Meaning of theatricality | Babel Free

Definitions

Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.”

“However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...”

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