FOR SYLVIA
What does that old spook want…?
Fervid in her fetid rags. It is she, the first
False mother of many, like you, aggrieved
By her, and for her, grieving.
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born …
THE LORDS
FELIPE, the Fair, married to
JOANNA REGINA, the Mad Lady
FELIPE, El Señor, son and heir to the former, married to
ISABEL, La Señora (Elizabeth Tudor), his English cousin
THE COURT
THE BASTARDS
THE PILGRIM, son of Felipe the Fair out of Celestina
DON JUAN, son of Felipe the Fair out of Isabel, La Señora
THE IDIOT PRINCE, son of Felipe the Fair out of a she-wolf
THE DREAMERS
LUDOVICO, student of theology
PEDRO, peasant and sailor
SIMON, monk
CELESTINA, peasant girl, witch, and procuress
MIHAIL-BEN-SAMA, wanderer
DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, knight-errant
SANCHO PANZA, his squire
THE WORKERS
JERONIMO, blacksmith and husband to Celestina
MARTIN, son of serfs from Navarre
NUÑO, son of a foot soldier of the Moorish frontier
CATILINON, rogue from the streets of Valladolid
THE MEDITERRANEANS
THE FLEMISH
THE MISTRESS of the Beguine Monastery, Bruges
SCHWESTER KATREI, possessed Beghard
HIERONYMUS BOSCH, painter and adherent to the Adamite sect
THE DUKE OF BRABANT
THE INDIANS
THE LORD OF MEMORY
THE LADY OF THE BUTTERFLIES
THE FAT PRINCE
THE WHITE LORDS OF HELL
THE LORD OF THE GREAT VOICE
THE PARISIANS
POLLO PHOIBEE, sandwich man
CELESTINA, sidewalk painter
LUDOVICO, flagellant
SIMON, monk, leader of the penitents
MME ZAHARIA, concierge
RAPHAEL DE VALENTIN, man-about-town
VIOLETTA GAUTIER, consumptive courtesan
JAVERT, police inspector
JEAN VALJEAN, former convict
OLIVEIRA, Argentine exile
BUENDIA, Colombian colonel
SANTIAGO ZAVALITA, Peruvian journalist
ESTEBAN and SOFIA, Cuban cousins
HUMBERTO, deaf-and-dumb Chilean
CUBA VENEGAS, Cuban torch singer
THE VALKYRIE, Lithuanian benefactress