Place and Time
This is the name of the estate in which the play takes place.
What is Sidley Park?
Valentine's grouse study involves developing this kind of algorithm.
What is iterated?
Thomasina this historical figure's obsession with carnal embrace resulted in a lot of great plays being destroyed.
Who is Cleopatra?
"If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?"
Who is Thomasina?
Mr. Noakes suggests putting an ad in the paper to solicit for this addition to the garden.
What is a hermit?
The real speaker of the line "Et in Arcadia ego."
Who is Death?
The idea that a formula to predict the future can be written and predicted agrees with this school of thought.
What is determinism?
This 19th-century character is best known for his/her many activities involving carnal embrace.
Who is Mrs. Chater?
"Oh, you're going to zap me with penicillin and pesticides. Spare me that and I'll spare you the bomb and aerosols."
Who is Bernard?
Mr. Noakes uses this piece of machinery to drain the lake in the garden.
What is a steam engine (Improved Newcomen steam engine, to be exact)?
Arcadia portrays the contrast between these two philosophical movements in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What are the Enlightenment and Romantic movements?
According to Valentine, current physics is only good at explaining these two kinds of things.
What are the very big and very small?
This man rejects Lady Croom's advances for carnal embrace, making her quite cross.
Who is Lord Byron?
"You have insulted my wife."
Who is Mr. Chater?
Septimus and Mrs. Chater are caught in carnal embrace is this part of the garden.
What is the gazebo?
The Chater family travels to the Indies with this fellow, working as a tag team botanist/mistress.
Who is Captain Brice?
This is the problem that Thomasina struggles to solve in Scene 1 of the play.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
Modern Lady Croom discovers these two people (in some form of carnal embrace) shortly before the Regency Ball.
"I am a master at Eton, Mr Hodge, but we only draw naked women."
Who is Augustus?
Lady Croom's garden was the first in England to have this kind of flower.
What is a dahlia?
Thomasina's time is up shortly after the end of the play. This is the significant event that would have happened for her if she had lived another day.
What is her 17th birthday?
According to Chloe, the universe would be just how Newton said it would be, if it weren't for this one thing.
What is people fancying other people?
Septimus finds very little carnal embrace in this ironically titled poem.
What is "The Couch of Eros"?
"We must have you married before you are educated beyond eligibility."
Who is Lady Croom?
This famous landscape gardener, surnamed Brown, was out of fashion by the time Mr. Noakes started designing gardens.
Who is Capability Brown?