- performance. "Breaking the
Fourth Wall" is an
example of a
metatheatrical device.
Metatheatrical devices may include:
direct address to the
audience (especially...
- 1901 and 1913
through the
everyday lives of its citizens.
Wilder uses
metatheatrical devices,
setting the play in the
actual theatre where it is
being performed...
- A
story within a story, also
referred to as an
embedded narrative, is a
literary device in
which a
character within a
story becomes the
narrator of a second...
- Stoppard's play and Shakespeare's
original tragedy Hamlet. In Hamlet,
metatheatrical elements include the Player's
speech (2.2), Hamlet's
advice to the Players...
- This act of
drawing attention to a play's
performance conventions is
metatheatrical. A
similar effect of
metareference is
achieved when the performance...
-
other jokes, a
usage similar to the
words metadata (data
about data),
metatheatrics (a play
within a play as in Hamlet) and metafiction. Self-referential...
- and Moss Hart Our Town
Rebecca Gibbs Anta
Playhouse November 27 –
December 27, 1969
Metatheatrical three-act play by
American playwright Thornton Wilder...
-
Arlecchino is
sometimes referred to as
putting on a show of
stupidity in a
metatheatrical attempt to
create chaos within the play. Physically,
Arlecchino is described...
- of a ****" (ll. 214–217). Many
scholars interpret these lines as a
metatheatrical reference to Shakespeare's own production, and by
doing so comments...
- (subscription required) Shapiro,
Michael (1993). "Framing the Taming:
Metatheatrical Awareness of
Female Impersonation in The
Taming of the Shrew". The Yearbook...
