Shakespeare's Characters: R

Please note that uppercase type indicates the stressed syllable.

Rambures, Lord - [ram-BYOORZ sometimes ram-BOO-rehz] Henry V

Rannius - [RAN-ee-us] Antony and Cleopatra

Ratcliffe, Sir Richard - [RAT-cliff] Richard III

Rebeck, Hugh (musician) - [REE-bek] Romeo and Juliet

Regan - [REE-gun] King Lear

Reignier, Duke (later King) - [REN-yay sometimes RAY-neer] 1 Henry VI

Reynaldo - [ray-NAL-doh sometimes rih-NAL-doh] Hamlet

Reynaldo - [ray-NAL-doh sometimes rih-NAL-doh] All's Well that Ends Well

Richard II - Richard II

Richard III - Richard III

Richmond, Earl of - 3 Henry VI and Richard III

Rinaldo - [rih-NAL-doh] All's Well that Ends Well

Rivers, Earl of - 3 Henry VI and Richard III

Robert (Falconbridge) - King John

Robin (Goodfellow) - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Robin - The Merry Wives of Windsor

Roderigo - [rod-er-REE-goh] Othello

Roman(s) - Coriolanus

Romeo - Romeo and Juliet

Rosalind - [RAWZ-ah-lind] As You Like It

Rosaline - [RAWZ-ah-line] Love's Labour's Lost

Rosaline - [RAWZ-ah-line] mentioned in Romeo and Juliet

Rosencrantz (Rosincrance in Folio) - [ROH-zin-krants] Hamlet

Rosse - [rawss] Macbeth

Ross - Richard II

Rugby, John - The Merry Wives of Windsor

Rumour - 2 Henry IV

Rutland, Earl of - 3 Henry VI

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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