Discussione:Personaggi shakespeariani

Hummm... e se usassimo l'italiano "scespiriani"? Vabbè che non siamo all'accademia della crusca... ;)--Yuma 13:13, 27 apr 2006 (CEST)

Discussione passata inosservata? Beh, però direi che Yuma ha assolutamente ragione. Sposto, de facto ... :) --Twice25 • (disc.) 17:57, 13 giu 2006 (CEST)

A me piaceva di + Shakesperiani Helios 14:42, 20 giu 2006 (CEST)

Mah... "Personaggi di Shakespeare" o meglio ancora "Personaggi letterari di Shakespeare"? --M/ 14:45, 20 giu 2006 (CEST)

Vi assicuro che il termine italiano esiste ed è corretto. Traduzione di 'shakespearian'. Perchè non abituarci ad utilizzare l'italiano, quando abbiamo termini equivalenti, invece di 'italianizzare' le parole straniere? Certo, non è obbligatorio, ma la lingua italiana è abbastanza ricca, dobbiamo solo superare quel certo pudore che ci fa preferire i termini dal sapore straniero. --Yuмa · parliamone 18:37, 20 giu 2006 (CEST)

D'accordo con Yuma. Allora: google non lascerebbe dubbi riportando n millanta occorrenze per personaggi shakespeariani contro una manciata per personaggi scespiriani (ma ciò si potrebbe spiegare con il fatto che il termine inglese italianizzato fa più fighetta come tutti gli anglofonismi utilizzati nell'italiano che si vergogna dell'italiano ...). Non so se l'Espresso (vedi) faccia tendenza ... --Twice25 • (disc.) 19:08, 20 giu 2006 (CEST)

Nella mia esperienza di lettore, generalmente incontro shakespeariano negli articoli giornalistici e scespiriano nei minisaggi riguardanti il bardo. Con mio rammarico non solo google ma anche il Treccani è lapidario a riguardo affermando di scespiriano "oggi in disuso".--GiòGiò 12:54, 21 giu 2006 (CEST)

<tristezza>...che bello...</tristezza> Ma allora, <sarcasmo> noi siamo in disuso o fighetti? </sarcasmo>--Yuмa · parliamone 14:54, 21 giu 2006 (CEST)

Ma veramente è corretto il termine scespriani?--Kaspo 01:08, 24 set 2007 (CEST)

Sì, apri un dizionario ;) --Horcrux92. ^(contattami) 19:52, 27 feb 2011 (CET)

personaggi mancanti

• Hero falls in love with Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing. She is wronged by Don John and Borachio, and is abandoned at the altar, and left for dead, by Claudio.
• The Host of the Garter is the practical-joking innkeeper in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• Hymen (myth), the Greek god of marriage, is a character in As You Like It.
• Hippolyta (myth) is a leader of the Amazons, and is betrothed to Theseus at the start of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Hortensio is a friend to Petruchio and suitor to Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. He disguises himself as a music teacher in order to pursue Bianca, but ultimately loses her and marries a rich widow.
• Iago is the villain (and the main character, measured by the number of lines spoken) of Othello.
• Jacques (pronouced "jake-ways"):

1. Jacques is a melancholy lord in As You Like It.
2. Jacques DeBoys is a brother to Oliver and Orlando in As You Like It.

• Jamy (fict) is a Scottish captain in Henry V.
• Jessica is Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice. She elopes with Lorenzo.
• John:

1. Don John is the bastard brother of Don Pedro, and is the chief villain in Much Ado About Nothing.
2. John Rugby is a servant to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
3. Prince John of Lancaster (hist), the younger brother of Hal, would be a fairly minor character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, were it not for his central, unscrupulous, role in the Gaultree Forest episode of Henry IV, Part 2.
4. Sir John Falstaff (fict, but see Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolfe) is a central character of Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the Henry plays, he is "bad angel" to prince Hal, and is eventually rejected by him. He is the lecherous gull of the title characters in Merry Wives. His death is reported in Henry V, although he is not a character in that play. He is (with Hamlet) one of the two most significant roles in Shakespeare.

• Juliet is a title character in Romeo and Juliet. The daughter of Capulet, she falls in love with Romeo, the son of her father's enemy Montague, with tragic results.
• Justice (title):

1. Justice Shallow (fict) is an elderly landowner in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

• Katherine:

1. Katherine (sometimes "Kate" or "Katerina Minola") is the "shrew" from the title of The Taming of the Shrew, who is "tamed" by Petruchio.

