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A Midsummer Nights Dream and Hamlet, The play within a play

The play within a play is used in both Hamlet and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Both convey a different message but are still similarities none the less.
In Babylon a young, handsome boy and a beautiful girl have grown up together in houses built side-by-side. Their parents disapprove of their budding love and forbid them to marry or even converse with each other. But the wall that separates their houses has a hole (chink) in it through which the young lovers can talk in secrecy.This isn't enough, they can't even kiss through the chink so the pair conspires to meet in secrecy at the secluded tomb of the Babylonian King, Ninus. On the way, Thisbe, ...

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