| Hamlet | protagonist, dies in duel |
| Gertrude | queen and hamlet’s mom, dies of poison drink |
| claudius | king and hamlets uncle, antagonist, stabbed by hamlet |
| polonius | father of Laertes and Ophelia, The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court |
| horatio | hamlet’s close friend, stays alive to tell his story |
| ophelia | polonius daughter, laertes sister, loves hamlet, drowns in the river |
| laertes | polonius son, mostly in france, ophelia brother |
| fortinbras | young prince of norway, father was killed by hamlets dad, wants to attack denmark |
| the ghost | claims to be father, says claudius poisoned him, |
| rosencrantz and guildenstein | former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg, sent to spy on hamlet |
| osric | who summons Hamlet to his duel with Laertes |
| Voltimand and Cornelius | Courtiers whom Claudius sends to Norway to persuade the king to prevent Fortinbras from attacking. |
| Marcellus and Bernardo | he officers who first see the ghost walking the ramparts of Elsinore and who summon Horatio to witness it. Marcellus is present when Hamlet first encounters the ghost. |
| Francisco | A soldier and guardsman at Elsinore |
| Reynaldo | Polonius’s servant, who is sent to France by Polonius to check up on and spy on Laertes. |
Hamlet book
September 13, 2019