As is the play in Mansfield Park, though the device is used far less effectively by Austen.

…is as old as the hills, with Shakespeare’s “Conscience of the King” play-within-a-play in Hamlet as a good example. Hamlet seconds the services of a travelling theatre company to stage a play that re-create…
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As is the play in Mansfield Park, though the device is used far less effectively by Austen.
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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.
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