A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15

Chapter 54: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

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An edited anthology gathers seventeenth-century and earlier English plays, presented chronologically with introductions, dramatis personae, stage directions, and explanatory notes by various commentators with added annotations. The selection includes comedies of intrigue and Restoration-era dramas that explore mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, honour, and social satire; several pieces derive from or adapt Spanish originals and feature complex plots, servants' subplots, and courtroom or domestic scenes. Scholarly apparatus includes a prefatory history of the theatre, glossarial and errata indices, and editorial commentary that contextualizes authorship, editions, and performance history for readers seeking both dramatic texts and critical notes.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

The Duke.
Ortellus,	next of kin to the Duke; of an ambitious and treacherous nature.
Arbatus,	supposed brother to Artabella.
Philidor,	a mad kinsman of the Duke's, in love with Mirida.
Zoranzo,	the Duke's prisoner of war, in love with Amarissa.
Pinguister,	two ridiculous lovers of Mirida.
Lean-man,	two ridiculous lovers of Mirida.
Doctor to Pinguister.
Tailor to Lean-man.
Jailor.
Servant to Philidor.
Boy.
Clown.
Guard and attendances.

Amphelia,	in love with the Duke.
Artabella,	the Duke's sister, but taken for the sister of Arbatus.
Mirida,	Philador's mad mistress.
Amarissa,	in love with Zoranzo.
Six Ladies.
Three Nurses with children.

Scene, Italy.

ALL MISTAKEN.