Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00121658" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121658 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://swiatislowo.publisherspanel.com/resources/html/article/details?id=214445" target="_blank" >https://swiatislowo.publisherspanel.com/resources/html/article/details?id=214445</a>

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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Świat i Słowo (World and Word)

ISSN

1731-3317

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

36

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

77-89

Kód UT WoS článku

000706781100006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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