Favourite Shakespearian character / quote ?

Answer 1

"Get thee to a nunnery" - Hamlet

Answer 2

Favourite character would have to be Caesar
Favourtie quote - I have 2 :
1) O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world
(Hamlet)
2) A plague o’ both your houses. They have made worms’ meat of me.
(R and J)

Answer 3

Fave character: Titania (Midsummer..)
Fave quote is a Titania monologue. I like the whole thing, because I learned the subtext behind it. I will, however, give you the first few lines.
These are the forgeries of jealousy/ and never since the middle summers spring/ met we on hill or dale or forest or mead/ or in the beach margent of the sea......We are there parents and originals. (last line)

Answer 4

My favoourite quote is Tender Loving Care which few people know is by Shakespeare. It comes in Henry VI Part II I think.

Answer 5

Hamlet

There's a divinity that shapes our ends
Rough-hew them how we will . . . .

Not only is Hamlet one of the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, but he also one of the most likeable. He is both charming and impudent, both serious and witty, both determined and indecisive. He wants to be fun-loving and carefree; and he wants to be responsible and respectable. He is grieving; he is angry; he is hurtful; and he is penitent. But the thing that makes him most interesting is how he grows throughout the course of the play.

By Act II, Sc 2, he has become the calm, sensible, self-sacrificing servant of the state, determined to rid Denmark of something rotten. To his good friend Horatio, he says, "there's a / special providence inn the fall of a sparrow." To Laertes, whom he has wronged," he confesses, and begs forgiveness: "Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong." What he has learned, in the Elizabethan scheme of things, is the difference between the exacting of personal vengeance and the tragic cleansing of the state. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends / Rough-hew them how we will." Finally, dying, he pleads with Horatio to defend his good name: "Absent thee from felicity awhile / . . . to tell my story." And when Horato speaks his simply eulogy, he speaks for us (the audience who have come to admire and identify with Hamlet) as well as for Denmark: "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince; / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

Oh, yes, Hamlet is still my favorite Shakespearean character (though it's hard to pass over the inimitable Falstaff, the wise Prospero, the "good ole boy" Bottom, the passionate Rosalind, the shrewd Shylock, the aristocratic Portia, the wiseacre Mercutio, the strong, arrogant Lady Macbeth, the proud Coriolanus, King Lear's devoted Fool, the insouciant Viola/Cesario, the well-matched Benedick and Beatrice or the ill-matched Kate and Pretuchio. But Hamlet has the wit and the liveliness of them all, the self-consciousness and ultimate selflessness to match any of them, and the developing maturity and wisdom of a true tragic hero.

I often quote, "There's a divinity. . ." as my favorite scripture; then surprise those who hear me by saying it comes from the inspired Hamlet.

Answer 6

Character - Juliet
Quote - "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."

Answer 7

Character: Cordelia
Quote: Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men can read strange matters. (must have been Lady Macbeth)

Answer 8

Lord, what fools these mortals be! --Puck in AMND. All I have to do is watch the evening news to realize just how true that is.

Answer 9

"He thinks too much, such men are dangerous." said of Brutus in Julius Cesear

Answer 10

Hamlet. Quote: "Frailty, thy name is woman!"

Answer 11

"...all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players, they have their entrances andf exits..."

"Et tu Brutus"

"Double, Double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"