'Shakespeare's plays reflect not life but art.' Make use of this remark in writing an essay on Shakespeare's use of Metadrama. Shakespeare constantly plays with metadrama and the perception of his plays as theatre and not life with the complications inherent that in life we all play roles and perceive life in different ways. The play has recognition of its existence as theatre, which has relevance to a contemporary world that is increasingly aware …showed first 75 words of 2629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2629 total…relationship between fiction and reality" BIBLIOGRAPHY Scholes, Robert. "Metafiction." Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. New York: Longman, 1995 (Shakespeare's Tragedies - 'Fashion It Thus, Julius Caesar and the politics of representation' John Drakakis, MacMillan Press London 1998) (Jefferson. Ann. "Patricia Waugh, Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction." Poetics Today. 7:3 (1986): 574-6.) Hamlet, New Swan Shakespeare Advanced Series. Ed. Bernard Lott Longman Group Ltd 1970 The Complete Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 1987 Suffolk Ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor