TO THE READER In publishing this tragedy, I do but challenge myself that liberty, which other men have taken before me; not that I affect praise by it, for, nos haec novimus esse nihil, only since it was acted in so dull a time of winter, presented in so open and black a theatre, that
Dramatis Personae: FERDINAND . CARDINAL . ANTONIO . DELIO . DANIEL DE BOSOLA . . MARQUIS OF PESCARA. DOCTOR. The Several Madmen. DUCHESS . CARIOLA . the Cardinal’s mistress. . Ladies, Three Young Children, Two Pilgrims, Executioners, Court Officers, and Attendants. ACT I SCENE I ANTONIO and DELIO DELIO. You are welcome to your country,
