Lampshade Hanging/Theater: Difference between revisions

* [[Shakespeare]] uses this often

** In ''[[Twelfth Night]]'':

** Most of the [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Sweet Polly Olivers]] tend to lampshade the fact that in those times that a boy is playing a female character that is disguising herself as a boy.

** Hamlet's "Speak the speech I pray you" monologue can be seen as a combination of putting a shade on the common Theater techniques of the era, and a [[Take That]] against the overuse of it.

'''Ruth:''' All baronets are bad; but was he worse than other baronets?

** And between Rose Maybud and Mad Margaret:

'''Margaret:''' Hush! They sing choruses in public. That's mad enough, I think. }}

* Evan does this during the title song in [[Thirteen (theatre)|13]]

* Gaston and [[Le Fou]] do this in the stage musical of ''Beauty and the Beast''

'''Gaston and [[Le Fou]]:''' Who can make up these endless refrains like Gaston? }}