Who's the strongest character in the Shakespeare Cinematic Universe?
Who's the strongest character in the Shakespeare Cinematic Universe?
Noah Fisher
Joshua Jones
yago. Nobody can beat yago
Christian Brown
Young Netero.
Ian Harris
Yorick for sure. His sustain and single target damage are too high for most characters to compete with, and late game he's nearly as tanky as a Lear or Petruchio
Liam Anderson
macbeth is basically achilles
Liam King
oberon or coriolanus
Jonathan Cox
Rosalind. Her sneak and deception are off the charts.
John Bennett
Strength of personality: Falstaff. Strength of Character: the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
Grayson Mitchell
Prospero
Christopher Cooper
Fall/Staff = Shake/Spear
Think about it.
Logan Ward
Hm.
Kayden Jenkins
Woah
Samuel Butler
Gandalf
Dylan Turner
I can see the link between staff and spear, but between shake and fall? (non anglo here)
Jacob Baker
I'm British and I thought the same thing.
Charles Butler
>From Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pōl-. Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “bring down, destroy, cause to stumble, deceive”).
>From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”). from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian cкaкáть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.
Yeah I don't see it.
Landon Myers
Falstaff requires a lot of investment and is basically pay to win, but his speech and charisma stats are off the charts and once you get all his late game upgrades he's pretty tanky as well. I remember maining him in IV and roflstomping bandits until my weapons broke. Too bad he got nerfed in V..
William Ortiz
Falstaff obviously.
Stand beneath a tree and shake it, and see what happens.
Thomas Jenkins
Coralanius, can take on a whole city of dudes by himself
Robert Bell
With no offense, you guys are thinking too narrowly. There is a natural and historical relationship between things that are shaken, and things that fall: see, for instance, the Greek σαλευω (I shake, I cause X to fall down). This word appears in the Bible many times, but most interestingly as "τα μη σαλευμενα," or "the things not shaken," to refer to the perfect existence before the ... Fall. Basically, what said.
Leo Campbell
That's an incredibly tenuous connection I think
Luke Bell
Have you ever seen a real life tree?
Landon Nelson
Don't be a prick, I'm not disputing that if you shake a tree stuff falls off it. I just don't think that you can say that the word 'shake' overtly implies the word 'fall'. Your comment is deliberately obtuse
Michael Peterson
Falstaff
Lucas Phillips
a memepost isn't a pinata, stop trying to to shake it down
Daniel Brooks
Actually the ghost from Hamlet maybe or any of the supernatural charavters from Midsunmer Night's Dream
Asher Thompson
of course prospero! not only does he have magic, he's also extremely manipulative, crooked and intelligent.
Gavin Sullivan
Gauis Martius Coralalanius, have any of you seen/read any of his plays outside of the shit they make you read in highschool?
Elijah Diaz
Thanks for the explanation.
It would be nowadays. Back in Shakespeare's days, latin and greek were known, as well as the bible.
Dylan White
Those links suggest either that the name was originally 'Falsestaff' and the spelling altered over time or that the name was entirely invented by people staging the and at a later date. If anything this just discredits claims of a connection surely
William Scott
>the name was originally "Falsestaff"
Dude, it's a play — meant to be heard, not read. In Shakespeare's day, there was no audible difference between "False-staff" and "Fall-staff" and he probably intended both as puns. The story is pretty easy to follow:
>have a character named Oldcastle, who was historically a Lollard martyr
>Oldcastle's descendant kicks up a fuss and forces Shakespeare to change the name
>Shakespeare settles on Sir John Fastolf, who was historically a coward and (likely) also a Lollard
>he changes the name to Falstaff and begins to enlarge the character
>Falstaff becomes so popular that (apocryphally) Queen Elizabeth herself requested a sequel, and we thus get the abomination that is The Merry Wives of Windsor
But Falstaff was named Falstaff by Shakespeare; no matter the spelling differences, the sound was the same. He was simply too popular a character to deny this paper trail.
Elijah Foster
Not would I deny it, I was questioning the wisdom in posting links that do so in an attempt to prove that Falstaff is a self-insert of Shakespeare
Asher Martin
I don't know, i think that even with that knowledge the connection is a stretch.i just don't see it