Ten great plays within plays

Posted on August 26, 2015 by mkmswain

tumblr_inline_ntn521pgpU1rdh6ct_500To coincide with the opening of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre, here are 10 great examples of the play-within-a-play, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy to groundbreaking work from Stoppard, Pirandello, Weiss and Brecht.

Read my full National Theatre article here

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