5/11/2023 0 Comments The spanish tragedy play![]() ![]() ![]() The playwrights, then, use variations of the internal and external play alternately to comment on the illusory nature of plays, to clarify and reflect on the motions of the main play as well as its audience, and to blur the line between reality and illusion. Paradoxically, the further removed the audience becomes from the active play-in terms of how many frames separate them-the closer the audience comes to the characters, watching them behave as they (the audience) do. They exhibit many levels of play within the main plot and outside it, including the explicit internal play and dumb shows, larger frames, and characters that become actor, playwright, or audience figures. ![]() Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist are deeply meta-theatrical plays, concerned with the ways in which plot, actors, and audience interact to create drama. ![]()
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