dumbshow in the PONS Dictionary

dumbshow Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to use dumbshow
emplear la mímica
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A few twentieth-century dramatists made more deliberate experiments with dumbshow.
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A significant portion of the audience at the first performance rioted, causing the third act of the play to be acted out in dumbshow.
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Dumbshow is known for its visual creativity and colourful aesthetics.
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Much of the crowd rioted loudly, and the actors performed the remainder of the play in dumbshow.
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In an extended dumbshow he plays the puppeteer, manipulating other mannequin-like characters swathed and fully helmeted in white.
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The tumultuous reaction of the audience forced the latter portions of the play to be performed in dumbshow.
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Other instances of dumbshow are common throughout the dramatic literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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