"Stage setting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the dramatic spectacle so dear to the people, and while it detaches itself in subject from the religious tradition, it is not yet involved in the meshes of classic imitation. If, indeed, from the stage setting and from the music introduced into it, it is already an artistic spectacle, it cannot be called an example of ancient art restored. It was a theatrical ornament to ...
— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson
... This, then, was the stage setting: Trenholme, screened by black cedars and luxuriant brushwood, was seated about fifty feet above the level of the lake and some forty yards from its nearest sedges. The lake itself, largely artificial, lay at the foot of the waterfall, which gurgled and splashed ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... stage setting represents the private study in Dupre's house. On one side is a bookcase, on the other a desk. On the left is a window hung ...
— Pamela Giraud • Honore de Balzac
... which I heard about two years ago and which I could recall some time afterward, I have been unable to recall this fall, though I have tried to do so. I can see the scene quite perfectly, the position of the actors and stage setting, even the action of a player who brought ...
— Power of Mental Imagery • Warren Hilton
... dear comte, love, nowadays, like nature, should only be used for decoration, as a bit of stage setting, or as stage scenery." ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd |
