Shakespeare's Characters: Q

Please note that uppercase type indicates the stressed syllable.

Queen - Cymbeline

Queen Anne - Henry VIII

Queen Anne - Richard III

Queen Cleopatra - Antony and Cleopatra

Queen Eleanor - King John

Queen Elizabeth - 3 Henry VI

Queen Gertrude - Hamlet

Queen Hermione - The Winter's Tale

Queen Hippolyta - The Two Noble Kinsmen

Queen Isabel - Richard II

Queen Isabel (France) - Henry V

Queen Katherine - Henry VIII

Queen Margaret - 1,2,3 Henry VI and Richard III

Queen (Player Queen) - Hamlet

Quickly, Mistress - The Merry Wives of Windsor

Quince, Peter - [kwinss] A Midsummer Night's Dream

Quintus - [KWIN-tus] Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare Online's spelled pronunciation guide is based primarily on How to Pronounce the Names in Shakespeare by Theodora Ursula Irvine (1919). Note that the number of syllables in a name occasionally changes depending on metre and alternate pronunciations might be used depending on location (UK, southern US, etc.) and editor preference.

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