[RESPUBLICA]
A.D. 1553
A DRAMA OF REAL LIFE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF QUEEN MARY
A Merry Interlude, entitled
RESPUBLICA
Made in the Year of our Lord 1553, and
the First Year of the most Prosperous
Reign of our Most Gracious
Sovereign Queen Mary
the First
The Parts and Names of the Players:
- The Prologue, a Poet
- Avarice, alias Policy, the Vice of the Play
- Insolence, alias Authority, the Chief Gallant
- Oppression, alias Reformation, another Gallant
- Adulation, alias Honesty, the Third Gallant
- People, representing the Poor Commonalty
- Respublica, a Widow
- Misericordia, }
- Veritas, } four Ladies
- Justicia, }
- Pax, }
- Nemesis, the Goddess of Redress and Correction, a Goddess
