Resources for Frayn's Copenhagen: Print Articles
- Barnett, David. "Reading and Performing Uncertainty: Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and the Postdramatic Theatre." Theatre Research International. 30.2 (2005): 139-49. (The title says it all.)
- Berry, Michael. "Enigma Variations on the Nuclear Stage." Nature. 394.6695 (20 Aug., 1998): 735. (Review.)
- Born, Gustav and Alvin M. Weinberg. "Michael Frayn's Play Copenhagen." Physics Today. 53.7 (July, 2000): 74-5. (Born laments that Max Born is not more present in the play, and Weinberg suggests that Heisenberg is reassuring Bohr that the Nazis don't have the bomb.)
- Brantley, Ben. "A Fiery Power in the Behavior of Particles and Humans." New York Times. 12 April, 2000: E1. (Review of the New York performance.)
- Cassidy, David C. "A Historical Perspective on Copenhagen." Physics Today. 53.7 (July, 2000): 28-32. (Heisenberg's biographer discusses the historicity of the play.)
- Crichton, Paul. "A Morality Tale of the Nuclear Age." Lancet. 357.9259: (17 March, 2001): 894. (Praise of David Bannerman as Werner Heisenberg with comments on the language in the play that highlight people's ambivalence about Heisenberg.)
- Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Copenhagen: The Drama of History." Contemporary Theater. 45.2 (Spring, 2004): 218-38. (The theme of Frayn's play, which is theater, not history, is the inaccessibility of human intentions.)
- Flynn, Michael and Linda Rothstein. "The Real Mystery Science Theater." The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. 54.6 (Nov., 1998): 9-10. (Discussion of Copenhagen and Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.)
- Friedman, R. M. "'Remembering Miss Meitner:' an Attempt to Forge History into Drama." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 27.3 (Fall, 2002): 202-10. (Author's participation in symposia on science in successful plays.)
- Gamerman, Amy. "Theater: You do Have to be a Rocket Scientist." Wall St. Journal. 12 April, 2000: A24. (Negative, enfant terrible review.)
- Gee, Maggie. "Copenhagen." TLS. 4967 (12 June, 1998): 19. (Review.)
- Glanz, James. "Of Physics, Friendship, and the Atomic Bomb." New York Times. 21 March, 2000: F1. (Discussion of the subject matter in the play.)
- Guppy, S. and Michael Frayn. "The Art of Theater." Paris Review. 168 (Winter, 2003): 189. (An interview.)
- Hentschel, K. "What History of Science Can Learn from Michael Frayn's Copenhagen." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 27.3 (Fall, 2002): 211-6. (Analysis of "historical polyphony" in the play.)
- Hornby, Richard. "The Social Problem Play." Hudson Review. 51.4 (Winter, 1999): 751-8. (Review of Frayn's play and others as instances of this theme.)
- Ishiguro, H. and R. Balibar. "Copenhagen." Critique. 58.661-2 (June/July, 2002): 575-86. (French language review of the play.)
- King, Robert. "The Play of Uncertain Ideas." Massachesetts Review. 42.2 (Summer, 2001): 165-75. (Discussion of the staging of the play and the presentation of the uncertainty of human knowledge.)
- Klein, Julia M. "When Plays Touch on History, What is Truth?" Chronicle of Higher Education 1 June, 2001: B19-20. (Comments on Frayn's Copenhagen and Stoppard's The Invention of Love)
- Klemm, David E. "'The Darkness inside the Human Soul:' Uncertainty in Theological Humanism and Michael Frayn's Play Copenhagen." Literature and Theology. 18.3 (September, 2004): 292-307. (Klemm attributes the success of Frayn's play to the author's presentation of multiple levels of uncertainty.)
- Logan, Jonothan. "A Strange New Quantum Ethics." American Scientist. 88.4 (July/Aug., 2000): 356-9. (Review.)
- Lustig, Harry and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. "Science as Theater." American Scientist. 90.6 (Nov./Dec., 2002): 550-5. (Examines three popular plays based in science: Copenhagen, Louis Slotin Sonata by Paul Mullin, and After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker.)
