| Cast of Characters |
| Ramanujan Varadachary: & Varadachary Iyengar: |
A centenarian spiritual-revolutionary. |
| Shankar Melkote: |
The Director of The Little Theatre of Hyderabad |
| Sarala: |
An actress of The Little Theatre |
| Nadira, the ‘Anarkali’: |
The beautiful singer at the Court of the Emperor Akbar, and the beloved of his son, Saleem |
| Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: |
Portrait painter at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I |
| Sir Walter Raleigh: |
Explorer, founder of the secretive ‘school of night’, and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I |
| Thomas Harriot: |
Scientist, and assistant to Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Sir Robert Cecil: |
Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth I |
| Sir Francis Bacon: |
Essayist, Rosicrucian, Courtier, and cousin to Sir Robert Cecil |
| Elizabeth Cooke, Lady Hoby: |
A grande dame of advancing years, aunt to Sir Robert Cecil and Sir Francis Bacon |
| Lady Mary Sidney Herbert: |
Countess of Pembroke, the most learned woman of her times, and mistress of Wilton House |
| Mistress Mary Sidney: |
Her precocious 13-year-old niece |
| Lord William Herbert: |
The eldest son of the Countess of Pembroke |
| William Shakespeare: |
An English playwright |
| Susanna Shakespeare: |
A young lady, daughter of the playwright |
| Dr. John Hall: |
A physician in attendance at Wilton House |
| Master Thomas Hobbes: |
A schoolboy, patronized by William Shakespeare |
| Sundry members of the Little Theatre, Hyderabad, and 16th century English servants |
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