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Metatheatre as a book category describes works that foreground their own theatricality and artifice—novels, short stories or hybrid texts that mimic stagecraft or include plays-within-plays, stage directions, script fragments, or characters who are aware they are performing. These books deliberately break the fourth wall, call attention to authorship and the construction of narrative, and blur the line between actor and character, story and performance. Often playful, self-referential, and philosophically probing, metatheatrical books use the language and conventions of theater to explore themes of identity, reality versus representation, and the social role of storytelling, inviting readers to watch not just the plot but how the plot is put onstage.

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