Definition of Underplot. Meaning of Underplot. Synonyms of Underplot

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Definition of Underplot

Underplot
Underplot Un"der*plot`, n. 1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. --Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. --Addison.

Meaning of Underplot from wikipedia

- White Devil Three Hours After Marriage The General From America Camilo Underplot Majot André Royal Shakespeare Company 1997 The Wood Demon Fyodor Playhouse...
- action) reuniting in celebration on what appears to be VE Day. The comic underplot of the original play, in which Costard and others attempt to stage a play...
- Bicknell as Phoebe Clinket, Colley Cibber as Plotwell, William Penkethman as Underplot, Henry Norris as Possum, Elizabeth Willis as Prue, Thomas Walker as the...
- acknowledges that it is "the offspring of no common genius," that the "underplot... is skilfully and closely connected with the main story, and is subservient...
- 1966. Mueschke, Paul and Jeanette Fleischer. "Jonsonian Elements in the Comic Underplot of Twelfth Night." PMLA 48 (1933), 722–740. Epicœne online....
- forefront of Anglo-Indian dramatic literature, though the slightness of the underplot in the first play and the deficiency of female characters in the second...
- on Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun, with the addition of a comic underplot. It was frequently revived, and in 1757 was altered by David Garrick and...
- The King in the Country, a two-act piece, 1789, is an alteration of the underplot of Thomas Heywood's King Edward the Fourth. It was pla**** at Richmond...
- House, he was, on 10 May 1716, the first Butler, and on 16 January 1717 Underplot in the ill-starred Three Hours after Marriage (****, Breval and others)...