Top 10 Greatest Shakespeare Villains

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5. Claudius



Hamlet’s uncle. And stepdad. See, he ****ed Hamlet’s father (the King of Denmark) and made nice with the queen so he could be king. Then he hired Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to **** Hamlet, and when that didn’t work he tattled on Hamlet to Laertes, whose father Hamlet ****ed by accident. They cook up a scheme to duel, and Claudius is going to poison Hamlet, either with the cup, or with Laertes’ sword which is also poisoned. Too bad for him his wifey-poo took a sip of the cup, so she died. Hamlet dies, Laertes died. Claudius died. So he dies guilty of: regicide, adultery, incest (in a way), attempted ******, involuntary manslaughter, and ******.

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4. Richard III



Poor Richard III. He’s ugly, hunchbacked, and mean. To get back at the world he bribes a soothsayer to say his brother is an assassin, which gets his brother locked up in the Tower of London. He woos and cajoles Anne Neville into marrying him, even though he ****ed her husband and his father. He basically ****s anybody who objects to him, and then he had his two nephews beheaded for good measure. You know you’re in for some evil deeds when a guy proclaims, “I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days.” Yeah, Dude. No kidding.

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3. Iago



Many people will say that Iago belongs at the top of the list. When you read the top two you will understand why Iago is #3. Iago is a villain, for sure. He is jealous, evil-hearted and malicious. He gets joy out of the pain of others. He is jealous of Cassio, so he convinces Othello that his (Othello’s) wife is sleeping with Cassio. Othello then ****s Desdemona and himself. Iago inadvertently stabs his own wife after she turns him over. He’s not sorry at all. At the end of the play, as they lead him off to what would seem to be his destruction, he states, “Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:
From this time forth I never will speak word.” He’s hard core.

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2. Tamora



Tamora, Queen of the Goths, rode into Rome at the side of Titus Andronicus. Titus ticked her off pretty bad right off the bat, so Tamora asked her lover, Aaron the Moor, to think of some ill stuff to do to Titus. You’ll get a listing of the crimes in the number one slot, but remember as you read it that Tamora was Aaron the Moor’s partner in crime, the Bonnie to his Clyde, and you’ll see that one of the most obscure plays contains the biggest villainy ever.

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1. Aaron the Moor



Tamora was so mad at Titus because he sacrificed one of her sons. Yeah, we’d be mad too. But the revenge that Aaron the Moor cooked up was so harsh that he ranks number one in our Top Ten Shakespearian Villain list. Check it out. He convinces Tamora’s remaining sons to **** and mutilate Titus’s daughter Lavinia. They cut out her tongue and cut off her hands so that she can’t identify them. Titus’s other two sons were imprisoned, so Aaron told Tamora to tell Titus that if he would cut off his own hand she would set his sons free. So Titus chops of his hand, and then promptly receives his sons back – minus their bodies. See? We told you it was awful. Aaron got his come uppance, however. He was buried chest-deep and left to die of thirst and starvation. And you wondered why they didn’t teach that play in high school?