Definition of Stage setting

1. Noun. Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.

Exact synonyms: Mise En Scene, Setting
Terms within: Flat, Prop, Property, Set, Stage Set
Generic synonyms: Stage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stage Setting

stage manager
stage mechanical
stage micrometre
stage mom
stage mother
stage name
stage names
stage of dilatation
stage of expulsion
stage of invasion
stage of the game
stage race
stage right
stage screw
stage set
stage setting (current term)
stage technician
stage whisper
stage whispered
stage whispering
stage whispers
stageable
stagebound
stagecoach
stagecoaches
stagecoachman
stagecoachmen
stagecraft
stagecrafts
staged

Literary usage of Stage setting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare for Community Players by Roy Mitchell (1919)
"CHAPTER V STAGE-SETTING OF the many methods of stage-setting which have been developed within recent years by experimentalists in the theatre, ..."

2. The New Greek Comedy by Philippe Ernest Legrand, John Williams White (1917)
"§8 CONVENTIONS REGARDING STAGE-SETTING UNITY OF PLACE As a rule, the stage-setting of a Greek drama remained unchanged from beginning to end. ..."

3. The Prologue in the Old French and Provençal Mystery by David Hobart Carnahan (1905)
"THE STAGE-SETTING. Reference to the stage-setting is found in ten of the prologues. In three of these it is a mere passing mention ; in the other seven, ..."

4. English Pastoral Drama, from the Restoration to the Date of the Publication by Jeannette Augustus Marks (1908)
"... stage setting '""pHE day of the boy-actors was past; no longer -*- were they to wear women's bodices and trip heavily or lightly through women's parts. ..."

5. English Pastoral Drama, from the Restoration to the Date of the Publication by Jeannette Augustus Marks (1908)
"HI stage setting day of the boy-actors was past; no longer were they to wear women's bodices and trip heavily or lightly through women's parts. ..."

6. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"... foster a suspicion that one day the governance of the chromosomes over development will be explained in physical terms." 7. THE PHYSICAL STAGE-SETTING ..."

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