Shakespeare’s Characters

Shakespeare was a master character creator, and invented and brought to life hundreds of characters in his many plays. This site section is a work in progress, as we work to build out in-depth character studies for all of Shakespeare’s major characters. Want a run-down of Shakespeare’s characters in one of his play? Click on the play below to find the full list of characters Shakespeare created and brought to life in each of his plays.

Discover Shakespeare’s Characters By Play:

Characters in All’s Well That Ends Well.

Charaters in Antony and Cleopatra

Characters in As You Like It

Characters in The Comedy Of Errors

Characters in Coriolanus

Characters in Cymbeline

Characters in Hamlet

Characters in Henry IV Part 1

Characters in Henry IV Part 2

Characters in Henry V

Characters in Henry VI Part 1

Characters in Henry VI Part 2

Characters in Henry VI Part 3

Characters in Henry VIII

Characters Julius Caesar

Characters in King John

Characters in King Lear

Characters in Love’s Labour’s Lost

Characters in Macbeth

Characters in Measure for Measure

Characters in The Merchant of Venice

Characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Characters in Much Ado About Nothing

Characters in Othello

Characters in Pericles

Characters in Richard II

Characters in Richard III

Characters in Romeo and Juliet

Characters in The Taming of the Shrew

Characters in The Tempest

Characters in Timon of Athens

Characters in Titus Andronicus

Characters in Triolus and Cressida

Characters in Twelfth Night

Characters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Characters in The Two Noble Kinsmen

Characters in The Winters Tale

Shakespeare’s Top Characters

Interested in a deeper look at Shakespeare’s characters? If so have a read of Shakespeare’s top villains, or Shakespeare’s most powerful women, or look at our indepth character studies below of Shakespeare’s most searched for characters:

Banquo, Macbeth

Caliban, The Tempest

Claudius, Hamlet

Desdemona, Othello

Falstaff

Fortinbras, Hamlet

Friar Laurence, Romeo & Juliet

Lady Macbeth, Mabeth

Laertes, Hamlet

Lucio, Measure for Measure

Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Macduff, Macbeth

Malvolio, Twelfth Night

Mercutio, Romeo & Juliet

Oberon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Ophelia, Hamlet

Osric, Hamlet

Perdita, The Winter’s Tale

Polonius, Hamlet

Prospero, The Tempest