## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <stage>

`<stage>` | (stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from common, inter)

`type` | indicates the kind of stage direction.
| Datatype: CDATA

Suggested values include:

setting | describes a setting.
entrance | describes an entrance.
exit | describes an exit.
business | describes stage business.
novelistic | is a narrative, motivating stage direction.
delivery | describes how a character speaks.
modifier | gives some detail about a character.
location | describes a location.
mixed | more than one of the above

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <stage type="setting">A curtain being drawn.</stage>
    <stage type="setting">Music</stage>
    <stage type="entrance">Enter Husband as being thrown off his
    horse.</stage>
    <stage type="exit">Exit pursued by a bear.</stage>
    <stage type="business">He quickly takes the stone out.</stage>
    <stage type="delivery">To Lussurioso.</stage>
    <stage type="novelistic">Having had enough, and embarrassed for
    the family.</stage>
    <stage type="modifier">Disguised as Ansaldo.</stage>
    <stage type="location">At a window.</stage>
    <stage rend="inline" type="delivery">Aside.</stage>

Module Declared in file teicore2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class inter; common
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Declaration

    <!ELEMENT stage %om.RR; %specialPara;>
    <!ATTLIST stage
          %a.global;
          type CDATA #IMPLIED>

See further 6.11.2 Core Tags for Drama; 6.11 Passages of Verse or Drama; 10.2.3 Stage Directions

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