Dramatis Personae Henry VI, Part II

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  • King Henry the Sixth

  • Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle

  • Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King

  • Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York

  • Edward and Richard, his sons

  • Duke of Somerset

  • Duke of Suffolk

  • Duke of Buckingham

  • Lord Clifford

  • Young Clifford, his son

  • Earl of Salisbury

  • Earl of Warwick

  • Lord Scales

  • Lord Say

  • Sir Humphrey Stafford, and William Stafford, his brother

  • Sir John Stanley

  • Vaux

  • Matthew Goffe

  • A Sea-captain, Master, and Master’s-Mate, and Walter Whitmore

  • Two gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk

  • John Hume and John Southwell, priests

  • Bolingbroke, a conjurer

  • Thomas Horner, an armourer. Peter, his man

  • Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Alban’s

  • Simpcox, an impostor

  • Alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman

  • Jack Cade, a rebel

  • George Bevis, John Holland, Dick the butcher, Smith the weaver, Michael, etc., followers of Cade

  • Two murderers

  • Margaret, Queen to King Henry

  • Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

  • Margaret Jourdain, a witch

  • Wife to Simpcox

  • Lords, ladies, and attendants, petitioners, aldermen, a herald, a beadle, sheriff, and officers, citizens, ’prentices, falconers, guards, soldiers, messengers, etc.

  • A spirit

Scene: England.

 

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