Middle Elementary
Characters
characters illustration

A character is a person in a play. Characters can be based on a real person or can be someone that was made-up by the author.

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters include:

  • Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Hamlet
  • Malvolio from Twelfth Night
  • Juliet from Romeo & Juliet
  • Sir John Falstaff from Henry IV (part 1), Henry IV (part 2), andThe Merry Wives of Windsor

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