Play
![The Invention of Love](https://www.uktw.co.uk/images/genre/GP0.jpg)
Written 1997. A play about the poet A E Housman, auther of 'A Shropshire Lad'. Housman was also a great, though not well loved, classical scholar. Poetry, scholarship and love and entwined in this sympathetic view of a private life lived parallel to the public career of his near-contemporary Oscar Wilde. The story is not a literal biography. Winner of Best Play Award in the 1997 Evening Standard Awards.
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Tom StoppardUKTW Historical Archive
The Invention of Love archive with 7 listings from Wednesday, 1st October 1997 to Saturday, 20th February 2010.