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Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
Stock characters play an important role in fiction, ... A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative ...
Fictional prehistoric characters (5 C, 42 P) Protagonists by role (3 C, 5 P) T. Stock characters by theatrical genre (4 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Stock characters"
Pages in category "Lists of stock characters" ... List of fictional tricksters This page was last edited on 17 October 2008, at 12:53 (UTC). ...
The trickster is a common stock character in folklore and popular culture. A clever, mischievous person or creature, the trickster achieves goals through the use of trickery. A trickster may trick others simply for amusement or for survival in a dangerous world. The trickster could be a personification of the chaos that the world needs to function.
The fool is a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore. There are several distinct, although overlapping, categories of fool: simpleton fool, wise fool, and serendipitous fool. The six volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature contains (in volume four) a group of motifs under the category "Fools (and other unwise ...
Romanticised outlaws are stock characters found in a number of fictional settings.. This was particularly so in the United States, where outlaws were popular subjects of newspaper coverage and stories in the 19th century, and 20th century fiction and Western films.
Four commedia dell'arte characters, whose costumes and demeanor indicate the stock character roles that they portray in this genre. In fiction, a character is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).