WALLENSTEIN, _Duke of Friedland, Generalissimo of the Imperial Forces in the Thirty Years' War_.
DUCHESS OF FRIEDLAND, _Wife of Wallenstein_.
THEKLA, _her Daughter, Princess of Friedland_.
_The_ COUNTESS TERZKY, _Sister of the Duchess_.
OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI, _Lieutenant-General_.
MAX PICCOLOMINI, _his son, Colonel of a regiment of Cuirassiers_.
COUNT TERZKY, _the Commander of several Regiments, and Brother-in-law of Wallenstein_.
ILLO, _Field Marshall, Wallenstein's Confident_.
BUTLER, _an Irishman, Commander of a regiment of Dragoons_.
NEUMANN, _Captain of Cavalry, Aide-de-Camp to Terzky_.
COLONEL WRANGEL, _Envoy from the Swedes_.
GROOM OF THE} _Belonging to_ CHAMBER, } _the Duke_. A PAGE, }
[Illustration: WALLENSTEIN AND SENI As performed at the Municipal Theatre, Hamburg, 1906.]
A Room fitted up for astrological labors, and provided with celestial Charts, with Globes, Telescopes, Quadrants, and other mathematical Instruments--Seven Colossal Figures, representing the Planets, each circle in the background, so that Mars and Saturn are nearest the eye.--The remainder of the Scene, and its disposition, is given in the Fourth Scene of the Second Act.--There must be a Curtain over the Figures, which may be dropped, and conceal them on occasion.
[_In the Fifth Scene of this Act it must be dropped; but in the Seventh Scene it must be again drawn up wholly or in part._]
WALLENSTEIN _at a black Table, on which a Speculum Astrologicum is described with Chalk_. SENI _is taking Observations through a window_.
All well--and now let it be ended, Seni. Come, The dawn commences, and Mars rules the hour. We must give o'er the operation. Come, We know enough.
Your Highness must permit me Just to contemplate Venus. She's now rising; Like as a sun, so shines she in the east.
She is at present in her perigee, And now shoots down her strongest influences.
[_Contemplating the figure on the table._]
Auspicious aspect! fateful in conjunction, At length the mighty three corradiate; And the two stars of blessing, Jupiter And Venus, take between them the malignant Slily-malicious Mars, and thus compel Into _my_ service that old mischief-founder: For long he viewed me hostilely, and ever With beam oblique, or perpendicular, Now in the Quartile, now in the Secundan, Shot his red lightnings at my stars, disturbing Their blessed influences and sweet aspects. Now they have conquer'd the old enemy, And bring him in the heavens a prisoner to me.
