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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
... until he can paint scenery that is a work of art, delve into old books until he knows costuming of thousands of periods in hundreds of lands and how to sketch it, then gives himself to the studying of stagecraft and the writing of half a hundred plays until he writes one that is really great; after which, if he has the strength and the nerves to produce that play, we will all go to see the great human drama. That is, if he has had ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess
... 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


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