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If you were a character in one of Shakespeare's plays who would you be?

Do I have to pick just one? And are we talking about actually being that person or portraying that person on stage?

the one the chicks go for in a midsummer nights dream.

Being... and I suppose you can pick more than one

the one the chicks go for in a midsummer nights dream. Demitrius or Lysander?

Being... and I suppose you can pick more than oneIn that case, I'm going for one of the more mischievous non-human types--Ariel from "The Tempest" or Puck from "A MIdsummer Night's Dream."

As far as playing them onstage, though, I'd love to be Dogberry from "Much Ado About Nothing."

The fool. There's one in almost every play and they are always the only one who knows what's going on.

To Incetonia's option: To portray on stage it would have to be Iago or Mercucio (okay, I don't know how to spell it. Romeo's buddy who gets stabbed by Tibolt....don't know how to spell that either...)

the one the chicks go for in a midsummer nights dream. Demitrius or Lysander?

I can't remember :?

We did a small bit of it in drama a few years ago, and I'm sure both girls scrap over one of the guys. Maybe I'm remembering wrong :/

I'm reading up on sparknotes to remind me what the hell I'm on about

Let me add one--Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing." That guy has some freaking brilliant lines.

I'd be Ophelia right now... My frined is yanking me around just like Hamlet

the one the chicks go for in a midsummer nights dream. Demitrius or Lysander?

I can't remember :?

We did a small bit of it in drama a few years ago, and I'm sure both girls scrap over one of the guys. Maybe I'm remembering wrong :/

I'm reading up on sparknotes to remind me what the hell I'm on about The two guys take turns scrapping over each of the women. First both of them are in love with Hermia, and then later with Helena (thanks to the love potion from Puck) and eventually with the ones they're supposed to be in love with.

I'd want to be the guy who is digging Yorick's grave in Hamlet.

His lines are the best.

Caius - ze French docteur (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

As far as playing them onstage, though, I'd love to be Dogberry from "Much Ado About Nothing."

Of course! Who wouldn't?

Ok I think my confusion came about because a chick was playing one of the guys in my drama class that year because there were only about 5 guys in the class. It was just a small piece of it as practice for an assessment.

As far as playing them onstage, though, I'd love to be Dogberry from "Much Ado About Nothing."

Of course! Who wouldn't?Have you seen the fim version? That may be the best role Michael Keaton has ever played!

Oh, Prospero. Play and be.

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......

As far as playing them onstage, though, I'd love to be Dogberry from "Much Ado About Nothing."

Of course! Who wouldn't?Have you seen the fim version? That may be the best role Michael Keaton has ever played!

I have indeed seen the film version, and I'm inclined to agree with you, it is a wonderful part played superbly.

I'm still trying to think of who I'd want to be if I could pick anyone...

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Problem isn't your name isn't even iambs and wouldn't work out even if it had the right number of syllables. I read it in-CER-to-NI-A. So you could make a modified iambic pentameter line using it, and Shakespeare did a lot of modefying, so it's excusable. But finding a subject to write about is always the hardest part.

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.

:lol:

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.

:lol:

Oh yeah.
Thats right.

Ol' Slick Wille S. got nuthin' on me.

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.I'll give you credit for the attempt, but it's not really iambic. OE has the correct pronunciation, although it would be more correct if he put a hard c sound in the syllabic breakdown. The name is from the Latin "Incertus," pronounced in-KARE-toos, and I've obviously had too much wine if I'm explaining all this. :lol:

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.I'll give you credit for the attempt, but it's not really iambic. OE has the correct pronunciation, although it would be more correct if he put a hard c sound in the syllabic breakdown. The name is from the Latin "Incertus," pronounced in-KARE-toos, and I've obviously had too much wine if I'm explaining all this. :lol:

Interesting... I've been pronouncing it wrong all along, but I like it the way I say it, and since there's nothing you can do about it, I think I'll keep it my way. And for purposes of poetry they're almost the same, so it's ok.

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.I'll give you credit for the attempt, but it's not really iambic. OE has the correct pronunciation, although it would be more correct if he put a hard c sound in the syllabic breakdown. The name is from the Latin "Incertus," pronounced in-KARE-toos, and I've obviously had too much wine if I'm explaining all this. :lol:
Wow-I had that all wrong. It sounded a little scatalogical the way I was pronouncing it...

Wow-I had that all wrong. It sounded a little scatalogical the way I was pronouncing it...I get a lot of that. :oops:

To NEE, or not to Squi,
that is the question.....

Wether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and Red Arrows of outrageous fortune......I want to see you work my nation name into a line of iambic pentameter. hehehe

Friends, Romans, Incertonia.....

Go get me a beer.I'll give you credit for the attempt, but it's not really iambic. OE has the correct pronunciation, although it would be more correct if he put a hard c sound in the syllabic breakdown. The name is from the Latin "Incertus," pronounced in-KARE-toos, and I've obviously had too much wine if I'm explaining all this. :lol:

Indeed.

