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Henry VIII

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ



KING HENRY the Eighth         (KING HENRY VIII) 

CARDINAL WOLSEY:

CARDINAL CAMPEIUS:

CAPUCIUS                      Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V

CRANMER                       Archbishop of Canterbury.

DUKE OF NORFOLK               (NORFOLK) 

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM            (BUCKINGHAM) 

DUKE OF SUFFOLK               (SUFFOLK) 

EARL OF SURREY                (SURREY) 

Lord Chamberlain              (Chamberlain) 

Lord Chancellor               (Chancellor) 

GARDINER                      Bishop of Winchester.

Bishop of Lincoln             (LINCOLN) 

LORD ABERGAVENNY              (ABERGAVENNY) 

LORD SANDS                    (SANDS) 

SIR HENRY GUILDFORD           (GUILDFORD) 

SIR THOMAS LOVELL             (LOVELL) 

SIR ANTHONY DENNY             (DENNY) 

SIR NICHOLAS VAUX             (VAUX) 

Secretaries to Wolsey.
                              (First Secretary) 
                              (Second Secretary) 

CROMWELL                      Servant to Wolsey.

GRIFFITH                      Gentleman-usher to Queen Katharine.

Three Gentlemen.
                              (First Gentleman) 
                              (Second Gentleman) 
                              (Third Gentleman) 

DOCTOR BUTTS                  Physician to the King.

Garter King-at-Arms.          (Garter) 

Surveyor to 
the Duke of Buckingham.       (Surveyor) 

BRANDON

A Sergeant-at-Arms.           (Sergeant) 

Door-keeper 
of the Council-chamber. 

Porter                        (Porter) 
and his Man.                  (Man) 

Page to Gardiner.             (Boy) 
A Crier.                      (Crier) 

QUEEN KATHARINE               (QUEEN KATHARINE)   
Wife to King Henry, 
afterwards divorced.          (KATHARINE) 

ANNE BULLEN                   (ANNE)  
her Maid of Honour, 
afterwards Queen.             (QUEEN ANNE) 

An old Lady, 
friend to Anne Bullen.        (Old Lady) 

PATIENCE                      woman to Queen Katharine.

Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women
attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards,
and other Attendants.
Spirits.

                              (Scribe) 
                              (Keeper) 
                              (Servant) 
                              (Messenger) 

SCENE	London; Westminster; Kimbolton


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