#shakespeare

[caffeinatedcatlover]

Trying to survive the last semester, catching up on journaling, drinking coffee, and petting the cat.

[101maverick]

Welcome to “Maverick is a literature Nerd” where I assign quotes to the batfam members!

Today we have Dick Grayson’s angsty teenage self as Robin!

Dick’s Robin is the embodiment of this quote:

“Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.”

-Hamlet, Act One, Scene V.

[can-they-assemble-ikea-furniture]

Assume they have access to ikea furniture

[deadpoetsdeath]

Why don't some people not understand poetry?

Maybe they try to logically counter the words.

Poetry is a form of art, it can only be felt within oneself. It shows us a higher truth in a non-literal way hence, trying to find literal certainty while encountering poetry doesn't really help.

This can be understood through music. A Good music always starts with it's lyricism and lyrics are nothing but poetry composed by the artist. We don't think logically about our favourite music while listening to it, we feel it. We feel it's rhythm. We feel it's lyrics. And poetry should be treated the same way.

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

watched coriolanus twice in the last two weeks and it’s really good…… sorry hamlet move over i have a new favorite

[vinca-majors]

she was really going to kill them all and she should have gotten to

[zeusintorium]

seninle böyle olabilirdik, sensiz kaldık

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[gettingnutsfromsquirrels]

[bloodybellycomb]

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

[insomniac-arrest]

The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try, there is no escaping being yourself forever.

[mysharona1987]

[shakesqueers13]

Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and cargo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

EDIT: THEY'RE GOING TO BROADCAST THIS PRODUCTION ON PBS, CHECK THE NOTES