The Real Thing (signed broadside)
STOPPARD, Tom. The Real Thing (signed broadside).
Faber and Faber [1983]
A4 sheet (29.5 x 21 cm); printed on recto only in black ink; signed by the playwright in red to the lower right hand corner; fine.
Limited to just 500 copies, this copy no. 224.
Extracted from the full-length play, originally published by Faber and Faber in 1982. Arguably the pinnacle moment, the ‘Cricket Bat Speech’ originated from Stoppard’s 1970 journal entries, in which he wrote “'Good prose is sprung like a cricket bat''. In this small section, Stoppard uses the way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, a metaphor for writing - illustrating the authenticity of art, and what makes ‘good’ art.
A lovely example, becoming increasingly scarce.
STOPPARD, Tom. The Real Thing (signed broadside).
Faber and Faber [1983]
A4 sheet (29.5 x 21 cm); printed on recto only in black ink; signed by the playwright in red to the lower right hand corner; fine.
Limited to just 500 copies, this copy no. 224.
Extracted from the full-length play, originally published by Faber and Faber in 1982. Arguably the pinnacle moment, the ‘Cricket Bat Speech’ originated from Stoppard’s 1970 journal entries, in which he wrote “'Good prose is sprung like a cricket bat''. In this small section, Stoppard uses the way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, a metaphor for writing - illustrating the authenticity of art, and what makes ‘good’ art.
A lovely example, becoming increasingly scarce.
STOPPARD, Tom. The Real Thing (signed broadside).
Faber and Faber [1983]
A4 sheet (29.5 x 21 cm); printed on recto only in black ink; signed by the playwright in red to the lower right hand corner; fine.
Limited to just 500 copies, this copy no. 224.
Extracted from the full-length play, originally published by Faber and Faber in 1982. Arguably the pinnacle moment, the ‘Cricket Bat Speech’ originated from Stoppard’s 1970 journal entries, in which he wrote “'Good prose is sprung like a cricket bat''. In this small section, Stoppard uses the way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, a metaphor for writing - illustrating the authenticity of art, and what makes ‘good’ art.
A lovely example, becoming increasingly scarce.