DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
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Periwigulus, the Proud (King of Rumantica) Mr. J. Bland
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Brutus, the Crooked (Prince Royal and Generalissimo of the Forces) ... Mr. Wright
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Perfidius (Private Secretary to, and Confidant of, the Prince) ... Mr. B. Baker
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Corin (a Foundling) ... Mr. F. Robinson
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Placid, the Easy (Ex-King of the Peaceful Islands, dethroned by a distant relation, whose name has not transpired, and living incog. and in clover, in the Verdant Valley, under the name of Sublimus) ... Mr. Frank Matthews
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Queen Dominanta (his Wife, a pattern of domesticity, sharing her husband's fortunes, under the name of Pastora) ... Madame Vestris (Her First Appearance this Season)
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Chloe their Daughter Miss Mason
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Phillis their Daughter Miss Foote
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The Princess Carpillona (their Eldest Daughter, supposed by them to be drowned) ... Miss Julia St. George
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Dandelina (the Nurse and Foster-mother of Carpillona) ... Mrs. Foote
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Amazona (a Fairy) ... Miss Martindale
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Aqua Marina (a Sea Nymph) ... Miss Wadham
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Coralina (a Dancing Wave) ... Miss Rosina Wright
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N.B.—
The Costumes (by Mr. Brown and Miss Burt) have on this
occasion been servilely copied from authorities of the period in which
the original story was written, viz., the close (it may be said the
“old clo's”) of the 17th century, exhibiting the “comical-tragical”
and “pastoral-comical” habits invented and exhibited by the artists
and actors of the Augustan age of Louis Quatorze.
