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Explore the ways in which Shakespeare uses metatheatre in his plays
All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
~ Jacques, As You Like It, Act II, scene vii, lines 139 - 142 ~
Shakespeare draws on the stage metaphor, an ancient idea stretching back…
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