Characters in Dream Country

Dream (Morpheus)

The anthropomorphic personification of dreams, who intervenes to free his former lover Calliope from the novelist holding her captive.

Also in The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists, The Sandman Brief Lives

Calliope

A Greek muse of epic poetry, held captive for years by a blocked novelist who rapes and exploits her for inspiration.

Element Girl

A former superhero cursed with an unstable, inhuman elemental body, who can no longer pass for human and wants her life to end.

William Shakespeare

The playwright, bound by a bargain with Dream, whose troupe performs the newly written A Midsummer Night's Dream for its real fairy-court inspirations.

Death of the Endless

Dream's elder sister, the Endless embodiment of Death, whom Element Girl seeks out to ask for an end to her suffering.

Also in Preludes & Nocturnes