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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 766: Dramatis Personæ
By William Shakespeare
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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

Contents

ACT I
Scene I. London. A Room in the palace
Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke of Lancaster’s palace
Scene III. Open Space, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne. Heralds, &c., attending
Scene IV. London. A Room in the King’s Castle

ACT II
Scene I. London. An Apartment in Ely House
Scene II. The Same. A Room in the Castle
Scene III. The Wolds in Gloucestershire
Scene IV. A camp in Wales

ACT III
Scene I. Bristol. Bolingbroke’s camp
Scene II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view
Scene III. Wales. Before Flint Castle
Scene IV. Langley. The Duke of York’s garden

ACT IV
Scene I. Westminster Hall

ACT V
Scene I. London. A street leading to the Tower
Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke of York’s palace
Scene III. Windsor. A room in the Castle
Scene IV. Another room in the Castle
Scene V. Pomfret. The dungeon of the Castle
Scene VI. Windsor. An Apartment in the Castle

Dramatis Personæ

KING RICHARD THE SECOND
JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster - uncle to the King
EDMUND LANGLEY, Duke of York - uncle to the King
HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IV
DUKE OF AUMERLE, son of the Duke of York
THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk
DUKE OF SURREY
EARL OF SALISBURY
LORD BERKELEY
BUSHY - Servant to King Richard
BAGOT - Servant to King Richard
GREEN - Servant to King Richard
EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
HARRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son
LORD ROSS
LORD WILLOUGHBY
LORD FITZWATER
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER
LORD MARSHAL
SIR PIERCE OF EXTON
SIR STEPHEN SCROOP
Captain of a band of Welshmen

QUEEN TO KING RICHARD
DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
DUCHESS OF YORK
Lady attending on the Queen

Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Attendants

SCENE: Dispersedly in England and Wales.