Lanyer, Alfonso: A court musician, and husband to Abilia Bassano. Sadly,also not appearing in this volume.
Lavinia: A victim of rape and dismbberment in Titus Andronicus
Lopez, Doctor Roderigo: A Promethean. Queen’s Physician and Ambassador from Antonio, pretender to the throne of Portugal. Of Jewish descent.
Lucifer Morningstar: An Angel, once, and most dearly loved of God. Gave Ned Alleyn rather a bad turn, on one occasion. A mare
Marley, Christofer: (Kit; Christopher Marlowe; Sir Christofer) A Promethean. The dead shepherd. A playmaker and intelligencer. Dead (to begin with).
Marley, John: Father to Christofer Marley, a Master Cobbler of Canterbury
Marley, Tom: Brother to Christofer Marley
Mathews, Mistress: landlord of the Groaning Sergeant
Mebd, the: A Queen of Faerie
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
