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This was an essay topic for my English final, but I thought it was interesting. Which of Shakespeare's characters represents "everyman"? You know, kinda like Arthur Dent in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I actually wrote about Rozencrantz and Guildernstern from Hamlet. But I don't have my essay with me, but I'll probably get it back this week. It had to do with the fact that they are both completely clueless and have no identifiable character traits (except, now that I think about it, that they're disloyal backstabbers, but that's debatable.)
What do y'all think? I thought it was an interesting prompt.

Bottom and the rest of the play actors from Midsummer I think could fit....or perhaps the lesser twins from Comedy of Errors?

It's not something I would have thought up myself, but I've been told (and I can see how it works) that a minor character in King Lear is actually a pretty decent Everyman. In III.vii, where the Duke of Cornwall is putting out Gloucester's eyes, there's a servant who tries to tell Cornwall to stop. He has a grand total of four lines before he gets killed by Regan, but the concept of the lowly person seeing something wrong and trying to stand up against authority is an excellent image of . . . well, perhaps not humanity as it is, but humanity as it ought to work.