چکیده:
Parody as a salient device in postmodern literature is extensively applied by Tom Stoppard in his plays. Having different layers of parody, Stoppard‟s "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "The Real Inspector Hound", and "Dogg‟s Hamlet, Cahoot‟s Macbeth" exhibit his parodic application of other writers‟ plots. The analytical-qualitative scrutiny of the plot lines of these plays not only corroborates their parodic nature but also demonstrates the techniques Stoppard employs in each play to parody the plot of its hypotext. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" dramatizes a specific parody of the plot of "Hamlet" both where it overlaps the plot of the tragedy and more intensely where it touches Shakespeare‟s plot tangentially. Stoppard‟s genre parody of the stock plot of the crime genre is portrayed in "The Real Inspector Hound". It simultaneously enjoys a parody of the plot of Agatha Christie‟s "The Mousetrap". The three-part performance in the first part of "Dogg‟s Hamlet, Cahoot‟s Macbeth" displays a specific parody of the plot of Shakespeare‟s "Hamlet".
خلاصه ماشینی:
"JELS, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 2010, 129-156 IAUCTB Plot Parody in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth Mohammad Reza Sadrian Assistant Professor of Literature, Islamic Azad University Islamshahr Branch, Iran Abstract Keywords: Introduction The aim of this study is to elaborate on different layers of plot parody in Stoppard‘s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, and Dogg‟s Hamlet, Cahoot‟s Macbeth – which henceforth will be referred to as RAGAD, RIH, and DHCM, respectively.
Stoppard pokes fun at his thriller by introducing it in a circular structure, engaging Birdboot and Moon who are from a (more) real world; in the 145 Plot Parody in Stoppard’s Works repetition of the thriller‘s plot, two members of the audience, Moon and Birdboot, take the places of two of the major characters in the thriller – that is, the ‗suspect‘, Simon, and the ‗sleuth‘, Inspector Hound – without any significant changes in the course of the actions.
The humor of Stoppard‘s repeated plot mainly derives from having Birdboot and Moon, two theater audience/critics from a (more) real plane of reality, 148 JELS, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 2010, 129-156 recapitulate what Simon and Inspector Hound have already delivered and done in the thriller.
The added interlude to the plot of Hamlet occurs just after the seventh scene and is Stoppard‘s brief onstage presentation of the sea events narrated and kept offstage in Shakespeare‘s tragedy; it recalls the third act of RAGAD."