Humour and Fate in Tom Stoppard's Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Number: Ek1 December 1, 2016
  • Ayça Ülker Erkan
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Humour and Fate in Tom Stoppard's Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss physical humour arising from the characters’ quest for identity and to depict how the themes of death/ chance/ fate/ reality/ illusion function in the existentialist world of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Humour plays a significant role in the analysis of this tragicomedy. The theatre of the Absurd expresses the senselessness of the human condition, abandons the use of rational devices, reflects man’s tragic sense of loss, and registers the ultimate realities of the human condition, such as the problems of life and death. Thus the audience is confronted with a picture of disintegration. This dissolved reality is discharged through ‘liberating’ laughter which depicts the absurdity of the universe. Stoppard uses verbal wit, humour and farce to turn the most serious subjects into comedy. Humour is created by Guildenstern’s little monologues that touch on the profound but founder on the absurd. The play has varieties of irony, innuendo, confusion, odd events, and straight-up jokes. Stoppard’s use of the ‘play in play’ technique reveals the ultimate fate of the tragicomic characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They confront the mirror image of their future deaths in the metadramatic spectacle performed by the Players. As such, the term “Stoppardian” springs out of his use of style: wit and comedy while addressing philosophical concepts and ideas.

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December 1, 2016

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December 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: Ek1

APA
Erkan, A. Ü. (2016). Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Ek1, 74-86. https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU
AMA
1.Erkan AÜ. Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader. PAUSBED. 2016;(Ek1):74-86. https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU
Chicago
Erkan, Ayça Ülker. 2016. “Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz Ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah Ve Kader”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. Ek1: 74-86. https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU.
EndNote
Erkan AÜ (December 1, 2016) Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Ek1 74–86.
IEEE
[1]A. Ü. Erkan, “Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader”, PAUSBED, no. Ek1, pp. 74–86, Dec. 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU
ISNAD
Erkan, Ayça Ülker. “Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz Ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah Ve Kader”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. Ek1 (December 1, 2016): 74-86. https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU.
JAMA
1.Erkan AÜ. Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader. PAUSBED. 2016;:74–86.
MLA
Erkan, Ayça Ülker. “Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz Ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah Ve Kader”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. Ek1, Dec. 2016, pp. 74-86, https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU.
Vancouver
1.Ayça Ülker Erkan. Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Oyununda Mizah ve Kader. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2016 Dec. 1;(Ek1):74-86. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA73CR79AU
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