Sir Tom Stoppard was hailed this week by King Charles as 'one of our greatest writers' in a touching tribute following his death aged 88. Few British playwrights were as revered or decorated as Sir Tom, whose talents saw him win an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay Shakespeare In Love. His semi-autobiographical Leopoldstadt - set in the Jewish quarter of early 20th-century Vienna - won him an Olivier award for best new play and also won four Tony awards. The legendary writer's other stage work included The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. But it...