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69 Cards in this Set
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Desdemona
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Othello's wife;
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Iago
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Othello's ensign
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Othello
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General of Venice
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Cassio
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Othello's lieutenant, 2nd in command; Iago frames him as having an affair w/ Desdemona
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Emilia
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Iago's wife and Desdemona's attendant
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Roderigo
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jealous suitor of Desdemona; gives all his $ to Iago to help win her
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Brabantio
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Desdemona's father, a Venetian senator
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Bianca
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Cassio's favorite prostitute
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Viola
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(twelfth night)- aristocratic woman who disguises herself as a man "cesario" to become orsino's page. she ends up falling in love w/ orsino and olivia falls in love w/ her
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Orsino
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(twelfth night)-duke of illyria, falls in love w/ olivia
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Olivia
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(twelfth night)-noble Illyrian woman, Orsino is in love with her but she is in love with Cesario
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Sebastian
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(twelfth night)- Viola's lost twin brother; ppl mistake him for Viola
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Malvolio
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(twelfth night)- Lady Olivia's haughty, self-righteous steward; Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria trick him into thinking Olivia is in love w/ him
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Feste
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(twelfth night)- Olivia's clown; moves b/w her and Orsino's households
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Sir Toby
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(twelfth night)- Olivia's uncle, a partier and prankster, eventually is a good match w/ Maria
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Maria
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(twelfth night)- Olivia's clever lady in waiting
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Sir Andrew Aguecheek
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(twelfth night)- Sir Toby's idiotic friend, thinks he has a chance w/ Olivia
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Antonio
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(twelfth night)- rescues Sebastian after his shipwreck, almost loves him
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Caius Martius
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(coriolanus)- overly proud, aristocratic general whom is given the title Coriolanus but eventually exiled from Rome for his faults
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Volumnia
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(coriolanus)- Coriolanus' mother, obsessed w/ strength and honor esp. of her son
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Menenius
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(coriolanus)- coriolanus' friend, a Roman nobleman, has a clever tongue and wit that keep him out of trouble
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Brutus
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(coriolanus)- a tribune elected by plebians, he sees corilanus as rome's greatest threat and tries to bring him down
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Sicinius
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(coriolanus)- a roman tribune, brutus' ally in taking down corilanus
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Tullus Aufidius
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(coriolanus)- volscian general, at first coriolanus' rival, later on coriolanus joins him to march on rome after his exile
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cominus
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(coriolanus)- patrician of rome & former consul, friend of coriolanus, he leads rome's army against the volscians
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titus lartius
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(coriolanus)-roman nobleman, appointed a general alongside cominus to defend rome from volscian attack
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Virgilia
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(coriolanus)- coriolanus' devoted wife
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Valeria
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(coriolanus)- close friend of virgilia and volumnia
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young martius
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(coriolanus)- coriolanus and virgilia's son
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Claudius
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(hamlet)- king of denmark, hamlet's uncle,
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Gertrude
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(hamlet)- queen of denmark & claudius' husband, hamlet's mother
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Polonius
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(hamlet)- a pompous, conniving nobleman of claudius' court, he is also father to laertes and ophelia
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Horatio
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Hamlet's loyal and helpful friend, studied w/ him at wittenberg
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Ophelia
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Polonius' daughter and Hamlet's love interest
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Laertes
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polonius' son, foil to hamlet, passionate and quick to act
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fortinbras
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young king of norway, his father was killed by hamlet's father so he wants revenge on denmark
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rosencrantz and guildenstern
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two courtiers, former friends of hamlet's at wittenberg, they're summoned by claudius and gertrude to find out why hamlet is acting so strange
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king lear
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aging king of britain,
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cordelia
