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Title of Article

The tradition of comedy of ideas in Tom Stoppard`s drama (the philosofical comedy «Travesties»)


Issue
1
Date
2013

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82
Pages
315-319
Keywords
Stoppard, «comedy of ideas», Wilde, British drama of the twentieth century, intertext, «Travesties».


Authors
Shirokova Liliya Mikhaylovna
Nizhegorodskiy gosuniversitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
The article analyses the specifics of genre in the comedy «Travesties» in terms of the intellectual tradition of the English drama. It is shown how the comedy of ideas is implemented in the works of British playwrights Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Tom Stoppard. In the context of this approach, we determine the place of T. Stoppard's oeuvre in the history of English drama.

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