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A Lady

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A Lord

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Aaron

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Abbess

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Abergavenny

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Abram

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Achilles

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Adam

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Adrian

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Adriana

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Comedy of Errors; Adriana is the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus and the sister of Luciana

Adrien

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Aemilia of Syracuse

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Aeneas

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Agamemnon

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Agrippa

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Anthony and Cleopatra

Ajax

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Alanson

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Albany

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King Lear

Alcibiades

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Alexander

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Alexas

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Alice

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Alonso

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Ambassador

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Amiens

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As You Like It

Andromache

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Angelo

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Angelo the Goldsmith

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Angus

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Anne Bullen

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Antiochus

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Antiochus's Daughter

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Antipholus of Ephesus

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Antipholus of Syracuse

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Comedy of Errors

Antonio

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Twelfth Night

Antony

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Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra

 

Apemantus

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Archbishop of Canterbury

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Archbishop of York

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Archidamus

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Ariel

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Armado

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Arthur

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Arviragus

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Audrey

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Aumerle

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Austria

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Autolycus

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Balthasar

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Banquo

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Banquo's Ghost

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Baptista

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Bardolph

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Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V

Barnardo

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Bassanio

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Bassianus

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Bastard of Orleance

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Henry VI Pt 1

Bates

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Beatrice

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Much Ado About Nothing

Bedford

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Belarius

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Bellario

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Benedick

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Much Ado About Nothing

Benvolio

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Romeo and Juliet

Bernardo

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Berowne

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Love's Labors Lost

Bertram

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All's Well That Ends Well ” Bertram, Count of Roussillon, and son of the Countess of Roussillon, is a young lord of France. Helena loves him but he does not love her.

Bianca

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Bigot

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Biondello

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Bishop of Ely

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Henry V

Blanche

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Boatswain

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Bolingbroke

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Borachio

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Bottom

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Midsummer Night's Dream

Bourbon

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Boy

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Henry V

Boyet

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Brabantio

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Brakenbury

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Brandon

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Briton Lord

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Brittany

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Burgundy

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Cade

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Caithness

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Caius Martius Coriolanus

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Caliban

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Calphurnia

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Camillo

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Winter's Tale

Campeius

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Captain

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Captain in Cymbeline

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Cymbeline

Captain in Titus

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Capuchius

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Cardinal

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Carlisle

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Carpenter

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Casca

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Cassandra

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Cassio

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Cassius

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Julius Caesar

Catesby

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Celia

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Ceres

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Cerimon

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Charles

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Charmian

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Anthony and Cleopatra

Chatillion

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Chief Justice

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Children

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Chiron

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Chorus

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Henry V, Romeo and Juliet

Cicero

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Cinna

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Citizen King John

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King John

Clarence

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Claudia

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Claudio

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Much Ado About Nothing

Cleon

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Cleopatra

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Anthony and Cleopatra

Cloten

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Cobbler

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Colevile

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Cominius

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Conrade

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Much Ado About Nothing

Constable

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Constance

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Cordelia

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Corin

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Cornelius

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Cornwall

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Costard

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Countess of Rossillion

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All's Well That Ends Well: Countess Rousillion is a  widow. Her son Bertram is taken into the wardship of the King. The Countess takes in Helen as her ward and encourages a romance between Helen and Bertram.

Countryman

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Cranmer

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Cressida

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Troilus and Cressida

Crier

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Cromwell

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Curtis

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Cymbeline

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Cymbeline

Cymbeline's Queen

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Cymbeline

Dauphin

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Henry V

Davy

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Decius Brutus

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Julius Caesar

Demetrius

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Dercetus

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Desdemona

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Diana

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All's Well That Ends Well ” Diana is a Florentine daughter of a widowed innkeeper. She is forcefully wooed by Bertram and eventually turns on him.

