| SHYLOCK | Moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (7) |
| ANTONIO | Name of the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (7) |
| LORENZO | Character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, husband of Jessica (7) |
| NERISSA | Maid in Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice who married Gratiano (7) |
| LAUNCELOTGOBBO | Servant of Shylock and later of Bassanio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596- 8) |
| PORTIA | Moon of Uranus named for a rich heiress in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice |
| OLDGOBBO | Launcelot's father in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (3,5) |
| TRAGI | Prefix to 'comedy' (Genre of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice) |
| MIRANDA | Daughter of the sorcerer Prospero, usurped Duke of Milan, in Shakespeare's The Tempest (7) |
| ADRIANA | Wife of Antipholus of Ephesus in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (7) |
| CALIBAN | The deformed slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest (7) |
| LEONTES | King of Sicilia in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (7) |
| PERDITA | Daughter of Hermione and Leontes in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (7) |
| GONZALO | 'Honest old Councellor' loyal to Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest (7) |
| QUILP | Daniel, moneylender in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| PADUA | Italian city that is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
| VINCENTIO | Father of the groom in Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew |
| SYRACUSE | Home city of Egeon, father of the Antipholus twins in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1594) |
| PETRUCHIO | The male lead in Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew (9) |
| FLORIZEL | Son of Polixenes, King of Bohemia, who falls in love with Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale |
