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PERSONS MISREPRESENTED.

GREEKS.

Agamemnon
“The king of kings, Atrides you survey,
Great in the war, and great in arts of sway.”

• Mr. Barrett

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

• Mr. Fitzjames

Ajax (otherwise the Salamis pet, a very strong part indeed, of such irresistible weight that it defies all lightning)

• Mr. C. Young (First Appearance at this Theatre)
  

Teucer (his little brother)

• Miss Goward

Diomed (a Commander in the Greek Navy)

• Mr. Gaston Murray

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”

• Mr. Ellerton

Talthybius (a spoilt copy of Homer's edition of the Herald)

• Mr. Lionel Porter

Nestor (The oldest inhabitant of Pylos)

• Mr. John Neville

Achilles (an exceedingly great gun for those days of primitive warfare, and the heaviest swell ever remembered on the Phrygian coast

• Miss Talbot

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)

• Mr. James Rogers

Helen (The original casus belli, and a very fair excuse too)

• Miss Rose Laurence

TROJANS.

Priam (the original Paterfamilias of those times)

• Mr. Howard

Hector (The Trojan, par excellence.)

• Mrs Keeley

Paris (his younger brother, whose sense of beauty made him defendant in the longest and most expensive action for Wife Stealing upon record)

• Miss Portman

Troilus (his other little brother)

• Miss E. Romer

Æneas

• Mr. Fitzhenry

Hecuba

• Mrs. Wallis

Andromache (Wife to Hector, and, as she deserves to be, “his Soul's Far Better Part”)

• Miss Clara Weston

Cressida (Daughter of Calchas, beloved by Troilus)

• Miss Kate Saxon

IMMORTALS.

Jupiter

• Mr. Davenport

Juno

• Miss Wallis

Minerva

• Miss G. Oliver

Venus

• Miss Dormer

Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, and Vulcan

• Mr. Yeo, Mr. Smith, Miss Harrison, and Mr. Blyde

Thetis
“When like morning mist, in early day,
Rose from the flood the daughter of the Sea.”

• (will be ably misrepresented by that rising Actress) Mrs. Weston

Cupid (the real author of the Siege of Troy, and of nearly every other memorable strife in the history of the world)

• Miss Julia St. George

Iris

• Miss Rosina Wright

INDESCRIBABLES.

Chryses

• Mr. Woolgar

Our Own Correspondent

• Mr. Emery

Greek and Trojan Soldiers, Camp Followers, Policemen, Thieves, Philosophers, and Poets, by Supernumerary Members of the Company.