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‖ proscenium|prəʊˈsiːnɪəm|
Pl. -a.
[a. L. proscēnium, ad. Gr. προσκήνιον a proscenium, also in late Gr. a stage-curtain, f. πρό, pro-2 2 + σκηνή a booth, stage, scene.]
1. a. In the ancient theatre, The space between the ‘scene’ or background and the orchestra, on which the action took place; the stage.
1606Holland Sueton. 184 These Games hee beheld from the top of the Proscenium [margin The fore-stage]. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Proscenium, the forepart of the Scene: an Edifice as high as the last Portico of the Theater, whose Face or Front was adorned with many ranges of Pillars. 1839Arnold Let. in Stanley Life & Corr. (1844) II. ix. 160 The two marble pillars still standing in the proscenium of the theatre, reminded me of the Forum at Rome. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 201 Of..the proscenium there are no remains.
b. In the modern theatre, The space between the curtain or drop-scene and the orchestra; often including the curtain itself and the arch or framework which holds it.
1807Director I. 244 This equivocal proscenium, as it were, dove-tails the house with the stage. 1860All Year Round No. 44. 417 The appearance of the audience, as seen from the proscenium..is highly remarkable in its union of vastness with compactness. 1908Q. Rev. Apr. 453 The one determining characteristic of the Elizabethan stage..is its lack of anything like a proscenium.
2. transf. and fig.
a. The front, the foreground.
1648Herrick Hesper., Upon his Julia, Lips she has, all rubie red,..And a nose that is the grace And proscenium of her face. 1793Earl Macartney in J. Barrow Life, etc. (1807) II. 272 Several persons passed backwards and forwards, in the proscenium or fore ground of the tent. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. xiv, These thoughts..for a good while..kept possession of the proscenium of his mind.
b. ‘The stage’; dramatic art.
1812G. Colman Poet. Vag. (1818) 16 During his time, from the Proscenium ta'en, Thalia and Melpomene both vanished. 1907Edin. Rev. Jan. 197 The Censor is still enthroned above the proscenium.
3. attrib., as proscenium arch, proscenium box, proscenium curtain, proscenium door, proscenium drop, proscenium opening.
1901Scribner's Mag. XXIX. 466/2, I was in the box that used to be built inside the proscenium arch so that the actors themselves could watch the stage during their waits.
1875M. E. Braddon Strange World I. ii. 36 That official..unlocked a door behind the proscenium box, a door sacred to the manager, and let Penwyn through.
1828J. R. Planché Paris & London (1830) i. v. 24 (stage direction) A Diagonal View of the Stage of the Odeon is seen through the wings—the proscenium boxes, l. 1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xiv. 124 One of the illustrious patrons of the Museum Theatre, and occupant of the great proscenium-box, was..the Marquis of Steyne.
1829Harlequin 20 June 46 The only drop below the proscenium curtain was the very fine pierced forest limbs, which every frequenter of Drury Lane Theatre must recollect. 1975C. Hogget Stage Crafts i. 14 Pelmet for proscenium curtains should overhang reveals to allow curtains to open fully.
1827T. Dibdin Reminisc. II. 115 One artist offered to paint me a proscenium drop (as we call the painted cloth which falls between the acts). 1889Theatre XIII. 292 The proscenium opening is formed by groups of columns on either side of the first proscenium box. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 244/1 The proscenium opening was of particular importance to the realistic playwrights of the 19th century. |