Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.7963" target="_blank" >10.5604/01.3001.0014.7963</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment
Original language description
The science play is a well-established genre of dramatic writing in the English speaking theatrical tradition. This paper discusses three full-length science plays by the prominent British playwright Tom Stoppard. These are Hapgood, Arcadia, and The Hard Problem. The plays are based on popular science sources and offer their audience an access to science. After providing a brief history of the science play and the science show, the paper shows that Stoppard develops the dramatic and the atrical traditions by involving science on the textual (giving popularised scientific knowledge in the form of dialogised lectures) and performative levels (demonstrating or illustrating science on stage), primarily to turn it into a metaphor of human behaviour. Hapgood and Arcadia further engage with science on the structural level, thus becoming thought experiments reflecting upon science. The most recent play, The Hard Problem, develops textual and performative strategies related to science but ceases to experiment with the form, leaving more space for the audience to draw ethical conclusions.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
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Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Świat i Słowo (World and Word)
ISSN
1731-3317
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Volume of the periodical
36
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
77-89
UT code for WoS article
000706781100006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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