Would Hamlet have been friends with Romeo? Or would Juliet and Goneral have been best pals? Which characters are most compatible, or have the most in common? Better again, which characters from different plays would have been enemies?
I bumpeth this thread! C’mon guys… Any help?
All of the Fools, obviously.
Viola, of The Twelfth Night, and Rosalind, of As You Like It.
After all, they already go to the same tailor…
I think Hamlet and Jaques (the one from As You Like It who delivers the “All the world’s a stage” speech) would have gotten along well.
Iago would find a lot of common ground with Aaron the Moor.
Ophelia and Orsino. They both know what love is, and neither of them understand why life isn’t as simple as it should be.
Puck and Buckingham. They both know that keeping your nose clean, doing what the boss asks you to, is the only way to sucess.
Macbeth and Benedick. They both know, to their cost, what the state of Holy Matrimony involves. 
Claudius and Richard III would probably have lots of usurping/regicide tips to share - and they could commiserate about being foiled.
Goneril and Regan,
I kid, I kid, but lots of the heroic women have lots in common.
Rosalind and Beatrice, riotgrrls
Miranda and Cordelia and Juliet and Desdemona, with Cleopatra to watch over them. young love
Cressida and Lady Macbeth, thwarted at the peripheries
The Men,
Falstaff and Sir Toby Belch and Andrew AgueCheek and the Mechanicals
Coriolanus and Macbeth
(Marc) Antony and Hamlet - renaissance men
Orlando and Bassanio - young love
On no no no. You’ve got this wrong.
Falstaff (Henry IV) and Falstaff (Merry Wives) and Toby Belch [12th Night, in case you’re wondering] would have hated each other. Each would insist on being the Alpha Drunkard.
Hamlet: To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether tis nobler in the mind to take arms against…
Mrs Macbeth: What a wuss.
And they both probably would liked Edmund.
Richard III wouldn’t be friends with anybody, but I bet he’d have a beer or two with Iago and maybe hit on Tamora.
If Shakespeare were sci-fi, Lady MacBeth, Goneril and Regan would have got on like a house on fire and, with a time twist at the end of their combined play, actually BECOME the Wyrd Sisters on the heath at the beginning…
I stand, or rather, bow corrected.
And Macbeth could join in the pity party.
Prospero would probably pick on/make fun of Owen Glendower.
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep!”
“…and? Come back and talk when you’ve created tempests and raised the dead, bubbo.”
Bizarrely, I’ve just been cast in a new play based around a similar premise - Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear meet in a pub. As the play has it, Macbeth and Hamlet are friends, they tolerate Lear, and the 3 of them are united in their hatred of Mercutio - “…a MINOR character who thinks he’s something special, which is the worst kind…”.
This is similar to an idea I’m throwing round in my head. Seems I’m not as clever and original as I thought. What is the name of your play?
Is anyone else consumed by what the punchline to this could be?
“And you won’t get many more at those prices!”?