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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: Which Shakespearian Character would you be? |
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If you were a Shakespearian character, who would you be?
I'm picking King Lear's clown. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Lear's Fool's the better character, but I'm Prince Hal. Backstabbing propagandist though I am, I'll win yet. Look out, Frenchy!
Either that or Falstaff...the fat self-pitying lush.
No, no; I'm Banquo, the betrayed and vengeful ghost.
No, that's not right--I'm Prospero, the senile wizard.
Or maybe I'm Laertes...loyal to a fault, and misled as well...or maybe Mercutio, the smartass murdered drunk...but no, that's not right either, I'm clearly Duncan...or am I Brutus? ah, fu** it. I guess I'm about twenty of them now that I think.
And that's the beauty of the Bard right there, isn't it?
In any case, I'm certainly not MacBeth, or Caesar, and that's good enough for me. |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Backstabbing propagandist |
sounds like Iago to me... |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, &$#@, did I say that out loud? Goddamn soliloquies! |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'd be the sarcastic narrator.
cbc |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll be that guy! Yea, that guy in the pantaloons [Ital. pantaleone nickname for a Venetian < St. Pantaleone, patron saint of Venice] with the cool dagger and sword. (I think that just about covers all of'em right?) |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Mercutio would be fabulous, hands down my favorite. Shakespeare wrote decent female characters too, which is very rare for a male author.
I'd generally put myself as Beatrice from Much Ado, most of the time. Rare ventures over to shrewishness, never doomed Ophelia, nor manipulative Lady MacBeth |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Metaphorically I've been to some degree Caius Marcius turned Coriolanus.
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The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
I am weary; yea, my memory is tired.
Have we no wine here? |
Proud in his deeds but willing to be anonymous in recognition he nonetheless acquires fame and others plot his demise to which he flees. He loves his family, he doesn't need to use his power to get more and is amiable to peace, a willingness that leads to his tragic end. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| HAMLET! |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Would like to be Henry V, but probably better suited to Puck. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Portia, Merchant of Venice. |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| do you like to cross-dress by any chance? |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| swetepete wrote: |
| I'm certainly not MacBeth, or Caesar, and that's good enough for me. |
Macbeth is Scottish, not Irish. [sorry to be a prude].
I'm Trinculo, the dip shit butler booze-hound shipwrecked on a peninsula somewhere in the [East] hallucinating. That's how I ended up in Korea and that's how I spend my time.
This is actually a very cool thread. |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm an extra, off to the side, and having arrived in a time machine I'm dilligently taking notes with ambitions of writing my own plays. |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| either Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. |
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