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 Dramatic Unities (The thrée).Drap. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dram’atis Perso’næ.
 
The characters of a drama, novel, or actual transaction.   1
        “The dramatis persomœ were nobles, country gentlemen, justices of the quorum, and custo’des rotulo’rum [keepers of the rolls].”—The Times.
 


 Dramatic Unities (The thrée).Drap. 

 
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