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 (p. [231]-240) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: early modern drama and metatheater; value: Part I: Role-playing; value: "Forms to his conceit": the dynamics of role-playing; value: Seeming or being: expressions of feelings in Hamlet; value: "The cackle of skulls": role-playing and comic metatheatricality in The revenger's tragedy; value: Part II: Playwright-characters; value: Playwright-characters and the power of illusion; value: Doctor Faustus: the legacy of the devil; value: Jouissance of play-writing in Othello; value: Part III: Inset-plays; value: "The play's the thing": definition and variations of inset-plays; value: The "shaping fantasies" in the Taming of the shrew, The Spanish tragedy and A midsummer night's dream; value: "By indirections find directions out": theater, metatheater, Hamlet; value: Part IV: Audience perception and self-reflexivity; value: Audience perception: engagement and detachment; value: The mirror of theater: self-reflexivity and the mirror metaphor; value: Conclusion: the return of the theater's gaze.