• The Conte of Kent is a follower of King Lear who evades banishment by disguising himself as a servant, and calling himself Caius.
• King (title):

1. King Claudius is the uncle and stepfather of Hamlet. He has murdered his brother Old Hamlet, has taken over his crown, and has married his queen, Gertrude.
2. The King of France is the husband of Cordelia in King Lear.
3. Hal, later King Henry V (sometimes called The Prince of Wales, Prince Henry or just Harry) (hist) is a central character in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and is the title character of Henry V. He has a closer relationship with Falstaff than with his father (Henry IV), but he eventually ascends the throne, rejects Falstaff, and leads the English to victory at Agincourt.
4. King Lear is the central character of the play which bears his name. He divides his kingdom among his two elder daughters, is rejected by them, runs mad, and dies.

• Lady (title):

1. Lady Capluet is Juliet's mother in Romeo and Juliet.
2. Lady Macbeth, wife to Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide.
3. Lady Macduff, wife to Macduff, is murdered, with her children, on the orders of Macbeth.
4. Lady Montague is Romeo's mother in Romeo and Juliet.

• Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia in Hamlet. He fights with Hamlet in the famous fencing scene in the final act.
• Lancaster:

1. Prince John of Lancaster (hist), the younger brother of Hal, would be a fairly minor character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, were it not for his central, unscrupulous, role in the Gaultree Forest episode of Henry IV, Part 2.

• Launcelot Gobbo is a clown in The Merchant of Venice, a servant to Shylock, and later to Lorenzo.
• Lavinia is the daughter of Titus Andronicus. She is raped by Chiron and Demetrius, her tongue is cut out and her hands cut off.
• Friar Lawrence is confessor and confidante to Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He instigates the unsuccessful plot involving the potion drunk by Juliet.
• King Lear is the central character of the play which bears his name. He divides his kingdom among his two elder daughters, is rejected by them, runs mad, and dies.
• LeBeau is a courtier in As You Like It.
• Leonato is the governer of Messina, and the father of Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Lorenzo is a Christian in The Merchant of Venice who elopes with Shylock's daughter, Jessica.
• Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, and disguises himself as a latin master in order to woo her. They marry at the end of the play.
• Lysander loves Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream. For a period in the middle of the play, under the influence of love in idleness, he rejects her and loves Helena.
• Macbeth is the central character of the play which bears his name. Influenced by the prophecies of three witches, he murders Duncan to take his place as king of Scotland.
• Lady Macbeth, wife to Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide.
• Macduff is the Thane of Fife in Macbeth. Not being "born of woman", he fights on Malcolm's side at the end of the play, and kills Macbeth.
• Lady Macduff, wife to Macduff, is murdered, with her children, on the orders of Macbeth.
• Macmorris (fict) is an Irish captain in Henry V. He is said to be Shakespeare's only Irish character.
• Malcolm is the eldest son of Duncan in Macbeth.
• Malvolio is steward to, and secretly in love with, Olivia in Twelfth Night. He is gulled by Maria, Sir Toby Belch, Feste, Fabian and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and is imprisoned as a madman.
• Marcellus is a soldier in the first act of Hamlet.
• Marcus Andronicus is the brother of Titus Andronicus.
• Margaret:

1. Margaret is a maid, and an unknowing accomplice in the plot against Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing.

• Maria is a maid to Olivia, and the instigator of the plot against Malvolio, in Twelfth Night.
• Master (title):

1. Master Ford is a central character in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He suspects his wife of infidelity with Sir John Falstaff. He tests Falstaff in disguise, calling himself Master Brook.
2. Master Page is the husband of Mistress Page and the father of Anne and William in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He plans to have Anne married to Slender.

• Mercuzio is the witty friend of Romeo, and kinsman to the Prince, in Romeo and Juliet. He is killed by Tybalt.
• Michele:

1. Michele Cassio is a lieutenant in Othello. Iago persuades Othello that Cassio is having an affair with Othello's wife, Desdemona.
2. Michele Williams (fict) (notably played by Michael Williams in Kenneth Branagh's film version) is a soldier who challenges the disguised Henry V to a duel.

