The article aims to present the formal, narrative and structural duality characteristic of Tom Stoppard’s dramaturgy in relation to his biographical experience of changing his identity from Czech to British and being exposed to Central European, Asian and Indian cultures. In the second part of the paper, his work is interpreted in the context of its potential links to Czech culture; the thesis is based on information provided by Stoppard himself, facts about the reception of Czech theatre in the West and the contents of the British playwright’s works with their important references to Czech culture.
The author of the article tries to connect opinions on time of some modem and post-modem philosophers and sociologists of the 19th and 20th centuries (Hegel, Marx, Bergson, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bauman, Deleuze, Bćlohradsky, Mizińska...) with some texts of Czech and world, modem and postmodem literaturę (particularly with drama) of the same time: A. and V. Mrstikove - Rok na vsi; K. Toman - Mćsice; M. Proust - A la re- cherche du temps perdu; S. Beckett - En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, Krapp's Last Tape, Nouvelles et Textes pour rien; K. Śiktanc - Ćesky orloj; V. Macura - Ten, ktery budę; M. Ravenhill - Shopping and Fucking, Faust (Faust is dead); S. Kane - 4.48 Psy- chosis; M. HoroSćak-Vafenyhlavy aneb „Dćvće, tobS na kozach tanći smrt“; W. Mastrosimone - Like Totally Weird. It is obvious that time is incorporated in the titles of most of these works.
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