The stories that never settle
Shakespeare
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and then a play about forgiveness. Four hundred years on, the questions are still open.
🎭 A new cast in every play? Start here
See the cast → 174 figures, grouped into rulers, nobles, citizens and spirits. Pick anyone and jump straight to the chapters they appear in.
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1. Four Who Ran to the Wood
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2. The Queen Who Loved a Donkey
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3. Four People With Two Faces
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4. What Taming Means
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5. Words Made to Be Overheard
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6. Rosalind in Men's Clothes
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7. The Twelfth Night
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8. The Man They Laughed At
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9. A Pound of Flesh
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10. Have I Not Eyes
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11. Can Mercy Be Forced
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12. The Enemy's Ball
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13. Give Up Your Name
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14. A Plague on Both Your Houses
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15. The Grown-Ups' Plan
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16. The Letter That Never Came
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17. Can a King Be Pulled Down
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18. The Hand That Lets Go
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19. The Prince in the Tavern
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20. The Word Called Honour
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21. I Know Thee Not
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22. We Few, We Happy Few
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23. What Winning Leaves Behind
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24. Plucking a Rose to Choose a Side
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25. What Came of a Good King
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26. The Queen Puts On Armour
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27. Winter into Summer
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28. My Kingdom for a Horse
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29. Beware the Ides of March
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30. Et Tu, Brute
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31. Two Speeches
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32. I Will Not Show My Wounds
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33. A Mother Kneels
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34. The World for a Love
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35. The Ships That Turned
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36. What the Three Said
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37. Murdering Sleep
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38. The Empty Chair
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39. The Hand That Will Not Wash
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40. The Moving Wood
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41. A Feast Two Months After
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42. The Father on the Wall
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43. To Be or Not to Be
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44. The Mousetrap
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45. The Garland on the Water
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46. Holding a Skull
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47. I Am Not What I Am
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48. How Not to Finish a Sentence
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49. One Handkerchief
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50. The Green-Eyed Monster
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51. Putting Out the Light
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52. How Much Do You Love Me
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53. What Only a Joke Can Say
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54. Those Out in the Rain
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55. Eyes That See Without Seeing
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56. Why Not the Bastard
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57. Never Again
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58. Suspicion Without Cause
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59. The Abandoned Child
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60. The Statue After Sixteen Years
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61. The Ship That Reached the Island
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62. This Island Was Mine
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63. Breaking the Staff
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64. The One Who Never Answered