Ingenue

Reading notes

• Good People §10 ingenue

  A stock theatrical casting type for the innocent young leading lady; Vladimir Semyonych's comparison of his sister's ordeal to an ingenue who has already "played out all five acts of her life" is characteristic of his habit of reaching for theatrical and literary frames even for his sister's real suffering.

• The Tragedian §25 ingenue

  The stock theatrical role of the innocent young female lead, given to Masha once the troupe's regular ingenue, Madame Beobakhtova, elopes.