Shakespeare Wiki — Index
A knowledge base for the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, sourced from Project Gutenberg eBook #100.
Overview & Sources
- Overview — High-level synthesis: career periods, genre map, major themes (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Complete Works — Source Summary — Source notes for raw/pg100.txt, 196,398 lines (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Understanding Shakespeare's Idioms — Source Summary — Educational handout with idioms and definitions (1 source, 2026-04-08)
- Shakespeare Authorship Question — Source Summary — Wikipedia overview of authorship debate, candidates, and scholarly consensus (1 source, 2026-04-08)
- Schema & Conventions — Wiki conventions, page types, genre taxonomy (2026-04-07)
- Hamlet Soliloquies Handout — "Seven Soliloquies — The Heart of Hamlet"; Folger/OLLI pedagogy resource (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Concept Pages
Genre classifications, linguistic analysis, and historical contexts.
- Comedies — 13 comedies; defining features; character types; chronological table (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Tragedies — 10 tragedies; fatal flaws; the four great tragedies; Roman plays (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Histories — 10 history plays; two tetralogies; the Henriad; Falstaff (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Romances (Late Plays) — 5 late romances; defining features; reunion and forgiveness (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Hamlet's Soliloquies — 7 major soliloquies + bonus; consciousness and action; progression from despair to acceptance (2 sources, 2026-04-07)
- Shakespeare's Invented Words — ~1,700 neologisms; word formation patterns; linguistic innovation; legacy in modern English (2 sources, 2026-04-07)
- Shakespeare's Idioms — Idiomatic expressions; "I haven't slept a wink"; "Love's blind"; lasting figurative language; usage patterns (1 source, 2026-04-08)
- Shakespeare Authorship Question — Historical debate over authorship; arguments for/against; alternative candidates (Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe); scholarly consensus (1 source, 2026-04-08)
- Shakespeare Film Adaptations — Most canonical film versions with IMDB links; Olivier (1940s-50s), Zeffirelli (1960s-90s), Branagh (1989-2006), Kurosawa's Ran; 15+ films (0 sources, 2026-04-08)
Entity Pages — Plays & Poetry (Chronological Order)
Organized by approximate date of first performance.
Poetry
- The Sonnets — 154 sonnets; Fair Youth; Dark Lady; c. 1593–1609 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Early Period (c. 1589–1594)
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona — Comedy; earliest comedy; friendship vs. love; c. 1589–1591 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Taming of the Shrew — Comedy; Petruchio and Katherina; gender; induction frame; c. 1590–1592 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry VI, Part 2 — History; Jack Cade rebellion; York's rise; first written of the trilogy; c. 1590–1591 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry VI, Part 3 — History; Wars of the Roses; Richard of Gloucester emerges; c. 1590–1591 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry VI, Part 1 — History; Joan of Arc; Talbot; plucking of the roses; c. 1591–1592 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Richard III — History/Tragedy; Richard's charismatic villainy; Tudor dawn; c. 1592–1593 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Comedy of Errors — Comedy; two pairs of twins; farce; shortest play; c. 1592–1594 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Titus Andronicus — Tragedy; revenge; Rome; violence; earliest tragedy; c. 1593–1594 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Love's Labour's Lost — Comedy; wit and language; vows broken; unusual non-marriage ending; c. 1594–1595 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Middle Period (c. 1594–1602)
