The strangely out of place souvenir coffee mug plays an important role in both of Stoppard plays. The appearance of modern souvenir mug in historical time line allows the audience to feel connected and related to the event of the past. Being able to connect the audience to the movie is very important as the setting took place in Renaissance and Romantics era, for Shakespeare in Love and Arcadia respectively, an eras which we perceive as culturally and historically foreign to us. By doing so, both plays also achieve greater sense of realism as the ideas and feelings are no longer belong to a 16 century characters, but the same one that we are also experiencing today. In Arcadia, the coffee mug plays a little more complex role in connecting the