What Shakespeare character am I?

[fajrdrako]

I got this from erastes. Though it isn't the result I expected, I am absurdly pleased by it: Antony and Cleopatra is a play I particularly like and I wish I had a chance to see it more.

Your Score: Antony & Cleopatra

You scored 30% = Tragic, 30% = Comic, 49% = Romantic, 36% = Historic

You scored Antony and Cleopatra. Taking place some time after the murder of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra tells the story of the geopolitical power struggle between Rome and Egypt following the rise of Octavian Caesar to the thrown. The play, however, is not just some stuffy history textbook, full of war and politics; it's also a romantic love story containing elements of passion, jealousy, romance, and revenge. Like Antony, you are probably an outgoing individual, willing to make a few sacrifices in order to do what you think is right. However, like Cleopatra, you may also be a little jealous and vein. Keep doing what you think is right, but make sure you make time for your significant other, otherwise you and/or your lover might end up on the business end of a poisonous asp. Ouch!

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test written by macbee on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(macbee)

Jealous and vain? That's where the 'ouch' comes in.

Comments

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Apparently I am the Problem Plays. *scratches head* I don't even know what they are!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The Problem Plays. As usual, Wikipedia comes to the rescue:

the term "problem plays" normally refers to three comedies that William Shakespeare wrote between the late 1590s and the first years of the seventeenth century: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida, although some critics would extend the term to other plays, most commonly Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Timon of Athens, and The Merchant of Venice. The term was coined by critic F. S. Boas in Shakespeare and his Predecessors (1896).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_plays

Personally, I really like Troilus and Cressida, and after seeing a terrific production of Measure for Measure in London, I love it too - though don't quite know what to make of it. Don't know why The Merchant of Venice would be a 'problem'.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

I saw Antony and Cleopatra at the National with Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren. Individually they were awesome and incredibly sexy, and yet, strangely, they didn't have all that much chemistry with each other...until the curtain call, when as Alan and Helen, they were terrifically magnetic. Wha' happened?!

I came out as Julius Caesar: What your score tells us about you is that you are most likely a complex individual who, like Brutus, may struggle between the conflicting demands of friendship, loyalty, and patriotism. However, also like Brutus, you are undoubtedly someone to whom your friends often go before making a big decision. You are their rock, and they wouldn't think of doing anything without first asking you what you think. However, like Caesar, himself, your tragic flaw, might be that you don't take advice or criticism well even if it is constructive. Take heed to listen to good advice when you hear it, and for gosh sake... beware the ides of March.

The Ides of March - didn't they do that song "Vehicle"? ;-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Individually they were awesome and incredibly sexy, and yet, strangely, they didn't have all that much chemistry with each other...until the curtain call

Strange! But sometimes it just works that way. Wish I could have seen that show.

Julius Caesar? Well - at least he's formidable! There is such variation in how he is done, from one production to another - and from one play/movie/TV show to another. I'm still looking for my definitive Caesar. I once really enjoyed him in a production of Caesar and Cleopatra at the NAC with Edward Atienza in the role.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

The thing that really surprised me about Rickman was how big he is. For some reason, I'd always thought of him as fairly small and slender until I saw him on stage and he was bigger than anyone else by half a head! He's only about 6'2" apparently, but that's tall for an actor. Hugh Laurie is 6'4" and Stephen Fry something like 6'6", so they're freaks... ;-)

But I was very glad to have seen it, even though it was a weird production (mostly fiberglass and perspex as I recall!). Still, Mirren was brilliant at Cleopatra, and Rickman got two laughs in the suicide scene, which must be some sort of record.

Oddly, if you look at the comments, while I got the play Julius Caesar, they were making most of the comparisons to Brutus. Which, I don't think I mind. Although I think I take advice well; criticism, I also take pretty well if I can see the point. If it cuts close, I might have a little flail first, but I'll take it on board.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The thing that really surprised me about Rickman was how big he is. For some reason, I'd always thought of him as fairly small and slender until I saw him on stage and he was bigger than anyone else by half a head!

Interseting! I find it really hard to judge people's height from TV and movies. On stage, it's clear what size they are, but I never know from watching them on the screen.

Still, Mirren was brilliant at Cleopatra, and Rickman got two laughs in the suicide scene, which must be some sort of record.

Eeee! All the more I wish I'd seen it.

while I got the play Julius Caesar, they were making most of the comparisons to Brutus. Which, I don't think I mind.

Yes. Brutus is a good character.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I got Romeo and Juliet. I LOATHE THAT PLAY. *grump*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Why do you loathe Romeo and Juliet?

We had to study it in school and that left me not too fond of it, at least compared to other Shakespeare plays, but there are many things about it that I like - depending on the production.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Tales of reckless teen love have always annoyed the bejeezus out of me, even when I was a teen. I'm as romantic as rose petals on silk, but I find nothing romantic about a couple of hormonal idiots making everyone's life a misery.

No, perhaps my simile is wrong. Not as expected as rose petals on silk. I'm as romantic as the scent of benzoin on a foggy seaside night. :-)

Which still leaves hormonal idiots right out.

And speaking of romance, your icon makes me think how lucky Scott is to see that across the breakfast table every morning.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

speaking of romance, your icon makes me think how lucky Scott is to see that across the breakfast table every morning.

Isn't that the incredible truth!

[dawn77dawn.livejournal.com]

I feel the same.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[flautopiccolo.livejournal.com]

I really like A Midsummer Night's Dream. :)

You scored 28% = Tragic, 60% = Comic, 31% = Romantic, 38% = Historic

You are A Midsummer Night's Dream. Blending elements of comedy and romance, A Midsummer Night's Dream tells the story of mischievous fairies who conspire to make everyone fall in love with everyone else, often with disastrous, yet humorous consequences. You are most likely haphazard in love, but good natured and friendly. While you may also have a mischievous side to you, it is most likely all in good fun. We have no doubt that you are an outgoing person, who may also be a bit of a klutz. And while you may not always get it right, you always try to do the right thing. We applaud you!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good one. Auberon happens to be one of my favourite characters in Shakespeare.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Pretty off-topic, but I played Helena in a Midsummer production where Oberon wore this gold wire laurel leaf circlet. It was a work of art, really, but coupled with the pseudo-classical drapery and this guy's really classical profile, it spawned my infamous comment "It is Pontius Pilate, King of the Fairies!"

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hee - sounds like a wonderful production!

I think I spelled Oberon "Auberon", didn't I? Oops. That's Neil Gaiman, not Shakespeare... I probably shouldn't make a habit of confusing them! That's so déclassée.

[filkferengi]

The "vein" comment means you've been watching too much Buffy.

;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That's it! Explains everything. Neatly.

[filkferengi]

Yeah. Color me Cute When Pithy. ;)