Tom Stoppard, the ingenious Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose gift for wordplay led him to a record five Tony Awards for best play, the first for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the last for Leopoldstadt , and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love , has died. He was 88.

Stoppard died at his home in Dorset, England, his agents announced. “He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,” they said.

Stoppard received his first Academy Award nomination for co-writing Brazil (1985) with director Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, adapted John le Carre ‘s novel for The Russia House (1990) and did an uncredited revision on the

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