> Anyway, I'm not too up on my Shakespeare, but maybe this list would enjoy > playing "What House are Shakespearean characters from" (in case this isn't > the nth time it was suggested). For example, Iago is a Yendi, Othello a > Dzur, Perdita an Issola; maybe Hamlet's a Tiassa, Macbeth a Jhereg, > Macduff a Phoenix (mystic birth circumstances), Hermione also a Phoenix > (mystic rebirth)... I don't think Macbeth is a Jhereg, I think he's a Dragon. The play is a cautionary tale about what happens when a Dragon lets ambition for the trappings of honor overwhelm his scruples about the actuality of it. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this." -- Douglas Adams