| <set> | contains a description of the setting, time, locale, appearance, etc., of the action of a play, typically found in the front matter of a printed performance text (not a stage direction). | |
| Attributes: | ||
| Example |
<set><p>The action takes place on February 7th between the hours of noon and six in the afternoon, close to the Trenartha Tin Plate Works, on the borders of England and Wales, where a strike has been in progress throughout the winter. </set> | |
| Example |
<set><head>SCENE</> A Sub-Post Office on a late autumn evening </set> | |
| Example |
<front>
<titlePage> ... </titlePage>
<div type='Notice'> ... </>
<div type='Dedication'> ... </>
<div type='Performance'> ... </>
<set><list type=gloss>
<label>TIME: <item>1907
<label>PLACE: <item>East Coast village in England
</list>
</set>
</front>
| |
| Note | This element should not be used outside the front matter; for similar contextual descriptions within the body of the text, use the <stage> element. | |
| Tagset | base tag set for performance texts | |
| Class | dramafront [and indirectly also:] front | |
| Filename | teidram2 | |
| Content: | Contains paragraphs or phrase level tags. | |
| Parents | back front | |
| Children | #PCDATA TEI...end ab abbr add address app att bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct eTree emph entry entryFree event expan figure foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss graph handShift head hi kinesic l label lang lg lg1 link list listBibl m measure mentioned move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig p pRef pVar pause persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg restore rs s seg shift sic soCalled sound sp space stage superentry supplied table tag tech term termEntry text time timeRange timeStruct title tree u unclear val view vocal w witDetail witList writing xptr xref | |
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT set - - (head?, %specialPara) > <!ATTLIST set %a.global > | |
| See | 10.1 | |