why I have a soft spot in my heart for Edmund, bastard son of Gloucester

[maribou]

"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! "
- Shakespeare, King Lear

(columbina's fault, this post, for making my thoughts stray Lear-ward in the first place)

Comments

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

I do admit, Edmund is one of my favorite villains in Shakespeare.

[maribou]

Mine too!