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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 performer playing the title role is not always the lead and the title role may or may not be the protagonist. In the television miniseries ''Shogun'', for example, Toshirō Mifune had the title role, but the lead was played by Richard Chamberlain. In the James Bond film and novel ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', the title character is the primary antagonist. The title role and the lead can be different genders; for example, in the 2003 revival of August Wilson's ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'', Whoopi Goldberg had the title role, but the lead was Charles S. Dutton. ==Title character== The title character in narrative works is one who is named or referred to in the title, such as The Doctor in the TV series ''Doctor Who'', Harry Potter in the series of novels and films, ''Romeo and Juliet'' in the Shakespeare play〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet )〕 or Annie Oakley in the musical ''Annie Get Your Gun'' The ''title character'' need not be fictional, such as Erin Brockovich in the film of that name or Thomas More in the play ''A Man for All Seasons'' by Robert Bolt. The title character need not be named in the title, but may be referred to by some other word or phrase, such as Bilbo Baggins in ''The Hobbit''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, Analysis of major characters )〕 or Idi Amin in ''The Last King of Scotland''. A title character may only be indirectly ''described'' in the title, as in ''An Ideal Husband'' by Oscar Wilde, where the 'ideal husband' (the title role) is the apparently perfect Sir Robert Chiltern. The title character need not be the subject of the whole title in a strict grammatical sense: Uncle Tom is the title character of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Lee Marvin is often attributed with playing the title character in the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as his character (Liberty Valance) is named in the title, even though the subject of the title is the person who shot him. A title character may be the main antagonist, for example, Sauron in ''The Lord of the Rings'' or Bram Stoker's Dracula. In ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' the wizard is the title character but Dorothy Gale is the main character.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Education Portal )〕 In the video game ''The Legend of Zelda'', the title character, Princess Zelda, is the damsel in distress, but the protagonist is Link. The title character may be unseen, for example Godot in Waiting for Godot or Jason Bourne in the 2012 film The Bourne Legacy. Title character has been attributed to objects, for example the bus in the film and musical ''Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Title role」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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