Character Charts and Cast Lists for readers
These charts are for groups who read an entire play or even just one act in one setting, although you might find other uses for the lists. Keep in mind that every edition of Shakespeare is slightly different and you will find discrepancies between these lists and your book. Please let us know if you find something that needs to change!
The Character Charts are PDFs and show the number of lines in each scene for every character.
The Cast Lists are text files that divide up the parts between a certain number of readers; you can edit these files and add the names of your own readers.
All’s Well that Ends Well
All's Well CHARACTER CHART: pdf
All's Well Cast List for 7 readers: txt
All's Well Cast List for 9 readers: txt
All's Well Cast List for 13 readers: txt
Antony and Cleopatra
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers, split leads: txt
As You Like It
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
The Comedy of Errors
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Coriolanus
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers: txt
Cymbeline
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Hamlet
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers, FIRST HALF: txt
Cast list for 8 readers, SECOND HALF: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers, split Hamlet: txt
Julius Caesar
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers, split Brutus: txt
King Lear
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Love’s Labor’s Lost
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 6 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
Macbeth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Measure for Measure
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Merry Wives of Windsor
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Midsummer Night’s Dream
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers: txt
Cast list for 13 readers: txt
Much Ado About Nothing
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
Othello, the Moor of Venice
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers, 2 Iagos, 2 Othellos: txt
Cast list for 10 readers, 2 Iagos: txt
pericles
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Romeo and Juliet
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers: txt
The Merchant of Venice
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
The Taming of the Shrew
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
The Tempest
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 4 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
The Winter’s Tale
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Timon of Athens
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Titus Andronicus
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Troilus and Cressida
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Twelfth Night
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 11 readers: txt
Two Gentlemen of Verona
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
History plays in order:
King John
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
Richard the Second
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
1 Henry the Fourth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
2 Henry the Fourth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 8 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Cast list for 12 readers: txt
Henry the Fifth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
1 Henry the Sixth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
2 Henry the Sixth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
3 Henry the Sixth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Richard the Third
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
Henry the Eighth
CHARACTER CHART: pdf
Cast list for 7 readers: txt
Cast list for 9 readers: txt
Cast list for 10 readers: txt
These are the same charts that are on the individual play pages; we just collected them here in one place for convenience.
casting Shakespeare's plays
This book lists all the characters in each scene for both quarto and folio versions, if both exist: Casting Shakespeare's Plays. It's an academic book that studies how the plays might have been cast in Shakespeare's time, using both quarto and folio editions, and is very useful for discovering which characters appear but do not speak in case you are casting it for the stage. (Our charts are easier to use than this book, however, for casting readers.)