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first time watching the production of taming i’m helping with and i’m so excited to share that the presiding acting choice was to give the whole minola family the thickest italian mafia godfather accents you’ve ever heard. straight up you come to me on the day of my daughter’s wedding shit

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I got a Yorick hat back when I saw the RSC's Hamlet this year and today I left it on public transport!

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oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

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from the globe's instagram page

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people complain about the top shortage but the REAL problem is that no one fw tops who can't host...we need a paradigm shift. bottoms need to start making money and acquiring a trophy top to keep on retainer *realizes this is really close to knighthood and i get so horny that my kneecaps explode* oughh

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Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl... but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.

Katarina "Kat" Stratford & Patrick Verona 10 Things I Hate About You│1999

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francesca hayward and marcelino sambé photographed performing as titania and oberon in frederick ashton's the dream by magda hoffman

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I shall have glory by this losing day, more than Octavius and Mark Antony by this vile conquest shall attain unto. So, fare you well at once, for Brutus' tongue hath almost ended his life's history. Night hangs upon mine eyes. My bones would rest that hath but laboured to attain this hour.

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Is he... you know.. aught that men may question

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Sword Bookmark by TheFableFortress

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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) JULIA STILES as KAT STRATFORD

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imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell