Diggory
A talkative, likable servant with poor table manners and a broad sense of humor.
Miss Kate Hardcastle
She seeks in marriage a compatible and companionable husband, not money or status, by pretending to be a barmaid.
Mr. Hardcastle
He may be stuffy, long-winded, and old-fashioned, but he affectionately humors his wife, and loves his daughter.
Mrs. Hardcastle
Not evil as much as selfish and misguided, she lacks self-knowledge. While her husband enjoys rural pleasures, she yearns for a fashionable London social life and complains that they never entertain.
Hastings
He loves Constance Neville, who returns his affection. He wants to marry her and has the permission of her now-dead father.
Landlord
The proprietor of the Three Pigeons alehouse.
Mr. Woodward
Gives the prologue in a teary parody of the speech of Hamlet speaking to his mother.
Tony Lumpkin
He is a prankster and enjoys such practical jokes...
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