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scene design and stage lighting. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Their designs, baroque and heavy with movement and detail, became increasingly fussy; the set, in conflict with the actor, became the main attraction. |
 | | The early English designer Inigo Jones was influenced by the Italians, although in his time scenery was reserved for court spectacles; Shakespeares plays were given on a bare stage. |
 | | Scene designers in the early 20th cent., opposed to naturalism, strove to show the essence of a play through simplification, suggestion, and, often, stylization; selective realism was the keynote. |
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