The following question is based on your reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.
Which line offers the best example of metatheatre?
a.
“There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide.”
c.
“Will not the ladies be afeared of the lion?”
b.
“Doth the moon shine the night we play our play?”
d.
“Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver.”