List of Historical Figures Dramatised By Shakespeare - M

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  • Maecenas is a follower of Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra.
For Marcus see (Marcus) Brutus, (Marcus Aurelius) Lepidus, and Mark, which is often interchangeable with Marcus.
  • Queen Margaret is a fairly epic character, one of the greatest in that respect in Shakespeare. She appears as a naive girl in Henry VI, Part 1 and as an embittered old woman in Richard III. She is a central character of the two intervening plays, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3, in which she is the wife of Henry VI and a leader of his armies. In her most notable scene she supervises the murder/execution of Richard Duke of York.
For Mark Antony see Mark Antony.
For Marquess see Marquess of Dorset, Marquess of Montagu and Marquess of Suffolk (under Duke of Suffolk).
  • Matthew Gough is an enemy of Jack Cade's rebels in Henry VI, Part 2.
  • The Mayor of York reluctantly supports the Yorkists in Henry VI, Part 3.
  • Menas, a follower of Pompey, suggests cutting loose the boat where the triumvirs are feasting in Antony and Cleopatra.
  • Menecrates is a follower of Pompey in Antony and Cleopatra.
  • Metellus Cimber is one of the conspirators in Julius Caesar.
  • Sir John Montgomery (historically Thomas Montgomery) is a minor Yorkist character in Henry VI, Part 3.
  • Mortimer:
    • Edmund Mortimer is a claimant to the English throne, and a leader of the rebel forces, in Henry IV, Part 1 and explains the Yorkist claim to the crown to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, in Henry VI, Part 1. He is a composite of two figures, a child claimaint and his adult uncle, both named Edmund Mortimer.
    • Lady Mortimer, daughter of Glendower and wife of Edmund Mortimer, sings in Welsh in Henry IV, Part 1.
    • Sir Hugh Mortimer is an uncle of Richard Duke of York in Henry VI, Part 3.
    • Sir John Mortimer is an uncle of Richard Duke of York in Henry VI, Part 3.
    • See also Jack Cade, who falsely claims to be one John Mortimer, a claimant to the throne.
  • Mowbray:
    • Lord Mowbray is a rebel leader in Henry IV, Part 2.
    • Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk is Bolingbroke's enemy, exiled by Richard, in Richard II.

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