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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 280. Not illustrated. Chapters: Characters in a Midsummer Night's Dream, Characters in Hamlet, Characters in Macbeth, Characters in Romeo and Juliet, Characters in Twelfth Night, Puck, Theseus, Banquo, Hippolyta, Oberon, Three Witches, Lady Macbeth, Prince Hamlet, Fleance, Ophelia, Rosaline, Juliet Capulet, Nick Bottom, Count Paris, King Duncan, Titania, Gertrude, Mercutio, Macduff, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Viola, Polonius, King Claudius, Yorick, Philostrate, Macduff's Son, Andrew Aguecheek, Feste, Nurse, Robin Starveling, King Hamlet, Tybalt, Friar Lawrence, Romeo Montague, Laertes, Egeus, Fortinbras, Horatio, Benvolio, Lord Capulet, Malvolio, Lysander, Lady Macduff, Helena, Peter Quince, Hermia, Toby Belch, Donalbain, Prince Escalus, Snug, Mechanical, Tom Snout, Francis Flute. Excerpt: The following is a list of characters in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet sorted by family allegiance. Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, is the mediator of the feuding families. Escalus is the voice of authority in Verona. He appears only three times within the text and only to administer justice following major events in the feud between the Capulet and Montague families. He first punishes Capulet and Montague in I.i for the quarrel between Tybalt, Benvolio, and a handful of servants. He returns in III.i, too late to stop the fatal brawls between Tybalt and Mercutio and, subsequently, Tybalt and Romeo. Escalus is prepared to execute Romeo for his offenseRomeo killing Tybaltbut lightens the sentence to lifetime banishment from Verona when Benvolio insists that Tybalt started the quarrel by murdering Mercutio, a kinsman to the Prince. He returns in the final sceneV.iiifollowing the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet and at last orders the lords of the feuding families to make peace. Frederic Leighton's 1850s painting depicting Count...
