30 Days of Shakespeare, Day 4

[lareinenoire]

Day #4: Your favourite heroine

Again, more than one. Because this is me.

Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. I love how she is simultaneously mature and immature, I love how she doesn't take Romeo's bullshit in the balcony scene, and this is one of the most gorgeous speeches of all time. I love Mercutio's raw wit and Benvolio's sweetness and how Friar

Comments

[flourish]

"I would eat his heart in the market-place" is I think my very favorite line in all of Shakespeare. I'm a sucker for women defending each other.

[lareinenoire]

Oh, me too! There's just so much lovebetween those two. Also, Rosalind and Celia from As You Like It and, rather more heartbreakingly, Emilia and Desdemona in Othello.