list of characters in plays by Shakespeare

This is an alphabetically ordered list of characters in plays by William Shakespeare. (See also list of plays by Shakespeare.)

• Antonio (The Merchant of Venice)
• Ariel (The Tempest)
• Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Caliban (The Tempest)
• Claudius (Hamlet)
• Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra)
• Cordelia (King Lear)
• Desdemona (Othello)
• Duncan (Macbeth)
• Sir John Falstaff (Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V; The Merry Wives of Windsor)
• Friar Laurence (Romeo and Juliet)
• Gertrude (Hamlet)
• Goneril (King Lear)
• Prince Hal (Henry IV, Part 1; Henry V)
• Hamlet (Hamlet)
• Herne the Hunter (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
• Iago (Othello)
• Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
• Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)
• Katharina (The Taming of the Shrew)
• Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)
• Macbeth (Macbeth)
• Malcolm (Macbeth)
• Marcus Brutus (Julius Caesar)
• Miranda (The Tempest)
• Nick Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• Ophelia (Hamlet)
• Orlando (As You Like It)
• Othello (Othello)
• Petruchio (The Taming of the Shrew)
• Pistol (Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V; The Merry Wives of Windsor)
• Polonius (Hamlet)
• Portia (The Merchant of Venice)
• Prospero (The Tempest)
• Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• Regan (King Lear)
• Richard III (Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Richard III)
• Romeo (Romeo and Juliet)
• Rosalind (As You Like It)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
• Shylock (The Merchant of Venice)
• Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• Touchstone (As You Like It)
• Viola (Twelfth Night)
• Weird Sisters (Macbeth)