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Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [ 1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman ...
Pictured are stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte, which gave each character a standard costume. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides
John Bates (fict) is a soldier the English army in Henry V. [4] John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ( hist) is uncle to King Richard and father to Bolingbroke in Richard II. John Gower ( hist) is the "Presenter", or narrator, of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. John Rugby is a servant to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Character (arts) Four commedia dell'arte characters, whose costumes and demeanor indicate the stock character roles that they portray in this genre. In fiction, a character or personage, [1] is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game ).
Dramatis personae ( Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list. [not verified in body] Such lists are commonly employed in various forms of theatre, and also on screen. [not verified in body] Typically, off-stage characters are not considered part of the dramatis personae. [not verified in body ...
A protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής prōtagōnistḗs 'one who plays the first part, chief actor') [ 1][ 2][ 3] is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant ...
A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs). The actions of non-player characters are ...
Shatranj ke Khiladi. (Redirected from Shatranj ke khiladi) Shatranj Ke Khilari ( lit. 'The Chess Players') is a 1924 Hindi short-story written by Munshi Premchand. [ 1] Premchand also made the Urdu version titled "Shatranj ki bazi".