theatricality

Noun

theatricality (usually uncountable, plural theatricalities)

1. (usually) Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms.
   • The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […])...
   • However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...2002 May 2, Philip Hardie, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   theatricalness, theatricity