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Definition of Stagecraft
1. Noun. Skill in writing or staging plays.
Definition of Stagecraft
1. Noun. The skills of the theater. ¹
2. Noun. A specific skill of the theater. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagecraft
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagecraft
Literary usage of Stagecraft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"The purpose of " the new stagecraft " is to effect a working compromise between
the methods of the platform stage and the methods of the picture-frame stage ..."
2. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"XXV THE NEW stagecraft IN the movement known as " the new stagecraft" there is
... The purpose of " the new stagecraft " is to effect a working compromise ..."
3. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"CHAPTER II MASTERS OF stagecraft SARDOU MANNER rather than matter is the first
concern ... They are masters of stagecraft, adepts in the art of devising and ..."
4. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1917)
"... an experiment in the new stagecraft, though Mr. Urban did design the settings;
while the ballet at the Hippodrome, devised by Bakst and Pavlowa, was, ..."
5. The Theatre of Tomorrow by Kenneth Macgowan (1921)
"Or perhaps it is nearer the truth to say that the new stagecraft came as the
first indication in the theatre of the lifting of that sense of oppression ..."
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