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This study aims to examine how the dramatic works of G. B. Shaw and Kim Woo-jin, two contemporary playwrights representing England and Korea in the 1920s, are related in metadramatic terms. For this purpose, some core theories on metadrama by Richard Hornby and John Fletcher are applied to their works: Shaw’s Pygmalion and Fanny’s First Play, and Kim’s Wild Boar and The Illusion of a Ragged Poet. Shaw’s Fanny’s First Play and Kim’s Wild Boar are analyzed in the metadramatic strategy of play-within-a play, and the other two dramatic texts in terms of metadramatic role-playing. In this process, it is made clear that, both the two dramatists made very effective use of metadramatic genre as early as in the 1920s. Furthermore, it is concluded, in brief, that the two dramatic forerunners of the modern stage successfully embodied the metadramatic premise, ‘theatrum mundi’ in their plays through these essential strategies.
