dramatis personae

It’s raining menAnd now, one after another, new dramatis personae, mostly ghosts, keep entering stage left, complicating what once seemed our simple soliloquy.
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But a story this big, this consequential, needs a dramatis personae of dramatic people.
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But today, their worth has almost nothing to do with their printed personae.
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The book is structured with short chapters, turning the eye of the narrator between these 20 dramatis personae.
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Glover seems to be combining his personae, and the response has been positive.
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But his personae kept evolving, infuriating listeners who wanted him to be the model from three years earlier.
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The dramatis person were known to the public, but the part assigned to each was kept profoundly secret.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
Julian Peveril, amongst others of the dramatis person, had arrived, and taken up his abode in a remote inn in the suburbs.
Peveril of the Peak|Sir Walter Scott
Of course this always put to flight the dramatis personæ of my study.
In Nesting Time|Olive Thorne Miller
The dramatis personæ were known to the public, but the part assigned to each was kept profoundly secret.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864|Various
They also, not altogether abandoning classical allusions, changed the name of their dramatis personae.
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British Dictionary definitions for dramatis personae

dramatis personae

/ (ˈdrɑːmətɪs pəˈsəʊnaɪ) /

pl n (often functioning as singular)

the characters or a list of characters in a play or story

the main personalities in any situation or event

Word Origin for dramatis personae

C18: from New Latin

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Cultural definitions for dramatis personae

dramatis personae

[ (dram-uh-tis puhr-soh-nee, drah-muh-tis puhr-soh-neye) ]

A Latin expression for “cast of characters.” It means literally “the persons of the drama” and is occasionally used at the beginning of scripts for plays as the title of the list of characters.

notes for dramatis personae

In general, the “dramatis personae” are the participants in an event: “Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were the dramatis personae at the Yalta Conference.”

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