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‖ mise-en-scène|mizɑ̃sɛn|
[Fr.]
a. The staging of a play; the scenery and properties of a stage production; the stage setting.
1833W. C. Macready Diary 14 Dec. (1912) I. 85 Saw the play, Coriolanus, in so disgraceful a state that it was useless to bestow a word upon the mise en scène. 1840A. Bunn Stage II. xi. 298 More attention was paid to the mise en scène than to the acting. 1891‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin I. iii. ii. 131 Only look at the walls of our exhibitions, look at the mise en scène of our theatres! 1911G. B. Shaw Blanco Posnet Pref. 340 The mise-en-scène of a play is as much a part of it as the words spoken on the stage. 1951Oxf. Compan. Theatre 715/1 Perhaps Antoine..never realized the force of some of his mises-en-scène. 1961K. Tynan Curtains iii. 391 In the newer mises en scène one got a feeling of dehydrated Luhtishness. 1974Listener 17 Jan. 92/3 The newspaper office mise-en-scène..gave it [sc. a radio play] early vitality.
b. transf. and fig. The setting, surroundings, or background of an event or action.
1872E. Braddon Life in India i. 8 Novelists..sometimes select India as the mise en scène of their tales. 1894[see impressionize v.]. 1901Q. Rev. CXCIII. 314 She [sc. Queen Victoria] was unrivalled in her sense of the proper mise en scène of a formal ceremonial. a1916H. James Ivory Tower (1917) 270, I manage to treat myself to some happy..mise-en-scène or exploitation of my memory of (say) California. 1924Earl of Birkenhead Amer. Revisited vi. 165 She would have dictated peace, I should imagine, at Buckingham Palace; for the réclame of the mise-en-scène would, on the whole, have been greater than that of Versailles. 1940Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 12 You have simply got to get your atmosphere right... Chance your arm with the mise en scène, and before you can say ‘what ho’, you've made some bloomer. 1972J. Hodgson Uses of Drama xvi. 183 In certain dramatized situations ‘people’ are actors, and the rush of social events, mise-en-scene. |