Shakespearean Characters (Finished)

Successful general and statesman said to be "the triple pillar of the world"

Mercurial, selfcentered "Serpent of old Nile"

Mark Antony's cold and prudent rival who seeks revenge for Julius Cesars's death but also greives at Anothony's death

Octavius Caesar's sister who marries MArk Antony at her brothers request and remains loyal to antony after he deserts her

Incestuous, murderous king of Denmark who marries his sister in law

Prince of Denmark called the "Melancholy DAne" after his uncle succeeds his father as king

Prince of Norway who is chosen as the next king of Denmark and delivers a brief eulogy over Hamlets body.

Queen of Denmark
Hamlets mother
wife of Claudius

Polonius' daughter
Laertes' sister
Hamlets beloved who drowns herself

Hamlets Wittenberg friend who is his confidante

Hamlets friend who seeks revenge against Hamlet, blaming him for the deaths of his father and sister

King Claudius' advisorfather of Laertes and ophelia

Hamlets fellow students at Wittenberg whom Claudius sends to England to kill him

Senator whom Caesar describes as having "a lean and hungry look" and who out of jealousy of Caesar's power, helps inspire the conspiracy against him, then commits suicide after his own forces are defeated at Philippi

Caesar's wife who begs him not to go to the Capitol the day of the assassination

Character who "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus" but in his last years has the "falling sickness"

Senator who "sits high in all the peoples hearts" and helps lead the conspiracy against Caesar in the belief that the only way to save Rome is to assassinte him

Senator who delievers first blow to Caesar

Caesars friend who uses his oratorical ability to stir up the mob against the conspirators

Brutus' "true and honorable wife"
Swallows hot coals and dies

Person who warns Caesar of the "ides of MArch"

British king who was "every inch a king" and "a man more sinned against than sinning"

Rash, gullible, superstitous old man
dies after being reconciled with his legitimate son Edgar

King Lear's eldest daughter inherits half of the kingdom through flattery and deceit

King Lear's second daughter just as cunning and as devious as her older sister

King Lears youngest and most beloved daughter
"unpriz'd precious maid" whom he casts off but with whom he is reunitd before she is killed

Glouchster's only legitimate heir
diguises himself as Poor Tom when he flees to hide from his father

Earl of Gloucester's illegitimate son who seeks his fathers fortune and forms a union with Goneril an Regan

General in the King's army who usurps the throne and is called full "o' the milk of human kindness" by his wife.

strong-willed wife who is unable to kill King Duncan in his sleep because he resembles her father

Companion and rival whom Macbeth kills and whose ghost later haunts him

Much-loved king of Scotland who is killed by MAcbeth after this king decides to pass his kingdom to his son Malcom

Banquo's son who according to the 3 Witches, is destined to become king

Thane of Fife who leads Malcom's army and personality kills MAcbeth for political and personal reasons

Duncan's eldest son who raises an army in England and then leads the uprising against Macbeth
He later takes the throne of Scotland

Three weid sisters who make paradoxical prophetic statements leading MAcbeth to believe he will become king

Venetian nobleman and Antonio’s friend whose love of Portia leads him to borrow money from Shylock, using his friend Antonio to guarantee the loan

Heiress whose father has arranged that any suitor has to win her by choosing from
among 3 caskets

Rich Jewish moneylender who dislikes Antonio for lending money at a low interest rate
Antonio

Character asked to give a pound of flesh to repay his debt to Shylock, the rich, Jewish moneylender

Bassanio’s friend who is Shylock’s most vocal critic during the trial and then marries Nerissa, Portia’s waiting woman

Shylock’s daughter who elopes with Lorenzo, taking a lot of her father’s money and jewels with her

Moorish general in the service of Venice who thinks men honest and thus is an easy victim to “the green-eyed monster ... jealousy"

Moorish general’s trusted friend who is called a “demi-devil” and destroys everyone he can, including himself

Brabantio’s “gentle” daughter, the “true and loving” wife who lies to her husband
about a lost handkerchief

Desdemona’s father, a Venetian senator, who is enraged by her elopement with Othello

Othello’s lieutenant who is used by Iago to destroy Othello

13-year-old who rejects her nurse’s advice, turns against her family she has always obeyed, and commits suicide, alone, in the family vault

Young handsome nobleman who wishes to marry Juliet and has been forced on her
by her parents; he fights a duel with Romeo in the Capulet tomb

A “virtuous and well governed youth” who is at first infatuated with the fair Rosaline

Kind priest who marries Romeo and Juliet but fails to help them overcome their problems

Romeo’s witty friend who “loves to hear himself talk” and believes that his death has been preordained

“Pair of star-cross’d lovers [who] take their life”

Capulet bully who hates the Montagues and as a trained fencer “fights by the book of arithmetic”

"Merry wanderer of the night,” the happy, mischievous elf also known as Robin Goodfellow

Jealous King of the Fairies who wants to own Titania’s “changeling boy”

Queen of the Fairies, so small that she wraps herself in the enamelled skin of the snake, and is enamored of Bottom the Weaver until her husband frees her from the spell

Duke of Athens who marries the queen of the Amazons

Queen of the Amazons who becomes Theseus’ bride after he conquers her warriors

Titania’s beloved, the weaver who plays Pyramus in the play Pyramus and Thisbe and is turned into an ass

Fat, jovial character who revels in lechery and deceit and is a follower of Prince Hal

Playboy who matures to become the great King Henry V

Kate’s younger sister for whose hand Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio are rivals

Elder daughter of Baptista, a well-to-do Paduan; she has a vicious temper and displays anger toward her father

Gentleman of Verona who travels to Padua to marry Katharina and tames her using the methods of training hawks
Troilus and Cressida

Calchas’s daughter who betrays her lover in favor of the Greek Diomedes

Priam’s youngest son, the Prince of Troy, and Trojan War leader who is called the
“Prince of Chivalry”

Evil and malicious Duke of Gloucester who becomes king