• Baptista Minola is the father of Katherine and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew.
• Miranda is the 15 year old daughter of Prospero in The Tempest. She falls in love with Ferdinand.
• Mistress (title):

1. Mistress Ford, wife of Master Ford, is a title character of The Merry Wives of Windsor. She pretends to accept Falstaff's overtures of love to her.
2. Mistress Page, wife of Master Page, is a title character in The Merry Wives of Windsor. She conspires with Mistress Ford to punish Falstaff's lechery. She plans to have Anne married to Doctor Caius.
3. Mistress Quickly (fict) is an important character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is noted for her lewd malapropisms. She is an innkeeper's wife (later his widow) in the Henry plays. She has a different personality, and a different relationship to other characters, in Merry Wives, where she is a servant to Doctor Caius.

• Montecchi:

1. Montecchi is Romeo's father, an enemy of Capulet, in Romeo and Juliet.
2. Lady Montecchi is Romeo's mother in Romeo and Juliet.
3. See also Romeo and Benvolio.

• The Principe of Morocco is an unsuccessful suitor to Portia in The Merchant of Venice.
• Moth:

1. Moth is a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

• Murderer:

1. Three Murderers kill Banquo, although his son Fleance escapes them, in Macbeth.

• Mustardseed is a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Narissa is Portia's maid in The Merchant of Venice. She marries Gratiano. She diguises herself as a page when Portia disguises herself as a lawyer.
• The Nurse is a bawdy comic character, and a confidante of Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet.
• Nym (fict) is a follower of Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and a companion of Pistol and Bardolph in Henry V.
• Oberon is king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Old Gobbo, the blind old father of Launcelot Gobbo, is a clown in The Merchant of Venice.
• Old Hamlet is the father of Hamlet. His ghost appears to exhort Hamlet to revenge Old Hamlet's murder by Claudius.
• Oliver:

1. Oliver begins As You Like It as a villain: the cruel older brother to Orlando. He later repents, and marries Celia.
2. Sir Oliver Martext is a foolish priest in As You Like It.

• Olivia is a countess, loved by Orsino but in love with Cesario (the male persona of Viola) in Twelfth Night.
• Ofelia is a former lover of Hamlet, who is rejected by him, and who goes mad following her father's death at Hamlet's hands. She eventually drowns herself.
• Orlando is the male romantic lead in As You Like It.
• Orsino is the Duke of Illyria, loved by Viola but in love with Olivia, in Twelfth Night.
• Osric is a courtier, treated with contempt by Hamlet.
• Oswald is a servant of Goneril, most noted for getting into fights and losing them.

• Page:

1. Master Page is the husband of Mistress Page and the father of Anne and William in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He plans to have Anne married to Slender.
2. Mistress Page, wife of Master Page, is a title character in The Merry Wives of Windsor. She conspires with Mistress Ford to punish Falstaff's lechery. She plans to have Anne married to Doctor Caius.

• Paris is a suitor to Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. He is killed by Romeo.
• Parson Hugh is a Welsh priest in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He is challenged to a duel by Caius. He plays a fairy in the final act.
• Peasblossom is a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• The Pedant disguises himself as Vincentio (Lucentio's father) in The Taming of the Shrew, to act as father to Tranio, who has disguised himself as Lucentio.
• Don Pedro is the prince of Arragon in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Petruccio is the central male character in The Taming of the Shrew, who "tames" the title character, Katherine.
• Philostrate is master of the revels to Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Phoebe is a sheperdess, loved by Silvius but who falls in love with the disguised Rosalind, in As You Like It.
• Pistol (fict) is a follower of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He is married to Mistress Quickly, and is a soldier in conflict with Fluellen, in Henry V.
• Polonio is a chief adviser in the court of King Claudius in Hamlet, and is the father of Ophelia and Laertes. He is killed by Hamlet, who stabs him through an arras while he is eavesdropping on a conversation between Hamlet and Gertrude.
• The Porter is a clown in Macbeth.
• Porzia:

1. Porzia is the central female character in The Merchant of Venice. She disguises herself as a lawyer in an attempt to thwart Shylock's attempt on Antionio's life.

