When we did it for A-level I was Fortinbras* and was quite taken with being the one who turned up at the end and made everyone clean up all the mess.

*we had an English teacher who made us act it, which mostly meant we read it out loud but standing up and staring at our feet, and were horribly embarrassed when she died with much gurgling in the stationery cupboard while being Polonius. She also made us draw the plot of Persuasion. I plotted it as a graph.