English Literature A-Level
Comedy as performance and metatheatre
What Comedy as performance and metatheatre means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Comedy as performance and metatheatre
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The Induction frames the main action as a play performed for Christopher Sly, inviting consideration of comedy as performance and social commentary.
Topics that use Comedy as performance and metatheatre
- Aspects of comedy - Set texts: Shakespeare (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Comedy, melancholy and resolution
- Disguise, gender and desire
- Disguise, identity and social role-play
- Festivity, misrule and social order
- Gender, power and marriage
- Folly, wit and self-knowledge
- Language, wit and verbal conflict
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