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PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

MEN

• Hughobert, Count of Aldenberg.
• Glottenbal, his son.
• Theobald of Falkenstein, a nobleman of reduced fortune, and co-burgher of Basle.
• Rudigere, a knight, and commander of one of the free companies returned from the wars, and bastard of a branch of the family of Aldenberg.
• Hartman, friend of Theobald, and Banneret of Basle.
• Urston, a confessor.
• Franko, chief of a band of outlaws.
• Maurice, an agent of Rudigere's.
• Soldiers, vassals, outlaws, &c.

WOMEN

• Orra, heiress of another branch of the family of Aldenberg, and ward to Hughobert.
• Eleanora, wife to Hughobert.
• Cathrina, lady attending on Orra.
• Alice, lady attending on Orra.

Scene, Switzerland, in the canton of Basle, and afterwards on the borders of the Black Forest in Suabia.
Time, towards the end of the 14th century.