Presentation on the background to Arcadia

1. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

5. “ Arcadia” by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

6. Self Portrait Poussin

7. Derbyshire, England

8. Derbyshire, England

9. “ Arcadia” Set Design

11. Props

12. Props

13. “ Arcadia” performed in Dunedin, New Zealand 1998

20. Lord Byron had joined the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi in 1824, during the war of independence, when he contracted marsh fever and died.

21. Thomasina Coverly

22. Septimus Hodge

23. Costume 1800’s

24. Men’s Clothing 1800’s

25. Boy’s Clothing 1800’s

26. Sportman’s Clothing 1800’s

27. Sportman’s Clothing 1800’s

28. Woman’s Clothing 1800’s

29. Rules of Civility

30. Landscape Architects Capability Brown Humphry Repton

31. English Landscape

32. Salvator Rosa Landscape

34. Landscape

35. Math Isaac Newton Pierre de Fermat

36. Fermat's last theorem Fermat's last theorem says that this equation can't be satisfied for n greater than 2

37. Chaos game yields an image of a fern called Barnsley fern Fractals

38. Simeon Denis Poisson Poisson's work was mentioned in scene 7 page 81 when Thomasina and Septimus discussed about the waltz. He explained how the waltz related to Poisson's demonstration, "the equation of the propagation of heat in a solid body"

40. Chaos Theory

41. The Mandelbrot set puts some geometry into the fundamental observation. It gives an algorithm for computing bulbs.

42. Others Walpole Thackeray Milton Virgil Peacock

43. Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849) founder of the waltz dynasty

44. A Waltz/Vienesse Waltz routine done by the assistents at Tanecni Skola Progress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBrFAUWSSQ

45. England to Martinique

46. Dahlias