the part as Paul Rhys had done in the role last year." The print media critics once again gave Director Eyre, the cast and the play a thumbs up.
		It is this obsessive love for his friend and his concealing of being a homosexual that was to make Houseman a lonely and tortured man for most of his life.
		The Invention of Love is not an easy play to follow, but it does have some of the best acting to be seen on the West End stage at the moment.
	www.curtainup.com /inventio.html (566 words)

	LINCOLN CENTER THEATER --Lincoln Center Theater Review
		A.E. Housman, the hero of The Invention of Love, was a scholar and a poet, a famously divided man who embodied many of the conflicts of his time: the tension between classicism and romanticism, the intellect and the heart, differnt sorts of success and failure.
		He suffered bitterly under the burden of an unrequited and forbidden love; and though he became one of the greatest classical scholars of his day, in his personal life he remained isolated and hopelessly unfulfilled.
		We first spoke with the author, Tom Stoppard, about the origins of his play, and he told us about the image that first inspired him: a page from Housman's diary, which suggested both the depth of Housman's passion and his vigilence in suppressing it--we've reprinted the journal exactly as he encountered it.
	www.lct.org /ntr28.html (292 words)

	Course Description : Sixteenth Century Literature: The Renaissance Invention of Love
		Course Objectives: This course is focused on the literature of love in sixteenth-century England.
		We begin with a look at the poems of Petrarch, who began the tradition of literary love that influence Renaissance poets like Sir Thomas Wyatt and the earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare (and actually still influences love talk today!).
		After reading a host of love poems, we will follow the Petrarchan tradition into other literary forms, one of the first English "novels" by George Gascoigne, and Shakespeare's early play.
	www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu /courses/view.cfm?id=119 (243 words)

	Daughters of Invention: computer love
		as irritating as myspace is, i've come to adore it for the sheer amount of music it has made available to me. i love that smaller artists can build these spaces themselves, and that they determine what they want us to hear.
		You have a very supportive crowd that likes what your doing so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if you guys could get away with murder on the turntables and have them lapping it up.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	daughtersofinvention.blogspot.com /2006/05/computer-love.html (599 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco "hildren of Eden" and "Invention of Love" - 1/16/2000
		It centers around A. Houseman, Latin scholar and author of “A Shropshire Lad” whose unrequited love for a sporty Oxford contemporary, Moses Jackson, had to be repressed.
		He had passionate love of the obliquities of lyric verse of the poets.
		Poetry, scholarship and love are entwined in this sympathetic view of a private life lived parallel to the public career of his near contemporary, Oscar Wild.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s43.html (1742 words)

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