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  • Title: King John: List of Characters
  • Author: Michael Best
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    Author: Michael Best
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    List of Characters

    1KING JOHN
    QUEEN ELEANOR, mother to King John
    Philip the BASTARD, illegitimate son of Richard Coeur-de-Lion
    ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, a country gentleman
    5LADY FAULCONBRIDGE, mother to Robert and the Bastard
    James GURNEY, attending on Lady Faulconbridge

    English lords
    Geoffrey fitz Peter, Earl of ESSEX
    William Longsword, Earl of SALISBURY
    William Marshall, earl of PEMBROKE
    10Roger BIGOT, Earl of Norfolk

    BLANCHE
    HUBERT, attending on King John
    PRINCE HENRY

    KING PHILIP
    15LEWIS, the Dauphin
    CHATILLON, a French ambassador
    Melun, a French lord
    Duke of AUSTRIA, also called Limoges
    CONSTANCE, mother of Arthur
    20ARTHUR, son of Constance and Geoffrey
    Cardinal PANDULPH
    CITIZEN of Angiers
    PETER of Pomfret, a prophet
    FRENCH HERALD, ENGLISH HERALD, MESSENGER, EXECUTIONERS