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<move>

movement

marks the actual movement of one or more characters.

Module dramaDRSTA

Attributes

@typecharacterizes the movement, for example as an entrance or exit.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
entrance
character is entering the stage.
exit
character is exiting the stage.
onStage
character moves on stage
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>
@wherespecifies the direction of a stage movement.
Status
Optional
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.authority separated by whitespace
Sample values
L
(left) stage left
R
(right) stage right
C
(center) centre stage

Classes and content

Member of
May contain
empty
Contained by

cmc

linking

namesdates

spoken

verse

Example

<performance xml:id="perf1">
  <p>First performance</p>
  <castList>
    <castItem>
      <role xml:id="bellaf">Bellafront</role>
    </castItem>
    <!-- ... -->
  </castList>
</performance>
<!-- ... -->
<stage type="entrance">
  <move who="#bellaf" type="enter" where="L" perf="#perf1"/> Enter
Bellafront mad.</stage>

Content model

<content>
  <empty/>
</content>