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Question
The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.
He is the centre of the play.
Solution
The character is the ballad- singer/prisoner/man.
He is the centre of the play
- Man: You needn‘t ask who I am; that placard will tell you.
Sergeant: You are the man I am looking for.
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