The hospital as a two-edged weapon in stoppard's play every good boy deserves favour

Abstract EN

Tom Stoppard condemns in his play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which he wrote in 1977, the unjust practices of using mental asylums as a tool of punishment for political dissidents.

Where a political dissident, Alexander Ivanov, is put in the same ward with a mental patient, who carries the same name of Ivanov, and who imagines that he leads an orchestra.