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This thesis is on the parody in Artist Descending A Staircase of Tom Stoppard. Through this paper, I study Stoppard's parody in Artist Descending A Staircase focused on his career as a drama critic. Stoppard's career helps him use parody to make plays, especially on the parodies. His parody contains the critical viewpoints about the art but in the modern artist's works, Beauchamp who parodies Marcell Duchamp, the great master of the modern art, does not have the critical view about the art in Artist Descending A Staircase. In Artist Descending A Staircase, the most characters are parodied to the modern artists, and so are their works. This radio play's parody is concerned about the differences of Duchamp and other avant-garde artists as the original text and the Stoppard's characters as the parodied text. From the differences of two text, Stoppard makes the new understanding of the modern art. The importance of the critical parody is due to Stoppard's assurance of the function of the art, the literature. Stoppard believes that the art must function as the moral matrix in the modern society. This belief appears his parodies of the literature, and the people.