Personality: Caster's personality seems to correspond quite well with accounts of Shakespeare's personality historically. A flippant attitude, prideful, quite often mocking, yet quiet and extremely private. He knows how to rub superiors or influental people the right way to gain favour, and has a tendency to gravitate towards such people. In fact, in Fate, he is said to have little interest in anyone who would be deemed a 'supporting character', ignoring them almost entirely, and focusing all his attention on 'protagonists'. He'll do anything to study interesting people, and will even intervene for better or for worse, to experience new trains of thought, mental states and actions in them. He puts his writing and potential for it above all else and doesn't seem to take the war seriously at all, to the point of being almost entirely detached, as if he was watching a play, rather than being one of the actors. He gives away a secret location to Berserker, knowing he'll go there without thinking twice about it, and instigate a battle. This is going against his Master's orders and being something of a detriment to his own faction, all for the sake of witnessing the story that will unfold. He's quite weak as a Servant and has no interest in taking part in battle anyway, so, he looks only to keep himself from danger, and he'll only do the bare minimum he must to keep his Master safe as well. Though even that is really only to keep himself alive, as without a Master, he won't last long.
Generally Caster's quite amicable, though much of the time it's mocking, he's sarcastic and isn't terribly serious. He also seems to think it's great fun to act overly dramatic. Coupled with his pride and self-indulgence in referencing his own works, he definitely comes across as eccentric to others. But he was a stage actor in life, and stage actors are generally known for being eccentric, so it's only fitting, right? He insists the other Servants in his faction read his works and is incredibly offended when many only know he's an important writer, but aren't directly familiar with his work. So much so that he goes out to buy a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare to shove at Shirou and Assassin, begging his Master and comrade to read it. He also takes interest in modern writing, be it in books, film, games, or, of course, theatre and poetry. He has a particular fascination with the concept of tropes and the like. His favourite genre is the revenge tragedy, as seen in many of his own works such as Hamlet and better still, Titus Andronicus. Despite his unwillingness to fight himself, there is no better entertainment than a bloodbath. When giving a dramatic display, he switches to 'the queen's english' - or rather archaic speech in Japanese, though normally he uses plain or polite speech. Spoken aloud, this would also mean switching accent, what we know as an American accent for normal speech, and switching to a British accent for dramatic displays.
He is, however, such a private person that there are very few accounts of his life outside the theatre and legal documentation. He fears slander and dislikes having his own life put on display. If he were asked about himself, he would almost certainly tell each person something different, if he didn't dodge the question entirely. He'll only show himself to people he's close with and can trust, the rest of the world gets the writer, actor and Servant, consisting of his personality and skills, but no insight.
Being looked down upon by contemporaries for lack of education, Shakespeare often sought to outdo them in debates, which he did. He has something of a deepseated hatred for school, particularly classes in Latin, and makes no secret of it, often writing of pupils who are far superior to tutors. When it does come down to writing another language, he makes a joke of it, most notably using innuendo and making plays on the similarity between sexual words in one language, and completely innocent ones in the other. Just because he can. Similarly, he has been looked down upon for being a player, despite accumulating more wealth in his lifetime than much of the nobility. A particularly sore spot is of an affair in which he felt the other could never see them as equals. Despite being a great romantic writer, he was not happy in his marriage and went out of his way to keep his wife from him in both life and death. From his writing, it seems he genuinely yearned for a happy marriage and one single great love, but none could satisfy his desire for someone he could admire fully. He idealised the youth of the sonnets, but could not ultimately have him and was wronged, the dark lady gave excitement and could be his potentially, but he could not admire the rest of her. And his wife, content to be a mother and housewife, certainly something he couldn't admire or respect. He feared no one person could offer fulfillment for him, although he wrote of characters who could be his ideal. In that way he lives vicariously through his writing in some cases, and pours his own experiences into others.
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Generally Caster's quite amicable, though much of the time it's mocking, he's sarcastic and isn't terribly serious. He also seems to think it's great fun to act overly dramatic. Coupled with his pride and self-indulgence in referencing his own works, he definitely comes across as eccentric to others. But he was a stage actor in life, and stage actors are generally known for being eccentric, so it's only fitting, right? He insists the other Servants in his faction read his works and is incredibly offended when many only know he's an important writer, but aren't directly familiar with his work. So much so that he goes out to buy a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare to shove at Shirou and Assassin, begging his Master and comrade to read it. He also takes interest in modern writing, be it in books, film, games, or, of course, theatre and poetry. He has a particular fascination with the concept of tropes and the like. His favourite genre is the revenge tragedy, as seen in many of his own works such as Hamlet and better still, Titus Andronicus. Despite his unwillingness to fight himself, there is no better entertainment than a bloodbath.
When giving a dramatic display, he switches to 'the queen's english' - or rather archaic speech in Japanese, though normally he uses plain or polite speech. Spoken aloud, this would also mean switching accent, what we know as an American accent for normal speech, and switching to a British accent for dramatic displays.
He is, however, such a private person that there are very few accounts of his life outside the theatre and legal documentation. He fears slander and dislikes having his own life put on display. If he were asked about himself, he would almost certainly tell each person something different, if he didn't dodge the question entirely. He'll only show himself to people he's close with and can trust, the rest of the world gets the writer, actor and Servant, consisting of his personality and skills, but no insight.
Being looked down upon by contemporaries for lack of education, Shakespeare often sought to outdo them in debates, which he did. He has something of a deepseated hatred for school, particularly classes in Latin, and makes no secret of it, often writing of pupils who are far superior to tutors. When it does come down to writing another language, he makes a joke of it, most notably using innuendo and making plays on the similarity between sexual words in one language, and completely innocent ones in the other. Just because he can. Similarly, he has been looked down upon for being a player, despite accumulating more wealth in his lifetime than much of the nobility. A particularly sore spot is of an affair in which he felt the other could never see them as equals. Despite being a great romantic writer, he was not happy in his marriage and went out of his way to keep his wife from him in both life and death. From his writing, it seems he genuinely yearned for a happy marriage and one single great love, but none could satisfy his desire for someone he could admire fully. He idealised the youth of the sonnets, but could not ultimately have him and was wronged, the dark lady gave excitement and could be his potentially, but he could not admire the rest of her. And his wife, content to be a mother and housewife, certainly something he couldn't admire or respect. He feared no one person could offer fulfillment for him, although he wrote of characters who could be his ideal. In that way he lives vicariously through his writing in some cases, and pours his own experiences into others.