Metadrama, Metateatralidad

 

     from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Reflexivity in drama / Metatheatricality

 

 

Abel, Lionel. Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

Angus, Bill. Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016.

Arturo Arboleda, Carlos. Teoría y formas del metateatro en Cervantes. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1991.*

Beaujean, Alfred. "'Der Schauspieldirektor': Theater auf dem Theater." In Zaide. Der Schauspieldirektor.. 2 CDs. (Complete Mozart Edition). Germany: Philips Classics, 1991. 48-52.*

Benjamin, Walter. "What is Epic Theater?" 1939. In Benjamin, Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. 147-54.

Boireau, Nicole. Drama on Drama: Dimensions of Theatricality on the Contemporary British Stage. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.

Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre. Ed. and trans. John Willett. New York: Hill, 1964.

Calderwood, James L. "A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Illusion of Drama." Modern Language Quarterly 26 (1965): 506-22.

_____. Shakespeare's Metadrama: The Argument of the Play in Titus Andronicus, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard II.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1971.

_____. Metadrama in Shakespeare's Henriad: Richard II to Henry V. 1979.

_____. "Richard II: Metadrama and the Fall of Speech." From Metadrama in Shakespeare's Henriad. In Shakespeare's History Plays (Richard II to Henry V). (New Casebooks): Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992. 121-35.*

_____. To Be and Not to Be: Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.

Cicora, Mary A. Mythology as Metaphor: Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring. Greenwood P, 1998.

Crespo Matellán, Salvador. "Teatro y metateatro en los esperpentos de Valle-Inclán." In Palabras, Norma, Discurso: En memoria de Fernando Lázaro Carreter. Ed. Luis Santos Río et al. Salamanca: Ediciones U de Salamanca, 2005. 381-90.*

_____. "De Juan José a Pepito: Parodia, Metateatro e Intertextualidad." In Teoría y análisis de los discursos literarios: Estudios en homenaje al profesor Ricardo Senabre Sempere. Ed. S. Crespo et al. Salamanca: U de Extremadura / Ediciones U de Salamanca, 2009. 85-93.* (Joaquín Dicenta; Celso Lucio and Antonio Palomero).

Dobrov, Gregory W. Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

García Landa, José Ángel "Be Copy Now." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 24 June 2006.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2006/062401-be-copy-now.php

         2006-07-02

_____. "Be Copy Now: Retroalimentación y dialéctica de la vida y el teatro en Shakespeare (Henry V, 3.1) / Be Copy Now: Dialectics and Feedback of Life and Theater in Shakespeare (Henry V, 3.1)" (2007 Online PDF at Social Science Research Network (November 2007):

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1029284

         2007

_____. "''Be Copy Now': Retroalimentación y dialéctica de la vida y el teatro en Shakespeare (Henry V, 3.1)." Online PDF at Zaguán 24 March 2009.*

         http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/3221

         2009

_____. "Nought but Shows—Music for a While." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 Dec. 2007.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/121801-nought-but-shows-music-for-a-while-.php

         2008

Hubert, Judd D. Metatheater: The Example of Shakespeare. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991.*

Jódar Peinado, Pilar. "Recursos metateatrales al servicio de la autoficción teatral en siete textos del siglo XXI." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.

Latham, Agnes M. C. "The Masque inside the Play in Shakespeare." (From the preface to As You Like It). In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 May 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-masque-inside-play-in-shakespeare.html

         2014

López Antuñano, José Gabriel. "Rasgos autobiográficos en la escritura dramática autorreferencial." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.

Mehl, Dieter. The Elizabethan Dumb Show: The History of a Dramatic Convention. London: Methuen, 1965.

_____. "Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play." Renaissance Drama 8 (1965).

Mroczkowska-Brand, Katarzyn. Overt Theatricality and the "Theatrum mundi" Metaphor in Spanish and English drama, 1570-1640. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, cop. 1985, print 1989.

Moore, Timothy J. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. Austin: U of Texas P, c. 1999. (Reflexivity).

Nelson, R. J. Play Within the Play: The Dramatist's Conception of His Art, Shakespeare to Anouilh. New Haven: Yale UP, 1958.

