Ink and Steel

Lanyer, Alfonso: A court musician, and husband to Abilia Bassano. Sadly,also not appearing in this volume.

Lavinia: A victim of rape and dismbberment in Titus Andronicus

Lopez, Doctor Roderigo: A Promethean. Queen’s Physician and Ambassador from Antonio, pretender to the throne of Portugal. Of Jewish descent.

Lucifer Morningstar: An Angel, once, and most dearly loved of God. Gave Ned Alleyn rather a bad turn, on one occasion. A mare

Marley, Christofer: (Kit; Christopher Marlowe; Sir Christofer) A Promethean. The dead shepherd. A playmaker and intelligencer. Dead (to begin with).

Marley, John: Father to Christofer Marley, a Master Cobbler of Canterbury

Marley, Tom: Brother to Christofer Marley

Mathews, Mistress: landlord of the Groaning Sergeant

Mebd, the: A Queen of Faerie

Mehiel: An Angel of the lord Mephostophilis: A dbon of Hell

Merlin: A legendary bard

Monteagle, Baron: William Parker, a cousin of William Shakespeare

Morgan le Fey: The half sister to Arthur, King of England. The Queen of Air and Darkness. And, formerly, Cornwall and/or Gore.

Murchaud: Morgan’s son, a Prince of Faerie

Nashe, Tom: A vile playmaker

Northampton, Earl of: A friend to Sir Walter Raleigh

Nottingham, Earl of: The lord Admiral, a patron of players.

Orpheus: A legendary musician who sought to rescue his love from Hell

Oxford, Seventeenth Earl of: (Edward de Vere) A Promethean, alleging himself a poet

de Parma, Fray Xalbadore: A Promethean. An Inquisitor.

Plantagenet, Edward: (Edward II of England) A historic king, the title character of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

Peaseblossom: A Faerie

Poley, Mary: Sister to Thomas Watson, estranged wife to Robert Poley, mother of Robin Poley

Poley, Robin: Son of Mary Poley

Poley, Robert: A Promethean. A moneylender and intelligencer. Eventually, a Yeoman Warder of the Tower.

Raleigh, Sir Walter: A sea captain, sympathetic to the Prometheans A lame raven

Robin Goodfellow (aka Puck): A Faerie

Rosalind, also Ganymede: The heroine of As You like It

Sackerson: A bear.

Shakespeare, Anne: (Annie) Wife to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Edmund: Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Gilbert: Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Hamnet: Son to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Joan: (Joan Hart) Sister to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, John: Father to William Shakespeare. A glover of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare, Judith: Daughter to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Mary: Mother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Richard: Brother to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Susanna: Daughter to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William: A vile playmaker. Principal player of lord Strange’s Men, the lord Chamberlain’s Men, and the King’s Men. Eventual Shareholder at the Globe.

Sidney, Sir Philip: A respected poet. Husband to Frances Walsingham. Dead.

Skeres, Nicholas: An intelligencer

Sly, Will: A principal player with the lord Chamberlain’s Men A sorrel gelding

Southampton, Earl of: (Henry Wriothesly) Patron to William Shakespeare,Promethean

Spencer, Gabriel: A player

Spenser, Edmund: A respected poet

Strange, lord: (Ferdinando Stanley) A Promethean, and patron to players

Stuart, James: (James VI, James I): King of Scotland and eventually England

Stuart, Mary: (Mary, Queen of Scots) Mother to James VI of Scotland. Dead.

Stubbs, Philip: A Puritan, dismbbered for treasonous writings

Taliesin: A legendary bard Tam lin: A legendary noblban kidnapped by Faeries

Thomas the Rhymer: A legendary bard

Topcliffe: The Queen’s torturer

Tresham, Francis: A Catholic recusant A troll

Tudor, Elizabeth: (Elizabeth I, Bess, Gloriana) The Queen of England, or perhaps Pretender to its throne

Tudor, Henry: (Henry VIII of England, Great Harry) Dead

de Vere, Elizabeth: Daughter of the seventeenth Earl of Oxford

Wade, William: The Queen’s other torturer, clerk of the Privy Council

Walsingham, Etheldreda (Audrey): Wife to Thomas

Walsingham, Frances: (Frances Sidney, Frances Devereaux) Daughter to Sir Francis, widow of Sir Philip Sidney, wife of the Earl of Essex