Published on
Dec 4, 2025
Tom Stoppard, proud Englishman—with a past
The child who would become Sir Tom Stoppard, OM CBE FRSL, fled Czechoslovakia when he was not yet two years old. Years later, he would like to say that at the age of eight he had “put on Englishness like a coat”. That was in 1945, when his widowed mother …
Source:
Prospect
-
Center-left
