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For this shaping one must draw on imaginative insight into the motivation of the dramatis personae.
His edition also regularized the entrances and exits of characters and attached a dramatis personae to each play for the first time.
It was inevitable that focus would be made on the dramatis personae of that scene.
In fables' classic form the dramatis personae are animals who represent the characteristics of humans.
To keep track of them all, Crewdson offers an all too necessary list of dramatis personae at the end of the book.
When he further explained the names painted the characters and habits of the dramatis personae, I and the rest of the form were hooked.
The film lays out the characters, gives you the dramatis personae, which we should have probably included in the book.
It is hard to assess performances when the dramatis personae are so unpersonable, unbelievable, and, above all, unmemorable.
Putting together preliminary notes for his dramatis personae, Trollope jotted down the following thumbnail sketches.
Soderbergh cuts artfully back and forth between three interrelated story lines, with very different settings and very different dramatis personae.
Included in the dramatis personae is the character of The Old Man.
But a story this big, this consequential, needs a dramatis personae of dramatic people.
The book is structured with short chapters, turning the eye of the narrator between these 20 dramatis personae.
Lord Exbury's foppish elder son, his self-absorbed daughter, a local toad-eater, and a peasant couple are examples of the breadth of the play's dramatis personae.
Then Prospero puts Miranda, a figure of the spectator, to sleep while he calls upon his instrument, Ariel, described in the dramatis personae simply as an airy spirit.
Outside of his main characters, most of King's dramatis personae tend to be little more than cliches and stereotypes who exist only to move the story forward.
And interwoven between all these are Colley's captives, a dramatis personae whose names and narratives gradually imprint themselves upon the reader as in a good novel.
But the new system was set up perfectly to accommodate and rehabilitate majority of the dramatis personae in the very regime they just defeated, blurring over all these with the Nuremberg Trials.
The latter fact also means that the extra riches in symbolism, that crossroads of associations, furnishes him with a greater number of 'words' to tell the story of which the models in his paintings are the dramatis personae.
I've already posted a potted summary of Australian Political parties, so go read that to learn about the Dramatis Personae.
Examples from Classical Literature
The dramatis personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd folio.
There were no playbills to hand round, with lists of the dramatis personae.
Meantime I can show you one of our dramatis personae, and an important one too.
In the Comedy, the number of dramatis personae is exceedingly large.
Stanzas 21, 22 and 23 were added in the dramatis personae version.
Not all his dramatis personae will always recognise, or welcome, his descriptions.
Accordingly our dramatis personae had to be radically recast at Mosul.
A word should be added about the dramatis personae for the play.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Browning's works, the culmination of his dramatic method, and the turning-point more decisively than Dramatis Personae of his style.
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