Diomedes

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Dionyza

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Doctor Caius

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Doctor in Cymbelline

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Cymbeline

Doctor in Hamlet

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Doctor in Lear

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Doctor in Macbeth

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Dogberry

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Dolabella

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Doll Tearsheet

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Don John

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Don Pedro

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Much Ado About Nothing

Donalbain

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Dorcas

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Dorset

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Drawer

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Dromio of Ephesus

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Dromio of Syracuse

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Comedy of Errors

Duchess of Gloucester

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Duchess of York

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Duke Frederick

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As You Like It

Duke of Buckingham

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Richard III

Duke of Ephesus

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Duke of Exeter

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Henry V

Duke of Florence

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Duke of Milan

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

Duke of Norfolk

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Henry VIII

Duke of Suffolk

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Duke of Venice

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Othello

Duke of Vienna

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Measure for Measure

Duke of York

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Duke Senior

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As You Like It

Dull

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Dumaine

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Duncan

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Earl of Oxford

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Earl of Richmond

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Earl Rivers

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Edgar

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King Lear

Edmund

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King Lear

Egeon

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Egeus

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Emilia

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English Herald

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Enobarbus

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Epilogue

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Eros

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Erpingham

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Escalus

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Fabian

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Fairies

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Fairy

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Falstaff

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Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Father Henry VIP3

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Ferdinand

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The Tempest

Feste

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Twelfth Night

Fifth Roman Citizen

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Coriolanus

First Apparition

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First Bandit

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First Brother

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First Citizen

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Richard III

First Gentleman Cymbeline

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Cymbeline

First Gentleman Ephesus

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

 

First Gentleman Henry VIII

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Henry VIII

First Gentleman Measure

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Measure for Measure

First Gentleman Othello

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Othello

First Huntsman

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First Lord

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First Merchant

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First Messenger

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First Murderer

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First Musician

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First Officer

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First Page

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First Player

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First Plebeian

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First Roman Citizen

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Coriolanus

First Senator

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First Servant

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Winter's Tale

First Servingman

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First Stranger

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First Watch

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First Watchman

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First Witch

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Flaminius

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Flavius

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Florizell

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Fluellen

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Flute

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Fool in All's Well

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Fool in Lear

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Fool in Timon

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Forester

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Fortinbras

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Fourth Plebeian

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Fourth Roman Citizen

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Coriolanus

France

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Frances Ford

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Merry Wives of Windsor

Francis

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Francisco

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French Herald

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French Soldier

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Frenchman

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Friar Francis

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Friar John

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Friar Lawrence

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Romeo and Juliet

Friar Peter

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Friar Thomas

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Gadshill

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Gardener

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Gardiner

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Gaunt

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Gaurdsman

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General

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Gentleman in All's Well

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All's Well That Ends Well

Gentleman in Hamlet

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Hamlet

 

Gentleman in Lear

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King Lear

 

Gentleman in Richard III

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Richard III

 

Gentleman Usher

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Henry VIII

Gentlemen of Cypress

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Othello

 

Gentlewoman of Macbeth

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Macbeth

Ghost

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Gloucester

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King Lear

Goneril

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Gonzalo

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The Tempest

Governor of Harfleur

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Gower

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Grandpré

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Gratiano

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Gregory

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Gremio

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Griffith

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Grumio

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Guiderius

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Guildenstern

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Hamlet

Haberdasher

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Hamlet

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Hamlet

Harcourt

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Hector

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Helen of Rossillion

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All's Well That Ends Well: Helen, a gentlewoman of Rossillion, is the daughter of Gerard de Narbon, a respected doctor. After his death, she is entrusted to the care of the Countess of Rossillion, who assumes the role of her mother. The Countess is the actual mother of Bertram, Helen's future husband.

Helen of Troy

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Troilus and Cressida: Menelaus’s wife and queen

Helena

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Midsummer Night's Dream

Helenus

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Troilus and Cressida: One of Priam's six sons

Helicanus

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Henry IV

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Henry IV Pt 2

Henry Percy

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Henry V

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Henry V

Also known as Prince Hal in:
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV Part 2

