Abstract
Anathema to the naturalistic stage, theater in the English theater of the second half of the twentieth century exults in its own variety. Its principal structure, the play within the play, occupied the Renaissance stage, was whittled down to parody in the eighteenth century, and has reclaimed important areas of modern drama. Critics with their literary bias synonymize "theater in the theater" and "play within the play," but some recent English playwrights refuse to be bound by such strictures; along with many plays within plays, we find several ventures into popular theater in the theater, as well as elitist self-reflexive plays.
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