I love villains in literary works because they are tough, foul-mouthed, bold daring, unafraid of life and have a dramatic flair that is to my liking. I find the following dull and therefore I am not attracted to them: Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, whereas I love madly these naughty boys and girls: Medea, Agave in Euripedes' BACCHANTES, Richard III, Barrabas Jew of Malta, Shylock who speaks the play's best speeches, Thersites in Shakespeare's TROYLUS AND CRESSIDA, Pozzo and Hamm, Goldberg in Pinter's BIRTHDAY PARTY, Weiss' de Sade in Marat/Sade and others whose cynicism, curses, swears and railings against people and human nature and the supernatural I relish as you do your Irish breakfast