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Cymbeline, King of Britain Characters

By William Shakespeare

This British princess is just about as perfect as they come: she's wise, beautiful, resourceful,...

Once a wise and graceful king, Cymbeline seems to be a kind-hearted guy led astray by an evil...

Posthumus isn't your average knight in shining armor. He was taken in and raised by Cymbeline as...

The Queen's got high hopes for her son Cloten: she wants him to marry Imogen and inherit...

Pisanio plays musical chairs when it comes to whose servant he is. He's technically Posthumus's...

Cunning, clever, and dishonest, Iachimo is a force to be reckoned with. He easily finds...

Kidnapped at birth and raised by a man claiming to be their father, Arviragus and Guiderius...

Belarius, a.k.a. Morgan, is not a particularly good guy, but he's not a particularly bad one,...

Beautiful, deceitful, and manipulative, the Queen will stop at nothing to see her son become...

Is there a doctor in the house? Well, there's Cornelius, but he's not necessarily going to give...

These jailers might only appear in one scene, but they provide some much-needed comic relief....

Jupiter, or Zeus as his Greek pals call him, is the most powerful guy on Mount Olympus: he's the...

We might expect Lucius to be dragged through the mud by the British characters—he's the...

This Roman does Posthumus a solid honor by letting him stay at his pad while he's in Rome. It...

Being dead never stopped Posthumus's family: these trusty ghosts show up to save the day when...

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