1.
Hamlet
Prince of Denmark. Must be cruel only to be kind...
30 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
2.
Iago
Oh, so evil.
28 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
3.
Lady MacBeth
"Out damn spot!" ...MacBeth likely wouldn't have done any of what he did if it wasn't for her..
24 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
4.
Rosalind
"No jewel is like Rosalind..."
21 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
5.
King Lear
"Come not between the dragon and his wrath."
21 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
6.
Shylock
"...hath not a jew eyes?"
18 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
7.
MacBeth
"Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top MacBeth..."
13 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
8.
Richard III
Deformed and evil, he tells the audience exactly what he's going to do before he does it...part of why we love him so...
12 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
9.
Nick Bottom
"Nay, let me play the lion too...." - A Midsummer Night's Dream
11 points - added 2 years ago by plink - 1 comment
Comments:
Everyone has some of Bottom's foolishness.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 2 points
10.
Beatrice
"If men were books I'd burn them." - Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing
9 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
11.
Portia
from Merchant of Venice
8 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
12.
Prince Hal (aka Henry V)
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."
8 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
13.
Puck
The mischievous spirit from A Midsummer Night's Dream
7 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
14.
Prospero
The ultimate magician, maybe representing Shakespeare himself...
7 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
15.
Mercutio
"Men's eyes were made to look and let them gaze." Also, total badass.
5 points - added 3 months ago by guest -
16.
Brutus
"Et tu?"
5 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
17.
Falstaff
Shakespeare's most frequent player...
5 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
18.
Othello
2 points - added 2 years ago by plink -
19.
Jacques
"can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs" - As You Like It
1 point - added 2 years ago by plink -
20.
Malvolio
With his yellow stockings and cross garters....
1 point - added 2 years ago by plink -
21.
Katherine
Taming of the Shrew
1 point - added 2 years ago by plink -
22.
Tybalt
0 points - added 5 months ago by guest -
23.
Cleopatra
-1 point - added 5 months ago by guest -
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