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ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, AND LOVERS or all of the above

the nature of conspiracy is to be blurry

Conspiracy Literature in the Early Renaissance, Marta Celati

Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, V.E. Pagan

but in that blurriness, there's a lot of room to explore. conspiracy is seduction, conspiracy is transgression, etc etc etc. the implications are endless!

Brutus, the Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest

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THREE CHEERS FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC! or LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTUS AND THE CORPSES OF HIS SONS

As soon, then, as it was day, Brutus seated himself upon the tribunal and examined the letters of the conspirators; and when he found those written by his sons, each of which he recognized by the seals, and, after he had broken the seals, by the handwriting, he first ordered both letters to be read by the secretary in the hearing of all who were present, and then commanded his sons to speak if they had anything to say. But when neither of them dared resort to shameless denial, but both wept, having long since convicted themselves, Brutus, after a short pause, rose up and commanding silence, while everyone was waiting to learn what sentence he would pronounce, said he condemned his sons to death. Whereupon they all cried out, indignant that such a man should be punished by the death of his sons, and they wished to spare the lives of the youths as a favour to their father. But he, paying no heed to either their cries or their lamentations, ordered the lictors to lead the youths away, though they wept and begged and called upon him in the most tender terms. Even this seemed astonishing to everybody, that he did not yield at all to either the entreaties of the citizens or the laments of his sons; but much more astonishing still was his relentlessness with regard to their punishment. For he neither permitted his sons to be led away to any other place and put to death out of sight of the public, nor did he himself, in order to avoid the dreadful spectacle, withdraw from the Forum till after they had been punished; nor did he allow them to undergo the doom pronounced against them without ignominy, but he caused every detail of the punishment established by the laws and customs against malefactors to be observed, and only after they had been scourged in the Forum in the sight of all the citizens, he himself being present when all this was done, did he then allow their heads to be cut off with the axes. But the most extraordinary and the most astonishing part of his behaviour was that he did not once avert his gaze nor shed a tear, and while all the rest who were present at this sad spectacle wept, he was the only person who was observed not to lament the fate of his sons, nor to pity himself for the desolation that was coming upon his house, nor to betray any other signs of weakness, but without a tear, without a groan, without once shifting his gaze, he bore his calamity with a stout heart.

-Roman Antiquities, Dionysius of Halicarnassus

something about how every turn of rome is founded on acts of violence, death, spectacle, and sacrifice. like, it’s all corpses, all the way down, forever. something else about how the foundation of the republic was very. oof. a lot of familial violence was going on in there.

also I can’t believe I’ve never drawn lucius junius brutus before, given all the weird shit I’ve said about marcus junius brutus and ancestral hauntings.

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아근데여기로이주실패할것같음벌써.........

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(계정정체성 규명을 위해 올리는) 코리올라누스(2021 극단여행자) 떼샷

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먼가 영어로써야될것같음

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Argentina 1985 // Julius Caesar: act 4, scene 3

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코리올라누스!

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*General Lamarque Is Dead*

Enj with the boys :

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the ending of r&gad is just. so heartbreaking because of the way it’s structured.

guildenstern, who takes comfort in logic and reasoning and logical reasonable conclusions, who is excessively invested in the questions game, doesn’t get the last word. he doesn’t even get his last word, because his sentence is cut off before he can reach the end.

the play ends with a scene from hamlet, effectively wrenching agency away from its protagonists by having them once again disappear: not walking away from the situation of their own volition, but simply ceasing to be. the curtain pulls away to reveal horatio vowing to tell the story of carnal, bloody acts, but rosencrantz and guildenstern are left out of the conclusion of their own play, once again nothing but side characters in someone else’s story.

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Qui êtes-vous ?

(another version↓ mais i prefer the white one and. no why.)

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“He might be your brother.”

“He is.”

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A hamlet poster that I recently made, I usually never make them but this was a nice change of pace

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Hamlet: No I will not “stop being so dramatic”

Hamlet: My UNCLE poisoned my DAD and now he’s MARRYING MY MOM

Laertes: mY uNcLe PoIsOnEd My dAd aNd NoW hE’s MaRrYiNg mY mOm

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shakespeare appreciation week day 4 – villains day

what the fuck gay little plebians. anyways yeah everyone who knows me probably assumes gay corrupt politician rosencrantz and guildenstern are my brand and they’d be absolutely correct about that

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Jacqui Parker ®, Sicinius - re-gendered

Coriolanus, directed by Steve Maler (2012)

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston MA 

Photo by Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures