"dramatis personae" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1945, Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason:",
          "text": "(The Devil enters like a sapphire wasp\nThat flickers mica wings. He lifts a hand\nTo brush away a disrespectful smile.\nJob’s wife sits up.)\nJob’s Wife ➢ Well, if we aren’t all here.\nIncluding me, the only Dramatis\n Personae needed to enact the problem.",
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          "ref": "2015 February 18, Yanis Varoufakis, “Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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