| <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 |