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  2. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    A Lord initiates the practical joke on Christopher Sly in the induction to The Taming of the Shrew. A Lord helps with the preparations for the fencing in Hamlet. A Lord attends on the Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost. A Lord conspires with Lennox in Macbeth. A Lord of Tarsus reports the approach of Pericles' ships, in Pericles, Prince ...

  3. List of Shakespearean characters (A–K) - Wikipedia

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    Capulet: Capulet is Juliet's father in Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet is Juliet's mother in Romeo and Juliet. Old Capulet is a minor character – a kinsman of Capulet – in the party scene of Romeo and Juliet. See also Juliet and Tybalt. Lord Caputius is an ambassador from the Holy Roman Emperor in Henry VIII. Cardinal:

  4. Mercutio - Wikipedia

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    One of Romeo's closest friends, Mercutio entreats Romeo to forget about his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline and come with him to a masquerade ball at Lord Capulet's estate, through use of his Queen Mab speech. There, Mercutio and his friends become the life of the party, but Romeo is drawn to Capulet's daughter, Juliet. He finds ...

  5. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    In Verona, Italy, two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are in the midst of a bloody feud. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall in love and struggle to maintain their relationship in the face of familial hatred. After Romeo kills Juliet's cousin Tybalt in a fit of passion, things fall apart.

  6. Macbeth (character) - Wikipedia

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    Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.

  7. Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Juliet Capulet (Italian: Giulietta Capuleti) is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist Romeo, a member of the House of Montague, with which the Capulets have a blood feud.

  8. Characters in Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus.

  9. Romeo - Wikipedia

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    The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes.The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3]