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A leading actor, leading actress, or leading man or lady or simply lead (/ ˈ l iː d /), plays a main role in a film, television show or play. [1] The word lead may also refer to the largest role in the piece, and leading actor may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work. Some actors are ...
Because ancient Greek drama involved only three actors (the protagonist, deuteragonist, and tritagonist) plus the chorus, each actor often played several parts.For instance, in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist would be Oedipus, who is on stage in most acts, the deuteragonist would be Jocasta (Oedipus' mother and wife), and the tritagonist would play the Shepherd and Messenger.
There are different perspectives of the term 'family', from the perspective of children, the family is a "family of orientation": the family serves to locate children socially and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization. [10]
The general noun phrase "title character" can be replaced with a descriptive noun or phrase which is then further described using the adjective "titular". For example, the title character of Dracula can be referred to as the book's "titular vampire", [23] the title character of Hamlet is the "titular prince of Denmark", [24] and the title character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the "titular ...
The word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). [2] The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.)
Actors who play a character with multiple names and/or a secret identity (e.g. superheroes); Actors who play multiple copies of a single character (e.g. Vittorio Gassman and Don Adams [as St. Sauvage and Maxwell Smart, respectively] in The Nude Bomb, Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix series, and Tom Cruise in Oblivion);
Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", [1] in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.