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Playing Devil's Advocate: The Attractive Shakespearean Villain, Jonathan Montgomery Green
Playing Devil's Advocate: The Attractive Shakespearean Villain, Jonathan Montgomery Green
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The characters of William Shakespeare have spawned countless words of critical interpretation inspired by the playwright's aptitude for fashioning intricate and conflicted figures. As a master character craftsman, Shakespeare is consistent in creating fascinatingly deep characters, and many of them have even gone so far as to generate entire literary archetypes. From the contemplative Prince Hamlet to the despicable yet charming John Falstaff, Shakespeare's characters remain eternal representatives of what any good character should be: interesting, provocative, and complicated.
However, among the playwright's most hypnotic figures are his villains, those characters whom audiences should by all counts detest but cannot …