Dramatis Personae

Part I: In the Beginning

  • Adam

  • Eve

  • The Serpent

  • Cain

Part II: The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas

  • Conrad Barnabas

  • Franklyn Barnabas

  • William “Bill” Haslam

  • Cynthia “Savvy” Barnabas

  • Joyce Burge

  • Henry Hopkins Lubin

Part III: The Thing Happens

  • Burge-Lubin, the President

  • Barnabas, the Accountant General

  • Confucius, the Chief Secretary

  • The Minister of Health

  • The Archbishop

  • Mrs. Lutestring, the Domestic Minister

Part IV: Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman

  • Joseph Popham Bolge Bluebin Barlow, O.M.

  • A Long-lived Woman

  • Zozim

  • Zoo

  • Cain Adamson Charles Napoleon, the Emperor of Turania

  • The Oracle

  • Molly, the British Prime Minister’s wife

  • Ethel, the British Prime Minister’s daughter

  • Ambrose, the British Prime Minister

Part V: As Far as Thought Can Reach

  • Strephon

  • An Ancient Man

  • Chloe

  • Acis

  • An Ancient Woman

  • Amaryllis

  • Ecrasia

  • Arjillax

  • Martellus

  • Pygmalion

  • Ozymandias, a Male Automaton

  • Cleopatra, a Female Automaton

  • Adam

  • Eve

  • The Serpent

  • Cain

  • Several Youths and Maidens