Principal Characters
- Elisabeth...the Empress of Austria and later Queen of Hungary
- Death...the personification of Death
- Luigi Lucheni...an anarchist and Elisabeth's assassin. The narrator of the play
- Franz Joseph...the Emperor of Austria and later King of Hungary
- Archduchess Sophie...Franz Joseph's autocratic mother
- Rudolf...Elisabeth and Franz Joseph's son
- Max...Duke in Bavaria, Elisabeth's father
- Ludovika...Duchess in Bavaria, Elisabeth's mother and Sophie's sister
- Helene...Elisabeth's sister
- Countess Esterházy...the Mistress of the Household
- Count Grünne...Franz Joseph's advisor
- Cardinal Archbishop Rauscher...the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria
- Prince Scwarzenberg...the State Minister
- Frau Wolf...the mistress of a brothel in Vienna
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