William Shakespeare s Romeo And Juliet - 1231 Words

William Shakespeare is certainly one of the best known playwrighters of the theater history for having written plays such as Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth. A feature of Shakespearean theater is so-called â€Å"theatre within a theatre†, â€Å"drama within a drama† or more generallyâ€Å"a play within a play†, i.e a play where the author stagged, at some time, an other theater play inside this one. Many of his plays can be qualified as â€Å"plays within plays† and espacially Hamlet and A Midsummer Night s Dream. Therefore, it is interesting to study these plays to know – and learn – more about this process. I) Act III scene 2 Hamlet is undoubtly one of the Shakespeare s most famous plays which was written between 1598 and 1601. It relates the story†¦show more content†¦He gives them orders and advices as shown by the imperative â€Å"Speak the speech† or â€Å"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus† or as is shown by the theatrical lexical field : â€Å" speech†, â€Å"theatre† or â€Å"action†. Hamlet uses to many processes. First of all, he perfectly describe to the actors how to play (well) unlike the â€Å"actors† of that time. He asks them to pronounce with a natural voice â€Å"trippingly on the tongue† and not to exaggerate nor â€Å"too tame†. Then, we observe that, through the advices he gives to the first actor, Hamlet do â€Å"metatheatre† and gave his – and Shakespeare s – theatre s vision (such) as he must to be. He claims to â€Å"suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o erstep not the modesty of nature. / For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his for m and pressure†. He advocate for the coordination between the gestures and the speech. He sees the theater like the mirror of the nature which don t twist it and which aims to show at the same time its qualities and fault as much with substance as with form. On the other hand, concerning the play itself, we notice that this one is adressed at the same