Interpreting Great Classics of Literature As Metatheatre and Metafiction: Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie (Studies in Comparative Literature)

This volume examines literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures as metatheatre and metafiction. The works are analyzed for their impact on, and relation to, the seventeenth-century French drama, the eighteenth-century German novel, twentieth-century English drama, an old English epic text, Indian postmodernist fiction, as well as Greek and Roman Classical works of antiquity.