theatre (n.)
- acting
- area
- arena
- auditorium
- coliseum
- drama
- dramaturgy
- hippodrome
- histrionics
- melodrama
- performance
- performing
- playhouse
- scene
- setting
- stagecraft
- staginess
As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious.
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
