stage direction in English

noun
1
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
If the director gives a stage direction that the star disdains, he will usually simply not do it, or he'll leave the set and sulk.

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1. Alarums and excursions definition: a stage direction, esp

2. The Winter's Tale contains Shakespeare's most famous stage direction:

3. (used as a stage direction, esp in Elizabethan drama) a loud disturbance or conflict (esp in the phrase Alarums and excursions)

4. Alarums and excursions definition is - martial sounds and the movement of soldiers across the stage —used as a stage direction in Elizabethan drama.

5. (Theatre) (used as a stage direction, esp in Elizabethan drama) a loud disturbance or conflict (esp in the phrase Alarums and excursions) [C15: variant of alarm]

6. (Theatre) (used as a stage direction, esp in Elizabethan drama) a loud disturbance or conflict (esp in the phrase Alarums and excursions) [C15: variant of alarm]

7. Alarums and excursions definition, (especially in Elizabethan drama) military action, as representative fragments of a battle, sound effects of trumpets, or clash of arms: used as a stage direction

8. Archaic an alarm, esp a call to arms (used as a stage direction, esp in Elizabethan drama) a loud disturbance or conflict (esp in the phrase Alarums and excursions) Word Origin for alarum C15: …

9. Noun archaic an alarm, esp a call to arms (used as a stage direction, esp in Elizabethan drama) a loud disturbance or conflict (esp in the phrase Alarums and excursions) Word Origin for Alarum

10. Alarums and excursions confused noise and bustle; from a stage direction occurring in slightly varying forms in a number of Shakespeare's history plays, as 3 Henry VI and Source for information on Alarums and excursions: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable dictionary.