Category:Fictional characters reused

Cases where a fictional character written for one fiction reappears in another, as when a character from a lost play is reused as a character in an extant work, or where a lost play seems to have reused a character from an extant text. Famous examples where both plays are extant might include Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, or Petruchio from The Taming of the Shrew who reappears in The Tamer Tamed.