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<stage>

stage direction

contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.

Module coreCODRCODVDRSTA

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.ascribed.directed @toWhom
att.ascribed @who
att.cmc @generatedBy
att.performed @perf
att.placement @place
att.written @hand
@typeindicates the kind of stage direction.
Status
Recommended
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.enumerated separated by whitespace
Suggested values
setting
describes a setting.
entrance
describes an entrance.
exit
describes an exit.
business
describes stage business.
novelistic
is a narrative, motivating stage direction.
delivery
describes how a character speaks.
modifier
gives some detail about a character.
location
describes a location.
mixed
more than one of the above

Classes and content

Member of
model.stageLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

cmc

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

The @who attribute may be used to indicate more precisely the person or persons participating in the action described by the stage direction.

Examples

<stage type="setting">A curtain being drawn.</stage>
<stage type="setting">Music</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter Husband as being thrown off his horse and falls.</stage>
<!-- Middleton : Yorkshire Tragedy -->
<stage type="exit">Exit pursued by a bear.</stage>
<stage type="business">He quickly takes the stone out.</stage>
<stage type="delivery">To Lussurioso.</stage>
<stage type="novelistic">Having had enough, and embarrassed for the family.</stage>
<!-- Lorraine Hansbury : a raisin in in the sun -->
<stage type="modifier">Disguised as Ansaldo.</stage>
<stage type="entrance modifier">Enter Latrocinio disguised as an empiric</stage>
<!-- Middleton: The Widow -->
<stage type="location">At a window.</stage>
<stage rend="inline" type="delivery">Aside.</stage>

<l>Behold. <stage n="*" place="margin">Here the vp<lb/>per part of the <hi>Scene</hi> open'd; when
straight appear'd a Heauen, and all the<hi>Pure Artes</hi> sitting on
two semi<lb/>circular ben<lb/>ches, one a<lb/>boue another: who sate thus till the rest of the
    <hi>Prologue</hi> was spoken, which being ended, they descended in
order within the<hi>Scene,</hi> whiles the Musicke plaid</stage> Our
Poet knowing our free hearts</l>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
  </content>