Famous Characters in English Literature

Absolute, Sir Anthony: A famous character in Sheridan’s The Rivals. He is an old gentleman with a warm heart. He is one of the most popular characters in English Comedy.

Abraham Slender: A foolish suitor to Anne, and a kinsman of Shallow, in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Abraham, a Montague servant: Fights Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes spelled “Abram”.

Adam: A kindly old servant, rumoured to have been played by Shakespeare himself, in As You Like It.

Adams, Parson: A village parson in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. He is a very pious and simple-hearted fellow. He is utterly ignorant of the ways of the world. He is the chief source of humour in the novel.

Adrian: A lord, a follower of Alonso, in The Tempest.

Amelia: Aemelia is an abbess in “The Comedy of Errors”. She proves to be the long-lost wife of Egeon, and the long-lost mother of the Antipholus twins.

Agamemnon: Agamemnon (myth) is the general leader of the Greek forces, in Troilus and Cressida.

Agnes: The daughter of Mr. Wickfield, the lawyer, in Dickens’ “David Copperfield.” After Dora’s death she becomes David Copperfield’s wife.

Agrippa: Agrippa (hist), a follower of Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, proposes that the widowed Antony should marry Octavia.

Alice: A little girl in Lewis Carols’s “Alice in Wonderlan”d and Through the Looking Glass.

Allworthy: A charitable gentleman in Fielding’s “Tom Jones.” He brings Tom Jones up and discovers later on that he is the son of his sister.

Alonso: Alonso is the King of Naples, an enemy to Prospero, in “The Tempest.” He mourns for his son, Ferdinand, who he believes is drowned.

Almayer: Almayer is the hero of Joseph Canrad’s novel “Almayer’s Folly.” He is an English man in Malaya.

Amelia: The heroine of Fielding’s novel of the same title. She is also a character in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.

Ancient Mariner: The hero of Coleridge’s famous poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” He brings a curse upon himself and his ship-mates by killing an Albatross He possesses a hypnotizing personality.

Sir Andrew Aguecheek: He is a foolish knight, and suitor to Olivia, in “Twelfth Night.”

Andrews, Joseph: The hero of Fielding’s novel “Joseph Andrews.”