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- adjective Being or pertaining to
metadrama .
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Examples
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Graney's wicked sense of humor adds a delicious element that is laudably in concert with the entire conceit: there's an amusing metadramatic aspect to the character, played by Maximillian Lapine, whom Graney calls Carrier and whose messages invariably prefigure disease or distress.
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Stoppard's metadramatic point, of course, is that R&G can't imagine England because this pair of Shakespearean functionaries doesn't exist outside of "Hamlet," which includes no scene set in that green and pleasant land (a boat, that they can imagine).
chicagotribune.com - 2009
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