Tom Stoppard is one of the finest playwrights of the modern era. Some of his best known plays are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Professional Foul, The Real Thing and many others. The most beautiful of all his pieces is Arcadia. The literary meaning of the term "Arcadia" inspired Tom Stoppard to write his play Arcadia. It was called “Et in Arcadia ego”. “Arcadia” actually means a vision of pastoralism and harmony within nature. The Greek province of the same name contributed to the origin of the term. The existence of the term has also been discovered in Renaissance mythology. “Arcadia” refers to something unattainable as commonly as utopia. The term “Arcadia” is symbolic of pastoral simplicity. The Arcadia piece included themes of classical beauty and harmony in nature. In 1993, the play was written by Tom Stoppard about the relationship between the past and the present and between order and disorder. It has been hailed as the finest contemporary play in English. Tom Stoppard highlights the relationship between the past and the present and strikes a chord between different aspects of life. According to Johann Hari, “Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia has only grown in power and relevance.” Stoppard set out to prove that scientific knowledge differs from literary or historical knowledge. The desire for knowledge is greater and art is easily understandable, unlike science, when it uses the language of art to explain things. Tom Stoppard has been hailed as Britain's greatest living playwright and his plays illustrate his artistic genius and skill. Stoppard's Arcadia is a comedy of ideas. According to Michael Bellington, "Arcadia adorns...... middle of paper...... als, botany and mathematicians making the piece one of the richest masterpieces of all time." The only tragedy we see in the play is the untimely and untimely death of Thomasina Coverly, who died on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, setting her room on fire. It seems like she had planned her death. The play Arcadia definitely shows the overwhelming intellectual genius of Tom Stoppard. The play is emotionally and intellectually dense. Works Cited Brassell, Tim. Tom Stoppard: An Assessment, London, Macmillan, 1985.2. Fleming, John. Stoppard Theater: Finding order amidst chaos. University of Texas: Pres. Austin, United States.3. Hunter, J.Tom Stoppard's Plays.Faber & Faber, London,982.4.Jenkins, A.The Theater of Tom Stoppard.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1987.5. Stoppard, Tom.Arcadia (The Plays of Tom Stoppard). Faber & Faber Limited, London,1999.