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Dramatis Personae

The Highwaymen

Captain William Coke

Dickon, his adopted boy

Swift Jack

Maclean

O’Toole

The Thief-taker and Family

Pitman

Bettina, his wife

Josiah, their son

Grace, Faith, Imogen, their daughters

Residents of St. Giles in the Fields

Abel Strong, butcher

Little Dot

Mrs. Queek

Clancy, parish friend of John Chalker

Gentle George, pimp

“Lizzie”, whore

The Players

Sarah Chalker

John Chalker, her husband

Lucy Absolute

Thomas Betterton

The Court and the Nobles

King Charles II

James, Duke of York

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Sir Charles Sedley

Roland, Lord Garnthorpe

Frances Stuart

Barbara Castlemaine

Winifred Wells

The Fifth Monarchy Men

Simeon Critchollow—Brother S.

Hezekiah Chambers

Others

Colonel Wingate, magistrate, Finchley

Sir Griffith Rich, member of Parliament

Lady Rich

Aitcheson, attendant at the playhouse

Isaac ben Judah, goldsmith

Maggs, servant to Lord Garnthorpe

Mrs. Philips

The Coachman

Mrs. Chambers

The Doctor

Mistress Proctor, the searcher

Macready

Tombes, the ironmonger

James Morrow, headborough of the parish

Turvey, royal cook

Various Saints, jailers, guards, link boys, servants, searchers, boatmen, playwrights.