Cast of Characters.—[The Corsair.]
Reading edition
Royal Lyceum, London, Dec. 26, 1856. Wallack’s Theatre 1857.
Conrad, the Corsair, (“a notable Pirate and salt water Thief,” gloomy, misanthropical, ironical and Byronical,) Mrs. A. Melion, LATE Miss Woolgar. Mrs. John Wood.
Birbanto, (his Lieutenant—an Officer, but not a Gentleman,) Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. John Wood.
Seyd (or Seedy) Pasha, (a terrible Turk,) Mr. Barrett. Mr. H. B. Phillips.
Syng Smaul, (a General Officer—Major-domo, Head Cook and Bottle-washer to the Pasha,) Mr. Holston. Mr. Holmes.
Yussuf, (in his own country Joseph—or familiarly, Old Joe—a renegade Slave Merchant,) Mr. S. Calharm. Mr. Peters.
Hassan, (a Boatswain,) Miss Goward.
Medora, (a Grecian Maiden, Niece and Ward to Yussuf—a sacred pledge intrusted to her uncle,) Mrs. C. Dillon. Miss J. Manners.
Gulnare, (the reigning Beauty of the Pasha’s Harem, his favorite, and most other people’s, it is hoped—including the audience,) Mrs. B. White. Mrs. Vernon.
Zuliema, (a “light of other days” a little “faded,”) Mrs. C. Melville. Mrs. Cook.
Submarina, (the Fairy guardian of the Deep, Deep Sea, Chief Inspector of the Ocean Police, and Deputy Ruler of the Waves,) Miss J. Ryder. Mrs. H. B. Phillips.
Serena, (the Little Fairy at the bottom of the Sea,) Mrs. M. Wilton. Miss Emily Milton.
Corsairs, Slaves, Odalisques, Almas, Water Nymphs, Fairies, Guards, Attendants, &c.
3THE CORSAIR.