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What Does The Metadrama Mean To Focusing On A Midsummer Night's Dream
In original means, the metadrama is “drama inside dram” (DR. J). In the other hand, I can understand this term on different way, like play which has as its subject other plays. Using metadrama is good for draw attention to the fact. Let audience to watching the not real play (guys playing girls, fake voice or funny make up), this play called bad theatre. In generally, we also have good theatre (Acting, make audience believing), the metadrama is the method to connect with bad theatre to good theatre.
Focusing on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Shakespeare suggests that play mirrors the process of theatrical production, it means the audience in the under imagination, we can create what we see. For example, the play of Pyramus and Thisbe is the

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