Talk:fourth wall

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fourth wall

Sense 2 (the boundary between the fiction and the audience) is taken from a section of the wikipedia article on "fourth wall" which is not supported by references. I have not found any quotations to support this sense. -- WikiPedant 04:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Cited, IMHO. Take a look at them, though. The definition might need tweaking. I also deleted the purportedly separate attributive "sense" as it was the same meaning as sense 1. I kept the attributive usage example. DCDuring TALK 12:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Adequately cited now. I removed the tag from the entry. -- WikiPedant 23:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Etymology

What's the etymology?

Pedia says the following: - The fourth wall is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in 19th-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience. - If anyone cares to summarize that. -- ALGRIF talk 10:39, 29 October 2012 (UTC)