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The analysis argues that no play reflects life directly; instead, drama operates as a semiological device that produces archetypal categories applied by spectators to reality. 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contemporary notions of realistic drama and five sub-categor-ies of metadrama:existential concerns (a play within a play),social con-cerns(ceremony within a play),individual concerns(role playing withina role),literary and real life reference,and self-reference.In the book'sfinal section,Hornby examines the means by which playwrights investi-gate(directly and implicitly)the ways in which their societies view them-selves and their worlds.For Hornby,therefore,perception constitutes aspecial case of metadrama.  \nIn Hornby's view,no play,however 'realistic’,reflects life directly.Allplays,however ‘unrealistic’,are semiological devices for categorizing andmeasuring life indirectly.It follows that the ubiquitous division of dramacourses into 'realistic'and ‘non-realistic'categories is patently inade-quate.Rather than accept the presumed ‘one-to-one'relationship of stageacting to external reality,Hornby argues that drama generates archety-pal categories which the spectator then applies to real life.Drama is not amirror held up to nature,but a gauge.  \nThe author convincingly argues that a disequilibrium between religionand new science generated the great epochs of Western drama.Duringthese periods(fifth century B.C.Greece,the Renaissance,late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Europe),society's moral basis changed fromtraditional religion to new science.Hornby is particularly insightful in de-veloping a theory of personal ceremony in the present era,one of genocideand global destruction,in which one might have anticipated the rationalprocesses of scientific theories.Instead of order,Hornby finds in dramaticpractice a human obsession,a nostalgic attempt,or both,to create orderwhere none exists.For Hornby,ceremony breaks down,leaving a series ofgrotesque forms.(Dada still lives,apparently.)But apocalypse has notoccurred;ceremony has not collapsed.Hornby is signalling to mankindthrough the flames of his own rhetoric.  \nHornby correctly notes that dramatic art exists for man to recover thesensations of his life -to make the stone stony,for example.For him,thepurpose of art is to impart the sensations of things as they are perceivedand not as they are known;in short,to make objects unfamiliar,and to in-crease the difficulty and time of perception because the process of percep-tion is an aesthetic end in itself and must be preserved.  \nIn discussing literary and real life references,Hornby addresses meta-dramatic implications as an interchange of figure and ground relationships,whereby in performance the actor's role is dropped,and the background  \nand foreground are suddenly reversed.Hornby completes his metadrama-tic survey with an adept analysis of 'self-reference'as the audience's 'vitalfeeling'that what it is watching is more real than real life;that the play isin some manner an ‘affecting presence'composed of primary (intuitive)materials and secondary(logical,speech oriented)elements that present asense of wholeness to the spectator.  \nIn the book's final section,Hornby presents exemplary documentationof productions he has directed,with explanatory notes on the concept ofsocietal self-perception and the lack of it in Oedipus Rex,As You Like It,Woyzeck,The Father,The Master Builder,and Betrayal.  \nThe book's cover carries the Johannes deWitt 1596 drawing ofLondon's Swan Theatre.Hornby claims that this drawing is an exampleof metadrama,its actors on the thrust stage taking part in an inner play,viewed from a stage gallery by actors in an outer play.The problem withthis interpretation is that it does not take account of the trumpeter on thetop of the Heavens,blowing his horn as the actors on the forestage per-form for the actors upstage.The better solution is to acknowledge that thisdrawing is a composite drawing of all the activities that took place in ","cbCaipMbOUNErpWH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipMbOUNErpWH","pdf",108275,"English","# Overview\n## Hornby’s metadrama categories\n## Drama as perception and semiological gauge\n## Religion, science, and Western drama epochs\n## Ceremony, apocalypse, and grotesque forms\n## Sensations of art and unfamiliar objects\n## Literary and real-life reference\n## Self-reference and audience perception\n## Documentation of directed productions and commentary\n## Swan Theatre drawing and metadrama interpretation","[{\"question\":\"What are the five sub-categories of metadrama discussed by Hornby?\",\"answer\":\"Hornby identifies existential concerns, social concerns, individual concerns, literary and real-life reference, and self-reference as distinct sub-categories within metadrama.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Hornby challenge the idea that realistic drama reflects life directly?\",\"answer\":\"Hornby argues that no play mirrors life one-to-one; even “unrealistic” drama functions as a semiological device that categorizes and measures life indirectly.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does “perception” play in Hornby’s framework?\",\"answer\":\"Perception is treated as 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