Endless pursuit realitythrough metadramatic devices in Tom Stoppard's plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real İnspector Hound and Travesties

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This thesis aims to investigate the question of reality in Tom Stoppard’s plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, and Travesties. Each of these plays closely examines the nature of reality and certainty and shows Stoppard as the critique of grand narratives of Reality, Truth, and Art. By deconstructing these master narratives, Stoppard attempts to invalidate the convictions that reality is fixed and that art should faithfully reproduce the material world in which reality is perceived as permanent. His challenge creates a realization in the audience and makes them question the issues they previously took for granted. To divest the audience of certainty and to display the endless pursuit of reality both in life and in art, Stoppard, in his plays, makes use of some metadramatic devices. Stoppard’s distinctive use of the metadramatic devices which reveal the unaccountable nature of reality and the limits of knowledge is the core of this study

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E. Yedekçi, “Endless pursuit realitythrough metadramatic devices in Tom Stoppard’s plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real İnspector Hound and Travesties,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.