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play-within-a-play
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This dramatic convention popular in Elizabethan times, was a favourite with Shakespeare, who used it with great subtlety. It occurs in his work in varied forms, most prominently in Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Tempest.
Subjects: Literature — Shakespeare studies and criticism
