Characters
- Giles Gosling, host of the "Black Bear" at Cumnor
- Michael Lambourne, his nephew
- Edmund Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, Amy's former lover
- Wayland Smith, his servant
- Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
- Sir Nicholas Blount, master of house to the Earl of Sussex
- Sir Walter Raleigh, a gentleman in the household of the Earl of Sussex
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Richard Varney, his squire
- Anthony Foster, steward of Cumnor Place
- Master Erasmus Holiday, a village pedagogue
- Dickie Sludge, alias Flibbertigibbet, one of his pupils
- Doctor Doboobie, alias Alasco, an astrologer
- Sir Hugh Robsart, of Lidcote Hall, Devonshire
- Amy Robsart, his daughter
- Janet Foster, her attendant at Cumnor
- Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth
- In attendance on the Queen
- Lord Hunsdon
- Lord Burleigh
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