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Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Love's Labour’s Lost
3. The Comedy of Errors
4. The Taming of the Shrew
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In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a group of amateur actors, often referred to as the "Mechanicals," perform a play titled "Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke's wedding.
This subplot, involving the preparation and performance of the play, provides a humorous and entertaining parallel to the main action of the play, thus making "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a play that features a play within a play.
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