Probably my favorite part about this play is the rhetorical word games all throughout. Like when Costard tries to get himself out of punishment: "The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner." he sort of skirts around the subject, claiming to present the reason why he is there, but not explaining himself clearly: "In manner and form following sir, in all those three: / I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with / Her upon the form, and taken following her into the / park; which, put together, is in manner and form / following." And in the performance done at Shakespeare's Globe, Costard was such a little performer. http://streaming.factsonfile.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=41375
But my favorite character was actually the princess. Just like Mikhaela said in her paper, Shakespeare writes strong women characters. I'm not really convinced that the Princess cares for Ferdinand until the end, and even then, she has the guts to challenge him to a year of hermitage. She must be playing with his head, and certainly with the audience as well.
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