• Principe (title):

1. The Principe rules Verona in Romeo and Juliet.
2. Principe John of Lancaster (hist), the younger brother of Hal, would be a fairly minor character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, were it not for his central, unscrupulous, role in the Gaultree Forest episode of Henry IV, Part 2.
3. The Principe of Morocco is an unsuccessful suitor to Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

• Prospero is the central character of The Tempest, the wronged Duke of Milan, set adrift with his daughter Miranda, twelve years before the play begins. He has become a sorcerer and is lord of the enchanted island.
• Puck is a mischievous (male) fairy, a servant of Oberon, in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Queen (title):

1. Queen Gertrude is Hamlet's mother. She has married Claudius.

• Mistress Quickly (fict) is an important character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is noted for her lewd malapropisms and double entendres. She is an innkeeper's wife (later his widow) in the Henry plays. She has a different personality, and a different relationship to other characters, in Merry Wives, where she is a servant to Doctor Caius.
• Regan is the cruel second daughter of King Lear. She is married to the Duke of Cornwall.
• Reynaldo is a minor character, an agent of Polonius, in Hamlet.
• Robin:

1. See The Boy (who is called Robin in The Merry Wives of Windsor).
2. See Puck (who is also called Robin Goodfellow).

• Roderigo is a gentleman suitor to Desdemona in Othello. He is gulled by Iago throughout the play, and eventually Iago murders him.

• Rosalinda is the central character of As You Like It. She spends the bulk of the play in exile in the Forest of Arden disguised as a boy called Ganymede.
• Ross is a thane in Macbeth.

• John Rugby is a servant to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• Saturninus becomes emperor of Rome, and marries Tamora, in Titus Andronicus.
• Sebastiano:

1. Sebastian is the twin brother of Viola in Twelfth Night. He is often mistaken for her male persona, Cesario, and Olivia marries him under that misaprehension.
2. Sebastian is the brother of Alonzo in The Tempest. He conspires with Antonio to murder Alonzo and Gonzalo.

• Duke Senior is the father of Rosalind. He is the true duke, and has been usurped by his brother, Duke Frederick at the start of As You Like It.
• Seyton is a servant to Macbeth.
• Justice Shallow (fict) is an elderly landowner in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

• Simple is a servant to Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• Silvius is a shepherd, in love with Pheobe, in As You Like It.
• Sir (title):

1. Sir Andrew Aguecheek is a foolish knight, and suitor to Olivia, in Twelfth Night.
2. Sir John Falstaff (fict, but see Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolfe) is a central character of Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the Henry plays, he is "bad angel" to prince Hal, and is eventually rejected by him. He is the lecherous gull of the title characters in Merry Wives. His death is reported in Henry V, although he is not a character in that play. He is (with Hamlet) one of the two most significant roles in Shakespeare.
3. Sir Oliver Martext is a foolish priest in As You Like It.
4. Sir Toby Belch is a drunken knight, and kinsman to Olivia, in Twelfth Night.

• Slender is a foolish suitor to Anne, and a kinsman of Shallow, in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• Stephano is a drunken butler in The Tempest. He conspires with Caliban and Trinculo to kill Prospero and become king of the island.
• Tamora is the evil queen of the Goths who marries Saturninus in Titus Andronicus.
• Teseo (myth) is the Duke of Athens in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Titania is queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Under the influence of love in idleness, she falls in love with Bottom (with his ass's head).

• Sir Toby Belch is a drunken knight, and kinsman to Olivia, in Twelfth Night.
• Touchstone is a clown in As You Like It.
• Tranio is a servant to Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew. He disguises himself as Lucentio, to enable Lucentio carry through his disguise.
• Trinculo is a clown, a friend to Stephano, in The Tempest.
• Tibaldo, cousin to Juliet, is a fiery-tempered character, nicknamed "prince of cats" in Romeo and Juliet. He kills Mercutio, and is killed by Romeo.
• Ursula is a maid in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Verges, accompanied by Dogberry, is a clownish officer of the watch in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Vincentio is the father of Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew.

• The Widow marries Hortensio, and appears in the final act of The Taming of the Shrew.
• William:

1. William is a foolish youth, a suitor to Audrey, in As You Like It.
2. William is the schoolboy son of Master and Mistress Page. He receives a latin lesson from Parson Hugh.

• Michael Williams (fict) (notably played by Michael Williams in Kenneth Branagh's film version) is a soldier who challenges the disguised Henry V to a duel.