mise en scène

[mee zahn sen]

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noun French.

the process of setting a stage, with regard to placement of actors, scenery, properties, etc.

the stage setting or scenery of a play.

surroundings; environment.

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Historical Examples of mise en scene

The author then undertook to stage the play, designed the scenes, and arranged the mise-en-scene to the minutest detail.
Hadda Padda
Godmunder Kamban
This is merely a hasty glimpse of the "mise-en-scene" that preceded the debut in life of the most renowned of Polish poets.
Sonnets from the Crimea
Adam Mickiewicz
The mise-en-scene of a play is as much a part of it as the words spoken on the stage.
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
George Bernard Shaw

British Dictionary definitions for mise en scene

mise en scène

noun

the arrangement of properties, scenery, etc, in a play
the objects so arranged; stage setting

the environment of an event

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Word Origin and History for mise en scene

1833, from French mise en scène, literally "setting on the stage," from mise (13c.), literally "a putting, placing," noun use of fem. past participle of mettre "to put, place," from Latin mittere "to send" (see mission).