King Richard III (Characters of the Play)

Dramatis Personae

KING EDWARD IV

EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES
afterwards KING EDWARD V, King's son

RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, King's son

GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE, King's brother

RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,
afterwards KING RICHARD III, King's brother

A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCE (Edward, Earl of Warwick)

HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND,
afterwards KING HENRY VII

CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
DUKE OF NORFOLK
EARL OF SURREY, Norfolk's son
EARL RIVERS, brother to King Edward's Queen
MARQUIS OF DORSET, Queen's son
LORD GREY, Queen's son
EARL OF OXFORD
LORD HASTINGS
LORD LOVEL
LORD STANLEY, called also EARL OF DERBY,
Richmond's stepfather
SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN
SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF
SIR WILLIAM CATESBY
SIR JAMES TYRREL, assassin
SIR JAMES BLOUNT
SIR WALTER HERBERT
SIR WILLIAM BRANDON, Richmond's standard-bearer
(non-speaking role)
SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
SHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE
HASTINGS, a pursuivant
TRESSEL and BERKELEY, gentlemen attending on Lady Anne
ELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IV
MARGARET, widow of King Henry VI
DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV

LADY ANNE,
widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI;
afterwards married to the Duke of Gloucester

A YOUNG DAUGHTER OF CLARENCE
(Margaret Plantagenet Countess of Salisbury)

Ghosts, of Richard's victims
Lords, Gentlemen, and Attendants; Priest, Scrivener, Page,
Bishops,Aldermen, Citizens, Soldiers, Messengers, Murderers, Keeper