personages

• All the dramatic zest of converse is gone, the personages are the merest shadows, nothing is seen but the old poet haranguing his puppets or putting voluble expositions of his own cherished dogmas into their wooden lips. —  Robert Browning
• At first sight “Othello” reminds one of a picture by Titian or Veronese; it is a romantic conception; the personages are all in gala dress; the struggle between Iago and the Moor is melodramatic; the whole picture aglow with a superb richness of colour. —  The Man Shakespeare
• “It contains,” he urges, “scarce anything of that brutal or sordid villainy of which one has more than enough in the poet's earlier work.” Perhaps there is not so much of the “brutal or sordid,” but then in The Parish Register or The Borough , the reader is in a way prepared for that ingredient, because the personages are the lawless and neglected poor of a lonely seaport. —  Crabbe, (George)
• Where, as in Milton's two epics, and Samson Agonistes , the personages are all supernatural or heroic, there is no room for the employment of knowledge of the world. —  Milton
• I could write it as a play and do the second, third and fourth acts very quickly, as all the personages are alive to me. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 2

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