page_title: List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)
section_title: G
hierarchical_section_title: List of Shakespearean characters (A–K) / G
caption_attribution_description: Goneril and Regan from King Lear
context_page_description: Characters with names beginning with the letters L to Z may be found here.
  NOTE: Characters who exist outside Shakespeare are marked "" where they are historical, and "" where they are mythical. Where that annotation is a link, it is a link to the page for the historical or mythical figure. The annotation "" is only used in entries for the English history plays, and indicates a character who is fictional.
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context_section_description: Gadshill (fict) is the "setter" of the Gadshill robbery in Henry IV, Part 1.
  For Gaius see Caius.
  Gallus (hist) is a follower of Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra.
  Gaoler:
  A Gaoler has custody of Egeon in The Comedy of Errors.
  Several Gaolers, one a speaking role, guard Mortimer in Henry VI, Part 1.
  See also Jailer.
  For Ganymede see Rosalind.
  Gardener:
  A gardener (with his men) encounters the Queen in Richard II.
  Two gardener's men, with the gardener, encounter the Queen in Richard II.
  Gardiner:
  Gardiner (hist) is the King's secretary, later Bishop of Winchester, and Cranmer's chief enemy, in Henry VIII.
  Gardiner's Page is a minor role in Henry VIII.
  Gargrave (hist) fights for the English in France in Henry VI, Part 1.
  The Host of the Garter is the practical-joking innkeeper in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (hist), uncle to King Richard and father to Bolingbroke, dies in Richard II, having delivered his famous "This sceptred isle..." speech.
  Gentleman:
  A gentleman discusses the plight of mad Ophelia with Horatio in Hamlet.
  A gentleman agrees to present Helena's petition to the King of France, in the last act of All's Well That Ends Well.
  A gentleman reports the arrival of knights to battle for the love of Emilia, in The Two Noble Kinsmen.
  Two gentlemen (fict) are ransomed for a thousand crowns each in Henry VI, Part 2.
  Two gentlemen open the action of Cymbeline, explaining the backstory.
  Two gentlemen of Ephesus witness Cerimon's discovery of Thaisa, in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
  Two gentlemen of Mytilene are converted from lives of debauchery by Marina's preaching, in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
  Two gentlemen (fict) are mid-sized roles in Henry VIII. Their conversations perform a choric function at the execution of Buckingham and (together with a third gentleman) at the coronation of Anne Bullen.
  "Two or three" gentlemen of Tyre, one a speaking role, appear in the shipboard reconciliation scene between Pericles and Marina in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
  Four gentlemen, with Montano, witness the dispersal of the Turkish fleet and Othello's arrival at Cyprus in Othello.
  A number of gentlemen (possibly three, although it impossible to know for certain how Shakespeare intended them to be doubled) are speaking roles in King Lear.
  Gentlewoman:
  A Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth witnesses her sleepwalking, with the Scottish Doctor, in Macbeth.
  A Gentlewoman attends on Virgilia, in Coriolanus
  George:
  George (fict) is a follower of Jack Cade in Henry VI, Part 2.
  George, Duke of Clarence (hist) is the younger brother of Edward and the elder brother of Richard in Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. He is often known as "purjured Clarence", having broken his oath to Warwick and fighting instead for his brother's faction. He is eventually drowned in a butt of malmesy wine.
  George Seacoal is a member of the Watch in Much Ado About Nothing.
  See also Master Page, whose first name is George.
  Gerald is a pedantic schoolmaster, who leads the Maying entertainments in The Two Noble Kinsmen.
  Queen Gertrude is the protagonist's mother in Hamlet. She has married Claudius.
  Ghost. The following characters appear as Ghosts. See the entries under their character name:
  Banquo
  Julius Caesar
  Old Hamlet
  in Cymbeline:
  Sicilius Leonantus
  The Mother of Posthumus
  Two brothers of Posthumus
  and in Richard III:
  Dorset
  The Duke of Buckingham (2)
  Earl Rivers
  George, Duke of Clarence
  Grey
  Henry VI
  Lady Anne
  Lord Hastings
  Prince Edward
  Prince Edward of York
  Richard Duke of York (2)
  Antigonus in The Winter's Tale reports seeing the ghost of Hermione in a dream.
  For "Ghost characters" in the other sense – characters mentioned in stage directions but having no lines and playing no part in the action – see Ghost character. Ghost characters in that sense are not listed on this page.
  Girl (hist) in Richard III is the young daughter of the murdered Clarence.
  Glansdale (fict) fights for the English in France in Henry VI, Part 1.
  Owen Glendower (hist), a warrior and magician who tries the patience of Hotspur, leads the Welsh forces in the rebelli
caption: Goneril and Regan by Edwin Austin Abbey
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