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Or, A Work By Any Other Name; Or, The Work So Nice, They Named It Twice (Or in this article's case, [[Rule of Three|thrice]]).
Sometimes a work gives itself multiple alternative titles ''in the title'', usually giving the shortest title first, with the result being a [[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle]]. Using this trope these days can give a similar [[Retraux]] feel as [[In Which a Trope Is Described]].
Compare [[Colon Cancer]].
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* [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''The Coming of the Terraphiles, or Pirates of the Second Aether!''
* ''[[The Diamond Age]], Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' by [[Neal Stephenson]]
* ''[[Principia Discordia]] or How the West Was Lost,'' was the original title. The 4th edition is more well known, and bears the [[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle|slightly more cumbersome title]], ''Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.''
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* Edward Albee's ''The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?''
* Every [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] work except ''Trial by Jury'' and ''The Sorcerer''.
* In ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare]]'', the cast make fun of how [[Strictly Formula]] Shakespeare's comedies tend to be, and thus abridge them all into one play. The title is:
** The Comedy of Two Well-Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummer's Twelfth Night in Winter, or Sybaline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as You Like it for Nothing, or The Loveboat Goes to Verona, or Four Weddings and a Transvestite!
* Eric Overmyer's ''[[On the Verge]], or the Geography of Yearning.''
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