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Found in ʽHeraclea Lyncestisʼ, today in the Republic of Macedonia. On display in the British Museum, London. In literature , the tritagonist (from Ancient Greek τριταγωνιστής ( tritagōnistḗs ) 'third actor') or tertiary main character is the third most important character of a narrative, after the protagonist and deuteragonist .
Samson Agonistes draws on the story of Samson from the Old Testament, Judges 13–16; in fact it is a dramatisation of the story starting at Judges 16:23. The drama starts in medias res. Samson has been captured by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off and his eyes cut out.
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution is a 2021 biography of Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette by American history podcaster and author Mike Duncan. It covers Lafayette's life and times and the significant role he played in the American Revolution , French Revolution , and July Revolution of 1830 .
A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). [1] Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories .
The contrasting three, where only the third has positive value, for example, The Three Little Pigs, two of whose houses are blown down by the Big Bad Wolf. The final or dialectical form of three, where, as with Goldilocks and her bowls of porridge, the first is wrong in one way, the second in an opposite way, and the third is "just right".
Question and Answer is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson.It originally appeared in the June and July 1954 issues of magazine Astounding Science Fiction, and was later reprinted in 1956 as part of Ace Double D-199 under the title Planet of No Return, and again as a stand-alone Ace novel in February 1978 under the original title.
In literature, the deuteragonist (/ ˌ dj uː t ə ˈ r æ ɡ ə n ɪ s t / DEW-tə-RAG-ə-nist; from Ancient Greek δευτεραγωνιστής (deuteragōnistḗs) 'second actor') or secondary main character [1] is the second most important character of a narrative, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist. [2]
The Two Worlds of William March is a 1984 biography of William March, written by the British scholar, critic and author Roy S. Simmonds. [1] William Butcher, reviewing the biography for World Literature Today, called it "a judicious record of March's life and a fine tribute to his literary achievement".