"'This Wide and Universal Theatre': The Theatre as Prop in Shakespeare's Metadrama" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc193/ Author: Stern, Tiffany. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance, 11–32. : Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance Annotation: Discusses how the theater itself is used as a prop in Shakespeare's plays, arguing that "Shakespeare's complexity, his profoundest 'metatheatre' [. . .] is angled to the ways in which the physical reality of the stage met the fictions enacted upon it." Language: English Persons: Karim-Cooper, Farah Tags: General Studies, Shakespeare's Stagecraft WSB Update: Summer 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc193