“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

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.

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