John Webster
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The White Devil has always been a controversial play. It was not well received at its first performance and was hardly performed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, it has been appreciated much more since the beginning of the twentieth-century. Its critique of corruption in high...
MONTICELSO, a Cardinal; afterwards Pope PAUL the Fourth.
FRANCISCO DE MEDICIS, Duke of Florence; in the 5th Act disguised for a Moor, under the name of MULINASSAR.
BRACHIANO, otherwise PAULO GIORDANO URSINI, Duke of Brachiano, Husband to ISABELLA, and in love with VITTORIA.
GIOVANNI, his Son by ISABELLA.
LODOVICO, an Italian Count, but decayed.
ANTONELLI, his Friends, and Dependants of the Duke of Florence.
GASPARO,
CAMILLO, Husband to VITTORIA.
HORTENSIO, one of BRACHIANO's Officers.
MARCELLO, an Attendant of the Duke of Florence, and Brother to
VITTORIA.
FLAMINEO, his Brother; Secretary to BRACHIANO.
JACQUES, a Moor, Servant to GIOVANNI.
ISABELLA, Sister to FRANCISCO DE MEDICI, and Wife to BRACHIANO.
VITTORIA COROMBONA, a Venetian Lady; first married to
CAMILLO, afterwards to BRACHIANO.
CORNELIA, Mother to VITTORIA, FLAMINEO, and MARCELLO.
ZANCHE, a Moor, Servant to VITTORIA.
Ambassadors, Courtiers, Lawyers, Officers, Physicians, Conjurer, Armourer, Attendants.