Why did shakespeare include a play within a play?

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pyramus and thisbe is an ancient tale well known to audiences in shakespeare's time. the audience would appreciate the humor and comments.

he had been commissioned to write a play of a certain length, and his fell short. the play within a play was a filler to use up time.

he uses it as a semi-veiled political speech.

he used it in place of an intermission, to refocus the audience's attention.

post the passage. we don’t know what you’re talking about

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.