With a title taken from a theatrical stage-direction term for sounds originating offstage, the play appropriately skewers the backstage events and relationships of actors taking part in a fictitious tour of a sex comedy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But Lady Castlewood could not operate upon the said eyes then and there, like the barbarous monsters in the stage-direction in ❋ Unknown (2006)
This not very intelligible stage-direction means perhaps that, after Bajazeth and Tamburlaine had entered, a short combat was to take place between them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Moroccus,” — a barbarism which I have not retained, because previously, in the stage-direction at the commencement of this act, p. 19, they agree in reading ❋ Unknown (2004)
I capped off that facet with the production and stage-direction of the American premiere in Wilmington of Carl Orff's Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus, which is not as far from speculative fiction as you might imagine. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1969)
When we think of these things, we turn to the following "stage-direction" with which her ❋ Various (N/A)
One of our most subtle artists in stage-direction, Mr. Henry Miller, once confessed to the present writer that he could never decide whether a prospective play was good or bad until he had seen it rehearsed by actors on a stage. ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)
A novel and interesting device of emphasis in stage-direction was introduced by Mr. Forbes-Robertson in his production of _The Passing of the ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)
The unusual device of stage-direction, therefore, contributed to the verisimilitude of the set as well as to the convenience of the action. ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)
While they are working themselves up to it, _Manrico_ appears, as the stage-direction says, "like a phantom." ❋ Various (N/A)
Accordingly the stage-direction at the opening of the play reads thus, 'Here entereth Nichol Newfangle the Vice, laughing, and hath a knave of clubs in his hand which, as soon as he speaketh, he offereth unto one of the men or boys standing by.' ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)
Miranda's sleep only because he was not acquainted with the folio stage-direction about Prospero's coat, and knew no better. ❋ Various (N/A)
Sc. 3, when Birone conceals himself from the King, the stage-direction in the folio of 1632, as well as in that of 1623, is ❋ Various (N/A)
Death slays Herod and his two soldiers suddenly, and the Devil receives them '-- so runs the terse Latin stage-direction. ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)
MS. stage-direction to the effect that Benedick, when he hides "in the arbour," "_Retires behind the trees_." ❋ Various (N/A)
At the suggestion of Newfangle 'he danceth as evil-favoured as may be demised, and in the dancing he falleth down, and when he riseth he must groan', according to the stage-direction. ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)
The indications of the pencilled words in modern cursive writing are strengthened by the short-hand stage-direction in "Coriolanus," Act V., ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1928)
A familiar stage-direction of melodrama reads, 'Exit cautious through gap in hedge'. ❋ Unknown (1928)
It might indeed be printed as a play; whatever is not dialogue is simply a kind of amplified stage-direction, adding to the dialogue the expressive effect which might be given it by good acting. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
