Abstract：Abstract: Shakespeare’s works are classics of the world literature and the important source of the creation of Anglo-American fiction. Since the mid-eighteenth century, novelists have been constantly employing Shakespeare as archetypes or allusions in novel writing and this trend has become increasingly apparent during the last two hundred years or more. In Anglo-American fiction there are many cases of appropriation which contains such essential elements as the cognitive process, the cognitive behavior and cultural cognition as well. Meanwhile, the process of the appropriation of Shakespeare’s works is in effect a process of metacognition. It can be discovered, by reviewing, exploring and analyzing different cases that appreciate Shakespeare, that the author of any novel who appropriates Shakespeare normally functions as the reader as well as the creator and the metacognition is a cognitive mechanism that runs through the creation process of the textual world. To explore and analyze the metacognition of the novel writing process is beneficial to further exploration of the relationship between cognition and narration, which will shed some constructive light on the research of cognitive narratology.
Key words: metacognition; Anglo-American Fiction; appropriation of Shakespeare’s works
