For this discussion board assignment, choose a character and briefly compare the three different “versions” of the character (your own, and the two productions). How do the different interpretations stack against your reading? Is there one that’s perfect, or totally wrong? Where does your differ and what in the text leads you there? You’re encouraged to cite lines to help support your ideas (see below for how).

Please post as either a thread (with the character’s name as the title) or as a reply to someone who has already started the character’s thread.

Essentially, if you’re the first person to write about a character, start the thread (with tags, if so inclined. Directions are on the Discussion Board). If someone has already started it, reply to it.

We’ll return to these threads later to see how our ideas evolve as we read.

Note: Plays are typically cited by three numbers separated by periods: the act, the scene, and the line number(s). Take for example this couplet:

“Full of vexation come I , with complaint/Against my child, my daughter, Hermia” (1.1.22-3).

These lines are spoken by Egeus in Act I, Scene I, and appear as lines 22 and 23. Hence the citation.

Rather than me putting up threads for all the characters, I ask that if no one has posted on