William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
This dramatis personae, or character list, was first included in Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 edition, The Works of Mr William Shakespeare, dubbed “the the first edited edition of Shakespeare’s plays”. It recorded a number of the first: the first appended biography of Shakespeare, the first set of character...
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Leontes – The King of Sicily, and the childhood friend of the Bohemian King Polixenes
Hermione – The virtuous and beautiful Queen of Sicily
Camillo – An honest Sicilian nobleman
Paulina – A noblewoman of Sicily
Antigonus – Paulina's husband, and also a loyal friend of Hermione
Dion – A lord of Sicily
Cleomenes – A Sicilian lord
Mamillius – The young prince of Sicily, Leontes and Hermione's son
Emilia – One of Hermione's ladies-in-waiting
Jailer – Charged with imprisoning Hermione
Mariner – His ship takes Antigonus to Bohemia
Polixenes – The King of Bohemia, and Leontes's boyhood friend
Florizel – Polixenes's only son and heir
Perdita – The daughter of Leontes and Hermione, unaware of her royal lineage
Shepherd – An old and honorable sheep-tender
Clown – or Young Shepherd, the Old Shepherd's buffoonish son, and Perdita's adopted brother
Autolycus – A roguish peddler, vagabond, and pickpocket
Mopsa – A shepherdess, in love with Young Shepherd
Dorcas – A shepherdess, in love with Young Shepherd
Archidamus – A lord of Bohemia, visiting Sicilia with his king
Lords, servants, gentlemen, ladies in Sicilia
Shepherds, shepherdesses, servants in Bohemia