The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

Arau has made many appearances as a character actor in American and TV series and plays.

The contra-auguste plays the role of the mediator between the whiteface character and the auguste character.

Thompson plays a fictional character on the television series Law and Order.

Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

Unlike Sophocles, who established the setting and background of his plays in the introductory dialogue, Euripides used a monologue in which a divinity or human character directly and simply tells the audience all it needs to know in order to understand the subsequent action.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

She then plays a character named " Laliari " while wearing the name Jane Doe as an actress.

Grant plays a scientist reminiscent of his character in Bringing up Baby, who creates a formula that increases his vitality.

* Hex ( Doctor Who ), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who

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.

He took the pseudonym " Brand " from a fictional character in one of Henrik Ibsen ´ s plays.

The film used fight clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing movie Winner Take All, although Cagney plays a different character in the TV-movie.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

Works in which the character of Mark Antony plays a central role include:

The character strongly resembles Groucho Marx and his fast-paced nonsensical patter plays well off Shang-Chi's laconic seriousness.

She plays Sofia, the love interest of Eduardo Noriega's lead character.

Any character in his plays could be compared to a god.

The “ clever slave ” in particular is a very strong character ; he not only provides exposition and humor, but also often drives the plot in Plautus ’ plays.

The words denoting direction or action such as abeo (“ I go off ”), transeo (“ I go over ”), fores crepuerunt (“ the doors creak ”), or intus (“ inside ”), which signal any character ’ s departure or entrance, are standard in the dialogue of Plautus ’ plays.

In both of these forms, an arranger called a game master ( GM ) usually decides on the rules and setting to be used and acts as referee, while each of the other players plays the role of a single character.

Also notable are the 1995 film version starring Sir Ian McKellen, set in a fictional 1930s fascist England, and Looking for Richard, a 1996 documentary film directed by Al Pacino, who plays the title character as well as himself.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

In the 1979 spinoff of Upstairs, Downstairs entitled Thomas & Sarah, Watkins and Sarah Moffat, another major character, marry and return briefly to Abergavenny.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

He also serves as a major character in Starling Lawrence's The Lightning Keeper.

In 1983, Shirley Armitage became the first major black character in her role as machinist at Baldwin's Casuals.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

* Tragedy: a drama in which a character's downfall is caused by a flaw in their character or by a major error in judgment.

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

In this work, Eris is a major character.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

* Frederick Douglass is a major character in the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.

Japheth is a major character in the Madeleine L ' Engle novel Many Waters ( 1986, ISBN 0 374 34796 4 ).

The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns.

The epic is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa, who is also a major character in the epic.

Merlin is a major character in T. H. White's collection The Once and Future King and the related The Book of Merlyn.

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