Characters: The Three Musketeers
D’ARTAGNAN: Our hero; eighteen years old. Raised in French province of Gascony, leaves home to go to Paris. Brave, excellent swordsman, and enthusiastic to become a musketeer but also impulsive, hotheaded, and inexperienced. Falls in love with Constance Bonacieux.
ATHOS: Leader of the three musketeers. Full of shadows, intelligent, courageous; precise in his sword fighting.
PORTHOS: One of the three musketeers. Humorous, vain, slave to fashion, good-hearted; comical and jaunty in his sword fighting.
ARAMIS: One of the three musketeers. Romantic, handsome, hot tempered, studying to be a priest; melodramatic in his swordfighting.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU: Enemy of the musketeers and (though not openly) to the king and queen.
ROCHEFORT: The cardinal’s henchman and captain of the Cardinal’s Guard.
MONSIEUR DE TREVILLE: Captain of the musketeers, old friend of D’Artagnan’s father.
KING LOUIS XIII: A simple-minded king, always being played by Cardinal Richelieu.
QUEEN ANNE: Called Anne of Austria but originally comes from Spain; having an affair with the duke of Buckingham.
CONSTANCE BONACIEUX: The queen’s lady in waiting, falls in love with d’Artagnan.
SABINE: D’Artagnan’s seventeen-year-old sister, sent to Paris to go to school. Falls in love with Aramis.
MILADY: The Countess de Winter, most dangerous woman in all of France. Beautiful, cunning, strong, and ruthless.
SOPHIE DELACROIX: “Niece” of Cardinal Richelieu.
D’ARTAGNAN’S FATHER AND MOTHER
BASILLE: Looks after horses at Mauriac inn, cohort of Rochefort.
RAVANCHE: Rough and dangerous bully, cohort of Rochefort.
DEBRIS: One of Cardinal’s Guards.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM: The Queen’s British lover.
ADÉLE: Admirer of Porthos.
ELISE: Admirer of Aramis.
MOTHER SUPERIOR: Of the Convent of the Sacred Heart where Sabine is sent to school
FACHE: Supporter of Cardinal Richelieu
STANLEY: The Duke of Buckingham’s major-domo
RUFFIAN
INNKEEPER
SISTER AT CONVENT SCHOOL
ABBESS
OLD WOMAN
