Metatheatre
Metatheatre, and the closely related term metadrama, describes the aspects of a play that draw attention to its nature as drama or theatre, or to the circumstances of its performance. These may include: the direct address of the audience (especially in soliloquies, asides, prologues, and epilogues); expression of an awareness of the presence of the audience (whether they are addressed directly or not); an acknowledgement of the fact that the people performing are actors (and not actually the characters they are playing); an element whose meaning depends on the difference between the represented time and place of the drama (the fictional world) and the time and place of its theatrical presentation (the reality of the theatre event); plays-within-plays (or masques, spectacles, or other forms
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Metatheatre
Metatheatre, and the closely related term metadrama, describes the aspects of a play that draw attention to its nature as drama or theatre, or to the circumstances of its performance. These may include: the direct address of the audience (especially in soliloquies, asides, prologues, and epilogues); expression of an awareness of the presence of the audience (whether they are addressed directly or not); an acknowledgement of the fact that the people performing are actors (and not actually the characters they are playing); an element whose meaning depends on the difference between the represented time and place of the drama (the fictional world) and the time and place of its theatrical presentation (the reality of the theatre event); plays-within-plays (or masques, spectacles, or other forms
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Il teatro nel teatro (metateat ...... iluppo della rappresentazione.
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Le théâtre dans le théâtre est ...... e de Scapin (Acte 3, scène 2).
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Metatheatre, and the closely r ...... the subject that it qualifies.
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Το μεταθέατρο εστιάζει «στο ίδ ...... α θεατρική αλλά και κοινωνική.
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Hamlet: ... My lord, you playe ...... kill so capital a calf there.
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Hamlet .
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Il teatro nel teatro (metateat ...... la drammaturgia contemporanea.
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Le théâtre dans le théâtre est ...... nt à jouer la (seconde) pièce.
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Metatheatre, and the closely r ...... es, spectacles, or other forms
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Το μεταθέατρο εστιάζει «στο ίδ ...... trice Pavis για το μεταθέατρο:
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Metatheatre
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Teatro nel teatro
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Théâtre dans le théâtre
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Μεταθέατρο
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