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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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