who's the best Shakespeare character ? it's obviously

>>7308376
Feste.

>>7308376
Edgar...
purely because that's the sexiest actor I ever saw in a Shakespeare play.

>>7308376

Macbeth

yorick. i knew him personally and he was a fellow of infinite jest.

>>7308376

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern imo

Richard III

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I'm amazed that there could be disagreement about a matter that is so obviously clear-cut.

>>7309484
arent they the two old gay muppets?

>>7308388
but he's an asshole

>>7309484
Tom Stoppard pls go

The Father of Salomon's House

>>7308430
Lady Macbeth you plebe

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I hope we can live in a world where there is no more anti-semitism or bigotry. Oh the poor Jews, the poor Jews. I'm glad that Shakespeare, who was well versed in the holocaust, chose to portray him as the persecuted saint he was-- Or was that done by Jewish revisionists?

Can I be the one genuinely honest unironic person in this thread and say it's Hamlet by a mile, followed by Falstaff and Coriolanus.

>>7309484
>who is the best character
>character

>>7308376
Prospero all the way Baby!

>>7308376
Iago is literally his worst character.

>>7308430
This, or Lady Macbeth.

Falstaff, also.

>>7309831
Great imitation of Harold Bloom senpai

1. Hamlet
2. Falstaff
3.Cleopatra

desu

Malvolio from Twelfth Night.

Cracks my shit up every time.

Lucio from Measure for Measure is also hilarious.

Laertes. Hamlet is such a dick to him, he literally ruins the dude's whole life

daily reminder that Prospero is literally the best Shakespeare character ever and everything is wrong

>>7308376
Iago did literally nothing wrong.
It's not his fault Othello is a complete retard. He should have gotten the promotion as he was the best.

>>7310102
Iago is a great character

>>7310231
Iago is a dramatic ploy, pure evil for little to no reason.

He literally says "haha, I'm gonna be evil!"

Shakespeare usually didn't create such 'characters' --- in the etymological sense of the term ---, but, rather, individuals.

>>7310236
Iago is one of SHakespeare's most vivid personalities (intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor) and his lack of clear motivation doesn't change that

>>7308376
Nurse from Romeo and Jew

No Mercutio?

Loved his jests and his awesome rage dialogue when he gets mortally wounded.

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"Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness"

i think the best shakespeare character is hamlet

Caliban

prove me wrong

DAMN HER

LEWD MINX

>>7312431

he's a faggot

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???

>>7310112
Nah Toby Belch bruh

>>7308376
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Mercutio
>a pox upon your house if you don't agree

I've always been really interested in the clowns he uses, Like Touchstone and Feste, or the two in Hamlet (who I always imagine as clowns in full regalia, wandering the cemetery.)

>>7312431
Prospero's minion beats him by luring his drunken ass into a swamp. Nuff said.

>>7313428
Trinculo in the Tempest has genuinly made me laugh.

Shakespeare is /lit/ af.

I like Petruchio.

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Lear desu senpai desu desu

>>7308376
OPHELIA

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>>7308376
>it's obviously Iago

Wrong. Aaron the Moor.

>>7315049
I feel ya

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>>7315049
dude i agree. ophelia is by far shakespeare's hottest female character.

"In her excellent white bosom," hamlet writes in his love letter to her. act i, scene ii. then, later, in act iii, scene i, hamlet even calls her "fair" (like her skin) and compares her to a "nymph."

and dude, have you ever even SEEN paintings of nymphs? all naked and grabbing at dudes from in the water and shit. i mean, GODDAMN, that shit's hot. alright friend, i'll give you some advice: look it up. look up "nymph." google it. you won't be disappointed. man.

fuckin' ophelia, i swear.

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>>7315688
Damn, son

>>7312431
/thread

>>7308376
Hamlet

Very easily one of Shakespeare's most introspective characters.

Denmark is a prison to him, even though he is prince. In the right mindset anything is a prison.

Also, the To be or not to be speech is phenomenal.

>>7308376
i always liked the g-g-ghhoststs

Macbeth or lear

>>7308376
Brutus.

>>7317248
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space--were it not that I have bad dreams.

The greatest line in all of literature, hands down.

>>7316440
hnnnnggg

>>7308376
either macbeth or Mephistopheles

>>7310548
Probably the best character in R&J

>>7322042
>Meph
>Shakespeare

So fucking triggered, how can you not know the difference between Marlowe and Shakespeare?

>>7322187
>implying Marlowe didn't write Shakespeare's plays

>>7315049
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpO4lji8lR0

Julius Caesar

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All these faggots crying Ophelia when Titania is the only true choice.

>>7310236
Not every villain has to have areas of gray and a sob story to be fucking good. Iago is actually likeable because he's so mean-spirited and ridiculously good at fucking with all the characters... He gives bullshit reasons for his actions as if he has to justify his acts to himself. But in the end he's just an asshole who is ridiculously quick witted, and it's a real pleasure to see him work.

>>7310548
Mercutio is literally the only reason I don't completely dismiss R&J as shit. Definitely Shakespeare's worst play.

>>7318941
Poor Brutus. I always feel for him because he's the best man in the play and his fatal flaw is essentially just being naive and "too" honorable.

>>7309517

I don't think Hemmingway is a Shakespeare character mate

>>7319121
Holy shit. I never post on /lit/ are you me. Excellent fucking taste.