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The title role in the Performing Arts is the performance Part that gives the Title to the piece, as in '' Aida '', '' Giselle '', '' Michael Collins '' or '' Othello ''. The Actor , Singer or Dancer who performs that part is also said to have the ''title role''. The actor playing the title role is not always the Lead ; the title role may or may not be the Protagonist . In the Television Miniseries '' Shogun '', for example, Toshiro Mifune had the title role, but the lead was played by Richard Chamberlain . It can be even more complicated when the title role and the lead are in different genders; for example, in the recent revival of August Wilson 's '' Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '', Whoopi Goldberg , an undisputed Film Star , had the title role, but the lead was Charles S. Dutton . TITLE CHARACTER The title character in Fiction is the Character whose name is contained in the title, as in '' Marjorie Morningstar '', by Herman Wouk , and '' The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn '' by Mark Twain . Title characters are distinguished from real people, living or dead, since a Character is a construct of Fiction . For example, US President John F. Kennedy is ''not'' the title character of a Biography entitled ''John F. Kennedy'', since he was a real person. A title character may not actually be named in the title. Instead, he or she is ''described'', as in '' The French Lieutenant's Woman ''. Another example is '' An Ideal Husband '' by Oscar Wilde , where the 'ideal husband' (the title role) may be the apparently-perfect Sir Robert Chiltern, or it may be the enigmatic Lord Goring, supposedly a confirmed bachelor. Wilde's deliberately ambiguous title creates Dramatic Irony in this case, since it is difficult to say which of the acting co-leads has the title role. SEE ALSO |
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