Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p287Este artigo examina a noção de política espacial em Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, de Tom Stoppard. Os dois cortesãos entram no mundo politicamente convulsivo de Hamlet, onde nenhuma estrutura de poder legítimo toma conta do estado. Sua racionalidade política regularizada deixa de ser aplicável ao mundo; a realidade viola o conhecimento empírico - direções geográficas e espirituais, e, geralmente, identidade - de Rosencrantz e Guildenstern. As funções previamente definidas de lugares, ou heterotopias (em termos de Foucault), estão em um estado de suspensão. Portanto, eles estão perdidos no meio dos conjuntos desconhecidos de relações espaciais; qualquer tipo de ato intencional escapa-lhes; morrem e desaparecem absurdamente em um lugar sem lugar.
Highlights
Abstract his article examines the notion of spatial politics in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. he two eponymous characters enter the politically convulsive world of Hamlet, where scarcely any legitimate power structure controls the state. heir regularized political rationality ceases to apply to the world; reality violates the empirical knowledge–emplacements, geographical and spiritual directions, and identity in general –of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. he previously deined functions of places, or heterotopias, are in a state of abeyance. herefore, they are lost in the midst of the unknown sets of spatial relations; any sorts of intentional act evade them; and they die and vanish absurdly in a placeless place
“Two Elizabethans,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are “passing time in a place without any visible character” (Stoppard 11). hey enter the stage of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ater the king has been murdered, an incestuous marriage has been hurried, yet before Hamlet’s plot is put into practice. They enter “shambles” [60, 107, 108]. he set of relations which shape either a monarchical or capitalist system of political manipulation creates heterotopias— spaces with speciic functions
Systems of control evade homogenization of spaces but provide them with a relational identity. herefore, the heterotopias of a society share a characteristic: they are in relation with all the other spaces. his relation or conjunction, due to the chaos in the political sphere of the play, is unstable
Summary
“Two Elizabethans,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are “passing time in a place without any visible character” (Stoppard 11). hey enter the stage of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ater the king has been murdered, an incestuous marriage has been hurried, yet before Hamlet’s plot is put into practice. In the absence of both the circulating mistrust and absolute trust spatial distribution is disturbed; and loss of identity is the equal consequence for the subjects Stoppard, in his play, contrives a postmodern outlook on the political chaos in Hamlet through two of the minor characters of Shakespeare’s play. Jernigan outlines the matter of identity from an archetypal approach, with regard to the absurdist tone of the play; Jernigan explores the identity of the trickster, examines the plausibility of the role for diferent characters He explains that the two eponymous characters’ identity is in the hands of one trickster who exploits them in Hamlet’s plot, leaves them baled, and keeps them outside of Stoppard’s plot. She further explains and justiies the epistemological vertigo which Stoppard’s play has created through its spatial constructions
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