Metatheater in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama : four forms of theatrical self-reflexivity /
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: early modern drama and metatheater
- Part I: Role-playing
- "Forms to his conceit": the dynamics of role-playing
- Seeming or being: expressions of feelings in Hamlet
- "The cackle of skulls": role-playing and comic metatheatricality in The revenger's tragedy
- Part II: Playwright-characters
- Playwright-characters and the power of illusion
- Doctor Faustus: the legacy of the devil
- Jouissance of play-writing in Othello
- Part III: Inset-plays
- "The play's the thing": definition and variations of inset-plays
- The "shaping fantasies" in the Taming of the shrew, The Spanish tragedy and A midsummer night's dream
- "By indirections find directions out": theater, metatheater, Hamlet
- Part IV: Audience perception and self-reflexivity
- Audience perception: engagement and detachment
- The mirror of theater: self-reflexivity and the mirror metaphor
- Conclusion: the return of the theater's gaze.