Ingenue (stock character)

The Ingenue is a stock character in literature and film and a role type in the theatre.

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Stock character - Literature - Film - Role - Theatre

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Typically, the ingenue is young, beautiful, virginal and often naïve, in mental or emotional danger rather than physical danger, usually a target of The Cad; she may have mistaken him for The Hero.

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In opera and musical theatre, the ingenue is usually sung by a light soprano.

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Opera - Musical theatre - Light - Soprano

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Ingenue and ingenuous may also refer to a new actor or actress or one typecast in such roles.

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Actor - Typecast

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