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stage play
A dramatic performance; also, a dramatic composition adapted for representation on the stage. (Cf. play n. 15.)
1513More Rich. III (1883) 79 And in a stage play all the people know right wel that he that playeth the sowdayne, is percase a sowter. 1605–6Act 3 Jas. I, c. 21 For the preventing and avoyding of the greate Abuse of the Holy Name of God in Stageplayes..and such like. 1693Dryden Juvenal (1697) Ded. 79 Stage-Plays, which are all of one Action, and one continu'd Series of Action. 1843Act 6 & 7 Vict. c. 68 §23 The Word ‘Stage-Play’ shall be taken to include every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, Opera, Burletta, Interlude, Melodrama, Pantomime, or other Entertainment of the Stage, or any Part thereof.
b. Dramatic acting, play-acting.
1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 9 The contest was real, and not our present pantomimic stage-play.
c. attrib.
1819Keats Otho i. ii, I do not personate The stage-play emperor to entrap applause. 1908Stage Year Bk. 26 Many provincial theatres also have..a stage play licence and a music and dancing licence. |