num_pages: 112
description: It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman’s High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student named Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the elder Housman confronts the younger version of himself and his memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson –– the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings.
language: English
title: The Invention of Love
titlecomplete: The Invention of Love
genres: 20th Century, Theatre, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Drama, Plays, Queer, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 2065
publisher: Grove Press