Parencite "within" textcite

Question

I am using the biblatex-chicago package with the following options:

\usepackage[authordate,backend=biber,cmsdate=both,useprefix=false]{biblatex-chicago}

What I would like to have is a citation in the flow of text like the one that obtains from using \textcite, but with an extra citation in brackets right after the year of the first citation, just as if I were using the \cite command as an optional argument "within" the textcite command. I would like to have something like the following:

The closest I can get to this is by manually typing the first author's name and the opening bracket, use the \citeyear command with the first bibliographical entry and the \cite command with the second, and then manually type the closing bracket. However, that would put the original year (origyear in the .bib file) 1963 into round rather than square brackets. Besides, I am pretty sure that there is a more elegant solution.

Here is a MWEB that generates the round-bracket problem:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside,notitlepage,hidelinks,onehalfspacing]{book}
\usepackage[authordate,backend=biber,cmsdate=both,useprefix=false]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{dray:laws_and_explanation_in_history,
author = {Dray, William H.},
title = {Laws and Explanation in History},
year = 1957,
location = {Oxford, UK},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
}

@inbook{hempel:reasons_and_covering_laws_in_historical_explanation,
author = {Hempel, Carl G.},
title = {Reasons and Covering Laws in Historical Explanation},
subtitle = {Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality},
booktitle = {The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel},
bookeditor = {Fetzer, James E.},
year = 2001,
origyear = 1963,
location = {New York},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
pages = {297--310},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
Dray (\citeyear{dray:laws_and_explanation_in_history}, \cite{hempel:reasons_and_covering_laws_in_historical_explanation})
\end{document}

Hi, and welcome to TeX.se. It would be helpful if you could post a sample document and .bib entries that would illustrate the issue for people to play with. This seems especially necessary given that the Hempel entry has two dates. See How to write a MWEB (Minimal working example with Bibliography)? for how to do that. — Alan Munn, Sep 22 '16 at 16:36
@poxx I think this question is answered here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/96736/98739 nested citations are not allowed, but your work-arount seems to work properly; you may want to change to \citeauthor{dray} \parentext{\citeyear{dray}, \cite{hempel}} to get the order of parentheses and brackets right. — lukascbossert, Sep 23 '16 at 11:07
This seems to work much better, except that it will remove the link to the bibliography from the first entry's year. — poxx, Sep 23 '16 at 12:05
@LukasCB If you use \citeauthor{dray} \parentext{\cite*{dray}, \cite{hempel}} instead the link is there. I think you should add that as an answer. — moewe, Sep 26 '16 at 13:22
@moewe added it as an answer. thanks for pointing out and giving the right clue. — lukascbossert, Sep 26 '16 at 13:37
Defining a new command for nested citations like the \postcite command provided here worked for me. Thanks @LukasCB for pointing me to that discussion. — poxx, Jul 25 '17 at 09:34
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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Since you cannot do nested citations (see also here) there is only a work around: I take your MWE (just changed bibtex-keys):

\documentclass[11pt,
    a4paper,
    oneside,
    notitlepage,
    hidelinks,
    onehalfspacing]{book}
\usepackage[authordate,
    backend=biber,
    cmsdate=both,
    useprefix=false]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @book{dray,
        author = {Dray, William H.},
        title = {Laws and Explanation in History},
        year = 1957,
        location = {Oxford, UK},
        publisher = {Oxford University Press},
    }

    @inbook{hempel,
        author = {Hempel, Carl G.},
        title = {Reasons and Covering Laws in Historical Explanation},
        subtitle = {Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality},
        booktitle = {The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel},
        bookeditor = {Fetzer, James E.},
        year = 2001,
        origyear = 1963,
        location = {New York},
        publisher = {Oxford University Press},
        pages = {297--310},
    }
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\citeauthor{dray} \parentext{\cite*{dray}, \cite[see e.g.][]{hempel}}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

That is the result:

Parencite "within" textcite

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