What Are The Names Of Shakespeare's Heroes And Villains?

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What Are The Names Of Shakespeare's Heroes And Villains?

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Answer 1

There are so many heroes and villains, it's almost impossible to just listen them here, but I will have a go at giving you the most famous ones.

Heroes

Romeo (guess which play)

Henry V (although he does prove himself to be a war criminal by ordering that all of the prisoners are murdered) As Prince Hal he is also a petty thief but his transition to King ends all of that.

Edgar - from King Lear

Mark Antony - from Julius Caesar

Villains

Richard III in Richard the Third

Malvolio (not really a villain though

Macbeth might be the protagonist of the play, but his actions are still those of a baddie!

Lady MacBeth, probably the engineer of her husbands and her own fate. She is a villain nonetheless.

Edmund the Ba*tard - Gloucester's son in King Lear

Cassius/Brutus - Julius Caesar - Brutus believed he is doing the right thing.

There are so many, read some good Shakespeare, decide for yourself!

Answer 2

Although Henry V is mentioned as a Shakespearean villain,( for ordering the prisoners at Agincourt to be killed), history does not look upon him so. Certainly the principal chronicler of the battle, Jean Froissart, heaps no blame on the English King. Indeed, the French did the same thing just 20 years earlier at the battle of necropolis, where they cut the throats of 20,000 prisoners, merely to free themselves from the drudgery of feeding them!