Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   The proprietary right of the author of a dramatic composition in respect to its performance; the exclusive right to perform or authorize the performance of a particular drama. Compare copyright .
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Examples
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								Notably, during and directly stage-right of the boistrous Klingon Summit panel (full costumes, full Klingon 'tude, fully-delighted audience), I ask Creation co-founder Adam Malin (who looks too young to have begun the company in 1971) how this super-cool event came to be. Gregory Weinkauf: 'Star Trek' Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary in Las Vegas Gregory Weinkauf 2011 
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								Here's Guy on his cellphone, here's Joey, here's the Proprietor on a balcony stage-right, as ominous as she is elegant, here's Jack staggering onto the dias, and here's Puck coming on stage-right, being stopped in his tracks by the Fates. Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010 
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								Here's Guy on his cellphone, here's Joey, here's the Proprietor on a balcony stage-right, as ominous as she is elegant, here's Jack staggering onto the dias, and here's Puck coming on stage-right, being stopped in his tracks by the Fates. Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town Hal Duncan 2010 
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								Seven guided us into the stage-right offstage wing and through a maze of stacked lumber, stage lights, and other material. Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010 
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								Just off center above us yawned the dark rectangle of the open trapdoor through which I would make my entrance, dangling on a rope that ran across through pulleys, so the free end could be held by my uncle, standing behind the stage-right frame. Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009 
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								Just off center above us yawned the dark rectangle of the open trapdoor through which I would make my entrance, dangling on a rope that ran across through pulleys, so the free end could be held by my uncle, standing behind the stage-right frame. Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009 
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								At one point there is a little girl playing stage-right and I go over to her and I start talking to her, thinking maybe because she's young I can get her to break character and talk to me, and I am trying to get her to tell me her name. Archive 2008-08-01 Happy 2008 
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								At one point there is a little girl playing stage-right and I go over to her and I start talking to her, thinking maybe because she's young I can get her to break character and talk to me, and I am trying to get her to tell me her name. a rather strange dream Happy 2008 
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								I'm in the back row of the chorus, just beneath the stage-right balcony ... not that you can see me or anything, but still. Want to hear me sing? Sinfonian 2008 
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								With Iraq fading from the front pages, enter Russia stage-right. 
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