“SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, ART TO ENCHANT”: METATHEATRICALITY AND ART IN THE TEMPEST AND HAG-SEED
“SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, ART TO ENCHANT”: METATHEATRICALITY AND ART IN THE TEMPEST AND HAG-SEED
Author(s): Yağmur TatarSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: contemporary; metatextuality; metatheatre; reality; rewriting;
Summary/Abstract: Although interpretations of the metatheatre stand as a recurring theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest can be observed to be the most selfconscious one as a theatre about the theatre. With a comparative look at the Bard’s The Tempest and its rewriting Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, the present study aims to explore the ways in which metatheatricality functions, and is translated to a contemporary context, as an asset of symbolic power and representing different layers of reality governed mainly by Prospero’s art.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 26/2020
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 93-100
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English