dramatis personae
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin dramatis personae (literally “characters of the play”).
Noun[edit]
dramatis personae pl (normally plural, singular dramatis persona)
- A list of characters in a play or story, usually arranged in order of first appearance.
- 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[1], →ISSN:
- Marx created a narrative populated by workers, capitalists, officials and scientists who were history’s dramatis personae.
Translations[edit]
list of characters
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