He is also the author of several screenplays, getting an Oscar nomination, along with Terry Gilliam, for Brazil, and winning for Shakespeare in Love.
He spent WWII in India after his father had been killed in the invasion of Singapore, and later moved to England when his mother married a British army officer. Some of his works include the television drama Squaring the Circle, about Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain, and more recently, The Invention of Love, about A.E. Housman and his desire for a male student. He is also the author of several screenplays, getting an Oscar nomination, along with Terry Gilliam, for Brazil, and winning for Shakespeare in Love. FTP name this dramatist who earlier spoofed "The Bard" in the absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
He spent WWII in India after his father had been killed in the invasion of Singapore, and later moved to England when his mother married a British army officer.
Tom {Stoppard}.