# A Shakespearean Feud by Le Ministre de l'au-delà (Game Over) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 10, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564 "2011-07-10T23:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/21 "2011-07-11T02:35:13Z")
1. Banquo 2. Lear 3. Caliban 4. Titania 5. Ariel 6. Shylock 7. Portia 8. Hamlet 9. Othello 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/22 "2011-07-11T02:44:09Z")
1. Banquo 2. MacBeth 3. Puck 4. Gertrude 5. Ariel 6. Shylock 7. Viola 8. Hamlet 9. Hamlet 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/23 "2011-07-11T03:02:56Z")
1. Brutus 2. Lear 3. Caliban 4. Gertrude 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Henry V 8. Hamlet 9. Henry V 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/24 "2011-07-11T03:09:53Z")
1. Beatrice 2. Lear 3. Puck 4. Gertrude 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Romeo 8. Juliet 9. Violetta 10. Iago Okay, on review I see I’ll keep my spot in the bottom section of players. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/25 "2011-07-11T03:28:49Z")
Don’t say that, I was kidding myself that your post helps me into the top half! Three more points! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/26 "2011-07-11T03:44:16Z")
1. Brutus 2. King Lear 3. Ariel 4. Lady MacBeth 5. Ophelia 6. Silvia 7. Viola 8. Hamlet 9. Hamlet 10. Claudius ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/27 "2011-07-11T12:57:57Z")
1. Benedick 2. King Lear 3. Caliban 4. Gertrude 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Portia 8. Hamlet 9. Viola 10. Shylock ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/28 "2011-07-11T13:20:02Z")
1. Brutus 2. Lear 3. Puck 4. Titania 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Viola 8. Hamlet 9. Portia 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/29 "2011-07-11T13:42:42Z")
1. Benedick 2. Lear 3. Ariel 4. Gertrude 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Viola 8. Hamlet 9. Henry V 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/30 "2011-07-11T13:55:39Z")
May it please you to name… 1. Benvolio 2. Lear 3. Puck 4. Titania 5. Puck 6. Shylock 7. Romeo 8. Hamlet 9. Hamlet 10. Richard III 10 was tough - went back and forth between Claudius, Richard, and Macbeth. 4 was surprisingly difficult to come up with any at all. Surprised there’s no “clown” category. I was very tempted to name Blackadder or Baldrick for 1. ETA: wow, no love for Richard III? I did also think of Iago, but Othello is probably the biggest-name Shakespeare play I’ve never seen in any format, so I guess he didn’t loom large in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/31 "2011-07-11T14:33:46Z")
1. Beatrice 2. King Lear 3. Titania 4. Gertrude 5. Feste 6. Shylock 7. Viola 8. Hamlet 9. Romeo 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/32 "2011-07-11T14:38:57Z")
1. Banquo 2. King Lear 3. Puck 4. Cleopatra 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Portia 8. Julius Caesar 9. Hamlet 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/33 "2011-07-11T20:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > ETA: wow, no love for Richard III? I did also think of Iago, but Othello is probably the biggest-name Shakespeare play I’ve never seen in any format, so I guess he didn’t loom large in my mind. I think that, a, the tragedies and comedies are more familiar to most folks than the histories, and b, Iago is Shakespeare’s most villainous villain, with his motivations mostly being “I’ll be evil because I’m the villain and that’s what villains do”. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/34 "2011-07-11T20:52:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that, a, the tragedies and comedies are more familiar to most folks than the histories, and b, Iago is Shakespeare’s most villainous villain, with his motivations mostly being “I’ll be evil because I’m the villain and that’s what villains do”. I was influenced by the Ian McKellan performance of Richard III as Hitler, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/35 "2011-07-11T21:01:34Z")
1. Brutus 2. Lear 3. Puck 4. Lady Macbeth 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Portia 8. Julius Caesar 9. Brutus 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/36 "2011-07-11T21:42:23Z")
1. Brutus 2. Lear 3. Ghost of Hamlet’s Father 4. Gertrude 5. Ophelia 6. Shylock 7. Portia 8. Hamlet 9. Henry V 10. Iago ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/37 "2011-07-12T00:34:32Z")
1. Benedict. 2. Henry V. 3. Puck. 4. Katherine. 5. Beatrice. 6. Snout. 7. Falstaff. 8. Hamlet. 9. Hamlet. 10. Lady MacBeth. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/38 "2011-07-12T00:40:37Z")
Well, at least I’m not the ONLY one who had Beatrice for #1. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/39 "2011-07-12T00:46:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, at least I’m not the ONLY one who had Beatrice for #1. I, on the other hand, am the only one who had MacBeth for #2. That should really help my score. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564/40 "2011-07-12T00:55:47Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > 1. Benedict. > 2. Henry V. > 3. Puck. > 4. Katherine. > 5. Beatrice. > 6. Snout. > 7. Falstaff. > 8. Hamlet. > 9. Hamlet. > 10. Lady MacBeth. Please read the following formatting rules _again_. > [@rules](#): > > No double spacing, no smilies, no urls, no periods, no quote marks, and no punctuation if it is not necessary. Put “pass” if you want to leave an answer blank. If you feel you must qualify your answer, do it AFTER THE LIST! > If you don’t format like this, your answers might be DISQUALIFIED. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shakespearean-feud-by-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-game-over/588564.md?page=3)