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Definition of Actors
1. actor [n] - See also: actor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actors
Literary usage of Actors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"The selection of the necessary number of actors for each dramatic ... During the
early part of the fifth century the poets chose their own actors. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"An every-day incident or event, with every-day actors, acting as they ... A purely
imaginary incident or event, with actors not acting in their usual way, ..."
3. The Twentieth Century Theatre: Observations on the Contemporary English and by William Lyon Phelps (1918)
"Great actors return to him again and again, unable to resist his fascination.
But great actors are scarce. I remember sometime in the nineteenth century ..."
4. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN actors. Question. It is reported that you have been
retained as counsel for the actors' Order of Friendship—the Edwin Forrest Lodge ..."
5. The Greek Theater and Its Drama by Roy Caston Flickinger (1918)
"actors were first developed in tragedy (see pp. 16 and 48, n. 1, above). ...
The apparent height of the tragic actors is said to have been increased by ..."
6. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"actors, too, of extraordinary merit, had from time to time appeared, like Damian
de Castro, for whom Zamora and Canizares wrote parts ; Maria 1'Advenant, ..."
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