Cast list year 1 for Bess

I think I got everyone.  

Cast list

Main Protagonists

Elisabeth ‘Bess’

Marlowe                      Orphaned daughter of dead playwright Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe.

Bess is the ward of Master William Shakespeare, playwright and actor, and his wife Anne, née Hathaway.

Richard ‘Diccon’

De Bercy                     Second son of Lord de Bercy,  a Yorkist family.

Tangwystl Goch           Welsh girl, poverty stricken but claiming descent from Uther Pendragon [father of the Legendary King Arthur]

The faculty

Master Piet Van Huys The Great Master, Principal of the School of Wyrm Lore and Draxery, Flemish, Bonded rider of Lorewyrm, Amethyst Skyshadow.

Savin Kettlewell           Teacher of Alchemy, married to Mistress Amie Kettlewell. Bonded rider of Diamond dragon Deepglim. Does not suffer fools gladly.

Dr. Roger Bray            Teacher of Astronomy and Astrology. Has hidden depths.

Elizabeth Carey           Teacher of the Magical Art, Bonded rider of Diamond dragon,, Glitterwing. Head of Diamond House. Decisive and caring.

Amie Kettlewell           Teacher of Apothecary and Herbal arts, wife of Master Savin Kettlewell.  Bonded rider of Topaz Goldgleam. Head of Topaz House. Kindly.

Richard Dowell            Teacher of History and Politics. Eyepatch, served against the Armada.  Bonded rider of Topaz Goldglimmer. A great believer in the maxim that he who would have peace, prepares for war.

Ralph Sackwild            Teacher of Logic and Rhetoric.  Does not like children.  Abrasive.

Ambrose Crooke         Teacher of Latin.  Bonds with Ruby June 1600. Enthusiastic.

John Coxe                   Teacher of the Arts of War, Bonded to Ruby dragon Firestorm. Head of Ruby House. Not academic but very knowledgeable.

Faculty electives

Josse Attwood             Teaches Mathematics, Bonds with Topaz dragon,  June 1600

Mayhew Parnell           Teaches Physical Sciences, Bonds with Amethyst dragon Dawnhaze, June 1600 and becomes Head of Amethyst House

Othello Parkes             Teaches Languages, specifically French and Italian.

Colin Glasse                Teaches Engineering, Bonds with Ruby dragon June 1600

Adnet Tomkin             Teaches Geography, Bonded with Beryl dragon Blueflash, Head of Beryl House. Something of a dandy.

Lady Anne de la Pole  Teaches Music. Private to the point of secrecy.

Classmates of Bess and friends

Audrey Woolfstone     Beryl House, wealthy and rather fond of herself.

Aloysius Cobb             Diamond House, pale dark sarcastic boy who resents girls learning, Soldier’s son

Jane Evrard                  Diamond House, fond of books and book learning, artisan’s child

John Seymour              Topaz House, well born, but impoverished

Will Smith                    Topaz House.  Gilota Danforth is hiding out from an unwelcome marriage and is dressed as a boy.

Lancelyn Webber        Ruby House, brash and rather loud

Amery Ellis                  Ruby House,  thinks before acting

Hal Pocock                  Ruby House, inclined to be jealous. Despises girls.

Paul Garrard                Ruby House.  A very literal child but also honourable.

Scholars a year more advanced than Bess

Jane Edmonton            Amethyst House.  A humourless girl of limited imagination

Scholars two years more advanced than Bess

Coll Brewster               Amethyst House. Illegitimate son of priest.  Prankster, holds wager book

Roger White                 Amethyst House, son of whitesmith.  Prankster, crony of Coll

Katherine Keene          Diamond House, prone to chilblains.  Roger is sweet on her

Scholars three years more advanced than Bess

Hal Shimpling              Ruby House, Bonded rider of Ruby dragon Swiftfire

Lawrence Stephens      Amethyst House, schoolmaster’s son. Bonds June 1600 with Amethyst dragon Nimbus

2 boys in Ruby House who are muscle for Perkin Aston [year above]

Scholars four years more advanced than Bess

Matthew ‘Matt’ Tyler   Amethyst House, Bonded rider of Amethyst Dragon Hazedancer. Son of a potter, ran away to gain education.

Tom Michaels              Diamond House, Bonds with Diamond dragon June 1600

Sencey Pargetter          Diamond House, beautiful girl Queen of the May, Bonds with Diamond dragon Darkstar June 1600

Perkin Aston                Ruby House, wealthy boy who thinks he can buy everything.  Expelled from school summer 1600

Others

John Wolfe,                 servant to Amethyst House

Mitchel,                       Servant

Edward Stoat               Servant

Mentioned

Real

Queen Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queen of England and the colonies

Sir Walter Raleigh, sea captain, explorer

Sir Francis Walsingham [deceased] the Queen’s spymaster and patron of Kit Marlowe

Sir Thomas Walsingham, his nephew and patron of Master Will Shakespeare

Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State and probably spymaster

William Shakespeare, playwright and actor

John Shakespeare, Will’s father, sometime wool merchant, glover, rogue

Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, Will’s wife

Judith and Hamnet Shakespeare, twins, younger children of Will and Anne; Hamnet died aged  11

Fictional

Don Garcia de Halcon y Veneme, Spanish ambassador to Queen Elizabeth  and necromancer

Doña Violante, his wife

Elixabete, a young Basque girl kept as a maid and hostage