Richard II (play) - Characters

• King Richard II
• John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster – Richard's uncle
• Duke of York – Richard's uncle
• Duke of Aumerle – York's son
• Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
• Queen – Richard's wife (an unnamed composite of his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, and his second, Isabella of Valois, who was still a child at the time of his death)
• Duchess of York – York's wife (an unnamed composite of York's first wife, Infanta Isabella of Castile, and his second, Joan Holland)
• Duchess of Gloucester – widow of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the king

Rebels

• Henry Bolingbroke – Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, later King Henry IV
• Earl of Northumberland
• Henry 'Hotspur' Percy – Northumberland's son
• Lord Ross
• Lord Willoughby
• Lord Fitzwater
• Sir Piers Exton

Richard's allies

• Duke of Surrey

• Earl of Salisbury
• Lord Berkeley
• Bushy – favourite of Richard
• Bagot – favourite of Richard
• Green – favourite of Richard
• Bishop of Carlisle
• Abbot of Westminster
• Sir Stephen Scroop

Others

• Lord Marshal (post held in 1399 by Duke of Surrey, though this is not recognised in the play)
• Welsh captain
• Two heralds
• Gardener
• Gardener's man
• Queen's ladies
• Keeper – jailer at Pomfret prison
• Groom
• Attendants, lords, soldiers, messengers, etc.