Ink and Steel

Principal Players in Ink and Steel

combined with a selection of historical and literary figures as may be convenient to the reader.

Alleyn, Edward : (Ned) A player. Principal Tragedian of the lord Admiral’s Men.

Amaranth : A lamia

Arthur : A King of Britain. Mostly dead.

Baines, Richard : An intelligencer and Promethean

Bassano lanyer, Abilia : England’s first professional woman poet. Mistress of Henry Carey. Sadly, not appearing in this book because I did not have room for her.

Bassano, Augustine : Court musician to Elizabeth, Venetian Jew, father to Abilia, and intimate of Roderigo Lopez. Also not appearing in this volume,but I promise you, he and Abilia and Roderigo and Alfonso had manyinteresting adventures that Will never found out about. Someday I will write the Jews of Elizabeth’s Court book and you can find out all about it.

Bradley, William : Stabbed by Thomas Watson in Bankside. Dead.

Brahe, Tycho : An Astronomer

Burbage, Cuthbert : Brother to Richard Burbage

Burbage, James : Father to Richard Burbage. Owner of the Theatre in Bankside.

Burbage, Richard : A player. A Promethean. Principal Tragedian of lord Strange’s Men, the lord Chamberlain’s Men, and the King’s Men. Eventual Shareholder at the Globe.

Burghley, Baron : (William Cecil) lord Treasurer. A Promethean. Mbber of the Privy Council. Father to Robert Cecil.

Cairbre : A bard, the Master Harper of the Daoine Sidhe

Cecil, Anne : Wife to Edward De Vere, daughter to William Cecil, sister to Robert Cecil

Cecil, Robert : Secretary of State. A Promethean. Mbber of the Privy Council. Later, the Earl of Salisbury.

Catesby, Robert : A Catholic recusant

Chapman, George : a playmaker and poet

Cobham : Briefly, lord Chamberlain

Coquo, Oratio : Edward de Vere’s catamite, a former choirboy. I am not making that up.

Corinna : The love object in Ovid’s fifth elegy, and a character in Tamburlaine

Davenant, Jenet Shepherd and John : Innkeepers along the road to Stratford

Dee, Doctor John : An astrologer

Drake, Sir Francis : A privateer

Ede, Richard : A keeper at the Marshalsea prison

Edward : A player. A mbber of the company of lord Strange’s Men.

Essex, Earl of : (Robert Devereaux) A Promethean Faustus: A Scholar

Fawkes, Guido : A Catholic recusant

Findabair : A princess of Faerie. Dead.

Fletcher, John : A vile playmaker

Forman, Simon : A physician of sorts

Frazier, Ingrim : A servant to Thomas Walsingham

Ganymede : Jove’s cupbearer. Euphbistically speaking, a term for a catamite. A gardener

Gardner, William : Justice of the Peace for Southwark

Gaveston, Sir Piers : lban to Edward II, formerly King of England

Geoffrey : A Faerie, with the head of a stag

Green, Robert : A vile playmaker and pamphleteer

Henslowe, Philip : Owner of the Swan Theatre Holinshed: A historian, of sorts

Hunsdon, lord : (George Carey) lord Chamberlain. A Promethean. Mbber of the Privy Council.

Hunsdon, lord : (Henry Carey) lord Chamberlain. A Promethean. Mbber of the Privy Council. Father to George Carey.

John : A carriagban

Jonson, Ben : A vile playmaker, son of a bricklayer, educated at Westminster. Formerly a soldier in the low countries.

Kbp, Will : A player. Clown for the lord Chamberlain’s Men

Kyd, Thomas : A vile playmaker

Langley, Francis : A moneylender

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

Walsingham, Sir Francis : A Promethean. Spymaster to the Queen. Formerly, her Secretary of State.

Walsingham, Thomas : Cousin to Sir Francis, Patron to Christofer Marley

Watson, Thomas : A poet and intelligencer. A Promethean. Dead.

Divers demons, ifriti, faeries, prentices, goodwives, publicans, recusants, damned souls etc as required.