# All’s Well That Ends Well — Character guide

> Key figures in All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare.

- [Helena](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/helena.md): A virtuous maiden who cures the King and schemes to win Bertram's love.
- [Bertram](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/bertram.md): The young Count of Rousillon who resists Helena's love and goes to war.
- [Parolles](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/parolles.md): A boastful and cowardly follower of Bertram, later exposed as a fraud.
- [Countess of Rousillon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/countess.md): Bertram's wise and kind mother who supports Helena.
- [Lafeu](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/lafeu.md): An elderly French lord and friend to the Countess and King.
- [King of France](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/king_of_france.md): The monarch cured by Helena, who then grants her a husband.
- [Diana](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/diana.md): A Florentine widow's daughter who helps Helena in the bed-trick.
- [Widow Capilet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/widow.md): Diana's mother who shelters Helena in Florence.
- [Lavache](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/clown.md): The Countess's witty and foolish servant.
- [Steward](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/steward.md): The Countess's steward who reports Helena's love for Bertram.
- [Mariana](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/mariana.md): A neighbor and friend to the Widow Capilet in Florence.
- [First Lord Dumain](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/first_lord_dumain.md): A French lord serving with Bertram in the Florentine wars.
- [Second Lord Dumain](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/second_lord_dumain.md): Another French lord and brother to the first, also in Florence.
- [Interpreter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/interpreter.md): A soldier who translates for the captured Parolles in the mock ambush.
- [Gentleman A Stranger](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/gentleman_a_stranger.md): A French gentleman who aids Diana's petition to the King.
- [Rinaldo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/all_s_well_that_ends_well_se/characters/reynaldo.md): The Countess's steward, sometimes named as a servant.

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