Text	Circles	Dramatis Personae	Synopsis	All Definitions
Character Speaker Gender ALL HORATIO, friend of Prince Hamlet male ALL BARNARDO male ALL MARCELLUS male ALL AT GRAVESIDE King, Priest, Lord, Others ALL IN COURT Osric, Lord, Gentleman, Others ALL LORDS UNISON members of the court ALL WITH HAMLET Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo male AMBASSADOR English AMBASSADORS male BARNARDO BARNARDO male CAPTAIN A CAPTAIN, A Norwegian male FIRST CLOWN FIRST CLOWN, a gravedigger male FIRST PLAYER FIRST PLAYER, who leads the troupe and takes the part of a king [Player King] male FORTINBRAS FORTINBRAS, Prince of Norway [Young Fortinbras] male FOURTH PLAYER FOURTH PLAYER, who speaks a Prologue male FRANCISCO FRANCISCO male GENTLEMAN GENTLEMAN male GENTLEMEN GENTLEMEN male GHOST GHOST of Hamlet, lately King of Denmark male GUILDENSTERN GUILDENSTERN male HAMLET HAMLET, son of the late King Hamlet and of Gertrude [Prince of Denmark] male HIS FOLLOWERS Followers of Laertes male HORATIO HORATIO, friend of Prince Hamlet male HORATIO and MARCELLUS HORATIO, friend of Prince Hamlet male HORATIO and MARCELLUS MARCELLUS male KING Claudius, his brother, now KING of Denmark male LAERTES LAERTES, son of Polonius male LORD A LORD male MARCELLUS MARCELLUS male MARCELLUS and BARNARDO MARCELLUS male MESSENGER A Messenger male OPHELIA OPHELIA, daughter of Polonius female OSRICK OSRICK [Osric] male POLONIUS POLONIUS, counsellor to the King male PRIEST A PRIEST male QUEEN Gertrude, QUEEN of Denmark, widow of the late King and now wife of his brother Claudius female REYNALDO REYNALDO, servant of Polonius male ROSENCRANTZ ROSENCRANTZ male ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN ROSENCRANTZ male ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN GUILDENSTERN male SAILOR A SAILOR male SECOND CLOWN SECOND CLOWN, a gravedigger, his companion male SECOND PLAYER SECOND PLAYER, who takes the part of a queen [Player Queen] male THIRD PLAYER THIRD PLAYER, who takes the part of Lucianus, nephew of the king male VOICES UNISON members of the court male VOLTEMAND VOLTEMAND [Valtemand] male VOLTEMAND and CORNELIUS VOLTEMAND [Valtemand] male VOLTEMAND and CORNELIUS CORNELIUS male