| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 外國語文學系 === 93 === This thesis deals with the issues of misreading, alienation effect and intertextuality in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth. By interpreting Stoppard’s plays with the idea of alienation effect and intertextuality, his plays would reveal the gap in Harold Bloom’s idea of misprision. Chapter One is to illustrate the theoretical basis of Bloom’s misreading, Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect and Roland Barthes’s intertextual concept, and explain the relationship of three theories. Chapter Two discusses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth in terms of Brecht’s alienation effect. In this discussion, the concept of alienation effect is related to Barthes’s intertextual approach, by which Bloom’s idea of misprision reveals its gap. The gap means that Stoppard’s plays real the idea of misprision even though Stoppard does not follow Bloom’s six strategies of misprision. Chapter Three tries to deal with Stoppard’s plays with Barthes’s intertextual approach. Parody and metatheatre are other concepts used to further illustrate the intertextual approach in Stoppard’s plays in order to make the intertextual approach in Chapter Three more integrated. Conclusion aims to illustrate the shortages in my thesis, my attempt to interpret Bloom’s concept in different aspects, and my ideal writerly texts which would produce the alienation effect.
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