<stage>

<stage> (stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment. [3.13.2 Core Tags for Drama 3.13 Passages of Verse or Drama 7.2.4 Stage Directions]
Module core — Elements Available in All TEI Documents
Attributes
type⚓︎ indicates the kind of stage direction.
Status Recommended
Datatype 0–∞ occurrences of teidata.enumerated separated by whitespace
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
Note

If the value mixed is used, it must be the only value. Multiple values may however be supplied if a single stage direction performs multiple functions, for example is both an entrance and a modifier.

Member of
Contained by
May contain
dictionaries: lang oRef pRef
gaiji: g
header: biblFull idno
iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib
textstructure: floatingText
verse: caesura rhyme
character data
Note

The who attribute may be used to indicate more precisely the person or persons participating in the action described by the stage direction.

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 and falls.</stage>
<!-- Middleton : Yorkshire Tragedy -->
<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>
<!-- Lorraine Hansbury : a raisin in in the sun -->
<stage type="modifier">Disguised as Ansaldo.</stage>
<stage type="entrance modifier">Enter Latrocinio disguised as an empiric</stage>
<!-- Middleton: The Widow -->
<stage type="location">At a window.</stage>
<stage rend="inlinetype="delivery">Aside.</stage>
Example
<l>Behold. <stage n="*place="margin">Here the vp<lb/>per part of the <hi>Scene</hi> open'd; when
   straight appear'd a Heauen, and all the <hi>Pure Artes</hi> sitting on
   two semi<lb/>circular ben<lb/>ches, one a<lb/>boue another: who sate thus till the rest of the
 <hi>Prologue</hi> was spoken, which being ended, they descended in
   order within the <hi>Scene,</hi> whiles the Musicke plaid</stage> Our
Poet knowing our free hearts</l>
Content model
<content>
 <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
</content>
Schema Declaration
<rng:element name="stage">
 <rng:ref name="att.ascribed.directed.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.ascribed.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.placement.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.written.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="type">
   <rng:list>
    <rng:zeroOrMore>
     <rng:choice>
      <rng:value>setting</rng:value>
      <rng:value>entrance</rng:value>
      <rng:value>exit</rng:value>
      <rng:value>business</rng:value>
      <rng:value>novelistic</rng:value>
      <rng:value>delivery</rng:value>
      <rng:value>modifier</rng:value>
      <rng:value>location</rng:value>
      <rng:value>mixed</rng:value>
      <rng:ref name="teidata.enumerated"/>
     </rng:choice>
    </rng:zeroOrMore>
   </rng:list>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:ref name="macro.specialPara"/>
</rng:element>
element stage
{
   att.ascribed.directed.attributes,
   att.ascribed.attributes,
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   att.placement.attributes,
   att.written.attributes,
   attribute type
   {
      list
      {
         (
            "setting"
          | "entrance"
          | "exit"
          | "business"
          | "novelistic"
          | "delivery"
          | "modifier"
          | "location"
          | "mixed"
          | teidata.enumerated
         )*
      }
   }?,
   macro.specialPara
}