Shakespeare? Is that a fandom? I'll go with that
the character i least understand - reviewers who think that straightforwardly virtuous heroines like isabella and innogen are “boring” and/or “nubile” what do you mean i’m not supposed to turn this into a call-out post against ben brantley
interactions i enjoyed the most tbh depends on the production more than anything! the scene when innogen meets her long-lost brothers but no one knows they’re related and it’s also weirdly homoerotic because she’s in drag at the time is a good one. everything that beatrice and benedick ever say to each other. the scene where portia really wants bassanio to win the casket contest so she recites a poem where all the words rhyme with “ELL” or “EAD” and he’s so dumb he STILL BARELY GETS IT.
the character who scares me the most - posthumous leonnatus, claudio, the dumb king in winter’s tale, othello, aka all the men who IMMEDIATELY BELIEVE their wives are cheating on them based on like zero proof and a pathetic inferiority complex.
the character who is mostly like me - i overidentify with innogen but possibly just because i’m still looking for the right life opportunity to shout O, FOR A HORSE WITH WINGS!
hottest looks character - Cassius, who is now and forever Jenny Jules in my head but would be hot anyway
one thing i dislike about my fave character I love Emilia but she should have turned Iago in a whole lot sooner
one thing i like about my hated character - Cloten is in every way disgusting but “Come on, if you can penetrate her with your fingering, so: we’ll try with tongue too” is right up there with the best dirty music puns, so….
a quote or scene that haunts me technically this is a shakespeare adaptation but the scene in benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia (otherwise a laughably terrible opera) where she wakes up the next morning and doesn’t want to believe the world she’s now living in is real broke my heart every time we did it in our production and i still think about it often. it’s hard to believe that scene exists in the same opera as the phrase “the oatmeal slippers of sleep.”
a death that left me indifferent - does falstaff die at one point??? don’t remember, don’t care, the histories are boring anyway
a character i wish died but didn’t CLAUDIO FROM MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING DOES NOT DESERVE TO LIVE
my ship that never sailed - the great thing about Shakespeare is that sometimes even my trolliest ships DO sail, like the time I was speed-reading Coriolanus for class and decided it would be funny if he had the hots for Aufidius only to turn the page on the scene where they describe their CANON SEX DREAMS ABOUT EACH OTHER. 10/10 i literally can’t complain.