- Romeo and Juliet — Tragedy; star-crossed lovers; Verona; feud; c. 1594–1596 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Richard II — History; poetic king deposed; Bolingbroke; divine right; c. 1595–1596 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Comedy; fairies; enchanted wood; Bottom; dream and reality; c. 1595–1596 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- King John — History; legitimacy; the Bastard; papal authority; c. 1596 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Merchant of Venice — Comedy; Shylock; Portia; mercy and justice; caskets; c. 1596–1597 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry IV, Part 1 — History; Falstaff; Hotspur; Hal's education; Battle of Shrewsbury; c. 1596–1597 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry IV, Part 2 — History; Falstaff rejected; the dying king; Justice; c. 1597–1598 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Much Ado About Nothing — Comedy; Beatrice and Benedick; Don John; gulling plots; c. 1598–1599 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry V — History; Agincourt; ideal kingship; Band of Brothers; c. 1598–1599 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor — Comedy; Falstaff humiliated three times; Windsor; c. 1597–1601 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Julius Caesar — Tragedy; Brutus; assassination; Antony's oration; Philippi; c. 1599 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- As You Like It — Comedy; Rosalind; Forest of Arden; pastoral; seven ages; c. 1599–1600 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Hamlet — Tragedy; indecision; Elsinore; Ghost; Ophelia; "To be or not to be"; c. 1600–1601 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Twelfth Night — Comedy; Viola; Malvolio; Illyria; twins; festivity and melancholy; c. 1601–1602 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Troilus and Cressida — Problem Play; Troy; war's futility; betrayal; cynicism; c. 1601–1602 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Tragic Period (c. 1602–1608)
- All's Well That Ends Well — Problem Comedy; Helena; bed-trick; Bertram; c. 1602–1603 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Measure for Measure — Problem Comedy; Angelo; Isabella; justice vs. mercy; Vienna; c. 1603–1604 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Othello — Tragedy; Iago; jealousy; Desdemona; Venice and Cyprus; c. 1603–1604 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- King Lear — Tragedy; division of the kingdom; the storm; Cordelia; "Never, never"; c. 1605–1606 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Macbeth — Tragedy; ambition; witches; Lady Macbeth; "Tomorrow and tomorrow"; c. 1606 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Antony and Cleopatra — Tragedy; Rome vs. Egypt; love and empire; Enobarbus; c. 1606–1607 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Coriolanus — Tragedy; Roman pride; the people; Volumnia; c. 1607–1608 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Timon of Athens — Tragedy; generosity to misanthropy; gold; possibly unfinished; c. 1606–1608 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Romance; sea voyages; Marina; Gower as Chorus; c. 1607–1608 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Late Romances (c. 1609–1614)
- Cymbeline — Romance; Imogen; Iachimo; lost princes; Britain and Rome; c. 1609–1610 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Winter's Tale — Romance; Leontes's jealousy; Hermione's statue; Perdita; 16-year gap; c. 1610–1611 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Tempest — Romance; Prospero; Ariel; Caliban; forgiveness; farewell to art; c. 1610–1611 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- Henry VIII (All Is True) — History/Romance; Wolsey; Katherine of Aragon; Anne Boleyn; co-written with Fletcher; c. 1613 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen — Romance; Palamon and Arcite; Chaucer's Knight's Tale; Jailer's Daughter; co-written with Fletcher; c. 1613–1614 (1 source, 2026-04-07)
Character Entity Pages
Significant characters with >100 lines of dialogue. Organized by play.
Hamlet
- Hamlet — Prince of Denmark; 1,426 lines; philosopher-prince paralyzed by thought
- Claudius — King of Denmark; 574 lines; the murderer-usurper
- Horatio — Hamlet's loyal friend; 289 lines; moral compass and survivor
- Polonius — Lord Chamberlain; 335 lines; officious adviser
- Laertes — Polonius's son; 210 lines; impetuous avenger
- Ophelia — Polonius's daughter; 168 lines; genuine madness, drowns
- Gertrude — The Queen; 160 lines; Hamlet's mother, Claudius's wife
Othello
- Iago — Othello's ensign; 1,041 lines; supreme Shakespearean villain
- Othello — The Moor of Venice; 871 lines; noble general destroyed by jealousy
- Desdemona — Othello's wife; 380 lines; innocent victim
- Brabantio — Venetian senator; 145 lines; Desdemona's father
- Cassio — Othello's lieutenant; 275 lines; Iago's target
- Emilia (Othello) — Iago's wife; 244 lines; truth-teller
- Roderigo — Venetian gentleman; 105 lines; Iago's dupe
