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protagonist


(proh-tag-uh-nist) The principal character in a literary work. Hamlet, for example, is the protagonist of the play by William Shakespeare that bears his name.	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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