The infamous SCAMola said:
I actually think I just came up with a very good one, you could do Shylock's monologue from The Merchant of Venice.
You know, the whole "Hath not a Jew eyes..." speech.
Ahhhh, I saw a shorter version of that play before Easter at my university, that was an epic speech and was really well portrayed by the actor playing Shylock. Thing about him is that he's a bad character (remember that Anti-Semitism was rife and normal in Shakespeare's day), and yet he's easy to feel sympathetic for. What I didn't like so much about the performance I saw was that at the end, after the courtroom scene, Shylock killed himself (presumably) off stage, you hear him scream for a protracted length of time then get suddenly cut off. That kind of ruined the source text in a way, as Shylock isn't meant to die and as I say, he's someone you feel a shred of sympathy for.
