30 Days of Shakespeare - Day 4
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bardic_ladyDay #4 - Your favourite heroine
I'm not sure that I would say that there are a lot of heroines in Shakespeare. I suppose![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angevin2 makes a good point about Helena in All's Well, but there are a lot of sticky issues in that play that make me disinclined to choose her. Margaret in the Henry VIs is fun, but not at all heroic. I'm extremely partial to Kate, Lady Percy, Hotspur's wife in the Henry IVs, but I'm not at all convinced that she's a heroine. Can't really see calling Cleopatra or Cressida heroines... I guess I'm going to go with Paulina in Winter's Tale. She stands up to the king for what she thinks is right and enacts the happy ending.
Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
I'm not sure that I would say that there are a lot of heroines in Shakespeare. I suppose
angevin2 makes a good point about Helena in All's Well, but there are a lot of sticky issues in that play that make me disinclined to choose her. Margaret in the Henry VIs is fun, but not at all heroic. I'm extremely partial to Kate, Lady Percy, Hotspur's wife in the Henry IVs, but I'm not at all convinced that she's a heroine. Can't really see calling Cleopatra or Cressida heroines... I guess I'm going to go with Paulina in Winter's Tale. She stands up to the king for what she thinks is right and enacts the happy ending.Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