Henry VI

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Henry VIII

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Hermia

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Midsummer's Night Dream

Hermione

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Hero

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Hippolyta

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Holofernes

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Horatio

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Hortensio

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Hortensius

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Host

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Hostess in Taming

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Hostess Quickly

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Hotspur

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Hubert

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Hymen

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Hyppolyta

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Iachimo

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Iago

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Othello

Imogen

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Iras

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Iris

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Isabella

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Measure for Measure

Jailer

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Jailor

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Jamy

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Jaques

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As You Like It

Jessica

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Merchant of Venice

Jeweler

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Joan la Pucelle

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John of Lancaster

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Julia

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Juliet of Verona

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Romeo and Juliet

Juliet of Vienna

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Juliet of Vienna

Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar

Junius Brutus

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Coriolanus

Juno

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Jupiter

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Katherine Minola

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Taming of the Shrew

Katherine of Alanson

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Love's Labors Lost

Keeper

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Kent

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King Claudius

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Hamlet

King Edward

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King John

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King John

King Lear

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King Lear

King of France

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King of Navarre

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King Philip

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La Beau

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Ladies

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Lady Anne

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Lady Capulet

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Romeo and Juliet

Lady Faulconbridge

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Lady Grey

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Henry VI

Lady Macbeth

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Macbeth

Lady Macduff

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Lady Montague

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Lady Percy

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Laertes

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Lafew

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All's Well That Ends Well ” Lafew is an old lord at the court of France.

Lamprius

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Anthony and Cleopatra

Lancelet

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Lavinia

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Le Beau

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Lennox

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Leonato

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Much Ado About Nothing

Leonato's Brother

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Leontes

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Winter's Tale

Lepidus

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Lodovico

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Longaville

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Lord

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Lord Capulet

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Romeo and Juliet

Lord Chamberlain

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Henry VIII

Lord Chancellor

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Lord Grey

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Lord Hastings

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Lord in Taming

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Lord Lovell

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Lord Montague

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Romeo and Juliet

Lord Sands

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Lord Stanley

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Lords

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Lorenzo

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Lucentio

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Lucetta

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Luciana

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Lucilius

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Lucio

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Lucius

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Lucius's Man

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Lucvullus

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Lysander

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Midsummer's Night Dream

Lysimachus

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Macbeth

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Macbeth

Macduff

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Macbeth

Macduff's Son

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Macmorris

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Henry V

Maecenas

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Malcolm

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Macbeth

Malvolio

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Twelfth Night

Marcellus

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Marcus Andronicus

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Marcus Brutus

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Julius Caesar

Mardian

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Margaret

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Maria

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Mariana

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Marina

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Master

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Mayor

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Menas

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Menenius Agrippa

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Menteith

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Merchant

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Mercutio

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Messala

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Messenger

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Anthony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing

Messenger Macduff

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Metellus Cimber

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Miranda

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The Tempest

Montano

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Montjoy

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Mopsa

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Mortimer

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Morton

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Mouldy

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Mowbray

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Murderer

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Murderer Macduff

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Murullus

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Musicians

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Narissa

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Nathaniel

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Nerissa

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Nestor

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Nicanor

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Nobleman

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Northumberland

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Nun

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Nurse

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Nym

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Oberon

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Octavia

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Octavius Caesar

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Officer

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Old Lady

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Old Man

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Old Shepherd

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Winter's Tale

Oliver

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Olivia

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Twelfth Night

Ophelia

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Orlando

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Orléans

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Orsino

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Twelfth Night

Osric

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Othello

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Othello

Owen Glendower

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Page

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Painter

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Pandarus

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Pandulph

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Paris

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Parolles

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Patience

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Patroclus

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Paulina

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Winter's Tale

Pembroke

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Perdita

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Pericles

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Peter

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Petruchio

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The Taming of the Shrew

Philario

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Philo

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Philostrate

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Philotus

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Phoebe

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Phrynia

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Pisanio

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Pistol

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Plebeians

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Poet

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Poins

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Polixenes

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Winter's Tale

Polonius

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Pompey

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Porter

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Portia

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Merchant of Venice

Posthumus

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Posthumus's Mother

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Prince Edward

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Prince Escalus

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Romeo and Juliet

Prince Hal

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Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV Part 2

Prince of Wales, Son of King Henry IV, and the future Henry V.

