Arcadia Resources

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A wealth of background information on the play, collected by a British teacher.

A guide to the scientific ideas in the play, from the math department of Boston University.

Another guide, this one from Skidmore College.

Includes images of a program from the original production and Stoppard's drafts of the play.

Info on Byron and Caroline Lamb, including links to his poetic greatest hits.

Short version: he liked it.

From five years before Arcadia's opening night.

Stoppard admits to Charlie Rose that he doesn't know what he's talking about. (Skip to 19:30.)

British radio hosts an Arcadia-inspired discussion of the place of science in drama.

The painting that encapsulates the Arcadia myth.

Different painting, same theme.

And one more painting for good measure.