Concept information
Preferred term
195Play within a play
Broader concept
Scope note
- Dramatic device by which an element or a set of elements (persons, actions, situations) appearing relatively detached from the rest of the play, become the object of the spectator’s gaze on-stage, i.e. of the actors impersonating the spectators, while at the same time they themselves are watched by the audience.
Source
- Couty & Rey 1992
- Fischer & Greiner 2007
- Πεφάνης 1999
Contributor
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
Creator
- Goulis Helen (AA)
Notation
- 195
In other languages
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Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/195
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