stage direction

noun

an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.

the art or technique of a stage director.

Origin of stage direction

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby stage direction

stage brace, stage business, stagecoach, stagecraft, staged, stage direction, stage director, stage-dive, stage door, stage-door Johnny, stage-driver

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Example sentences from the Web for stage direction

I had said all I had to say, and it seemed to me that about here the stage-direction "exit" was written in my part.
My Man Jeeves|P. G. Wodehouse
In the stage-direction the last four words are omitted Remorse.
The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The 1st quarto has here the stage-direction, "She fals vpon her bed within the Curtaines."
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare
Pope destroyed the collocation by transferring the stage-direction to a point some dozen lines later.
Shakespearean Tragedy|A. C. Bradley

The 1st quarto has here the stage-direction, "Tibalt under Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio in and flyes;" which some modern eds.
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare

British Dictionary definitions for stage direction

stage direction

noun theatre

an instruction to an actor or director, written into the script of a play

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for stage direction

stage direction

Part of the script of a play that tells the actors how they are to move or to speak their lines. Enter, exit, and exeunt are stage directions.

单词	stage direction
释义	stage direction noun an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements. the art or technique of a stage director. Origin of stage direction First recorded in 1780–90 Words nearby stage direction stage brace, stage business, stagecoach, stagecraft, staged, stage direction, stage director, stage-dive, stage door, stage-door Johnny, stage-driver Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stage direction I had said all I had to say, and it seemed to me that about here the stage-direction "exit" was written in my part. My Man Jeeves\|P. G. Wodehouse In the stage-direction the last four words are omitted Remorse. The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge\|Samuel Taylor Coleridge The 1st quarto has here the stage-direction, "She fals vpon her bed within the Curtaines." Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet\|William Shakespeare Pope destroyed the collocation by transferring the stage-direction to a point some dozen lines later. Shakespearean Tragedy\|A. C. Bradley The 1st quarto has here the stage-direction, "Tibalt under Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio in and flyes;" which some modern eds. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet\|William Shakespeare British Dictionary definitions for stage direction stage direction noun theatre an instruction to an actor or director, written into the script of a play Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for stage direction stage direction Part of the script of a play that tells the actors how they are to move or to speak their lines. Enter, exit, and exeunt are stage directions. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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