Henry VI, Part II

Dramatis Personae

• King Henry the Sixth

• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle

• Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King

• Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York

• Edward and Richard, his sons

• Duke of Somerset

• Duke of Suffolk

• Duke of Buckingham

• Lord Clifford

• Young Clifford, his son

• Earl of Salisbury

• Earl of Warwick

• Lord Scales

• Lord Say

• Sir Humphrey Stafford, and William Stafford, his brother

• Sir John Stanley

• Vaux

• Matthew Goffe

• A Sea-captain, Master, and Master’s-Mate, and Walter Whitmore

• Two gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk

• John Hume and John Southwell, priests

• Bolingbroke, a conjurer

• Thomas Horner, an armourer. Peter, his man

• Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Alban’s

• Simpcox, an impostor

• Alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman

• Jack Cade, a rebel

• George Bevis, John Holland, Dick the butcher, Smith the weaver, Michael, etc., followers of Cade

• Two murderers

• Margaret, Queen to King Henry

• Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

• Margaret Jourdain, a witch

• Wife to Simpcox

• Lords, ladies, and attendants, petitioners, aldermen, a herald, a beadle, sheriff, and officers, citizens, ’prentices, falconers, guards, soldiers, messengers, etc.

• A spirit

Scene: England.