I think perhaps you are taking some wiseass on the net far too seriously.
But hey...you know what?

Thats a good reason to have another glass!

Funny how life works, isn't it?

Indeed.

I think perhaps you are taking some wiseass on the net far too seriously.
But hey...you know what?

Thats a good reason to have another glass!

Funny how life works, isn't it?Not at all--I actually snorted when I saw the original post.

And I killed the bottle. Fortunately, I have another in reserve. I am off!!!!

Indeed.

I think perhaps you are taking some wiseass on the net far too seriously.
But hey...you know what?

Thats a good reason to have another glass!

Funny how life works, isn't it?Not at all--I actually snorted when I saw the original post.

And I killed the bottle. Fortunately, I have another in reserve. I am off!!!!
If only smoke could travel by fiber optics...

If you were a character in one of Shakespeare's plays who would you be?Laertes, unlike Hamlet he had the guts to get things done.

If you were a character in one of Shakespeare's plays who would you be?Laertes, unlike Hamlet he had the guts to get things done.

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion: that is the doctrine of Hamlet" - Nietzche

Laertes is a foil for Hamlet in that he was able to forget about his Christian morality and follow his code of honor without concern. Hamlet was trapped in a web of knowledge that held him back from action. In essence Laertes was able to act while Hamlet was not (at first) because Laertes disregarded aspects of his existence, while Hamlet attempted to understand them.

Without a doubt Iago from Othello, in my opiniion the best of all of Shakespeares characters

Without a doubt Iago from Othello, in my opiniion the best of all of Shakespeares characters
Sooooooo f'n evil.....

Without a doubt Iago from Othello, in my opiniion the best of all of Shakespeares charactersHe is perhaps the last purely evil character in literature. Most evil characters post-Iago have some reason for being evil--not Iago. He's just a stone bastard.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

http://www.duke.edu/~pms5/humor/shakinsult.html

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.

I find it quite humorous so far. If of course, I'm not just misinterpreting everything. :cry:

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.

I find it quite humorous so far. If of course, I'm not just misinterpreting everything. :cry:

It is funny, but it's not as funny as his later comedies (in my opinion) and it's not nearly as well written as any of his later plays.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.I taught it to my Comp 2 class one year, and they really seemed to like it once we got into it--the mistaken identity plot, love scene between Titania and Bottom, the beautiful speech by Snug the Joiner while performing with the rude mechanicals--they really enjoyed it.

Much Ado is my all time favorite, and The Tempest is close behind, as 12th Night is also wonderful. My girlfriend is doing an updated version of 12th Night--she's in Act 5 now--and hopes to eventually get it performed.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.I taught it to my Comp 2 class one year, and they really seemed to like it once we got into it--the mistaken identity plot, love scene between Titania and Bottom, the beautiful speech by Snug the Joiner while performing with the rude mechanicals--they really enjoyed it.

Much Ado is my all time favorite, and The Tempest is close behind, as 12th Night is also wonderful. My girlfriend is doing an updated version of 12th Night--she's in Act 5 now--and hopes to eventually get it performed.

I don't know what it is about it, I was just never able to get into it in the same way some people.

Cool about the updated version of twelfth night. Moderizations of Shakespeare's plays are usually pretty interesting.

Cool about the updated version of twelfth night. Moderizations of Shakespeare's plays are usually pretty interesting.She's doing it because she noticed when she was teaching it that her students didn't get what should have been the funniest parts--the language has changed so much. So she's updating it, modernizing it and setting it in the Carribbean, so there will be lots of island patois in the dialogue.

I always have so much trouble reading Shakespeare. I'm currently working on A Midsummer Nights Dream.That's one of his best, in my opinion.

Really? I think it's one of his worst. I don't know what it is about it, but I just can't take it. I really like Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and another the name of which is totally escaping me at the moment.I taught it to my Comp 2 class one year, and they really seemed to like it once we got into it--the mistaken identity plot, love scene between Titania and Bottom, the beautiful speech by Snug the Joiner while performing with the rude mechanicals--they really enjoyed it.

Much Ado is my all time favorite, and The Tempest is close behind, as 12th Night is also wonderful. My girlfriend is doing an updated version of 12th Night--she's in Act 5 now--and hopes to eventually get it performed.

I don't know what it is about it, I was just never able to get into it in the same way some people.

Cool about the updated version of twelfth night. Moderizations of Shakespeare's plays are usually pretty interesting.
I saw a version of 12th Night done in frontier america and heard of a version of Tempest done on the moon. I saw a Shakespeare in the Park in San Jose that was basically the same era as the movie by Baz Luhrman, but a few years earlier...Juliet was pretty cool......(no game)

What an excellent thread! I would say, since Incertonia already took Benedick, I'd be Feste the Clown from Twelfth Night (and not just because I got done playing him in a recent production). Any of the fools, really, except for the naturals like Dogsberry in Much Ado.