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Metatheater in the French Baroque: The Boundaries of Cognition, the Power of Spectacle, and the Horror of Violence
Metatheater in the French Baroque argues that the device of metatheater offers opportunities to investigate the play’s understanding of itself and its boundaries, or lack thereof. Each chapter focuses on a different play that both embodies and defies characteristics of the French Baroque, as well …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
My dissertation examines how early modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) …
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Lucian's New Old Comedy
… personification, making the abstract concrete, metatheater, and fantasy, alongside comic language and tropes of mockery, to not only declare himself a skilled comic author, but to demonstrate it as well. One by one, he uses the mythology that has sprung up around the three lights of Old Comedy: …