In the novel Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf uses an Afghan hound (named Sohrab) to represent aspects of one of the book's human characters.
The second scene is a parody of a restoration comedy, and the third scene is a panorama of Victorian triumph based on a policeman directing the traffic in Hyde Park.
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The intermède was sometimes given between the acts of spoken plays, especially in the 17th century when they were performed with the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine.
She returned to that theatre regularly through 1777, singing between the acts, in musical interludes and afterpieces.
He introduced choruses between the acts, two of these being written by Pope, and an incongruous love scene between Brutus and Portia.