personativeadj.

1789 T. Twining in tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry Diss. i. 22 Immediate and obvious resemblance, we shall find..only in Dramatic—or to use a more general term—Personative Poetry.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems Pref. p. viii The pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception.

1927 W. J. Lawrence Pre-Restoration Stage Stud. iii. 54 They possessed wondrous personative powers, a rich gift of mimicry, and an uncommon knack of disguise.

1947 J. I. M. Stewart Char. & Motive in Shakespeare iv. 59 Shakespeare..fails to make all wholly personative and is constrained himself to speak directly through the mouths of his characters.

1985 Notes & Queries Dec. 539/2 It also determines personative and ‘dramatic’ procedures in his poetry.