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- noun Plural form of
stageplay .
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Examples
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Over the past few years, Tee has run a workshop for writers translating novels to stageplays with Lani Tupu.
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For me, it's always been words and stories; told aloud by my father's childhood pal, on the pages of all those library books Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Borland let me take home when I was a child, song lyrics, poetry, screenplays, stageplays, text set to classical music.
the tipping point... 2008
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Frasier episodes tended to be structured like little stageplays, with long scenes (one episode, "My Coffee With Niles," was just Frasier and Niles sitting at a table talking for 22 minutes), elaborate running gags, and moral or philosophical themes that would be set up early and examined as the episode went on.
Goodnight Seattle, We Used to Love You! Jaime J. Weinman 2004
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Does the prince go to 'profane stageplays and such like vanities,' as the dear old Puritans would say?
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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Does the prince go to 'profane stageplays and such like vanities,' as the dear old Puritans would say?
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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In the reign of Charles the first the puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama, which they considered as an entertainment not lawful to christians, an opinion held by them in common with the church of Rome; and Prynne published Histriomastix, a huge volume, in which stageplays were censured.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Final Draft professional screenwriting software specifically designed for writing movie, television scripts, and stageplays.
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Final Draft professional screenwriting software specifically designed for writing movie, television scripts, and stageplays.
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Perry's biggest successes are the ones that have included his cross-dressing character Madea and / or the movies based on his hit stageplays, and
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Daddy's Little Girls, Perry's previous movie not based on one of his hit stageplays.
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