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Dramatic Characters and Composite Dramatis Personae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
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The characters whose interaction constitutes the plot of a play are sets of meanings which build up images of the persons supposedly involved in the “story” the play represents. Just as the “story” can be inferred from the plot, through not always completely with assurance, so the person can be discerned through the character. But in both cases the playwright's artifact includes features that are extraneous to the represented events or persons and arises from the process of dramatic representation itself.
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