Mr. Trombley never seems to realize what a rich stock of characters he has in the eccentric savants he moves across the screen.
Alack, it inspires: "DOC, WHERE'S MY KNISH?" -- Neil Doc Simonon makes a house call to resuscitate the flat-lined "Freud, Where's My 'Gar?" screenplay with his chicken soup stock of characters.
The basic stock of characters are simple graphs, some of which represent the names for objects or parts of objects, such as river, fish, man, and woman, and others of which stand for more abstract terms, such as yield, love, quarrel, prince, and the like.
As this aging attorney and political fixer of "Homeric girth" finds his old friends fading and his world in flux, the novel colorfully takes stock of his character.
Once again Stratford's rich stock of excellent character actors is instrumental here, with Cliff Saunders and Steve Ross bringing the headlong romantic farce to a dead halt as the henchmen turned hams in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," one of the musical theater's greatest 11 o'clock numbers.
The typical Hiaasen plot is decorated with a stock company of character types, neatly cut down from full size.
Old Comedy, as represented by the majority of plays by Aristophanes, contains a curious blending of elements allusions to men of the day, stories suggesting ideas other than the obvious literal sense, religious ceremony, parodies of the graver mysteries, personified abstractions, and stock types of character.
-- JANIS FRANKS, from "Lives During Wartime" TALK SHOW Bucky wore a long ponytail, a former girlfriend's name on a pectoral, back before tattoos were everywhere (when checking out the girls, he put a Band-Aid over it) and a pleasant manner; a sort of stock character of the early '70s, content to bum around, do some yard work for "bread" and invest it in a nickel bag he convivially shared.
There is no record of these farces after the 1st century ad, but certain of the stock characters of the 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte reflect the influence of the Atellan plays.
Clearly, acting was on the move - and Shakespeare was writing for this new sort of actor, who was growing away from formulaic presentation of stock characters, emotions and gestures.
The significance of the fabula Atellana is that it introduced a set of stock characters, such as Maccus and Bucco, which were thought to be the direct ancestors of many of the Italian commedia dell'arte characters.
