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In playwriting, a ghost character is a character who is mentioned as appearing on stage but neither says nor does anything but enter, and possibly exit. They are generally interpreted as editing mistakes, indicative of unresolved revisions to the text. If the character was intended to appear but say nothing, it is assumed this function would be clearly identified in the play. The term is most... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Ghost character

    This page is about non-speaking characters. ... In playwriting, a ghost character is a character who is mentioned as appearing on stage but neither says nor does anything but enter, and possibly exit.
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    Ghost (video games)

    When the ghost character is finally overtaken, Sandifer claims that it gives "the feeling of breaking through the constraints of a particular and flawed performance of the implied player into a sense, albeit a false one, of perfect harmony with the game.
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    List of Shakespearean characters: A-K

    For "Ghost characters" in the other sense - characters mentioned in stage directions but having no lines and playing no part in the action - see Ghost character.
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    Characters in Romeo and Juliet

    He is notable only in that he is the only ghost character confirmed by Shakespeare to be present.
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    Space Ghost Coast to Coast

    More often the writer/producer appears in normal dress, but may still impersonate Space Ghost's character traits and mannerisms.
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    The Spanish Tragedy

    The play is ostensibly Senecan with its bloody tragedy, rhetoric of the "horrible", the character of the Ghost and typical revenge themes.The characters of the Ghost of Andrea and Revenge form a chorus similar to that of Tantalus and Fury in Thyestes. ... The play also subverts typically Senecan qualities such as the use of a ghost character, but in Kyd the Ghost is part of the chorus, unlike in Thyestes where the Ghost leaves after the prologue.
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    Neang Neath

    In Nang Nak, Nak is the name of the ghost's character but in the remake, Neath is the name of character.
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    Nexus (comics)

    Steve Rude has cited a number of influences on his clean, distinctive style, including the Space Ghost character designs and other work by Alex Toth, and commercial illustrators of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly Andrew Loomis.
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    Much Ado About Nothing

    Innogen, a ghost character included in early editions as Leonato's wife
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    Imogen (Shakespeare)

    The name Innogen is mentioned as a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing.

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