Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?
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Correct answer: D. The Taming of the Shrew
Explanation
The whole of The Taming of the Shrew is staged for the drunken tinker Christopher Sly, introduced in the Induction. A Midsummer Night's Dream contains an inset play (the mechanicals' 'Pyramus and Thisbe') but is not framed by one.
Note: The source key gives option 1 (A Midsummer Night's Dream); structurally, The Taming of the Shrew is the play framed as a play within a play.
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