* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

For example, in Shakespeare's day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his Poetics: that a drama should focus on action, not character.

In Shakespeare's play Macbeth a comic relief character delivers a 20 line monologue and satire that makes reference to events of that time.

He is the historical equivalent of the character of the same name in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

Sycorax is a character mentioned though not seen in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Theseus is a prominent character as the Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

In his preface, Wilde writes about Caliban, a character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Anticipating a lifetime of regret, Shakespeare's character Biron says: " Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.

* Ferdinand ( The Tempest ), a character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Margaret is a major character in William Shakespeare's three-part play Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

He is also remembered as the character in William Shakespeare's play Richard III who was drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine.

* Prospero ( Books and arts ) — named after the character from William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, this column reviews books and focuses on arts-related issues.

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck.

Unlike Shakespeare's Lear, but like Hidetora and Sandeman, the central character of Uli Edel's 2002 American TV adaptation King of Texas, John Lear played by Patrick Stewart, has a back-story centred on his violent rise to power.

* Count Paris, character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

There is no counterpart to Hortensio in the original story, although an important character named Pasiphilo has no counterpart in Shakespeare's adaptation.

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

He sent for the children and, in the investigation that followed, it was discovered that one of the boys ( none other than Athanasius ) had acted the part of the bishop and in that character had actually baptized several of his companions in the course of their play.

* A character in the play Tom and Clem, by Stephen Churchett.

Yale, together with Rutgers, Princeton and Columbia met on October 20, 1873 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to agree a set of rules and regulations that would allow them play a form of football that was essentially Association football ( today often called " soccer " in the US ) in character.

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

A player can choose to play as one of eight different default character models ( four for each side, although Counter-Strike: Condition Zero added two extra models, bringing the total to ten ).

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

D & D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation.

During the course of play, each player directs the actions of his or her character and its interactions with the other characters in the game.

The only items required to play the game are the rulebooks, a character sheet for each player and a number of polyhedral dice.

As play progressed, Arneson added such innovations as character classes, experience points, level advancement, armor class, and others.

In the play Oedipus Rex by Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the title character discovers the truth about his origins after questioning various witnesses.

In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Levy will play Mia, who will replace Ash as the main character of the film.

Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).