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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 ...
Outside the theatre medium, some novels also have a dramatis personae at the beginning or end. This is most common in books with very large casts of characters, as well as children's books and speculative fiction. [citation needed] For example, the opening pages of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air contain a dramatis personae.
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Parascenium: in a Greek theatre, the wall on either side of the stage, reaching from the back wall to the orchestra. Parquet: ground floor of a theatre, often main seating section, directly in front of the stage. Part: a character; the portion of the script intended for one character. Parterre: the upper part of the main seating. Usually behind ...
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See also Master Page, whose first name is George. Gerald is a pedantic schoolmaster, who leads the Maying entertainments in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Queen Gertrude is the protagonist's mother in Hamlet. She has married Claudius. Ghost. The following characters appear as Ghosts. See the entries under their character name: Banquo; Julius Caesar ...