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Isola; or, The disinherited: A revolt for woman and all the disinherited

Chapter 5: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
By Lady Florence Dixie
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The drama dramatizes a ruler's revolt against entrenched legal, ecclesiastical, and social injustices, advocating reason, equality, and compassion for all living beings. It centers on a determined queen who interrogates thought, memory, and authority while exposing the harms of superstition and discriminatory laws, especially those limiting women. Through passionate speeches, moral debates, and dramatic confrontation, the play calls for rational reform, truth over imposture, and the extension of justice to rulers, subjects, and the animal world, blending philosophical reflection with political and ethical advocacy.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

Hector.
King of Saxa, Scota and Bernia (and the Saxscober people[1]) forming the kingdom of Saxscoberland in the planet Erth.
Isola.
Queen Consort.
Bernis.
Prince of Scota, their son.
Merani.
The so-called Mistress of the King, but claiming to be his wife, having married him by the civil law of Scota (long previous to his union with Isola) while refusing to go through the religious ceremony, which the law of Saxscoberland adjudges necessary to constitute a legal marriage.[2]
Vergli.
Their son, claiming to be Prince of Scota.
Maxim.
Vergli’s school and college friend.
Larar.
King Hector’s equerry.
Shafto.
Prince of Bernia. Brother of Isola.
Vulnar.
A noble of Bernia.
Sanctimonious.
Ardrigh of Saxscoberland.
Conception.
Chief of “Peerers.”
Judath.
A spy and informer.
Scrutus.
A leader of the “Evolutionary Party” under Vergli.
Verita.
A leader also of the same party.
Azalea.
One of Merani’s attendants.
Volio. Arflec.
Conspirators.
&c., &c., &c.

1. No suggestion whatever is intended in the selection of these names. (1877)

2. The situation is created to enable the Author to deal with the degrading position assigned to woman in the Religious Marriage Service, which position that service forces her to agree to accept and enjoins her to obey. (1877)