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Definition of Stagestruck
1. a. Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
Definition of Stagestruck
1. Adjective. Enamored of the theatre, the craft of acting or of actors/actresses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagestruck
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagestruck
Literary usage of Stagestruck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"He fails as an actor, stagestruck in his only attempt, and whistles other chances
in life down the wind. There is soon no money in his purse, for his father ..."
2. The Drama of Yesterday & To-day by Clement Scott (1899)
"... proved indirectly inconvenient ; for no lady on the stage in her time seems
to have suffered more from the unwelcome attentions of stagestruck admirers. ..."
3. A Sunny Life: The Biography of Samuel June Barrows by Isabel Chapin Barrows (1913)
"He was thoroughly stagestruck, and to the horror of the church, and to the pain
of his family and friends, soon after went upon the stage, and entered into ..."
4. The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, Sidney Herbert Sime (1896)
"We confessed that it was very odd, and I think we all sat quietly for a few
minutes with the image of Ben, as the romantic, stagestruck youth, ..."
5. Life of Edwin H. Chapin, D. D. by Sumner Ellis (1882)
"No idlers at their tasks were some of these boys, since they were stagestruck in
no ordinary degree; and from their sports they ..."
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