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Tom Stoppard is a real-life British playwright who, in “Plautus: A Memoir,” Plautus adopts in an attempt to get close to either Americans or communists. At the time that Stoppard takes Plautus in, he’s in the early stages of writing what will eventually become his play Jumpers, in which a man accidentally kills his tortoise while his wife watches men land on the moon. Plautus’s name is also taken from another of Stoppard’s plays, Arcadia, in which a hermit owns a tortoise named Plautus.
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Tom Stoppard Character Timeline in Only the Animals
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Plautus: A Memoir of My Years on Earth and Last Days in Space: Soul of Tortoise (Died 1968, Space)
...district in London, where she knows she’ll at least find communists. A British playwright named Tom Stoppard adopts her. He’s working on a play about a philosopher who steps on his pet...
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