The Adventures of David Simple (1904)/Dramatis Personae
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Dramatis Personae
David Simple, elder son and rightful heir of Daniel Simple, mercer of Ludgate Hill. | ||
Daniel Simple, his wicked brother. | ||
John and Peggy: | two servants suborned by Daniel to witness the forged will disinheriting his brother. | |
Mr. Johnson, a jeweller. | ||
His elder daughter, who marries a rich Jew. | ||
Nancy, his second daughter, who jilts David and marries Mr. Nokes | ||
Betty Trusty, her maid. | ||
A Carpenter, who extols his ugly and lazy spouse as the best wife in the world. | ||
Another man, with a patient and industrious wife, whom he abuses. | ||
Mr. Orgueil, the censorious critic, who introduces David to the various sorts of life in London. | ||
Mr. Spatter, who introduces David to the fashionable coteries, and pulls to pieces, ridicules and abuses all the people they meet with. | ||
Mr. Varnish, who sings the praises of everybody, and has "the appearance of good-nature, but is not at all affected with the sufferings of others." | ||
Lady———, Cynthia's tyrannical protectress. | ||
Cynthia, an unfortunate young lady, loved by David. "After being hated by her family as a wit (she) is insulted as a fool by her patroness." | ||
The Earl of———, Lady———'s nephew, who proposes to Cynthia. | ||
Valentine, an unfortunate young man, befriended by David. | ||
Camilla, his more unfortunate sister, whom David loves. | ||
Mr.———, their father, deceived by Livia. | ||
Livia, his second wife, whose beauty belies her odious disposition, and who drives Valentine and Camilla from their father's house by her remorseless persecution. | ||
A Clergyman | Cynthia's fellow-travellers in the coach. | |
An Atheist | ||
A Butterfly, "as he had neither profession nor characters, I know not what other name to give him", | ||
The Marquis of Stainville, a chivalrous French gentleman. | ||
Isabelle, another unfortunate young lady, his sister. | ||
Julie, her friend, a passionate girl, who dies of a broken heart. | ||
Monsieur Le Buisson, who loves Isabelle, and is loved by Julie. | ||
The Chevalier Dumont, a French Adonis, irresistible to the ladies, but of invincible virtue; Stainville's friend. | ||
Monsieur Le Neuf, a villainous friend of Stainville and Dumont. | ||
Dorimene, Stainville's wife, who falls uncontrollably in love with Dumont. | ||
The Comte de———, her father. | ||
Vieuville, Dorimene's brother. He is madly in love with Isabelle, but fortunately falls still more madly in love with some one else. | ||
Pandolph, an old servant of Stainville's. | ||
Sacharissa and Corinna | Two English young ladies at Paris, whose contrasts of character point the moral of Cynthia's story. | |
Monsieur Le Vive, a man who always acts according to his passions. | ||
The Balancer, a man who finds every act in life as difficult as an abstruse mathematical problem. |