Harold: A Drama

Dramatis personæ

Alfred Tennyson


KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.
STIGAND, created Archbishop of Canterbury by the Antipope Benedict.
ALDRED, Archbishop of York.
THE NORMAN BISHOP OF LONDON.
HAROLD, Earl of Wessex, afterwards King of England, Son of Godwin
TOSTIG, Earl of Northumbria, Son of Godwin
GURTH, Earl of East Anglia, Son of Godwin
LEOFWIN, Earl of Kent and Essex, Son of Godwin
WULFNOTH
COUNT WILLIAM OF NORMANDY.
WILLIAM RUFUS.
WILLIAM MALET, a Norman Noble.1
EDWIN, Earl of Mercia, Son of Alfgar of Mercia
MORCAR, Earl of Northumbria after Tostig, Son of Alfgar of Mercia
GAMEL, a Northumbrian Thane.
GUY, Count of Ponthieu.
ROLF, a Ponthieu Fisherman.
HUGH MARGOT, a Norman Monk.
OSGOD and ATHELRIC, Canons from Waltham.
THE QUEEN, Edward the Confessor’s Wife, Daughter of Godwin.
ALDWYTH, Daughter of Alfgar and Widow of Griffyth, King of Wales.
EDITH, Ward of King Edward.
Courtiers, Earls and Thanes, Men-at-Arms, Canons of Waltham,
Fishermen, etc.


1.     . . . quidam partim Normannus et Anglus
Compater Heraldi. (Guy of Amiens, 587.)]    [back]


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