Main Menu Plays Sonnets Poems Notes   Index    Largest roles by play   The following are the main roles by play. They are the 139th largest roles with the largest number of lines. Click on a character's name to see web page pf all of text for character, or click on pdf icon to see pdf version.   All's Well that Ends Well Bertram Countess Helena King Lafeu Parolles   Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Domitiuse Nobarbus Mark Antony Octavius Caesar   As You Like It Celia Orlando Rosalind Touchstone   The Comedy of Errors Adriana Antipholus Dromio of Syracuse   The Tragedy of Coriolanus Aaufidius Cominius Coriolanus Menenius Sicinius Volumnia   Cymbeline Belarius Cloten Cymbeline Iachimo Imogen Posthumus Leonatus   The Tragedy of Hamlet Hamlet Horatio King Claudius Lord Polonius   History of Henry IV, Part I Falstaff Hotspur King Henry IV Prince Henry   History of Henry IV, Part II Falstaff King Henry IV   History of Henry V Fluellen King Henry V   History of Henry VI, Part I Joan la Pucelle Talbot   History of Henry VI, Part II Cade Gloucester King Henry VI Queen Margaret Suffolk York   History of Henry VI, Part III Gloucester King Edward IV King Henry VI Queen Margaret Warwick   History of Henry VIII Cardinal Wolsey King Henry VIII Queen Katharine   The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Antony Brutus Cassius   History of King John Bastard Constance King John   The Tragedy of King Lear Edgar Edmund Gloucester Kent King Lear   Love's Labour's Lost Biron Don Adriano de Armado Ferdinand Pincess   The Tragedy of Macbeth Lady Macbeth Macbeth   Measure for Measure Angelo Duke Duke Vincentio Isabella Lucio   The Merchant of Venice Bassanio Portia Shylock   The Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff Ford Mistress Page Mistress Quickly   Much Ado about Nothing Beatrice Benedick Claudio Don Pedro Leonato   The Tragedy of Othello Cassio Desdemona Emilia Iago Othello   Pericles, Prince of Tyre Gower Pericles   History of Richard II Duke of York Henry Bolingbroke King Richard II   History of Richard III Buckingham Gloucester King Richard III Queen Wlizabeth   The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Capulet Friar Laurence Juliet Mercutio Nurse Romeo   The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio Tranio   The Tempest Prospero   The Tragedy of Timon of Athens Apemantus Timon   Titus Andronicus Aaron Marcus Andronicus Tamora Titus Andronicus   Troilus and Cressida Cressida Pandarus Thersites Troilus Ulysses   Twelfth Night, Or What You Will Clown Malvolio Olivia Sir Toby Belch Viola   Two Gentlemen of Verona Julia Proteus Valentine   The Winter's Tale Autolycus Camillo Leontes Paulina Polixenes     Full list of all Shakespeare’s characters (with link for each character) Full list of female Shakespeare’s characters (with link for each character) Full list of villain Shakespeare’s characters (with link for each character) Characters appearing in more than one play Shakespeare's largest roles Lengths of Shakespeare’s plays Famous quotations (with links) All plays Monologues menu (with text for each monologue)       Return to top Main Menu Plays Sonnets Poems Notes   Index