Types
Stories within stories can be of these types:
- The inner story is told completely in the real world, and could be extracted and told separately, for example the version of Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Only fragments of it exist in the real world, for example the Captain Proton stories within Star Trek.
- None of the text of the inner story exists in the real world.
Sometimes with type 2, someone completes the inner story in the real world: see #From story within a story to separate story.
Read more about this topic: Story Within A Story
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