Question

Explain where the name for actors originated.

Answer 1

The first actor. One of the first known actors is believed to have been an ancient Greek called Thespis of Icaria. Writing two centuries after the event, Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE) suggests that Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus and addressed it as a separate character.


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Answer 2

Answer:

The word actor or actors originated from rom Latin, ‘doer, actor’, from agere ‘do, act’.