Dramatis Persona, or who are all these people?

Christopher Marlowe


Poet, lover, fighter, spy, heretic, corpse (as it were.)

Drunais Athisdottor


Drunais, Princess of Faerie, fascinated with all things human, a young woman of ninety-two, and a mean hand with a lute.

Lady Belinda


Lady Belinda Hyphen-Dash Throtestalking. An aspiring ingenue in a world that is short on ingenuity.

Donald?


A mysterious and chronically sea-sick man, about whom more in the fullness of time.

Grace


Grace. Blunt and practical, unlike her malapropistic sister Felicity and her depressed cousin Hope. Possibly half-sister to Lady Belinda.