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- In drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time. When Hamlet first appears onstage, for example, his aside "A little more than kin, and less than kind!" gives the audience a strong sense of his alienation from King Claudius. Bedford/St. Martin's
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- In order to highlight Palaestrio’s craftiness, Plautus has Periplectomenus in a long aside describe the slave's planning while the actor playing the slave mimes intense deliberation - Brooklyn College
 by - What does not occur very often in Faust, though, are true asides, and most particularly those comical remarks which would normally produce a laugh in the audience. - Nancy Thuleen by
- Rene would regularly explain his ongoing predicament at the start, and make asides at the Audience regarding other people's leading statements. - tvtropes.org by
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- Un aparte, en las representaciones escénicas, es lo que dice un personaje cualquiera como hablando para sí o con aquel o aquellos a quienes se dirige y suponiendo que no lo oyen los demás.
DRAE - by Marta Pino Moreno
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- Un aparté est une réplique de théâtre prononcée par un personnage sur scène et que, par convention, les autres personnages n'entendent pas, au contraire du public. Wikipedia - by Anne Rametsi
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- Il m'a dit en aparté qu'il désapprouvait cette décision. - Free dictionary by Anne Rametsi
- « L'art consiste à rendre l'Aparté intéressant par la situation du Personnage qui laisse voir les mouvements dont il est combattu, ou qui révéle quelque secret terrible. Dans la Comédie, il faut s'en servir pour produire des jeux de Théâtre, comme lorsqu'un Acteur fait en deux mots, tout bas, une réflexion plaisante sur ce que l'autre dit tout haut, &c.[1] » - Dictionnaire dramatique by Anne Rametsi
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