“In his adivce to the players Hamlet says that the purpose of playing is to hold ‘the mirror up to nature’ (3.2.20). But the metadrama of modernity does, in a way, the opposite. It holds nature up to a mirror, and it believes the mirror. Never more than when it juxtaposes stage death and real death on the stage–and real death wins.
–Marjorie Garber, in Shakespeare and Modern Culture, a way-too-literal title for writing this ideas-per-sentence rich.
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