/lit/ - Literature

unironically

>>17845149
Richard II

I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?

King Macbeth, because he knew he was fucked and kept going anyways.

>>17845149
Iago

>>17845158
I agree, Yorick is my favorite

Kent from Lear or falstaff
Opposite sides of the spectrum but they're my lads

>>17845149
lady macbeth is nuts, i love it

>>17846110
Would gf even if she's all talk

>>17845149
What need I be so forward with Him that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter. Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honor? A word. What is in that word “honor”? What is that “honor”? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I’ll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.

>>17846163
>refuses to live with honor
>is abandoned by his surrogate son because of this
Ironic. Falstaff wanted to live more than anything else, and for that he died

>>17845149
me, the gentle reader

>>17846472
Based

>>17845149
lear, prince hal, brutus, and hamlet prince of denmark
>>17846163
based

>>17845149
Hans Sachs.

>>17846597
If you know, you know.

>>17845149
For me, it's Caliban

>>17845149
Coriolanus

>>17845985
>Richard II
nice pick,

>>17846102

Was Falstaff kinda infleunced by Socrates, or is there to be more comedy releif when it suits Shakespeare? It seems to me like he is the voice of truth in the Henry plays.

Mercutio

>>17845149
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybsIB-Erhw

>>17849399

>>17845149
Edmund

Hamlet
Falstaff
Iago
Apemantus
Bottom

>>17849924
EDNA!

>>17849924
Okay edmund has his dick sucked a bit too much lets all be completely honest
Lad has one good speech and suddenly the entire audience wants to jump his bones

feste from twelfth night

>>17851042
>Lad has one good speech and suddenly the entire audience wants to jump his bones
He had TWO outstanding speeches, and besides, he's not only the cruelest Shakespeare villain, but also the one whose motivations you understand the most.

>>17845149
>What is your favorite Shakespeare character?
Brian Blessed

Sir John Falstaff.

>>17846102
I always thought Kent was kind of a dick

>>17849375
I forget what exactly he said, but Bloom wrote about this in his Henry IV essay from Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.

>>17849404
>paying the toll since the 15th century

>>17845149
Rosencratz and Guildernstein, but that's just because that absurdist play

>>17853197
Kent stayed true to his master lear
Regan and goneril deserved no love

>>17845149
There can be only one.
>You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
>As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
>As the dead carcasses of unburied men
>That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
>And here remain with your uncertainty!
>Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
>Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
>Fan you into despair! Have the power still
>To banish your defenders; till at length
>Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
>Making not reservation of yourselves,
>Still your own foes, deliver you as most
>Abated captives to some nation
>That won you without blows! Despising,
>For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
>There is a world elsewhere.

Talbot. One of my favourite scenes from any Shakespeare play is the back and forth he has with his son before the battle of Castillon

>>17853269
A total dick to Oswald though, who was also staying true to his mistress. I think the play is much more interesting when played with Regan and Goneril being at least a bit sympathetic.