“This is not science. This is storytelling:” The Poetics of Science in Arcadia by Liliane Campos

“…This article explores the strong epistemological continuity of Stoppard’s references to science, which provide him with metaphors for the systematic instability of knowledge asserted by his plays. The analysis focuses on the poetic use of entropy, unpredictable determinism and iteration in Arcadia, and their structuring role as metaphors of emplotment. …”
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“We will write it again”: subverted hermeneutics in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by Aloysia Rousseau

“…Arcadia can be read as a subverted detective story in which history is reinterpreted rather than deciphered. …”
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Arcadia (1993) de Tom Stoppard : la passion du bilan by Nicole Boireau

“…Arcadia operates like a blank page, an empty form paradoxically rooted in the real world. …”
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« Les Arcadies de Sir Philip Sidney et de Tom Stoppard » by Anne-Valérie Dulac

“…The present article does not aim at uncovering echoes of Sidney’s Arcadias in Stoppard’s play but explores the Arcadian place as a contradictory space built upon jarring geographical and literary assumptions. …”
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Stoppard’s chaomedic wit by Élisabeth Angel-Perez

“…With Arcadia Stoppard suggests that post-modernism, fragmentation and chaos are reclaimed if not by order, at least by determinism. …”
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