Joined with a masker and a reveller.
ACTED. SCENE.
How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over.
III, 1, 112.
A favourite device of Shakespeare, often repeated in his plays, of making his characters allude to the stage, thus enveloping his own imaginary dramatic efforts with a reality, which almost deceives the audience that they are witnesses of living actions.
KING LEAR
CATASTROPHE. OLD COMEDY.
(Enter Edgar.)
Edm. And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy.