ENGL 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Metatheatre
30 Oct 2016
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Point: these plays were embedded within a theatrical culture of citation and counter- citation. We are inevitably going to miss a lot of that when reading/viewing these plays. That"s not a bad thing: revenge tragedies both provided a critique of the culture and a model for reading themselves. They taught you how to read themselves through the metatheatrical awareness of genre. Stubbles: theatre encourages whoredom and uncleanness! (women who went to theatres were associated with prostitutes) The early modern period thought that drama had the power to make people confess crimes they"ve done if they see them performed on stage. Risk of people losing the ability to disassociate what was occurring on stage from reality. Constructedness of the sexual desire of the subject: affectiveness: Metatheatre: anything that interrogates anything between performance and the non- performed real, from richard hornby"s work, ceremony within a play. In hamlet, osric (tells hamlet that there"s a duel and is made fun of.
