Today, the play within the play, an elaborate allegory that includes Mount Rushmore in its stage design, would never get as far as Boston.

The poem has been variously interpreted as a charming epyllion or as an elaborate allegory in which the shepherd symbolizes Augustus and the gnat Maecenas.

The internal decoration is an elaborate allegory of Ptolemaic Egypt's prosperity.

His English coronation took place on 25 July, with elaborate allegories provided by dramatic poets such as Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson.

Spenser, who, like John Bunyan, wrote an elaborate allegory, says: It is not in me.

It was an elaborate urban allegory, full of disease and despair, and Odette wanted to talk about it.

It is metafictional comic novel in which the world is portrayed as a university campus in an elaborate allegory of the Cold War.

In contrast, most Medieval scholars saw the parables as elaborate allegories, with each aspect representing something specific.

Together, they painted a series of the elaborate allegories around the themes of zodiacal signs and months of the year.

The sculpture consists of three rectangular steel tables, together 38 feet long, that form the stage for an elaborate allegory.