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.
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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.
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.
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?
I would like to play Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing :) I'd enjoy the witty banter of her and Benedick.
My top choices would be:
1. Touchstone from As You Like It
2. Trinculo from The Tempest
3. Fool from King Lear
Senior Benedick
Cleopatra
Not to proud to admit it,but I'd probably be Iago:)
Prince Hal or Henry V. Same person, different plays. ;)
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....
You sure about that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mockingbird_z
I would probably choose
Falstaff
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mockingbird_z
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!)Quote:
Originally Posted by johann cruyff
I think i'd go for Rosalind from As you Like It.
Hamlet, without question, simply because at this point I don't think I would have to do much acting...
Beatrice!
Lady Macbeth
:lol: I assume your future husband will be in for something special. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by amalia1985
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
:lol: Made me laughQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
You took mine! :( I would've chosen her because we are actually a lot alike.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyW
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" ;) ).
"an attendant lord, will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two"
This is a nice topic chasestalling !
As for me, I feel quite close to Friar Lawrence (though I'm not so proud of it:) )
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.
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.
Yeah, not to mention the fact of his failure to preform.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyW
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).Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
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Originally Posted by Virgil
Thank God, I will never have a future husband!!! Unless he is Macbeth:)
Feste for his wit
Caliban
Nothing really!!!!
Oh come! There must be a role which you might think, that's me!Quote:
Originally Posted by mukta581
Lady Macbeth (definatly agreeing with Amalia here) or Rosalind from As You Like It.
I'd definately say MacDuff. Id dont know if I could live up to taking Down MacBeth, but I love his development.
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.
Mine would be Hamlet, but again, he dies. So, probably Don Pedro.
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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
Rosencrantz or Guildenstern - not sure, really, which one. Perhaps both.