What is Metatheatre and Metatextuality? (Tempest & Hag-Seed)
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Learn about the meaning of "metatheatre" and "metatextuality" and how they apply to Shakespeare's The Tempest and Atwood's Hag-seed.
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How can metatextuality be linked to arguments about textual conversation?
1. Shakespeare uses metatextuality (in the form of metatheatre) throughout his play to blur the distinction between reality and illusion, compelling his audience to question the performative nature of life.
2. Atwood intertextually preserves this aspect of Shakespeare's play by embedding the play itself within the novel (so metatextuality). She is celebrating Shakespeare by reinventing this metatextual aspect of the play, and yet in doing so, echoes the idea that performance can mask the truth but also be a way to unlocking it.
what truth is being unlocked?@@jeddle
Thanks so much! I came across this concept in the common module and found it a bit confusing, so this is awesome
Just coming back to start some Mod A revision for the HSC, this was a GREAT refresher and explanation so thank you!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad it helped :) Good luck getting back into it
love this video, made it so easy to understand
Beautifully explained
Thank you so much this helped a lot - Can this concept of meta-theatricality be applied to the play A Midsummer Night's Dream too? As in Puck's epilogue in Act 5 and the play of Pyramis and Thisbe by the Rude Mechanicals?
Hello, i bumped into your video while figuring out what meta-theatre is.
I have a question, i am still trying to understand what meta-theatre is, and i am about to analyze plays written by Tim Crouch, the plays are titled "I, Malvolio" and "I, Bonquo"
"I, Malvolio" is about the character named Malvolio from "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare. We see this unimportant character's thoughts, and Bonquo's thoughts in "I, Malvolio", who got killed by his dearest friend Macbeth.
And another example that i can give about how contemporary playwrights use minor characters from Shakespeare's works is that "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead" by Tom Stoppard.
So, when it comes to how playwrights use the minor characters in their plays, can we say it is meta-theatre and they used metatextuality in their works?
explained really well
I understand this may have been left out for simplicity and understanding's sake, but there are (somehow) even more plays within plays in both texts, like the wedding masque for Miranda and Ferdinand in Tempest, and Felix's plot with the politicians that happens in concurrence with the production he puts on for the rest of the inmates; it's kind of like two "plays" going on at the same time, almost like Prospero was orchestrating two islands at once
i agree! very insightful
Good points - there are plays within plays, and plays alongside other plays!
Can you further explain the play within the play within the novel bit please? Thank you in advance :).
It's because 'The Tempest' itself is a play within a play. And since Hagseed is a novel which has a plotline that involves the characters and Felix putting on 'The Tempest' play, the features of 'The Tempest' (which is that the actual play involves a play) is also within the novel. More basically, since 'The Tempest' is a play within a play and it is within Hagseed, that makes Hagseed a novel with a play within a play.
@@Kira-nh8vl Well explained!
can you explain or provide examples as to how you can incorporate this concept of metatextuality and metatheatre into an essay because I'm not quite sure as to where I can use this
You could use it in conjunction with ANOTHER technique that also suggests that life is often a performance (much like the one we are watching of Shakespeare's). For example: "Reinforced by the metatheatricality of the play, Ariel's song 'Full Fathom Five' in which Fernando is warned of a metaphorical "sea-change" seeks to reveal the illusory, and often performative, nature of life."
omg my exams in 20 mins what are we going to do!
Crush it!