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Tom Stoppard who is brought up by British Theatre in the twentieth century is one of the pioneer playwrights. He differs from his contemporaries with his dramatic life, outstanding identity and the eclectic dramatic works he produced. His plays, which particularly include thought-provoking discussions, are like funny puzzles to solve because he wishes to draw his audience into those discussions continuously running on his stage. Hapgood (1988), taking place in England during the cold-war years, is one of Stoppard’s plays in which information espionage is at the centre of discussion as the main concern. The play includes a lot of pieces of puzzle-formed thoughts and attitudes which belong to the characters of the play, the members of the British secret service. In Hapgood, Tom Stoppard discusses the identity of modern man, his freedom, loneliness and choices in detail by means of Heisenberg’s ‘Uncertainty Principle’, and a series of metaphors he establishes on the basis of science and art. The major characteristic feature of Hapgood is that it is the first screen play in the world which has taken physics as a subject matter on the stage so far. However, this work -in the projection of science and art- precisely evaluates Stoppard’s ideas focussed on the inner world of an ordinary individual.

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