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What an actor might want to know about the character he is playing
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backstory
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1990, from background story .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The previous life and experiences of a character in a dramatic work.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A backstory , background story , back-story , or background is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot. It is a literary device of a narrative history all chronologically earlier than the narrative of primary ...
Usage examples of backstory.
His costume and hairstyle has changed, and pieces of his backstory have been altered over the years as well.
I simply had a backstory which existed to flesh me out as a mildly interesting subsidiary character.
But to counter some of the criticism, we have encouraged more Chewie backstories in comics and other publishing since his death.
In hundreds of comicbook adventures over the nextthree decades, Barks added intriguing new characters and dense backstory to theformerly one-note Disney property, creating a rich Benday-dot cosmos.