I'd like to know who you think is the funniest character created by Shakespeare (and why!)
Thanks!
Ale
I'd like to know who you think is the funniest character created by Shakespeare (and why!)
Thanks!
Ale
I've always had a soft spot for Bottom from A Midsummer's Night Dream.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Mercutio! Last year when we studied Romeo and Juliet in school I had to read the Mercutio Parts. I loved them so much and read with so much enthusiam some people are still calling ME Mercutio(well that and Edward)
Shall these bones live?
Oh my. What a question!
...I suppose the funniest (and most piteous) character is Sir John Falstaff from the histories. You can see his forerunner in Sir Toby Belch, but Shakespeare perfected the jolly old fat man--and added new dimensions--in Falstaff. The man is brazen, but oh so hysterical.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear. Dune.
oh oh ohhhhhh gooood question !! Dogberry and Verges in much ado about nothing are fuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyy!!!! a musst readd play!!!
Falstaff (a real ale man!) was my fave.
Falstaff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beer is for daddy's and kids with fake ID's- Homer Simpson
Of the plays I've read, I vote Mercutio for "funniest in a tragedy," and Dogberry (off the top of my head) for "favorite comic relief in a comedy."
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
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