Real Inspector Hound (1 Viewer)

[lexy-kate]

Can anyone studying The Real Inspector Hound for crime fiction think of/ find any evidence of either the play in general, or Tom Stoppard being influenced by the 60s? Its for a crappy practice essay.. i dont care if their useful dammit.. im lazy!
P.s.. is anyone else in love with this play or is it just me?!

 

[McLake]

He is influnced by the "cosy school" style of writing crime fiction ...

 

[lexy-kate]

yeah but specifically the 60s, eg attitudes, lifestyles.. i dont know its a stupid question in my opinion

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by lexy-kate
yeah but specifically the 60s, eg attitudes, lifestyles.. i dont know its a stupid question in my opinion

I guess there is the objection to explict violence (very little blood shown). There is also the structered and orderly world (very formal) destroyed by crime.

Sorry, as you say, the question is very poor ...

 

[Trigger189]

i lurve Real Inspector Hound. so hi-laar-ious

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by lexy-kate
Can anyone studying The Real Inspector Hound for crime fiction think of/ find any evidence of either the play in general, or Tom Stoppard being influenced by the 60s? Its for a crappy practice essay.. i dont care if their useful dammit.. im lazy!
P.s.. is anyone else in love with this play or is it just me?!

I think the main 60's influences apparent in The Real Inspector Hound are post-modernism, and more importantly, the rise of absurdist theatre, which Stoppard was heavily influenced by. (He even acknowledges this in the play himself;

Moon-It is hard, it is hard indeed, and therefore I will not attempt, to refrain from invoking the names of Kafka, Sartre, Shakespeare, St . Paul, Beckett, Birkett, Pinero, Pirandello, Dante and Dorothy L Sayers) [Those in bold are 'absurdist' playwrights, among other things.)

Then from here, cover how this manifests itself within the play, for instance, the 'fourth wall' between actors and audience being broken on several occasions, or the decline of 'Classic Crime-Fiction' and its becoming a target of satire. (Although even 'The Mousetrap', first performed 1952 has some satirical elements..)

It is an awkward essay question though. Good luck.

 

[iambored]

also the fact it's based on agatha christie could have something to do with it. it's based on the attitudes and valules of christie's play, and therefore also her time. it's conservative. has a class structure.

 

[abdooooo!!!]

omg... i don't know none of this... im so gonna fail english.

 

[bitchymcbitch]

its a parody of Mousetrap, which embodies the cultures of that time, but the ones in TRIH are probably, the cosy crime fiction genre,Cynthias attitude to her 'deseased husband' " No, i love Albert" etc, i dunno... shitty question..


I LOVE THIS PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!

 

[Menendez]

My class was lucky...The Real Insp. Hound was playing up in Brisbane, so we got to see it. It is MAD on stage! The best! so funny! Simon reminded me of zoolander....or maybe I was just tired.... if you ever get the chance, SEE IT!

 

[Serpentia]

I must say that that is a crap question, hardly relevant to the overall topic

good luck

 

[bitchymcbitch]

it is relevant, considering the topic is a parody/satire in which case you need to be able to recognize the original ideas taken from the original and you need to know the contexts of both.

 

[iambored]

Originally posted by abdooooo!!!
omg... i don't know none of this... im so gonna fail english.

well if no one else in your class knows you are now ahead of them.

 

[mibiony]

i hate this play with a passion! i guess that's becuz i don't understand at all! from whatever angle i take it, i juz can't understand it! maybe its the method of my teachers teaching techniques?

 

[Binky]

you have to understand more about the sixties themselves. It was a time of great political change, and all of a sudden there was a huge influx of people who were interested in a new style of theatre, it's got to do with all sorts of things... dammit i watched a movie on this and i can't seem to remember it...
find out more about "absurdist" theatre.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

yup absurdist thatre nicely sums it up

btw binky are u on my MSN

 

[ameh]

sorry to sound like a n00bie here, but what is cosy?


and lexy-kate, where is ur display pic from?

 

[cleopatra]

i loved reading it. hated studying it cos i have no notes on it. i will not be able to use it in the xam. if anyone DOES have notes on it plz dont let me fail.

 

[~*~Karina~*~]

Cosy is the Agatha Christie style texts...there is a closed setting (like a big old house or something), a limited number of possible suspects, usually police who are conveniently inept at solving the crime, leaving the job open to the virtuous detective (Miss Marple etc)...It's all very english countryside, and everyone is terribly polite and in The Real Inspector Hound, The setting, the list of suspects (all very stereotypical), the detective/police, and the whole english manorhouse all mirror the cosy school of crime fiction...I think...well thats what i'm writing about in the exam!

 

[ameh]

cool thanks