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Definition of Deuteragonist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deuteragonist
Literary usage of Deuteragonist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"... that the protagonist should always enter from the middle door; that the dwelling
of the deuteragonist should be on the right hand, and that of the third ..."
2. The Rule of Three Actors in the Classical Greek Drama by Kelley Rees (1908)
"... The use of the terms "protagonist," "deuteragonist," and ... The
words "protagonist," "deuteragonist," and ..."
3. Chapters in the History of Actors and Acting in Ancient Greece: Together by John Bartholomew O'Connor (1908)
"The scholiast understands " deuteragonist " here in the metaphorical sense: ...
the only person ever referred to as a "deuteragonist," that nowhere in Greek ..."
4. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh, Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge (1907)
"There are not, however, any traditions as to particular characters having been
played by the deuteragonist. Attempts have been made in modern times to ..."
5. The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays from the Drama of Greece by Brander Matthews (1916)
"At the original performance in Athens the protagonist impersonated Œdipus only,
the deuteragonist probably assuming the parta of ..."
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