What do you call a story where a character tells a story which takes place in the past, and we, the audience, will see it acted out with the same cast as the people in the present, usually (but not always) with the implication that we're seeing identical-twin-ancestors of the current-day characters.
What do you call a story where a character tells a story which takes place in the past, and we, the audience, will see it acted out with the same cast as the people in the present, usually (but not always) with the implication that we're seeing identical-twin-ancestors of the current-day characters.