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Mehiel : An Angel of the lord Mephostophilis: A dbon of Hell

Merlin : A legendary bard

Monteagle, Baron : William Parker, a cousin of William Shakespeare

Morgan le Fey : The half sister to Arthur, King of England. The Queen of Air and Darkness. And, formerly, Cornwall and/or Gore.

Murchaud : Morgan’s son, a Prince of Faerie

Nashe, Tom : A vile playmaker

Northampton, Earl of : A friend to Sir Walter Raleigh

Nottingham, Earl of : The lord Admiral, a patron of players.

Orpheus : A legendary musician who sought to rescue his love from Hell

Oxford, Seventeenth Earl of : (Edward de Vere) A Promethean, alleging himself a poet

de Parma, Fray Xalbadore : A Promethean. An Inquisitor.

Plantagenet, Edward : (Edward II of England) A historic king, the title character of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

Peaseblossom : A Faerie

Poley, Mary : Sister to Thomas Watson, estranged wife to Robert Poley, mother of Robin Poley

Poley, Robin : Son of Mary Poley

Poley, Robert : A Promethean. A moneylender and intelligencer. Eventually, a Yeoman Warder of the Tower.

Raleigh, Sir Walter : A sea captain, sympathetic to the Prometheans A lame raven

Robin Goodfellow (aka Puck) : A Faerie

Rosalind, also Ganymede : The heroine of As You like It

Sackerson : A bear.

Shakespeare, Anne : (Annie) Wife to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Edmund : Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Gilbert : Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Hamnet : Son to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Joan : (Joan Hart) Sister to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, John : Father to William Shakespeare. A glover of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare, Judith : Daughter to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Mary : Mother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Richard : Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Susanna : Daughter to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William : A vile playmaker. Principal player of lord Strange’s Men, the lord Chamberlain’s Men, and the King’s Men. Eventual Shareholder at the Globe.

Sidney, Sir Philip : A respected poet. Husband to Frances Walsingham. Dead.

Skeres, Nicholas : An intelligencer

Sly, Will : A principal player with the lord Chamberlain’s Men A sorrel gelding

Southampton, Earl of : (Henry Wriothesly) Patron to William Shakespeare,Promethean

Spencer, Gabriel : A player

Spenser, Edmund : A respected poet

Strange, lord : (Ferdinando Stanley) A Promethean, and patron to players

Stuart, James : (James VI, James I): King of Scotland and eventually England

Stuart, Mary : (Mary, Queen of Scots) Mother to James VI of Scotland. Dead.

Stubbs, Philip : A Puritan, dismbbered for treasonous writings

Taliesin : A legendary bard Tam lin: A legendary noblban kidnapped by Faeries

Thomas the Rhymer : A legendary bard

Topcliffe : The Queen’s torturer

Tresham, Francis : A Catholic recusant A troll

Tudor, Elizabeth : (Elizabeth I, Bess, Gloriana) The Queen of England, or perhaps Pretender to its throne

Tudor, Henry : (Henry VIII of England, Great Harry) Dead

de Vere, Elizabeth : Daughter of the seventeenth Earl of Oxford

Wade, William : The Queen’s other torturer, clerk of the Privy Council

Walsingham, Etheldreda (Audrey) : Wife to Thomas

Walsingham, Frances : (Frances Sidney, Frances Devereaux) Daughter to Sir Francis, widow of Sir Philip Sidney, wife of the Earl of Essex

Walsingham, Sir Francis : A Promethean. Spymaster to the Queen. Formerly, her Secretary of State.

Walsingham, Thomas : Cousin to Sir Francis, Patron to Christofer Marley

Watson, Thomas : A poet and intelligencer. A Promethean. Dead.

Divers demons, ifriti, faeries, prentices, goodwives, publicans, recusants, damned souls etc as required.

And since we all have suck’d one wholesome air,

And with the same proportion of Elements

Resolve, I hope we are resembled,

Vowing our loves to equal death and life.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act II, scene vi

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