Macbeth
- Macbeth — 741 lines; the Scottish general destroyed by ambition
- Lady Macbeth — 259 lines; terrifying catalyst, guilt-destroyed sleepwalker
- Malcolm — 216 lines; Duncan's son, restorer of order
- Macduff — 189 lines; "not of woman born," avenging instrument
- Ross (Macbeth) — 136 lines; messenger thane
- Banquo — 116 lines; ghost at the feast, Stuart ancestor
King Lear
- Lear — 726 lines; aged king who achieves tragic self-knowledge in the storm
- Edgar — 394 lines; disguised as Poor Tom, survivor
- Kent — 367 lines; banished but returns in disguise to serve his king
- Gloucester — 332 lines; the parallel father, blinded for loyalty
- Edmund — 311 lines; charismatic illegitimate villain
- The Fool — 228 lines; truth through riddling wit
- Albany — 163 lines; grows into moral authority
- Goneril — 201 lines; eldest daughter, cold and ruthless
- Regan — 190 lines; middle daughter, more savage than Goneril
- Cordelia — 118 lines; cannot flatter, embodies love and truth
- Cornwall — 114 lines; Regan's brutal husband, blinds Gloucester
Julius Caesar
- Brutus — 738 lines; the idealist who kills for Rome
- Cassius — 517 lines; lean manipulator who recruits Brutus
- Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) — 339 lines; funeral oration orator
- Julius Caesar — 155 lines; the great general assassinated in Act III
- Casca — 126 lines; sardonic first-striker
Antony and Cleopatra
- Mark Antony — 881 lines; triumvir who chooses love over empire
- Cleopatra — 706 lines; Queen of Egypt, infinite variety
- Octavius Caesar — 435 lines; cold political calculator, future Augustus
- Enobarbus — 337 lines; plain-spoken lieutenant, betrays and dies of grief
- Pompey (A&C) — 140 lines; Sextus Pompey, pirate/admiral
- Charmian — 106 lines; Cleopatra's devoted attendant
Coriolanus
- Coriolanus — 682 lines; warrior who cannot flatter, destroyed by pride
- Menenius — 552 lines; pragmatic diplomat, the belly fable
- Sicinius — 312 lines; populist tribune
- Volumnia — 306 lines; the mother who forged and broke her son
- Cominius — 286 lines; general who bestows Coriolanus's name
- Aufidius — 285 lines; Coriolanus's great rival and killer
- Brutus (Coriolanus) — 257 lines; the second tribune
Titus Andronicus
- Titus — 739 lines; Roman general who triggers a spiral of revenge
- Marcus — 327 lines; Titus's brother, moral center
- Aaron — 355 lines; arch-villain, unapologetically evil
- Tamora — 258 lines; Queen of the Goths turned Empress
- Saturninus — 217 lines; weak corrupt Emperor
- Lucius (Titus) — 190 lines; exile who returns as Emperor
Timon of Athens
- Timon — 825 lines; boundless generosity turned absolute misanthropy
- Apemantus — 227 lines; the professional cynic who was right all along
- Flavius — 211 lines; loyal steward, the one good man
- Alcibiades — 162 lines; parallel banished figure
Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo — 622 lines; star-crossed Montague youth
- Juliet — 556 lines; thirteen-year-old who chooses love over family
- Friar Lawrence — 362 lines; well-meaning friar whose plan causes catastrophe
- Nurse — 291 lines; Juliet's garrulous confidante who ultimately fails her
- Capulet — 281 lines; hot-tempered father
- Mercutio — 235 lines; brilliant volatile friend; "A plague on both your houses!"
- Benvolio — 164 lines; Romeo's peaceful cousin
- Lady Capulet — 117 lines; cold, status-conscious mother
1 Henry IV
- Falstaff — 507+522+401 lines across 1H4, 2H4, Merry Wives; the supreme comic character
- Hotspur — 558 lines; impetuous warrior, Hal's foil
- Prince Hal / Henry V — spans 1H4, 2H4, Henry V; the prodigal prince turned ideal king
- King Henry IV — 344+409 lines in 1H4 and 2H4; guilt-tormented usurper
- Worcester — 191 lines; scheming uncle who engineers rebellion
2 Henry IV
- Shallow — 159+105 lines in 2H4 and Merry Wives; senile country justice
- Archbishop of York — 153 lines; leads northern rebellion
- Hostess Quickly — 138+223 lines in 2H4 and Merry Wives; Boar's Head hostess
- Chief Justice — 132 lines; embodies law, confirmed by Henry V
Henry V
- Archbishop of Canterbury — 222 lines; provides legal justification for France
- Fluellen — 227 lines; fiercely honorable Welsh captain
- Pistol (Henry V) — 167 lines; boastful tavern braggart
- French King — 136 lines; King Charles VI, yields after Agincourt
- Exeter (Henry V) — 129 lines; Henry's uncle, delivers ultimatum to France
- Dauphin — 102 lines; arrogant French Crown Prince
1 Henry VI
- Talbot — 438 lines; heroic English general in France
