Richard II The Player-King In this way I play in one individual numerous people,And none mollified. Now and then I am king,Then injustices make me wish myself a beggar,And so I am.V:v:31-34, King Richard IIWhile trapped in the pains of emotional tension, the self-reflexive idea of metatheatrics helps a crowd of people to remember its current relationship with the on-screen characters. Shakespeare regularly executes metatheatrics; exemplified by the play inside a play idea that happens in both Hamlet (Shakespeare,1603) and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare, 1596). In these and different models, Shakespeare utilizes the phase as closely resembling the world, and the other way around. In As You Like It (Shakespeare, 1600) Jaques concisely shows this relationship, saying All the universes a phase,/And all the people simply players (II:vii:139). Metatheatrics are particularly predominant in the Henriad, with Kings Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Richard III, individually, filling in as entertainers before their court just as exacting entertainers in front of an audience.
