Underplot
Full definition of underplot
Noun
underplot
(plural underplots)- A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.
- 1882-89, , A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV Chapter , I have not been able to discover the source of the very curious underplot of The Captives.
- 1906, Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama Chapter , Thus, again to quote Mr. Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'