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PERSONS MISREPRESENTED.
- Mr. Barrett
- Mr. Fitzjames
- Mr. C. Young
(First Appearance at this Theatre)
- Miss Goward
- Mr. Gaston Murray
- Mr. Ellerton
- Mr. Lionel Porter
- Mr. John Neville
- Miss Talbot
- Mr. James Rogers
- Miss Rose Laurence
GREEKS.
Agamemnon
“The king of kings, Atrides you survey,
Great in the war, and great in arts of sway.”
Menelaus (his brother, who, having married in haste some ten years before the rising of the curtain, has had abundant leisure for the proverbial repentance
Ajax (otherwise the Salamis pet, a very strong part indeed, of such irresistible weight that it defies all lightning)
Teucer (his little brother)
Diomed (a Commander in the Greek Navy)
Ulysses (an astute gentleman from the North, not in the least hurry to get home again—a name prominent among the “illustrious dead,” consequently having some connection with the “celebrated Kilt”
Talthybius (a spoilt copy of Homer's edition of the Herald)
Nestor (The oldest inhabitant of Pylos)
Achilles (an exceedingly great gun for those days of primitive warfare, and the heaviest swell ever remembered on the Phrygian coast
Patroclus (Toady to Achilles, an officer who tries by a borrowed hide to pass off as a roaring lion, but is speedily detected as merely a thundering donkey)
Helen (The original casus belli, and a very fair excuse too)
- Mr. Howard
- Mrs Keeley
- Miss Portman
- Miss E. Romer
- Mr. Fitzhenry
- Mrs. Wallis
- Miss Clara Weston
- Miss Kate Saxon
TROJANS.
Priam (the original Paterfamilias of those times)
Hector (The Trojan, par excellence.)
Paris (his younger brother, whose sense of beauty made him defendant in the longest and most expensive action for Wife Stealing upon record)
Troilus (his other little brother)
Æneas
Hecuba
Andromache (Wife to Hector, and, as she deserves to be, “his Soul's Far Better Part”)
Cressida (Daughter of Calchas, beloved by Troilus)
- Mr. Davenport
- Miss Wallis
- Miss G. Oliver
- Miss Dormer
- Mr. Yeo, Mr. Smith, Miss Harrison, and Mr. Blyde
- (will be ably misrepresented by that rising Actress) Mrs. Weston
- Miss Julia St. George
- Miss Rosina Wright
IMMORTALS.
Jupiter
Juno
Minerva
Venus
Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, and Vulcan
Thetis
“When like morning mist, in early day,
Rose from the flood the daughter of the Sea.”
Cupid (the real author of the Siege of Troy, and of nearly every other memorable strife in the history of the world)
Iris
- Mr. Woolgar
- Mr. Emery
INDESCRIBABLES.
Chryses
Our Own Correspondent
Greek and Trojan Soldiers, Camp Followers, Policemen, Thieves, Philosophers, and Poets, by Supernumerary Members of the Company.
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