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The play-within-the-play parody in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound
Other Title(s)
السخرية باستخدام أسلوب المسرحية داخل المسرحية في ماهية المفتش ل "توم ستوبارد"
Author
Source
Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University
Issue
Vol. 45, Issue ---- (31 Dec. 2017), pp.376-396, 21 p.
Publisher
Ain Shams University Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Drawing on a descriptive-analytic approach, the paper tackles Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (1968) as a play-within-the-play parody of the English whodunnit in general and of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap (1952) in particular.
The Mousetrap, which has broken records by becoming the longest running play in the history of London's West End since its debut in 1952, established Christie (the novelist, short story writer, and poet) as a playwright in the public eye.
Stoppard's Hound, an absurdist two-act farce drawing upon the play-within-the-play conventions familiar to audiences of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, shows how Stoppard's work is exaggerating the style and content, and playing especially on the original.
The paper has reached two findings.
First, Stoppard parodies the predictability and hackneyed mechanism of the English whodunnit represented by Christie's The Mousetrap, as one of the most celebrated whodunnits in English literature, by means of his exceptional technique of the play-within-the-play parody.
Second, by implication, the same author parodies theatre critics' jealousies, subjective judgments, and pompous pronouncements by means of the text-to-critic parody through the same technique of the play-within-the-play.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Sarawih, Khalid Sad. 2017. The play-within-the-play parody in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University،Vol. 45, no. ----, pp.376-396.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-865889
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sarawih, Khalid Sad. The play-within-the-play parody in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University Vol. 45 (Oct. / Dec. 2017), pp.376-396.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-865889
American Medical Association (AMA)
Sarawih, Khalid Sad. The play-within-the-play parody in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. 2017. Vol. 45, no. ----, pp.376-396.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-865889
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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BIM-865889