Pérez Gómez, Leonor. "A propósito de la 'metateatralidad' en las comedias plautinas: de Barchiesi a Genette." In Mvnvs qvaesitvm meritis: Homenaje a Carmen Codoñer. Ed. Gregorio Hinojo Andrés and José Carlos Fernández Corte. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2007. 711-19.*

Pérez-Simón, Andrés (U of Cincinnati). "The Concept of Metatheatre: A Functional Approach." Trans- : Revue de littérature générale et comparée 11 (2011).      

         https://journals.openedition.org/trans/443

         Online at Academia.*

         https://www.academia.edu/1486925/

         2019

Ribes Traver, Purificación. "Tieck's Metatheatrical Strategies in Herr von Fuchs and Der gestiefelte Kater." In Linguistic Interaction in/and Specific Discourses. Ed. Marta Conejero López, Micaela Muñoz Calvo and Beatriz Penas Ibáñez. Valencia: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010. 167-80.*

Righter, Anne. "Mysteries and Moralities: The Audience as Actor." In Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. 1962. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. 15-40.* (The Mystery Cycles. Morality Plays. The Tyranny of the Audience).

_____. "The Period of Transition: Classical Comedy and the Hybrid Plays." In Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. 1962. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. 41-58.* (The Comedy of the Ancient World. The Impact of Classical Tradition. The Play as Illusion).

_____. "The World and the Stage." In Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. 1962. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. 59-78.* (The Play Metaphor. Inheritance and Experiment. The New Attitude towards the Audience).

_____. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. London: Chatto and Windus,  1962.

_____. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. (Penguin Shakespeare Library). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.*

Ringer, Mark. Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles. U of North Carolina P, 1998.

Schlueter, June. Metafictional Characters in Modern Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1977.

Sith, Dane F. Plays about the Theatre in England. 1936.

Styan, J. L. Shakespeare´s Stagecraft. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1975.

Sutherland, Sarah P. Masques in Jacobean Tragedy. AMS Press, 1983.

Tonelli, Franco. Sophocles' Oedipus and the Tale of the Theater. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1983.

Vitale, Rosanna. El metateatro en la obra de García Lorca. Madrid.

Voigt, J. Das Spiel im Spiel: Versuch einer Formbestimmung an Beispielen aus dem deutschen, englischen und spanischen Drama. Diss. Göttingen, 1955.

Watts, Cedric. Hamlet. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988.

 

 

See also Shakespeare: Reflexivity; Theatricality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

Caballero, Ernesto. "Mi theatrum mundi." Lecture at Fundación Juan March 26 May 2015.*

         https://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=100377&l=1

         2021

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Buckingham (Duke of). The Rehearsal. Drama. 1671. (With Samuel Butler?).

_____. The Rehearsal. In G. Villiers, The Rehersal. J. Earle, Micro-Cosmographie, G. Gascoigne, The Steele Glass. Ed. E. Arber. (English Reprints 10, 11, 12). London: Murray, 1869.

Caballero, Ernesto. Acto. Metadrama.

_____. Rezagados. Metadrama. (Cyclists).

_____. Solo para Paquita. Metadrama.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. El gran teatro del mundo. Auto sacramental.

Davenant, William.  Playhouse to Be Let. Adapted from Molière.

Fielding, Henry. The Author's Farce And the Pleasures of the Town. 1730.

_____. The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great. 1731. (Preface: Parody of neoclassical criticism). Parody of Young's Busiris.

_____. The Covent Garden Tragedy. 1732. Burlesque of Ambrose Philips' The Distrest Mother.

Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream.  many editions.

_____. Love's Labour's Lost. many editions.

_____. "All the World's a Stage." From As You Like It. Online at Poetry Foundation:*

         https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage

         2021

_____. Hamlet. many editions.

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

Donizetti, Gaetano. Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali. Comic opera in two acts. Libretto by Domenico Gilardoni. 2nd version, Naples, 1831.

_____. Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali: Seconda versione, Napoli 1831. Critical ed. Roger Parker and Anders Wiklund. Bruno de Simone, Maria Costanza Nocentini, Cristina Rubin, Elisabetta Andreani, Bruno Lazzaretti, Alberto Noli, Mauro Utzeri, Andrea Concetti, Enrico Turco, Angelo Nosotti. Coro del Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo (Corrado Casati). Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali / Fabrizio Maria Marminati. CD. (Opera). BMG Ricordi / Agorá, 1996.*

Mozart, W. A. Der Schauspieldirektor- The Impresario- Le directeur de théâtre-L'impresario. (Fragment). KV 486. Comedy with music in one act. Libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere. Reconstructed by Erik Smith.

_____. Der Schauspieldirektor. Scores. Ed. Gerhard Croll. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke). Kassel: Bärenreiter.

_____. Der Schauspieldirektor. Clifford Grant, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ruth Welting, Ileana Cotrubas. London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis. In Mozart, Zaide. Der Schauspieldirektor. 2 CDs. (Complete Mozart Edition). Germany: Philips Classics, 1991.*