- "Moreover: Science in Fiction is not Science Fiction." Economist. 348.8082 (22 August, 1998): 667. (Praises Frayn's Copenhagen and Djerassi's An Immaculate Misconception.)
- Omasreiter-Blaicher, R. "Uncertainties in Heisenberg's Life. Michael Frayn's Copenhagen: Memory Play as History." Forum Modernes Theater. 16.1 (2001): 59-72.
- Orecklin, Michele. "Atomic Bombshell." Time. 159.7 (18 Feb., 2002): 83.
- Orthofer, M. A. "The Scientist on the Stage: A Survey." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 27.3 (Fall, 2002): 173-83. (Discussion of successful plays about science: Brecht's Life of Galileo, Stoppard's Arcadia, and Frayn's Copenhagen.)
- Osei-Boateng, Lillian. "A Most Cerebral Danish." Stage Directions. 15.5 (May, 2002): 64. (Comments on the US tour of Copenhagen.)
- Pais, Abraham and Michael Frayn. "What Happened in Copenhagen?: A Physicist's View and the Playwright's Response." Hudson Review 53:2 (Summer, 2000): 182-91. (The title is self-explanatory.)
- Peithman, Stephen. "Of Weight and Substance." Stage Directions. 14.4 (April, 2001): 28-9. (Review of US publication of Copenhagen and of other plays about scientists.)
- Powell, Corey S. "Science Acts Out." Discover 21.8 (Aug., 2000): 86-8. (Review of Copenhagen and other plays about science.)
- Reisch, Marc S. "Wonderful Copenhagen." Chemical and Engineering News. 78.17 (24 April, 2000): 35-6. (Discusses Frayn's play and the talk he gave at the CUNY conference on the play. See Schwartzschild.)
- Rose, Paul Lawrence. "Frayn's Copenhagen Plays Well, at History's Expense." Chronicle of Higher Education 5 May, 2000: B4-6. (The author of one of Frayn's sources questions the historicity of the play.)
- Rosenthal, B. "Copenhagen." Germanic Notes and Reviews. 34.1 (Spring, 2003): 58-9.
- Ruben, Bryan. "Copenhagen." Chemistry and Industry. 24 (20 Dec., 1999): 984-5. (Review of the published play.)
- Sanders, T. M. "Copenhagen." Contemporary Physics. 43.5 (Sept./Oct., 2002): 401-3. (Review of the American publication of the play.)
- Schwartzschild, Bertram. "Bohr-Heisenberg Symposium Marks Broadway Opening of Copenhagen." Physics Today. (May, 2000): 51. (The title is self-explanatory.)
- Simon, John. "Gone Fission." New York. 33.16: 134-6. (Review of Frayn's play and of Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.)
- Soto-Morettini, Donna. "'Disturbing the Spirits of the Past:' The Uncertainty Principle in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen." in Marc Maufort and Franca Bellarsi, eds. Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of the New Millenium. Bruxelles and New York: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2002. 69-78. (Discussion of history and indeterminacy.)
- Staub, August W. "The Scientist as Byronic Hero: Michael Frayn's Copenhagen." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 16.2 (2002): 133-41. (The scientist is now [at last!] an emblem of human suffering.)
- Stewart, V. "A Theatre of Uncertainties: Science and History in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen." New Theatre Quarterly. 15.60 (Nov., 1999): 301-7.
- Tollini, Frederick P. "Blessed Uncertainty." America. 183.81 (23 Sept., 2000): 24-6. (Reviews of several plays, including Copenhagen.)
- Voss, David. "A Friendship's Fission." Science. 288.5464 (14 April, 2000): 278-9. (Review of the play and of the symposium "Creating Copenhagen.")
- Winder, Robert. "Hall of Mirrors." New Statesman. 13.615 (24 July, 2000): 54-5. (Review of The Copenhagen Papers.)
- Young, Peter B. "Copenhagen." Theatre Journal. 51.2 (May, 1999): 218-9. (Review of Royal National Theatre performance and discussion of the theme of motivations in the play.)
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