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Byline: Christopher Hitchens
William Shakespeare set his Winter's Tale in part on "the coast of Bohemia": a territory both metaphorical and literal but still solidly landlocked within the Czech Republic. From a wartime marriage between a Czech Jewish refugee and an English officer sprang Tom Stoppard, our most witty and polymathic living playwright. Just try avoiding his work this season. In London you can go to see his Rock 'n' Roll, a play for the more egghead hippie that spans the years between the subjugation of Prague in 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 (two dates where the last two digits are the same if inverted and flipped), the first-night audience for which included Vaclav Havel and Mick Jagger. Or ...