Other Figures — Minor Figures

34 figures from Shakespeare's Tragedies who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Osric

courtier · first appears Hamlet · Act V, Scene II

Hamlet · Act V, Scene II · employer: Claudius “But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head.”
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II · with Hamlet “Thy state is the more gracious; for ’tis a vice to know him.”

first appears Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III

Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III · with Juliet “Susan and she,—God rest all Christian souls!— Were of an age.”

fool · first appears King Lear · Act III, Scene II

King Lear · Act III, Scene II · with King Lear “O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters blessing: here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.”

witch-goddess · first appears Macbeth · Act III, Scene V

Macbeth · Act III, Scene V · with Macbeth “To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death;”

rebel · first appears Macbeth · Act I, Scene II

Macbeth · Act I, Scene II · enemies with Macbeth “The merciless Macdonwald (Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak; For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smok’d with bloody execution, Like Valour’s minion, carv’d out his passage, Till he fac’d the slave; Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops, And fix’d his head upon our battlements.”

attendant · first appears Macbeth · Act V, Scene III

Macbeth · Act V, Scene III · liege: Macbeth “SEYTON. What’s your gracious pleasure? MACBETH. What news more? SEYTON. All is confirm’d, my lord, which was reported.”

former thane · first appears Macbeth · Act I, Scene III

Macbeth · Act I, Scene III · with Macbeth “By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;”

soldier · first appears Macbeth · Act V, Scene VII

Macbeth · Act V, Scene VII · enemies with Macbeth “Thou liest, abhorred tyrant. With my sword I’ll prove the lie thou speak’st.”

governor · first appears Othello · Act II, Scene I

Othello · Act II, Scene I · liege: Othello “For I have serv’d him, and the man commands Like a full soldier.”