Character | Speaker | Gender |
ALL QUEENS | FIRST QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
ALL QUEENS | SECOND QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
ALL QUEENS | THIRD QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
ALL THE OTHERS | UNISON Gaoler's friends | male |
ALL THREE KNIGHTS | First KNIGHT | male |
ALL THREE KNIGHTS | Second KNIGHT | male |
ALL THREE KNIGHTS | Third KNIGHT | male |
ARCITE | ARCITE | male |
BAVIAN | BAVIAN [Fifth Countryman] | male |
BOY | A BOY, attendant to Hymen | male |
BROTHER | BROTHER of Gaoler | male |
DAUGHTER | DAUGHTER of Gaoler [Jailer] | female |
DOCTOR | A DOCTOR | male |
EMILIA | EMILIA, her sister [Emily] | female |
FIRST COUNTRYMAN | FIRST COUNTRYMAN | male |
FIRST FRIEND | FIRST FRIEND of Gaoler | male |
FIRST KNIGHT | First KNIGHT | male |
FIRST QUEEN | FIRST QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
FOURTH COUNTRYMAN | FOURTH COUNTRYMAN | male |
GAOLER | GAOLER, in charge of Theseus's prison [Jailer] | male |
GENTLEMAN | A GENTLEMAN | male |
HERALD | A HERALD | male |
HIPPOLYTA | HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, and then wife of Theseus [Hippolyte; Hippolita; Antiope] | female |
MESSENGER | MESSENGER | male |
NELL | NELL and four other country Wenches | female |
PALAMON | PALAMON | male |
PALAMON and ARCITE | PALAMON | male |
PALAMON and ARCITE | ARCITE | male |
PIRITHOUS | PIRITHOUS, friend of Theseus | male |
SECOND COUNTRYMAN | SECOND COUNTRYMAN | male |
SECOND FRIEND | SECOND FRIEND of Gaoler | male |
SECOND KNIGHT | Second KNIGHT | male |
SECOND QUEEN | SECOND QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
SERVANT | A SERVANT | male |
SCHOOLMASTER | A SCHOOLMASTER [Master Gerrold] | male |
SPEAKER | Speaker of the PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE | |
TABORER | A TABORER | male |
THESEUS | THESEUS, Duke of Athens | male |
THIRD COUNTRYMAN | THIRD COUNTRYMAN | male |
THIRD KNIGHT | Third KNIGHT | male |
THIRD QUEEN | THIRD QUEEN, widow of a king killed in the siege of Thebes | female |
VALERIUS | VALERIUS, a Theban | male |
WOMAN | WOMAN, servant of Emilia | female |
WOOER | WOOER of Gaoler's Daughter | male |