Day 6: Your Favorite Villainess

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This one was rather hard, because I'm not sure there are all that many villainesses I like. (I'm not sure what it says about me that I tend to read Shakespeare for the good women and bad men. And some of the good men.) But anyway...



I'm going to go with Tamora in Titus Andronicus, who is epically badass even by Titus standards. What else can you say about a woman who's brought to Rome as a prisoner of war, forced to watch the Romans sacrifice her eldest son, and then manages to seduce the emperor, get herself crowned empress, and plot revenge on Titus's entire family all in the course of one scene? (She's also got a certain measure of mama-tiger appeal in this scene, although this doesn't stop her from manipulating sons #2 and #3 into committing rape, or from trying to have #4 killed at birth.)

Also, she's hot, especially as played by Jessica Lange in Julie Taymor's awesomely surreal film adaptation.



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