In Greek Tragedy plays there were three actors, which were required. There was the protagonist (first actor) who was the leading character and main figure, the deuteragonist (second actor) who was the second most important figure and the tritagonist (third actor) who was third in importance after the protagonist and deuteragonist.
The protagonist was usually a hero who commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been. Then, as he slowly realizes his error, the world crumbles around him. The deuteragonist is the person whose role depends on the story. He could play one role as did the protagonist and function like a sidekick. The deuteragonist is a Robin to his Batman, a Watson to his Holmes or he could play several role by switching masks and wigs and prop. The tritagonist is a person who is the least important in the play, but he switches masks, wigs and costumes several times throughout the play.
The common characters in Greek tragedy Mask form in the Greek tragedy play were basically all three actors (Protagonist, Deuteragonist and Tritagonist) since in the play they all experienced numerous moments of tragedy, but the character that usually wore the Greek tragedy Mask the most in the play was the Protagonist. He wore the Greek Tragedy mask the most because as a character in the Greek tragedy play he is the hero who only tries to make good, but either gets tricked into committing a terrible crime or by mistakenly does something bad, which then hurts the rest of the characters in some way. In the starting of the play he usually has elegant clothes and is young, strong mentally, strong physically and naive, but during the end and middle of the play he wears less elegant clothes and he becomes foolish, arrogant, less confident, which causes him to start losing his heroines as he has committed to many crimes, which then causes him serious tragedies
So overall as I have explained in Greek tragedy plays all the actors at one point or the other wear the Greek tragedy mask, but it is usually the protagonist who usually wears the Greek tragedy mask as he is foolish, young, arrogant, and over confident which causes him in the play to make silly and painful mistakes, which in the end only cause him the most amount of tragedies.
The links below in order are videos which are part of the same Greek tragedy play. The videos involve a protagonist, deuteragonist and tritagonist. It also involves choruses.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-XEcvDjcDo&list=PL3F9588D2FBDF4788
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dALZh4IVyK4&list=PL3F9588D2FBDF4788
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fri__P6hYHQ&list=PL3F9588D2FBDF4788
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgwN8QuauI&list=PL3F9588D2FBDF4788
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