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The elements of the stage spectacle may be divided up into four main categories: (1) set, (2) lighting, (3) props, (4) costume and make-up. These constitute the contextual elements of performances, but they may, under special circumstances, assume the significance of actants.
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Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, in The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays, tr. Constance Garnett (London, 1935) p. 136.
Cf. Adolphe Appia, Die Musik und die Inscenierung (Munich, 1899), available now in English as Music and the Art of the Theatre, tr. R. W. Corrigan and Mary Dirks (University of Miami Press, 1962); and Craig, On the Art of the Theatre.
John Milton, Samson Agonistes, in The Poems of John Milton, ed. John Carey and Alisdair Fowler (London, 1968) p. 349.
Büchner, Werke, I , 131.
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Hilton, J. (1987). Naught but Shows: Towards a New Poetics of Performance (i). In: Performance. New Directions in Theatre. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18953-3_4
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