This part of the play-within-the-play is certainly also designed to catch the conscience of the Queen ', to rephrase Hamlet's stated mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

I'm particularly pleased with how they balanced the mad world of Don Quixote with "reality" (the play-within-the-play) and abruptly cut back to the prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weekend] Reference

The three puppeteers worked closely with the director of "Master Pedro," William Kerley, on devising the play-within-the-play and adding their own comic touches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Puppet Kitchen's Recipe for Success] Reference

The novel follows the rehearsals of both the new play and the "old" play not to mention the play-within-the-play that lies at the heart of Shakespeare's original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novels of Time and Memory] Reference

The play-within-the-play performed by Bottom (Lucas Caleb Rooney) and the rude mechanicals, for instance, is flat by comparison with American Players Theatre's explosively farcical version.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Woods Once Again] Reference

Actor Elliot Levey plays Neil, the author of Caliban's Day, the play-within-the-play.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

The rumbustious drinking song with which he celebrates the king's reaction to his strategic play-within-the-play did not ring out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

James produces an agit-prop play-within-the-play that lays all the blame for the flood at the feet of the capitalists who built a faulty dam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Anyway I think it's a good insurance signing, unless like I said you're Travis Buck's real estate agent, but beyond that what is the play-within-the-play here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Athletics Nation] Reference

The post-intermission seems more a play of the play-within-the-play, with an almost Monty Pythonesque take on the actual performance before the Duke and his new bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune] Reference

Molly Ward as Nina in the play-within-the-play scene from the production of Chekhov's classic The Seagull on stage now through Feb. 1, 2009 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Repertory Theater] Reference

Noises Off. Art Manke's staging of Michael Frayn's madcap farce reaches its height in the deliriously absurd depths of the third act, when the play-within-the-play is tearing apart at the seams.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the end, one of the characters (a biology professor who wrote the play-within-the-play) says that he knows morality has evolved, but he feels moral obligation nonetheless, so he abides by it best he can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

"You see the actors playing the parts of Auden and Britten and the other two people in the play-within-the-play struggling with their habit," says director Nicholas Hytner, who has collaborated with Bennett on five plays and two films.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

No — I could make the player king and the whole troupe women, and have the play-within-the-play work something like a ballet. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Farthing] Reference

After years of supporting roles, he finally gets a chance to shine as Bottom the Weaver, the main Rude Mechanical who tries to take the parts of Pyramus, Thisbe and the roaring lion in the silly play-within-the-play at the second-act wedding of mortal King Theseus (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Observer | Complete Issue] Reference

The play-within-the-play?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Datebook | July 24-30] Reference