30 days of Shakespeare: Day 2 - your favourite character

[nwhyte]

I'm a political animal, and I am fascinated by the way that Shakespeare looks at leadership and kingship, what we might today call governance. Many of his plays are about politicians who get it tragically wrong - Brutus, Richard III, Coriolanus, Macbeth. I think Macbeth is much the most interesting. His character arc takes him from trusted

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[redfiona99]

The Light Thickens is still one of my favourite crime novels.

[londonkds]

I like it too. Ngaio Marsh's last book, and unlike some other late works by crime writers of her generation, not lacking in quality. I wonder if she was expecting it to be her last, given how it unusually revisits some of the surviving characters from an earlier book.

[trepkos]

I do love a bit of Macbeth - especially Ian McKellen and Judi Dench's version.

[pennski]

Probably Ariel - for the ambiguity.