Prince Henry

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Son of King John

Prince of Morocco

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Merchant of Venice

Princess

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Princess Katherine

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Henry V

Prologue

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Prologue Midsummer

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Prologue Two Noble Kinsmen

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Prospero

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The Tempest

Proteus

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

Provost

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Queen Eleanor

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Queen Elizabeth

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Queen Gertrude

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Hamlet

Queen Isabella

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Queen Katherine

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Henry VIII

Queen Margaret

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Queen of France

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Quince

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Regan

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King Lear

Reignier

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Reynaldo

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Richard II

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Richard III

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Richard III

Also known as Richard, Duke of Gloucester in:
Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, & 3, and in Richard III

Richard Plantagenet

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Richard the Bastard

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In King John, the Bastard's actual name is Philip Faulconbridge, son of Lady Faulconbridge, who became pregnant with Philip through her illicit liaison with King Richard I. With her husband, Sir Robert Faulconbridge, she gave birth to a legitimate son, Robert Faulconbridge. Early in the play, King John knights Philip and renames him Sir Richard, thus the confusion of names.

Robin Goodfellow

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Robin Goodfellow is more commonly known as Puck.

Roderigo

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Romeo

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Romeo and Juliet

Rosalind

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As You Like It

Rosaline

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Love's Labors Lost

Rosencrantz

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Ross

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Rumor

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Salarino

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Salisbury

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Sampson

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Romeo and Juliet

Saturninus

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Scarus

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Scrivener

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Scroop

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Seacoal

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Sebastian

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The Tempest

Second Apparition

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Second Bandit

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Second Brother

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Second Citizen

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Richard III

Second Friend

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Second Gentleman Cymbeline

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Cymbeline

Second Gentleman Ephesus

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

 

Second Gentleman Henry VIII

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Henry VIII

Second Gentleman Measure

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Measure for Measure

Second Gentleman Othello

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Othello

Second Huntsman

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Second Lord

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All's Well That Ends Well ” Second Lord Dumaine is brother of the First Lord Dumaine.

Second Messenger

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Second Murderer

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Second Musician

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Second Officer

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Second Page

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Second Player

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Second Plebeian

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Second Roman Citizen

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Coriolanus

Second Senator

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Second Servant

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Second Servingman

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Romeo and Juliet

Second Stranger

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Second Witch

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Sempronius

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Sergeant

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Servant

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Servilius

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Servingman

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Sexton

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Seyton

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Shaddow

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Shallow

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Shepherd

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Shepherd's Son

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Shylock

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Merchant of Venice

Sicilius

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Siciniur

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Silence

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Silius

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Silvius

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Sir Andrew Aguecheek

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Sir Hugh

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Sir Thomas Lovell

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Sir Thomas More

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Sir Toby Belch

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Twelfth Night

Sir William Lucy

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Slender

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Sly

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Snout

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Snug

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Solanio

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Soldier

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Somerset

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Son Henry VIP3

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Soothsayer

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Speed

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Spring

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Staveling

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Stephano

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Steward

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Suffolk

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Surrey

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Sylvia

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Tailor

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Talbot

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Tamora

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Thaisa

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The Chamberlain

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Henry IV Pt 1

Thersites

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Theseus

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Midsummer's Night Dream

Third Apparition

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Third Bandit

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Third Citizen

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Richard III

Third Friend

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Third Gentleman Henry VIII

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Henry VIII

Third Huntsman

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Third Messenger

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Third Musician

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Third Plebeian

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Third Roman Citizen

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Coriolanus

Third Senator

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Third Servant

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Third Servingman

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Third Stranger

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Third Witch

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Thomas of Clarence

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Thurio

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Timandra

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Timon

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Titania

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Midsummer's Night Dream

Titinius

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Titus

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Titus Andronicus

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Touchstone

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As You Like It

Tranio

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Trebonius

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Trinculo

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The Tempest

Troilus

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Tubal

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Tullus Aufidius

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Tybalt

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Tyrrel

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Ulysses

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Ursula

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Valentine

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Varro's First Man

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Varro's Man

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Varro's Second Man

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Vaux

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Ventidius

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Verges

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Vernon

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Viola

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Twelfth Night

Volumnia

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Warwick

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Welsh Captain

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Westmoreland

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Widow

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William

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Williams

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Willoughby

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Winchester

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Winter

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Witches

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Wolsey

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Woman

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Worcester

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