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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 ...
Third Player, in Hamlet, plays Lucianus in The Mousetrap. Fourth Player, in Hamlet, reads the prologue to The Mousetrap. A Player appears in the induction to The Taming of the Shrew. A number of characters are players, including, in a sense, the whole cast (except for those in the induction) of The Taming of the Shrew. Plebeians:
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
The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, composed by Veda Vyasa. The main story concerns Karna and his five brothers, i.e., Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva and their wife Draupadi; and the hundred Kaurava brothers were led by the elder brother Duryodhana. Krishna, Karna, Yudhisthira, Draupadi ...
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.
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 ...
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 ). [ 2][ 3][ 4] The character may ...
Seong Gi-hun, also known as Player 456, is the main protagonist of Squid Game. He is portrayed by South Korean actor, businessman and model, Lee Jung-jae. Gi-hun is a gambler down on his luck who gets recruited to play in the Squid Game, a series of deadly childhood games (including "Red Light, Green Light", "Marbles", "Tug of war" and the eponymous Squid game), for a high cash prize, which he ...