Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

J 2021

Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

KAČER, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment

Autoři

KAČER, Tomáš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Świat i Słowo (World and Word), 2021, 1731-3317

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Polsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121658

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.7963

UT WoS

000706781100006

Klíčová slova anglicky

Tom Stoppard; science play; theatre; metaphor; textuality; performativity

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 11. 2. 2022 11:58, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

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.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1446/2020, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Citovat

KAČER, Tomáš. Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment. Świat i Słowo (World and Word). 2021, roč. 36, č. 1, s. 77-89. ISSN 1731-3317. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.7963.

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