Links Database: Keyword metadrama

• "Give me the glass, and therin will I read": Narcissism and Metadrama in Richard II

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#%E2%80%9CGive

  Graybill, Mark S. "'Give Me the Glass, and Therein Will I Read': Narcissism and Metadrama in Richard II." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP) 19 (1996). Graybill looks at Richard's narcissism in terms of Lacan as well as the actor-audience relationship:

  keywords: actor, audience, lacan, metadrama, narcissim, R2, richard

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Richard II

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates in A Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:

  keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• "Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts": Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PETRARCH%20PYRAMUS.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts': Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Steele looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream's play-within-a-play to examine the influence of the Petrarchan idiom and Romeo and Juliet:

  keywords: MND, midsummer night's dream, metadrama, rhetoric, Rom, romeo and juliet, petrarch, pyramus, thisby

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07