Dramatis Personae
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King Henry the Sixth
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle
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Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King
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Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
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Edward and Richard, his sons
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Duke of Somerset
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Duke of Suffolk
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Duke of Buckingham
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Lord Clifford
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Young Clifford, his son
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Earl of Salisbury
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Earl of Warwick
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Lord Scales
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Lord Say
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Sir Humphrey Stafford, and William Stafford, his brother
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Sir John Stanley
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Vaux
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Matthew Goffe
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A Sea-captain, Master, and Master’s-Mate, and Walter Whitmore
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Two gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk
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John Hume and John Southwell, priests
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Bolingbroke, a conjurer
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Thomas Horner, an armourer. Peter, his man
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Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Alban’s
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Simpcox, an impostor
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Alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman
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Jack Cade, a rebel
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George Bevis, John Holland, Dick the butcher, Smith the weaver, Michael, etc., followers of Cade
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Two murderers
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Margaret, Queen to King Henry
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Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
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Margaret Jourdain, a witch
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Wife to Simpcox
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Lords, ladies, and attendants, petitioners, aldermen, a herald, a beadle, sheriff, and officers, citizens, ’prentices, falconers, guards, soldiers, messengers, etc.
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A spirit
Scene: England.