Writing lessons from Tom Stoppard's script doctoring on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard is perhaps best known for his postmodern ShakespearanismsRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Shakespeare In Love (though I'd personally argue that his greatest works were Travesties and Brazil). But a new Stoppard biography from Hermione Lee has brought some new and revitalized attention to one of Stoppard's lesser-known literary contributions: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, for which he served as an uncredited script doctor. — Read the rest