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Playwright Mr. Puff invites Sir Fretful Plagiary and theatre critics Dangle and Sneer to a rehearsal of his grand tragedy The Spanish Armada, where mishaps expose the conventions and absurdities of stage writing and production.
Playwright Bayes presents a rehearsal of an incoherent heroic drama assembled from borrowed theatrical passages. As he gives absurd directions and defends the bombast, Johnson and Smith expose its gaps, inflated speeches, arbitrary dances, and implausible action.
Playwright Mr. Puff invites Sir Fretful Plagiary and theatre critics Dangle and Sneer to a rehearsal of his grand tragedy The Spanish Armada, where mishaps expose the conventions and absurdities of stage writing and production.
Playwright Bayes presents a rehearsal of an incoherent heroic drama assembled from borrowed theatrical passages. As he gives absurd directions and defends the bombast, Johnson and Smith expose its gaps, inflated speeches, arbitrary dances, and implausible action.