Tell us who you are (or not).

[chasestalling]

If you could choose to enact any Shakespearan character, which would you choose and why?

Mine would be Hamlet because he's a windbag, a perfect excuse to talk a lot which is contrary to my nature.

[Joyeuse]

Ooh, cool question.

I would play King Lear because he is such a powerful, tragic character. He is a character that at first has such hubris but later turns into a good character. His and Cornelia's death scene, especially, would be fun to play.

[maraki16]

disdaimona or juliet i suppose. So tragic figures... but i think juliette more. She is more active. She takes her destiny into her own hands in spite of being murdered by the one she loves. She decides to die for the one she loves. Isn't it really romantic?

[LadyW]

I would like to play Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing :) I'd enjoy the witty banter of her and Benedick.

[Charles Darnay]

My top choices would be:

1. Touchstone from As You Like It
2. Trinculo from The Tempest
3. Fool from King Lear

[JBI]

Senior Benedick

[believin]

Cleopatra

[johann cruyff]

Not to proud to admit it,but I'd probably be Iago:)

[Virgil]

Prince Hal or Henry V. Same person, different plays. ;)

[Mockingbird_z]

definitely Hamlet (though i am of a different gender =))
he is a philosopher and he is vey active, he knows what he wants of life.
and i like Cleopatra, her way of loving is out of this world....

[mayneverhave]

he knows what he wants of life.


You sure about that?

I would probably choose
Falstaff

[JBI]

definitely Hamlet (though i am of a different gender =))
he is a philosopher and he is vey active, he knows what he wants of life.
and i like Cleopatra, her way of loving is out of this world....

That's funny, Hamlet knowing what he wants of life. He wants to kill his uncle right before the grave digging scene, yet doesn't during it, and does again right after. He surely knows what he wants in life. Though I must agree with you on that he is a philosophy, he seems to be echoed by philosophers constantly, even hundreds of years later.

[Niamh]

Not to proud to admit it,but I'd probably be Iago:)

I enacted Iago in college. It was Fun!:p (more than likely the reason why i ended up as the devil Titivillus in the play Mankind!)

I think i'd go for Rosalind from As you Like It.

[aeroport]

Hamlet, without question, simply because at this point I don't think I would have to do much acting...

[ntropyincarnate]

Beatrice!

[amalia1985]

Lady Macbeth

[Virgil]

Lady Macbeth

:lol: I assume your future husband will be in for something special. :p

[DapperDrake]

On reading the OP the first character to leap to mind was Macbeth, there is something to be said for such rich and powerful tragedy - At least my life would be interesting :D

[LadyW]

:lol: I assume your future husband will be in for something special. :p

:lol: Made me laugh

[LadyWentworth]

I would like to play Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing :) I'd enjoy the witty banter of her and Benedick.
You took mine! :( I would've chosen her because we are actually a lot alike.

Well, then. I suppose it would have to be Katherine from TTOTS. I would love to be a complete you-know-what all the time! The only thing is, though, I would absolutely refuse to allow some man to tame me!

(Unless, of course, he were Howard Keel in the musical version of this play, "Kiss Me, Kate" ;) ).

[Whifflingpin]

"an attendant lord, will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two"

[E.Kant]

This is a nice topic chasestalling !
As for me, I feel quite close to Friar Lawrence (though I'm not so proud of it:) )

[Kafka's Crow]

Horatio or Kent (King Lear) as I admire low-key but absolute goodness. I love Horatio's erudition and Kent's fearless faithfulness. They show the suffering of absolute goodness in a wickedness but at the same time they save the world from being 'absolutely' evil with their presence. I'd be Horatio any day, My favourite Shakespearean character.

[Lioness_Heart]

As unimaginative as it may sound, Juliet... despite her tragic demise, her tragedy is emminently beautiful, and the romantic side of me would like to enact that. As long as the death thing could be missed out.

[JBI]

:lol: Made me laugh

Yeah, not to mention the fact of his failure to preform.

[Scheherazade]

Shylock... I would like to be able to deliver his monologues.

[Charles Darnay]

Shylock... I would like to be able to deliver his monologues.

Shylock is fun....I got to perform two of his monologues spliced together (from 1.3 and 3.1).

[amalia1985]

:lol: I assume your future husband will be in for something special. :p


Thank God, I will never have a future husband!!! Unless he is Macbeth:)

[Woland]

Feste for his wit

Caliban

[mukta581]

Nothing really!!!!

[chasestalling]

Nothing really!!!!

Oh come! There must be a role which you might think, that's me!

[superhero99]

Lady Macbeth (definatly agreeing with Amalia here) or Rosalind from As You Like It.

[kevinthediltz]

I'd definately say MacDuff. Id dont know if I could live up to taking Down MacBeth, but I love his development.

[wessexgirl]

I would like to think I was like Beatrice, that would be great. Katherine in TOTS gets on my pip. Are we just talking about who we'd like to act, or who we would like to be? If it's wanting to be, definitely Beatrice, if it's acting, then perhaps Iago, or R111. I love a good villain. Have to say, the male parts would be better to play.

[shakespeare87]

Mine would be Hamlet, but again, he dies. So, probably Don Pedro.

[shakespere]

oh

it is very important 2 talk about this

but i will choose jing lear becoz his charachter very powerfull like a heavy rain from the sky


thank u very much my friend

shaxpere

[Taliesin]

Rosencrantz or Guildenstern - not sure, really, which one. Perhaps both.