Cymbeline

Characters

In Britain
  • Cymbeline – Modelled on the historical King of Britain, Cunobeline, and father to Imogen
  • Queen – Cymbeline's second wife and mother to Cloten
  • Imogen/Innogen[2] – Cymbeline's daughter by a former queen, later disguised as the page Fidele
  • Posthumus Leonatus – Innogen's husband, adopted as an orphan and raised in Cymbeline's family
  • Cloten – Queen's son by a former husband and step-brother to Imogen
  • Belarius – banished lord living under the name Morgan, who abducted King Cymbeline's infant sons in retaliation for his banishment
  • Guiderius – Cymbeline's son, kidnapped in childhood by Belarius and raised as his son Polydore
  • Arvirargus – Cymbeline's son, kidnapped in childhood by Belarius and raised as his son Cadwal
  • Pisanio – Posthumus's servant, loyal to both Posthumus and Imogen
  • Cornelius – court physician
  • Helen – lady attending Imogen
  • Two Lords attending Cloten
  • Two Gentlemen
  • Two Captains
  • Two Jailers
In Rome
  • Philario – Posthumus's host in Rome
  • Iachimo/Giacomo[2] – a Roman lord and friend of Philario
  • French Gentleman
  • Dutch Gentleman
  • Spanish Gentleman
  • Caius Lucius – Roman ambassador and later general
  • Two Roman senators
  • Roman tribunes
  • Roman captain
  • Philharmonus – soothsayer
Apparitions
  • Jupiter – King of the gods in Roman mythology
  • Sicilius Leonatus – Posthumus's father
  • Posthumus's mother
  • Posthumus's two brothers

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