Becket

Dramatis personæ

Alfred Tennyson


HENRY II. (son of the Earl of Anjou).
THOMAS BECKET, Chancellor of England, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
GILBERT FOLIOT, Bishop of London.
ROGER, Archbishop of York.
            Bishop of Hereford.
HILARY, Bishop of Chichester.
JOCELYN, Bishop of Salisbury.
JOHN OF SALISBURY friend of Becket.
HERBERT OF BOSHAM friend of Becket.
WALTER MAP, reputed author of ‘Golias,’ Latin poems against the priesthood.
KING LOUIS OF FRANCE.
GEOFFREY, son of Rosamund and Henry.
GRIM, a monk of Cambridge.
SIR REGINALD FITZURSE    }
SIR RICHARD DE BRITO     } the four knights of the King’s household, enemies of Becket.
SIR WILLIAM DE TRACY     }
SIR HUGH DE MORVILLE    }
DE BROC OF SALTWOOD CASTLE.
LORD LEICESTER.
PHILIP DE ELEEMOSYNA.
TWO KNIGHT TEMPLARS.
JOHN OF OXFORD (called the Swearer).
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, Queen of England (divorced from Louis of France).
ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD.
MARGERY.

Knights, Monks, Beggars, etc.


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