Metatheater in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Subtitle: four forms of theatrical self-reflexivity
By: Hsiang-chun Chu ; with a foreword by Ching-Hsi Perng.
Contributors: Perng, Ching-Hsi.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780773450615
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Theater in literature; Drama -- Technique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Role-playing; title: "Forms to his conceit": the dynamics of role-playing; title: Seeming or being: expressions of feelings in Hamlet; title: "The cackle of skulls": role-playing and comic metatheatricality in the Revenger's tragedy; title: Part II: playwright-characters; title: Playwright-characters and the power of illusion; title: Doctor Faustus: the legacy of the devil; title: Jouissance of play-writing in Othello; title: Part III: inset-plays; title: "The play's the thing": definition and variations of inset-plays; title: The "shaping fantasies" in the Taming of the shrew, the Spanish tragedy and A midsummer night's dream; title: "By indirections find directions out": theater, metatheater, Hamlet; title: Part IV: audience perception and self-reflexivity; title: Audience perception: engagement and detachment; title: The mirror of theater: self-reflexivity and the mirror metaphor; title: Conclusion: the return of the theater's gaze.