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• Title:
  Quantum Mechanics and the Relativity of Human Identity: Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood
• Creator:
  Uchman, Jadwiga
• Contributor:
  Kazik, Joanna;
  Mirowska, Paulina;
  University of Łódź, Institute of English Studies, Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature;
  Jadwiga Uchman is Head of the Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, Poland. She specializes in modern British drama. Her research interests include the drama of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, and, in particular, the specific quality of political plays. Professor Uchman is the author of The Problem of Time in the Plays of Samuel Beckett (Łódź, 1987), Reality, Illusion, Theatricality: A Study of Tom Stoppard (Łódź, 1998) and, more recently, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard: Playwrights and Directors (Łódź, 2011).
• Description:
  Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood has often been discussed as a spy drama employing intertextual references to physics (quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle) and mathematics (Euler’s geometry) to detect a traitor in the English secret-service network. On several occasions, however, Stoppard has argued that the play is specifically about a woman, Hapgood, whose identity is not easy to define. On the one hand, she is the leader of a group of agents. On the other, she is the mother of little Joe, whose father is Joseph Kerner, a member of the network and an atomic physicist whose explanations of physics and mathematics illuminate the meaning of the events of the play. Apart from the two elements inherent in the identity of Hapgood, that is, the “technical” and the “personal,” she also appears in the double role of herself and her twin sister, Celia, this being an attempt, and a successful one, to confirm the suspicions that the traitor in their midst is Ridley, who not only is a double agent working both for the English and the Russians but also has a real twin brother.;
  Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
• Date:
  2019.06.10;
  2013
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013;;
  Studies in English Drama and Poetry;;
  3
• Subject:
  quantum mechanics;
  relativity of human identity;
  Tom Stoppard;
  Hapgood
• Identifier:
  Uchman J., Quantum Mechanics and the Relativity of Human Identity: Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood, [w:] Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013, s. 93-104, doi: 10.18778/7525-994-0.08;
  978-83-7525-994-0;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28799 ;
  10.18778/7525-994-0.08
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text