TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<stage>` | (stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.
Attributes: |
`type` | indicates the kind of stage direction.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal values: |
`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: mix

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 type="delivery" rend="inline">Aside.</stage>

Note
Tagset base tag set for common core features
Class common, inter
Filename `teicore2`
Parents ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def desc descrip div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph epigraph epilogue equiv etym fDescr figDesc foreign form fsDescr gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region remarks rendition seg set sic sound sp stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref [May not appear at any level within: stage state]
Children #PCDATA TEI...end ab abbr add address app att bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct eTree emph entry entryFree event expan figure foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss graph handShift hi kinesic l label lang lg lg1 link list listBibl m measure mentioned move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig p pRef pVar pause persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg restore rs s seg shift sic soCalled sound sp space stage superentry supplied table tag tech term termEntry text time timeRange timeStruct title tree u unclear val view vocal w witDetail witList writing xptr xref [May not include at any level: stage]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT stage         - -  (%specialPara)       -(stage)      >
    <!ATTLIST stage              %a.global
              type               CDATA               mix            >

See 6.11.2 ; 6.11 ; 10.2.3

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