dramatis personae
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Etymology
From Latin dramatis personae (literally “characters of the play”).
Noun
dramatis personae pl (normally plural, singular dramatis persona)
- The characters in a play or story; a list of them, usually arranged in order of first appearance, as protatic matter.
- 1945, Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason:
- (The Devil enters like a sapphire wasp
That flickers mica wings. He lifts a hand
To brush away a disrespectful smile.
Job’s wife sits up.)
Job’s Wife ➢ Well, if we aren’t all here.
Including me, the only Dramatis
Personae needed to enact the problem.
- 2015 February 18, Yanis Varoufakis, “Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Marx created a narrative populated by workers, capitalists, officials and scientists who were history’s dramatis personae.
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list of characters
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