They both have to do with the theatre. Apart from that, they have little in common. Stage directions are written by the playwright and form part of the script. Their primary purpose is to indicate generally the movement of the actors on stage, but they can also (especially when the playwright is a frustrated novelist) talk about the "look" of the stage or the costumes or the props. A set design, on the other hand, is a design for the look of the stage for a particular production of a particular play. Set designs are rarely made by the author of the script, but rather by a designer in collaboration with the director. They are much more detailed than the set indications you get in scripts, as they involve the specific dimensions of the set bearing in mind the stage for which it is designed.
The Stage Directions.
They are italicized and put in quotation marks.
suggestions on the set, lighting, costumes, music, and other details.
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The set designer takes direction from the director and iterprets those requests to build the set. The set designer will come up with concept designs that he or she will take to design meetings until a final design is decided upon. The set designer will then build a final mock up or model of the completed stage. This model will then be used by the design or set crew to build the stage.
The stage directions in these lines suggest that people were allowed to physically punish their servants as a form of discipline during the time in which the play is set. This indicates that there was a power dynamic that permitted abusive behavior towards servants within the household.
handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.
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