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SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 306 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene) , a word of which the various applications, figurative or otherwise, are derived from its
original
  meaning of the stage or platform in the
Greek
  or Roman theatre together with the structure that formed the background. Thus "
scene
  " was formerly used, as " stage " is to-day, of the actor's profession or of dramatic art; and of the actual performance or 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 action of a play or any
series
  of events take
place
 , and so of any episode or situation in a novel or other narrative or description of events; from this the transition to an excited or violent exhibition of feeling between two or more persons is easy.
Of the specific applications of the word to the drama the
main
  examples are (I) to a division of the play, marked by the fall of the curtain, the " scene " being a subdivision of an " 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. Allied words are " scena," used only in music, of a
composition
  consisting mainly of recitative with accompaniment, forming
part
  of an
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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