Notable Female Characters
- Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing
- Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra
- Cordelia, in King Lear
- Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida
- Desdemona, in Othello
- Goneril, in King Lear
- Hermia, in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing
- Hermione, in A Winter's Tale
- Imogen, in Cymbeline
- Isabella, in Measure for Measure
- Julia, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet
- Katherina, in The Taming of the Shrew
- Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth
- Lavinia Andronicus, in Titus Andronicus
- Miranda, in The Tempest
- Olivia, in Twelfth Night
- Volumnia in Coriolanus
- Ophelia, in Hamlet
- Portia, in The Merchant of Venice
- The Princess of France, in Love's Labour's Lost
- Regan, in King Lear
- Rosalind, in As You Like It
- Three Witches, in Macbeth
- Titania, in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Viola, in Twelfth Night
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