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The real thing

  • Tom Stoppard

3.00

4 ratings

Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he's hopelessly naive when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he's confronted with being the cuckold himself.

Genres

  • British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • Comedy
  • English drama
  • Comédie
  • Théâtre anglais
  • Dramatists
  • Drama
  • Man-woman relationships
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About the author

  • Tom Stoppard

    3 July 1937 - 29 November 2025

    3.98

    42 ratings · 119 works

Editions

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    Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    Nov 21, 2017

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    Reprinted with revisions.

    Faber and Faber

    1983

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    S. French

    1984

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    S. French

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Broadway edition

Faber & Faber

April 17, 2000

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    Broadway ed.

    Faber & Faber

    1984

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    Faber & Faber

    1991

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    publisher not identified

    1982

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    Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated

    2024

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    Faber & Faber, Limited

    2014

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    Nonesuch

    1984

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    Reprinted with revisions.

    Faber and Faber

    1983

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    New Ed edition

    Samuel French Ltd

    September 1986

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    [Book Club ed.]

    Faber and Faber

    1983

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    Mark Taper Forum

    1984

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    L'Avant-scène

    1988

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    Repr. with further revisions.

    Faber

    1984

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    1984

  • Edition cover

    Reprinted with revisions.

    Faber, 1984.

    1984

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    Faber and Faber

    1982

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    Faber and Faber

    1988

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    Broadway ed.

    Faber & Faber

    1984