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king lear's youngest daughter, exiled by lear bc she refused to flatter him, is later married by the king of france for her virtue, is loyal to lear and later forgives him
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Goneril
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Lear's oldest daughter, married to the duke of albany, wants edmund
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Regan
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Lear's middle daughter, married to the duke of cornwall, wants edmund
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Gloucester
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Earl of Lear's court... has illegitimate son edmund and legitimate son edgar
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edgar
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(lear)- gloucester's older, legitimate son, he disguises himself as a beggar to avoid being caught by his father's men
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edmund
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(lear)- gloucester's younger illegitimate son, he is angry @ his bastard status and schemes to usurp edgar's power
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kent
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nobleman to king lear, disguises himself as peasant "caius" in order to serve lear even after lear banishes him
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duke of Albany
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Goneril's husband, he is good @ heart and eventually denounces the cruelty of regan, goneril, and cornwall but realizes this way too late
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duke of cornwall
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Regan's husband, domineering, cruel, and violent, he works w/ the 2 sisters to take down lear and gloucester
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Leontes
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(winter's tale)- king of sicilia, childhood friend of bohemian king polixenes; jealousy leads him to believe polixenes is having an affair w/ his wife hermione
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Hermione
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(winter's tale)- wife of leontes & queen of sicilia, a very virtuous woman, apparently dies of grief after being vindicated by the oracle of delphi but comes back to life later
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Perdita
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(winter's tale)- daughter of Leontes and Hermione. b/c she's thought to be illegitimate she's abandoned in bohemia and raised by a shepherd, later returns to fall in love w/ bohemian prince Florizel
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Polixenes
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(winter's tale)- King of Bohemia, leontes falsely accuses him of cheating w/ his wife hermione; his son florizel falls in love w/ perdita (thought to be a shepherdess but really a princess)
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Florizel
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(winter's tale)- prince of bohemia & polixenes' son, he falls in love w/ perdita and disobeys his father to elope w/ her
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Camillo
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(winter's tale)- honest sicilian nobleman, leontes orders him to poison polixenes but he refuses and runs away to join bohemians
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Paulina
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(winter's tale)- noblewoman of sicily, heavily defends hermione's virtue and honor, later is agent of hermione's resurrection
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autolycus
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(winter's tale)- vagabond, peddler, pick-pocket, he is rogueish but later on helps florizel and perdita escape
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shepherd
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(winter's tale)- finds perdita abandoned as a baby and raises her as his daughter
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Antigonus
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(winter's tale)- Paulina's husband, also loyal defender of hermione; he is given task of abandoning perdita on the bohemian coast
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clown
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(winter's tale)- the shepherd's buffoonish son and adopted brother to perdita
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Maximillus
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(winter's tale)- prince of sicilia, he dies of grief (?) after his mother is wrongfully imprisoned
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cleomenes
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(winter's tale)- lord of sicilia, is sent to delphi to ask the oracle about hermione's guilt
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prospero
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(tempest)- ex duke of milan, has spent 12 years on the island building up magic to regain his power that was usurped from him by his brother, Antonio, and Alonso, king of naples
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Miranda
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(tempest)- daughter of prospero, was brought to island very young so is naive but loyal and kind
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Ariel
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(tempest)- prospero's shape-shifting spirit helper, was saved by prospero from witch sycorax's imprisonment; he carries out almost everything prospero needs to accomplish in the play
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caliban
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(tempest)- prospero's servant and son of deceased witch sycorax, he believes the island is his and has been stolen by prospero
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ferdinand
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(tempest)- son and heir of alonso, pure and naive like miranda, falls in love w/ her and gladly serves prospero in order to prove his love
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Alonso
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(tempest)- king of naples, helped antonia usurp prospero, later regrets this
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antonio
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(tempest)- prospero's power hungry, foolish brother who has usurped his power, he persuades sebastian to kill alonso but their plan doesn't succeed
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sebastian
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(tempest)- alonso's aggressive & cowardly brother, he is easily persuaded to kill his brother but fails and makes up a story about lions when Gonzalo catches him with his sword drawn
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Gonzalo
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(tempest)- honest lord that helps prospero and miranda escape after antonio took over. he gives speeches that provide important commentary for the play
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