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