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SCENE (Fr. scene, See also: original meaning of the stage or platform in the See also: Greek or See also: Roman theatre together with the structure that formed the background
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Thus " scene " was formerly used, as " stage " is to-See also: day, of the actor's profession or of dramatic See also: art; and of the actual performance or See also: representation on the stage, still surviving in such phrases as " the scene opens " or " closes." It is also applied, actually and figuratively, to the place where the See also: action of a See also: play or any series of events take place, and so of any See also: episode or situation in a novel or other narrative or description of events; from this the transition to an excited or violent See also: exhibition of feeling between two or more persons is easy
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Of the specific applications of the word to the drama the See also: main examples are (I) to a division of the play, marked by the fall of the See also: curtain, the " scene " being a subdivision of an " See also: act," where the play is thus divided, or where there are no acts, of the divisions themselves; (2) to the material which forms the view of the place where the action is supposed to occur, that is, the painted cloths, slides and other apparatus, known as the " scenery,' a word which has thus been transferred to a view generally, the appearance of the feature of a natural landscape
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Allied words are " scena," used only in See also: music, of a composition consisting mainly of recitative with accompaniment, forming See also: part of an See also: opera or as an individual composition; and " scenario," a full outline of a play or opera, giving details of the acts, scenes, actors, situations, stage-business, &c
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