Keyword

stage direction

Description: A theatrical instruction in a play script that guides actors’ movements, delivery, or interactions, or specifies elements of staging.

Primary topic: Theatre and Performance Studies (55%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q2137554

OpenAlex ID: keywords/stage-direction

The Empty Space

1968 · Peter Brook · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 631

Greek Tragedy in Action

1978 · Oliver Taplin · Routledge eBooks · 413

A dictionary of stage directions in English drama, 1580-1642

2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 214

Parameters of Slavic Aspect: A Cognitive Approach

2001 · Gary H. Toops, Stephen M. Dickey · The Slavic and East European Journal · 201

William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion

1990 · Dieter Mehl, Stanley Wells, et al. · The Yearbook of English Studies · 166

A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

1987 · Lee Strasberg, Evangeline Morphos · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 163

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider

2000 · John Pilling, Samuel Beckett, et al. · The Modern Language Review · 160

Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters

1984 · Alan C. Dessen · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 157

Playing Shakespeare

1984 · John Barton · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 127

The Director and the Stage

1982 · Edward Braun · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 121

The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects

1968 · John Willett · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 97

The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy

2013 · Thomas Kohn · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 88

Theatre Rituals

2007 · Angelos Chaniotis · 87

The Shakespearean Stage Space

2012 · Mariko Ichikawa · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 79

Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page

2004 · Tiffany Stern · 79

From text to performance in the Elizabethan theatre: preparing the play for the stage

1992 · Choice Reviews Online · 78

Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre

2013 · Christopher Innes · Routledge eBooks · 72

The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson

1987 · Frank M. Rich, Lisa Aronson · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 71

Claudel metteur en scène

1998 · Yehuda Moraly · Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté eBooks · 70

Using 'endowed props' in scenario-based design

2002 · Steve Howard, Jennie Carroll, et al. · Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction · 69

Found in Translation

2006 · J. Michael Walton · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 68

Did Greek dramatists write stage instructions?

1977 · O. Taplin · Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society · 66

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The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet

2007 · Lukas Erne · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 63

Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary

1995 · Alan C. Dessen · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 62

English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580

2004 · Darryll Grantley · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 61

Works count: 14,360

Citation count: 9,685