The Reflexive Scaffold: Metatheatricality, Genre, and Cultural Performance in English Renaissance Drama
The critical discussion of metatheatre has historically connected a series of reflexive dramatic strategies—like soliloquy, chorus, dumb show, the-play-within-the-play, prologue, and epilogue—and assumed that because these tropes all involve the play's apparent awareness of its own theatrical n...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589073 |