Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter

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

Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter

On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama