| 单词 | a play within a play |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa play within a (also the) play c. a play within a (also the) play: a play acted as part of the action of another play. Also with the, usually with reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > play within a play a play within a play1727 1727 J. M. Smythe Rival Modes Epil. sig. A6 Our Authour would this Epilogue essay, As Hamlet shews a Play within a Play. 1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 318 The Taming of the Shrew is a play within a play. 1883 Oxf. Mag. 17 Oct. 308/1 He knew that the play within the play was meant for the conscience of the king. 1918 Mod. Lang. Rev. 13 151 The idea of having a play within the play is a famous one. 1973 Listener 26 Apr. 563/1 As a variation on the play-within-a-play we had the documentary-within-a-play. 1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 8/2 What came from that image was a sense of a complex theatrical metaphor and several specific bits in the overall composition: the use of curtains, the use of the backstage point of view in the play-within-the-play middle section, the suitcase in which Ophelia keeps her mementos. < as lemmas |
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