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Scholar Nathaniel C. Leonard introduces a new theoretical framework to understand the layers of metatheatrical staging that can occur, illustrated in the diagram below: Above, a recreation of Leonard’s diagram, depicting the “Spectrum of Dramatic Layering”.
NATHANIEL C. LEONARD, B.A., KENYON COLLEGE M.A., UNIVERSITY OF YORK (UK) Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Co-Directed by: Professor Arthur F. Kinney and Professor Jane Hwang Degenhardt . The critical discussion of metatheatre has historically connected a series of reflexive dramatic
- Nathaniel C. Leonard
- 2013
Associate Professor of English, Westminster College, MO - Cited by 23 - Shakespeare - English Renaissance Drama - Metatheatre
Mar 24, 2018 · Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1.2.9–11 Both Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595) use the comic presentation of a play as a central element in their…
Professor Leonard, or Dr. Nate (as most of his students call him), became a member of Westminster's English department faculty in the fall of 2013. He specializes in English dramatic literature from the 16th and 17th centuries (i.e. Shakespeare and his contemporaries) and has also developed teaching interests and experience in drama across ...
Finally, the application of Nathaniel C. Leonard's and Robert Weimann's fundamental notions of platea, locus, meta-platea, and meta-locus in A Midsummer Night's Dream enables us to reach the finding that the Spectrum of Dramatic Layering hosts exilic manifestations. The research merges semantic investigations with the semiotics of theatre.
Nathaniel C. Leonard, PhD is an Associate Professor of English at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he currently holds the A.P. Green Fellowship in Literature and is a 2021 recipient of the Buschman Faculty Award.
