Scenes
(24 total)

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Act I

• Scene 1. London. The palace.
• Scene 2. GLOUCESTER’S house.
• Scene 3. The palace.
• Scene 4. GLOUCESTER’s garden.

Act II

• Scene 1. Saint Alban’s.
• Scene 2. London. YORK’S garden.
• Scene 3. A hall of justice.
• Scene 4. A street.

Act III

• Scene 1. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund’s.
• Scene 2. Bury St. Edmund’s. A room of state.
• Scene 3. A bedchamber.

Act IV

• Scene 1. The coast of Kent.
• Scene 2. Blackheath.
• Scene 3. Another part of Blackheath.
• Scene 4. London. The palace.
• Scene 5. London. The Tower.
• Scene 6. London. Cannon Street.
• Scene 7. London. Smithfield.
• Scene 8. Southwark.
• Scene 9. Kenilworth Castle.
• Scene 10. Kent. IDEN’s garden.

Act V

• Scene 1. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath.
• Scene 2. Saint Alban’s.
• Scene 3. Fields near St. Alban’s.

Characters
(67 total)

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• Alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman
• All
• Beadle
• Bolingbroke, a conjurer
• Both
• Captain
• Clerk of Chatham
• Commons
• Dick the Butcher, a follower of Cade
• Duke of Buckingham
• Duke of Gloucester, brother to the King
• Duke/Earl of Somerset, John Beaufort
• Earl of Salisbury
• Earl of Suffolk
• Earl of Warwick
• Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester
• Father John Hume, a priest
• Father John Southwell, a priest
• First 'Prentice
• First Citizen
• First Gentleman
• First Murderer
• First Neighbour
• First Petitioner
• George Bevis, a follower of Cade
• Henry VI
• Herald
• Jack Cade, a rebel
• John Holland, a follower of Cade
• King Edward IV (Plantagenet)
• Lord Clifford
• Lord Say
• Lord Scales
• Margaret Jourdain, a witch
• Master
• Matthew Goffe
• Mayor of Saint Alban's
• Messenger
• Michael, a follower of Cade
• Peter, Thomas Horner's man
• Post
• Queen Margaret, daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry VI
• Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester), becomes duke of York in Henry VI, Part
• Richard Plantagenet the Younger
• Second 'Prentice
• Second Gentleman
• Second Murderer
• Second Neighbour
• Second Petitioner
• Servant
• Servants
• Sheriff
• Simpcox, an imposter
• Simpcox's Wife
• Sir Humphrey Stafford, brother to William Stafford
• Sir John Stanley
• Smith the Weaver, a follower of Cade
• Soldier
• Spirit
• Third Neighbour
• Thomas Horner, an armourer
• Townsman
• Vaux
• Walter Whitmore
• William Stafford, brother to Sir Humphrey Stafford
• Winchester, Henry Beaufort, great-uncle to Henry V, bishop of Winchster, and later cardinal
• Young Clifford