Henry IV, Part 2: Dramatis Personae

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Rumour, the Presenter

King Henry the Fourth

Henry, Prince of Wales, afterwards King Henry V

Thomas, Duke of Clarence, son of Henry the Fourth

Prince John of Lancaster, son of Henry the Fourth

Prince Humphrey of Gloucester, son of Henry the Fourth

Earl of Warwick

Earl of Westmoreland

Earl of Surrey

Gower

Harcourt

Blunt

Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench

A Servant of the Chief-Justice

Earl of Northumberland

Scroop, Archbishop of York

Lord Mowbray

Lord Hastings

Lord Bardolph

Sir John Colevile

Travers and Morton, retainers of Northumberland

Sir John Falstaff

His Page

Bardolph

Pistol

Poins

Peto

Shallow, Silence, country justices

Davy, Servant to Shallow

Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, and Bullcalf, recruits

Fang and Snare, sheriff's officers

Lady Northumberland

Lady Percy

Mistress Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap

Doll Tearsheet

Lords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, etc.

A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue

Scene: England

Next: 2 Henry IV, Act 1, Scene 1

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