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Definition of Counterplayers
1. counterplayer [n] - See also: counterplayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterplayers
Literary usage of Counterplayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1898)
"The backward tracks of Marlborough, and other noble lords of the Privy Council,
with the counterplayers Sir John Fen- wick, the importunate traitor, ..."
2. A Study of Prose Fiction by Bliss Perry (1902)
"scene, or by making the hero struggle superbly against the " counterplayers."
If the play be a comedy, he interposes new obstacles in the path of the lovers ..."
3. The Eternal Values by Hugo Münsterberg (1909)
"In the drama the counterplayers are internally coordinated to the hero, they are
self-willing, while the epos makes their selfhood fainter. ..."
4. Freytag's Technique of the Drama: An Exposition of Dramatic Composition and Art by Gustav Freytag (1894)
"... changes of 214 Greek 147 historical 337 Counterplay--45, 104, 122, 128, 130,
185, 186 in introduction 120, 220 counterplayers—125, 162, 180, 200, 235, ..."
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