- Joan la Pucelle — 259 lines; Joan of Arc, ambiguously portrayed
- Gloucester (1H6) — 187 lines; Lord Protector
- King Henry VI — spans 1H6, 2H6, 3H6; saintly, weak, ineffectual king
- Suffolk (1H6) — 177 lines; captures and falls for Margaret
- Winchester (1H6) — 105 lines; Gloucester's rival
2 Henry VI
- York (2H6) — 412 lines; claimant whose ambition ignites the Wars of the Roses
- Queen Margaret — spans 2H6, 3H6, Richard III; the fiercest character in the histories
- Suffolk (2H6) — 306 lines; Duke of Suffolk, Margaret's lover
- Gloucester (2H6) — 296 lines; good Lord Protector destroyed by enemies
- Jack Cade — 214 lines; rebel leader, dark comic populist
- Warwick (2H6) — 133 lines; early appearance of the Kingmaker
- Eleanor Gloucester — 123 lines; Duchess brought down by witchcraft charges
3 Henry VI
- Warwick (3H6) — 500 lines; the Kingmaker at his height
- Richard of Gloucester — 393 lines; future Richard III emerges
- King Edward IV — 319 lines; York's eldest son who wins the throne
- York (3H6) — 178 lines; the Duke captured and mocked with a paper crown
- Clifford (3H6) — 145 lines; Lancastrian avenger
Richard II
- Richard II — 669 lines; poetic self-dramatizing king; "sad stories of the death of kings"
- Bolingbroke — 350 lines; pragmatic deposer, future Henry IV
- John of Gaunt — 194 lines; delivers the "sceptered isle" speech
- York (Richard II) — 293 lines; the weak-willed moderate
- Northumberland (R2) — 142 lines; Bolingbroke's chief supporter
- Mowbray — 125 lines; banished in the opening scene
Richard III
- Richard III — 705+488 lines; supreme theatrical villain; "Now is the winter of our discontent"
- Buckingham (R3) — 388 lines; Richard's chief accomplice
- Queen Elizabeth (R3) — 279 lines; Edward IV's widowed queen
- Clarence — 163 lines; murdered in a butt of malmsey; poetic dream speech
- Anne (R3) — 158 lines; wooed by the man who murdered her husband
- Hastings (R3) — 147 lines; executed for loyalty to the young princes
- Richmond (R3) — 145 lines; defeats Richard at Bosworth, becomes Henry VII
King John
- The Bastard — 540 lines; Philip Faulconbridge, the play's moral center
- King John — 455 lines; weak scheming king
- Constance — 264 lines; Arthur's mother, grief-torn lamenting figure
- King Philip — 202 lines; Philip II of France
- Pandulph — 164 lines; cold papal legate
- Salisbury (King John) — 165 lines; noble who rebels after Arthur's death
- Hubert — 142 lines; king's agent who cannot blind Arthur
- Arthur — 121 lines; rightful claimant whose death seals John's downfall
Henry VIII
- Henry VIII — 495 lines; dominant monarch portrayed with complexity
- Wolsey — 442 lines; great minister who falls catastrophically; "Farewell, a long farewell"
- Queen Katherine — 397 lines; dignified and steadfast in rejecting the divorce
- Norfolk (H8) — 214 lines; opponent of Wolsey
- Buckingham (H8) — 197 lines; first great man to fall
- Cranmer — 132 lines; Archbishop of Canterbury, Protestant reformer
As You Like It
- Rosalind — 571 lines; witty heroine disguised as Ganymede
- Orlando — 271 lines; romantic hero who pins love poems to trees
- Celia — 252 lines; Rosalind's loyal cousin
- Touchstone — 224 lines; court jester who exposes folly
- Jaques — 193 lines; melancholy philosopher; "All the world's a stage"
- Oliver — 139 lines; villainous elder brother later reformed
- Duke Senior — 112 lines; exiled Duke in the Forest of Arden
Twelfth Night
- Viola — 325 lines; shipwrecked heroine disguised as Cesario
- Olivia — 309 lines; countess who falls for Cesario
- Sir Toby Belch — 282 lines; engine of festive disorder
- Duke Orsino — 250 lines; self-dramatizing romantic
- Malvolio — 221 lines; pompous steward; "Some are born great"
- Feste — 212 lines; professional fool, wisest character
- Sir Andrew Aguecheek — 137 lines; gullible exploited knight
- Sebastian (Twelfth Night) — 119 lines; Viola's twin
- Maria (Twelfth Night) — 123 lines; mastermind of Malvolio plot
Much Ado About Nothing
- Benedick — 383 lines; confirmed bachelor tricked into love
- Leonato — 321 lines; Governor of Messina, Hero's father
- Don Pedro — 275 lines; Prince of Aragon, matchmaker
- Claudio (Much Ado) — 272 lines; soldier who shames Hero on false evidence
- Beatrice — 227 lines; witty sharp-tongued heroine
- Dogberry — 149 lines; malaprop-prone constable
- Hero — 130 lines; falsely accused and "restored"
The Merchant of Venice
- Portia — 568 lines; brilliant heiress, disguised lawyer; "quality of mercy"
- Shylock — 336 lines; Jewish moneylender; villain, victim; "Hath not a Jew eyes?"
- Bassanio — 332 lines; chooses the lead casket
- Antonio (MoV) — 197 lines; merchant whose bond endangers his life
- Lorenzo — 185 lines; elopes with Jessica
- Gratiano — 180 lines; Bassanio's garrulous friend
- Launcelet Gobbo — 132 lines; clownish servant
- Salarino — 113 lines; Antonio's friend
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Puck — 252 lines; mischievous sprite; "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
- Theseus (MND) — 270 lines; Duke of Athens, rational authority
- Helena (MND) — 230 lines; rejected lover who pursues Demetrius
- Oberon — 228 lines; King of the Fairies
- Lysander — 176 lines; Hermia's beloved, enchanted by the potion
- Bottom — 172 lines; weaver transformed with an ass's head
- Hermia — 167 lines; small fierce lover who flees Athens
- Titania — 146 lines; Queen of the Fairies, enchanted to love Bottom
- Demetrius — 133 lines; pursues Hermia, ends up loving Helena
The Taming of the Shrew
- Petruchio — 595 lines; boisterous fortune-hunter who "tames" Katherina
- Tranio — 298 lines; resourceful servant disguised as his master
- Lucentio — 188 lines; young scholar who courts Bianca in disguise
- Hortensio — 214 lines; suitor disguised as a music teacher
- Katherina — 219 lines; the "shrew" whose final speech is Shakespeare's most debated passage
- Baptista — 170 lines; father who insists Katherina marry first
- Gremio — 165 lines; elderly suitor for Bianca
- Grumio — 142 lines; Petruchio's quarrelsome comic servant
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Proteus — 471 lines; faithless friend who betrays Valentine
- Valentine — 380 lines; the faithful friend exiled for love
- Julia — 324 lines; abandoned beloved who disguises as a page
- Duke of Milan (Two Gentlemen) — 200 lines; Silvia's father
- Silvia — 163 lines; the object of competing desires
- Lance — 169 lines; comic servant with his dog Crab; Shakespeare's earliest great clown
- Speed (Two Gentlemen) — 147 lines; Valentine's witty page
Love's Labour's Lost
- Berowne — 585 lines; Shakespeare's most self-aware wit figure
- Princess of France — 293 lines; witty leader of the French party
- King of Navarre — 287 lines; leads the vow of study and breaks it
- Boyet — 228 lines; the Princess's witty attendant lord
- Rosaline (LLL) — 170 lines; Berowne's love interest, dark lady figure
- Costard — 158 lines; country clown, earthy and literal-minded
- Armado — 196 lines; fantastical Spaniard, figure of comic pomposity
- Holofernes — 130 lines; pedantic schoolmaster
- Moth (LLL) — 114 lines; Armado's quicksilver page
The Comedy of Errors
- Antipholus of Syracuse — 283 lines; twin searching for his lost brother
- Adriana — 268 lines; wife caught in the confusion, passionate and jealous
- Antipholus of Ephesus — 214 lines; resident twin whose life is thrown into chaos
- Dromio of Syracuse — 209 lines; witty servant, source of verbal comedy
- Egeon — 145 lines; framing figure, condemned merchant separated from his family
- Dromio of Ephesus — 147 lines; locked out and beaten throughout
- Luciana — 104 lines; Adriana's sister, counsels patience
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Mistress Page — 307 lines; mastermind of Falstaff's humiliations
- Mistress Ford — 155 lines; Falstaff's target, sets the traps
- Ford — 200 lines; jealous husband who disguises as "Master Brook"
- Evans (Merry Wives) — 173 lines; Welsh parson with a comic accent
- Slender — 119 lines; dim suitor for Anne Page
(See also Falstaff, Shallow, Hostess Quickly under Henry IV)
Measure for Measure
- Duke Vincentio — 828 lines; disguised Duke who observes and manipulates
- Isabella — 423 lines; novice nun who refuses to trade chastity; the play's moral crux
- Angelo (Measure for Measure) — 407 lines; hypocrite whose hidden corruption is exposed
- Lucio (Measure for Measure) — 257 lines; comic slanderer, "old fantastical Duke of dark corners"
- Escalus (Measure for Measure) — 172 lines; wise, moderate justice
- Provost — 155 lines; humane prison official
- Claudio (Measure for Measure) — 118 lines; condemned to death for fornication
- Pompey (Measure for Measure) — 133 lines; witty tapster/pimp from Vienna's underworld
All's Well That Ends Well
- Helena (All's Well) — 480 lines; resourceful physician's daughter who wins and pursues Bertram
- King of France (All's Well) — 386 lines; cured by Helena, gifts her Bertram
- Parolles — 324 lines; braggart soldier, false friend, exposed as coward
- Countess of Rossillon — 262 lines; Bertram's wise maternal figure who champions Helena
- Lafew — 233 lines; witty old lord who sees through Parolles
- Bertram — 269 lines; young count who flees Helena
- Diana (All's Well) — 141 lines; Florentine girl used in the bed-trick
Troilus and Cressida
- Troilus — 552 lines; idealistic Trojan whose absolute faith is destroyed
- Ulysses — 484 lines; Greek strategist, great political thinker; "Degree" speech
- Pandarus — 331 lines; go-between who names "pandering"
- Cressida — 290 lines; deliberately ambiguous; faithfulness or survival?
- Thersites — 235 lines; most cynical voice; "All the argument is a whore and a cuckold"
- Hector — 223 lines; noblest Trojan, killed treacherously
- Agamemnon — 198 lines; pompous Greek commander
- Achilles (T&C) — 194 lines; great warrior, idle and self-absorbed
- Nestor (T&C) — 153 lines; aged Greek counselor
- Aeneas (T&C) — 146 lines; Trojan messenger
- Diomedes (T&C) — 102 lines; Greek warrior who takes Cressida
Cymbeline
- Imogen — 593 lines; faithful heroine disguised as a boy; "most perfect of Shakespeare's women"
- Posthumus — 440 lines; husband who stupidly wagers on Imogen's fidelity
- Iachimo — 411 lines; Italian schemer who hides in Imogen's bedchamber
- Belarius — 345 lines; banished lord who raised the stolen princes
- Pisanio — 220 lines; loyal servant who protects Imogen
- Cloten — 244 lines; boorish arrogant queen's son, the comic villain
- The Queen (Cymbeline) — 166 lines; stepmother villain
- Guiderius — 159 lines; elder of the kidnapped princes, kills Cloten
- Arviragus — 136 lines; younger kidnapped prince; "Fear no more the heat o' the sun"
The Winter's Tale
- Leontes — 694 lines; king whose sudden jealousy destroys everything; repents sixteen years
- Paulina — 338 lines; fearless noblewoman who confronts Leontes and preserves Hermione
- Camillo — 289 lines; wise counselor who saves Polixenes and later the young lovers
- Polixenes — 262 lines; King of Bohemia, Leontes's boyhood friend
- Autolycus — 227 lines; roguish ballad-seller; "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles"
- Hermione — 211 lines; queen falsely accused, "dies" and is restored as a statue
- Florizel — 206 lines; Polixenes's son, Perdita's devoted suitor
- Perdita — 128 lines; abandoned princess raised as a shepherd girl
The Tempest
- Prospero — 687 lines; magician-duke who relinquishes his art; "Our revels now are ended"
- Ariel — 175 lines; airy spirit who serves Prospero; "Where the bee sucks, there suck I"
- Caliban — 170 lines; "savage and deformed slave"; "The isle is full of noises"
- Gonzalo — 156 lines; good old counselor who saved Prospero
- Ferdinand — 140 lines; Miranda's suitor, willingly bears logs as a test
- Miranda — 140 lines; "O brave new world / That has such people in't"
- Antonio (The Tempest) — 142 lines; Prospero's usurping brother, still scheming
- Stephano (The Tempest) — 138 lines; drunken butler, Caliban's "god"
- Alonso — 111 lines; King of Naples, penitent in the end
Pericles
- Pericles — 586 lines; wandering prince who endures all trials
- Gower (Pericles) — 295 lines; medieval poet John Gower as Chorus
- Marina — 187 lines; born at sea, sold into a brothel, preserves her virtue; overwhelming recognition scene
- Simonides — 156 lines; King of Pentapolis, welcomes Pericles
The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Palamon — 608 lines; Theban knight who wins Emilia
- Arcite — 530 lines; Palamon's cousin and rival; wins the tournament but dies
- Emilia (Two Noble Kinsmen) — 393 lines; Amazonian princess who cannot choose between the two knights
- Theseus (Two Noble Kinsmen) — 356 lines; Duke of Athens, judge of the contest
- The Jailer's Daughter — 322 lines; frees Palamon out of love, descends into madness
- Pirithous — 126 lines; Theseus's loyal friend
Log
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