Abstract
Tom Stoppard has always invented lives — including his own. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstem to Henry Carr and A.E. Housman, Stoppard has invented biographical facts and events that have never happened: James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, and Lenin never met in Zurich in 1917, although they were there; Byron never visited Sidley Park, but in Arcadia his stay is the likely cause of his surreptitious disappearance to the Continent; Housman and Wilde never exchanged words, although they have a long and sympathetic conversation at the end of The Invention of Love; Shakespeare, to our knowledge, never had a love affair that sparked Romeo and Juliet, although such an event defines the script Stoppard co-wrote for the movie Shakespeare in Love.
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