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dramatis personae

(Latin) the characters in a play.



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Browning's works, the culmination of his dramatic method, and the turning-point more decisively than Dramatis Personae of his style.
Jo accepted it with a smile, for she had never outgrown her liking for lads, and soon found herself involved in the usual labyrinth of love, mystery, and murder, for the story belonged to that class of light literature in which the passions have a holiday, and when the author's invention fails, a grand catastrophe clears the stage of one half the dramatis personae, leaving the other half to exult over their downfall.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
 
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