It is 1936 and a. Housman is being ferried across the river styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's connects hades with the Oxford Of Housman's youth: high victorian morality is under s...It is 1936 and a. Housman is being ferried across the river styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's connects hades with the Oxford Of Housman's youth: high victorian morality is under siege from the aesthetic movement, and an Irish student named Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene.