The Hospital as a Two-Edged Weapon in Stoppard's Play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | ||
Al-Adab Journal | ||
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 118, September 2018, Pages 1-20 | ||
Authors | ||
; Khalief Ghani; Jinan Waheed Jassim | ||
Abstract | ||
Tom Stoppard condemns in his play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which he wrote in 1977, the unjust practices of using mental asylums as a tool of punishment for political dissidents. Where a political dissident, Alexander Ivanov, is put in the same ward with a mental patient, who carries the same name of Ivanov, and who imagines that he leads an orchestra. | ||
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