The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best

He was an award-winning playwright whose witty works delighted generations.

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world

The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that looked at an implausible arcadia, an impossible utopia and affecting notions of home

The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best

Stoppard's writing, often philosophical or scientific but consistently funny, gave rise to the term Stoppardian.