Two Gentlemen: gentlemen of Cymbeline's royal court who talk, informing the audience of the play's central conflict
Queen: Cymbeline's wife and Queen whose secret, evil ambition is to make her son from a previous marriage Britain's sovereign
Imogen: Cymbeline's daughter from a previous marriage who falls in love with one of her father's attendants to her father's displeasure
Posthumus Leonatus: Imogen's beloved whose father was a great warrior for which the King raised the parentless child as an attendant
Pisanio: Posthumus' faithful servant
Cymbeline: the play's namesake and the King of Britain who is displeased with his daughter for loving one of his attendants rather than taking his wife's son from a previous marriage as her husband
Cloten: the Queen's son from a previous marriage
