This author wrote a play in which a character steps on his tortoise and accidentally shoots his hare shortly after using them to disprove Zeno's paradox.
This author wrote a play in which a character steps on his tortoise and accidentally shoots his hare shortly after using them to disprove Zeno's paradox. That play by this man also features the inspector Bones investigating the murder of McFee and includes appearances from a group of logical-positivist gymnasts. In a play by this author, a botanist who died of a monkey bite is revealed to be the terrible poet Ezra Chater, who challenges a main character to a duel after the latter's authorship of a negative review is revealed by (*) Lord Byron. In that play by this man, Hannah Jarvis discovers that the "hermit of Sidley Park" was actually Septimus Hodge, the tutor of Thomasina Coverly. For 10 points, name this author of Jumpers and Arcadia, a Czech-British playwright who used minor Hamlet characters in his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
This author wrote a play in which a character steps on his tortoise and accidentally shoots his hare shortly after using them to disprove Zeno's paradox.
Tom Stoppard [or Tomas Straussler]