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Stagecraft   /stˈeɪdʒkrˌæft/   Listen
Stagecraft

noun
1.
Skill in writing or staging plays.





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"Stagecraft" Quotes from Famous Books



... absurd to deny that modern stagecraft has made possible in the theatre many excellent effects that were not dreamt of in the philosophy of Shakespeare. Sir Arthur Pinero's plays are better made than those of the Elizabethans, and in a narrow sense hold the mirror up to nature more successfully ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton
... she anticipates his crowning act, the act of liberation, and herself slays the tyrannical Prefect. The magnificent scene in which this occurs is the finest in the play, and there is a singularly impressive touch of poetry and stagecraft in a certain line of it, where Djabal and Anael meet, at the moment when she has done the deed which he is waiting to do. Unconscious of what she has done, he ...
— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons


Words linked to "Stagecraft" :   coup de theatre, craftsmanship, workmanship, craft


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