Talk:Proscenium

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cenium can refer to the literal architectural arch, the literal form of staging (using a proscenium) or the form of staging (whether or not the arch is present). Both Proscenium and Proscenium arch have some good information but Proscenium is filled with advertising. Proscenium is the broader term and, I feel, should be the final resting place of the two articles. --omtay38 06:02, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that the two discuss different things. Proscenium should perhaps be renamed 'Proscenium theater' as this is what it really discusses. Proscenium arch is still a piece of achitechture and Proscenium theater is a style of performance and staging. Against the merge. Also, i removed the advertising here as it was inapropriate. Hopefully it won't become a chronic problem. 48v 06:58, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The term Proscenium Arch is only used to describe the arch within a proscenium theater. If the the arch was used in other architectural forms, then I would see your point, but, because it isn't, I don't. A theater called a Proscenium theater must have a proscenium arch. If the theater is set up in the same fashion as proscenium theater (audience on one side, stage on the other) but does not have a proscenium arch, it is then referred to with the term end-on (which is another article entirely). I respect your intentions but do not find validity in your points. Thanks for gettin' rid of the advertising though! --omtay38 01:37, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Point taken, I think that a merge would be appropriate with a ridirect for whichever article is done away with. 48v 02:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Done --omtay38 02:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Does anyone else use Proscenium to describe a literary conjecture that characters in fiction do not exist beyond the tableau of the stage? I think I picked this up from a professor long ago. Hamlet is an allegory that is meant to enlighten the audience with events that happen precisely as they appear framed by the arch, and that the characters do not exist off stage. This is dramatized in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in which those characters have no past, no future, and no memories. So Proscenium fiction would describe such works where it is pointless to wonder about the back story of the characters because their only purpose is to exist in the play they are preforming. --Tbmorgan74 18:47, 13 June 2007 (UTC)