Among other things, Bertha, the novel's famously libidinous shadow character, has become perhaps literature's most famous symbol of closeted desire, the proverbial madwoman in the attic.
Creators Seth Bockley and Devon de Mayo brilliantly turned Steppenwolf Theatre's Garage Theater into the actual world of the "Twins" by presenting the show in a promenade form, giving the audience the opportunity to choose which plot line they wanted to follow and actually shadow those characters around the space.
In the literary worlds that Pullman invented for "His Dark Materials," the supernatural shadows characters and confronts them, jolting them into action and explaining who they are.
One of the boldest and most memorable effects in "Rheingold" — where dancers often shadowed the characters, sometimes literally — came in the depiction of the giants, Fafner and Fasolt: huge backlighted silhouettes looming behind the singers of those roles.
You can add the characters shadow, shade in parts to show darkness, or once again feeling.
In the new Porridge, Clement and La Frenais, having gone down the route of Fletcher: The Next But One Generation for their central character, also shadow the classic series in other ways.
Mr. Sebald, a poet and essayist as well as a novelist, wrote with powerful images and insights about the contemporary world, often about characters shadowed by World War II and the Holocaust.
Sam Rockwell spoke of wanting to play the straight man for once; Vera Farmiga discussed the research she'd done into postpartum depression; Benoît Debie, the film's cinematographer, talked about making light and shadow a character in the film.
In my new books, The Broken King and The King's Shadow, a character called Selena has three sisters – I know exactly what they look like, even though they don't appear in the main body of the text; and I know that one of them is slightly dumpy and really likes cheese.
Throughout, Klimt is shadowed by a character called the Secretary (Stephen Dillane), a puritanical censor and investigator into his murky finances, who declares late in the movie that too little beauty is preferable to too much.
