The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare.

which line offers the best example of metatheatre?

a.
“there are things in this comedy of pyramus and thisby that will never . first, pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide.”
c.
“will not the ladies be afeared of the lion? ”
b.
“doth the moon shine the night we play our play? ”
d.
“write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that i pyramus am not pyramus, but bottom the weaver.”

the answer is not c or b

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing