ShakespeareCharacters Flashcards
Martius
Titus Andronicus
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Forest in Athens
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rosalind
As You Like It
Aaron the Moor
Titus Andronicus
Hermia
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Gremio
Taming of the Shrew
Hero
Much Ado About Nothing
Sir Toby Belch
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Ferdinand
The Tempest
Titon Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
Cordelia
King Lear
Saturninus
Titus Andronicus
Cyprus
Othello
Regan
King Lear
Claudio
Measure for Measure
Lady Capulet
Romeo and Juliet
Illyria
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Lucius
Titus Andronicus
Lorenzo
The Merchant of Venice
“All the world’s a stage”
As You Like It
Angelo
Measure for Measure
Tyre
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Syracuse
The Comedy of Errors
“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”
Julius Caesar
Forest of Arden
As You Like It
Montague
Romeo and Juliet
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Antony and Cleopatra
Tybalt
Romeo and Juliet
Katherina Minola
Taming of the Shrew
Cominius
Coriolanus
Mercutio
Romeo and Juliet
Hortensio
Taming of the Shrew
longest play
Hamlet
Banquo
Macbeth
Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
Venice
Othello
Beatrice
Much Ado About Nothing
Edward Plantagenet (later Edward IV)
Henry VI, Part III
Helena
All’s Well That Ends Well
Maria
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Corioli Gates
Coriolanus
Cesario
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
“All that glisters is not gold.”
The Merchant of Venice
Brabantio
Othello
Olivia
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The Scottish play
Macbeth
“To thine own self be true.”
Hamlet
misanthrope
Timon of Athens
Desdemona
Othello
Lavinia
Titus Andronicus
Achilles
Troilus and Cressida
Mistress Page
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Thane of Glamis
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Antonio
The Tempest
Laertes
Hamlet
Don John
Much Ado About Nothing
Polonius
Hamlet
Rosaline
Romeo and Juliet
“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing”
Macbeth
Emilia
Othello
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Claudius
Hamlet
Richard kills Henry VI
Henry VI, Part III
Flavius
Timon of Athens
shortest play
The Comedy of Errors
Demetrius
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
40-30 BC
Antony and Cleopatra
Octavia
Antony and Cleopatra
“Hath not a Jew eyes? … If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
The Merchant of Venice
Ephesus
The Comedy of Errors
Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth
Three Witches
Macbeth
Cleopatra VII
Antony and Cleopatra
Baptista Minola
Taming of the Shrew
Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
Asp
Antony and Cleopatra
Gertrude
Hamlet
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
Richard III
Roderigo
Othello
Macduff, Thane of Fife
Macbeth
King John
King John
Quintus
Titus Andronicus
Diomedes
Troilus and Cressida
Sebastian
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
end of Roman Empire
Titus Andronicus
Lysander
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rome, 490 BC
Coriolanus
Iago
Othello
Portia
Julius Caesar
Bassanio
The Merchant of Venice
Perdita
The Winter’s Tale
Lucentio
Taming of the Shrew
Fleance
Macbeth
Richard II
Richard II
Joan la Pucelle
Henry VI, Part I
“Out, out, damned spot will my hands ever be clean?”
Macbeth
Nerissa
The Merchant of Venice
Duke of Somerset
Henry VI, Part I
Eleanor of Aquitaine
King John
Sir John Falstaff
Henry IV, Part I & Henry IV, Part II
Marcus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
Ulysses
Troilus and Cressida
Oberon
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Bohemia, Sicilia
The Winter’s Tale
Thaisa
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Benvolio
Romeo and Juliet
Jessica
The Merchant of Venice
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
Henry VI, Part II
Pyramus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mark Antony
Julius Caesar
Capulet
Romeo and Juliet
Portia
The Merchant of Venice
“Beware the Ides of March”
Julius Caesar
“What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.”
Romeo and Juliet
Tamora
Titus Andronicus
Phillip Falcolnbridge
King John
Tullus Aufidius
Coriolanus
England
King Lear
Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
Messina
Much Ado About Nothing
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
Hamlet
Macbeth
Macbeth
Caius Marcius
Coriolanus
King Lear
King Lear
Friar Laurence
Romeo and Juliet
Nick Bottom
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.”
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Hamlet
Hamlet
Titania
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Is this dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth
Caius Cassius
Julius Caesar
Sicily, Sardinia
Antony and Cleopatra
Kent/Caius
King Lear
Albany
King Lear
Shylock
The Merchant of Venice
Puck, Robin Goodfellow
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mistress Ford
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Antiochus
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Lady Anne
Richard III
Malcolm
Macbeth
Henry “Hotspur” Percy
Henry IV, Part I
Domitius Enobarbus
Antony and Cleopatra
Edgar
King Lear
Malvolio
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Dunsinane
Macbeth
2 sets of twins
The Comedy of Errors
Viola
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Henry VIII
Henry VIII
Julia
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Prince Escalus
Romeo and Juliet
Cinna
Julius Caesar
King Ferdinand of Navarre
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Leonato
Much Ado About Nothing
Florizel
The Winter’s Tale
Helen of Troy
Troilus and Cressida
Horatio
Hamlet
Pericles
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Alonso
The Tempest
King & 3 men form “He-man Woman-haters club” for 3 years
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Rome
Julius Caesar
Cardinal Wolsley
Henry VIII
Calphurnia
Julius Caesar
Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Troilus
Troilus and Cressida
Theseus, Duke of Athens
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sextus Pompey
Antony and Cleopatra
Henry, Earl of Richmond (later Henry VII)
Richard III
Cymbeline
Cymbeline
Duke of Gloucester
Richard III
Princes in the Tower
Richard III
Richard Plantagenet (Duke of York)
Henry VI, Part I
“too much of a good thing”
As You Like It
Demetrius
Titus Andronicus
Silvia
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Goneril
King Lear
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”
Henry V
Henry V dies
Henry VI, Part I
Michael Cassio
Othello
Hamlet Sr
Hamlet
Ophelia
Hamlet
Octavius (Augustus)
Julius Caesar
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
Othello
Agamemnon
Troilus and Cressida
Edmund
King Lear
Valentine
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Gloucester
King Lear
Bertram
All’s Well That Ends Well
Hal
Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, & Henry V
Sir John Falstaff
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Ariel
The Tempest
Sebastian
The Tempest
Katherine
Henry V
Henry Bolingbroke
Richard II
Balthazar
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Plantagenet (later Richard III)
Henry VI, Part III
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Romeo and Juliet
Padua
Taming of the Shrew
the Goths
Titus Andronicus
Ajax
Troilus and Cressida
Duncan, King of Scotland
Macbeth
Proteus
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Octavian
Antony and Cleopatra
Elsinore (Danish Castle)
Hamlet
Antipholus
The Comedy of Errors
Cornwall
King Lear
Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
Lady Macduff
Macbeth
Volscian
Coriolanus
Cressida
Troilus and Cressida
Hector
Troilus and Cressida
Henry VI
Henry VI, Part I, II, III
Peter Quince
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Marina
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Bassianus
Titus Andronicus
Leontes
The Winter’s Tale
Casca
Julius Caesar
Prospero
The Tempest
Lepidus
Julius Caesar
During the Trojan War
Troilus and Cressida
Bianca
Taming of the Shrew
Dromio
The Comedy of Errors
Mariana
Measure for Measure
Metellus Cimber
Julius Caesar
Richard the Lionheart’s bastard son
King John
Gratiano
The Merchant of Venice
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Petruchio
Taming of the Shrew
set in the same period as Henry IV
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Milan
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Menelaus
Troilus and Cressida
Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra
Sycorax
The Tempest
Battle of Bosworth field
Richard III
Helena
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lady Montague
Romeo and Juliet
Cassandra
Troilus and Cressida
Duke Orsino
The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
First Battle of St Albans
Henry VI, Part II
Caliban
The Tempest
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
Hamlet
Yoric
Hamlet
Egeus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Bianca
Othello
Polixenes
The Winter’s Tale
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
Julius Caesar
King of Britain
Cymbeline
Christopher Sly
Taming of the Shrew
Cave outside Athens
Timon of Athens
Claudio
Much Ado About Nothing
44 BC
Julius Caesar
Vincentio
Taming of the Shrew
“As merry as the day is long.”
Much Ado About Nothing, King John
Timon
Timon of Athens
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Hamlet
“What light through yonder window breaks.”
Romeo and Juliet
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on”
The Tempest
“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
Richard III
Miranda
The Tempest
In the end of the play, the men told they must wait 1 year for marriage
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Don Pedro
Much Ado About Nothing
Count Paris
Romeo and Juliet
Friar John
Romeo and Juliet
Thisbe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Antonio
The Merchant of Venice
Priam
Troilus and Cressida
Vincentio
Measure for Measure
Hermione
The Winter’s Tale
Isabella
Measure for Measure
Margaret of Anjou (later Queen Margaret)
Henry VI, Part II, III
Orlando
As You Like It
Chiron
Titus Andronicus
Diana
All’s Well That Ends Well
Marcus Brutus
Julius Caesar
Verona
Romeo and Juliet
