Üç çağdaş Bri̇tanya oyununda parçalanmış benli̇kler

This thesis investigates how personal and collective traumas leave the individual fragmented for different reasons. Fragmented characters in Philip Ridley's Leaves of Glass, Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness and Simon Stephens' Pornography, which are the examples of contemporary British theatre written after the 2000s, are examined in the light of trauma theory. The plays that form the basis of this study are written after the 2000s, but the historical background of the thesis suggests that traumatic events of the twentieth century such as World War I and II left the individual fragmented. For this reason, the historical background between the 1910s and 2000s is elaborated in detail and fragmentation is thoroughly contextualized. The plays of the contemporary playwrights Ridley, Crimp and Stephens are discussed within the theoretical framework of trauma theory based on the works of pioneers such as Freud, Caruth, Felman, Laub, Kohut and Mollon, and thus this study comes to the conclusion that in the contemporary theatre fragmentation gets more and more dominant with the effect of the growing number of traumatic events. Keywords: Trauma Theory, Contemporary British Theatre, Philip Ridley, Martin Crimp, Simon Stephens, Leaves of Glass, In the Republic of Happiness, Pornography.