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
reflection of the tragic main plot around the four lovers (Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius), Like Pyramus and Thisbe, Lysander and Hermia cannot come together until the end of the play. In the other hand, Pyramus and Thisbe gave us the new perspective. Through the inability and ridiculous of the craftsmen to deliver the play in an adequate way and their farce-like performance, the play within the play underscores the absurdity of the young love quarrels and the foolishness if human being to misunderstand themselves and what is happening to them, like four lovers also acted badly. We can also notice the four lover’s face change, from laugh to weep, this is the metadram’s function.
In the end of the play, Puck said “if we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended; that you have but slumber’d here…Give me your hand, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends” (Act V, Scene I, 66). When Puck invites the audience to think of the play, and notice us this is not real, it’s like a dream. I guess Shakespeare makes an important statement about the nature of the life, like dreams, plays aren’t real, it only give us the imagination.
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
reflection of the tragic main plot around the four lovers (Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius), Like Pyramus and Thisbe, Lysander and Hermia cannot come together until the end of the play. In the other hand, Pyramus and Thisbe gave us the new perspective. Through the inability and ridiculous of the craftsmen to deliver the play in an adequate way and their farce-like performance, the play within the play underscores the absurdity of the young love quarrels and the foolishness if human being to misunderstand themselves and what is happening to them, like four lovers also acted badly. We can also notice the four lover’s face change, from laugh to weep, this is the metadram’s function.
In the end of the play, Puck said “if we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended; that you have but slumber’d here…Give me your hand, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends” (Act V, Scene I, 66). When Puck invites the audience to think of the play, and notice us this is not real, it’s like a dream. I guess Shakespeare makes an important statement about the nature of the life, like dreams, plays aren’t real, it only give us the imagination.