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)
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Τéâtre dans le théâtre
French
Theater im Theater
German
Θέατρο εν θεάτρω
Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/195
