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Angus, who hasn't fronted since the battle mentioned in 1.2: so uh. where are we headed ?

Ross, riding towards the heath: oh we're giving cawdor's title to macbeth.

Angus: cawdor??? but i thought macdonwald w

Ross: turns out cawdor committed treason too

Angus: WHUH .

wondering how much the play would change if i just (aims the Plurality Laser at characters)

obviously it would be a LOT easier to do with minor characters like. Ross/Lennox/etc but idk. just Interesting to me. (ignore the fact that they're all separate thanes with their own thanedoms lmao)

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YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT R&J THAT PLAY MAKES ME GO FERALLLL

THANK YOU!!!!

I think most of its hate comes from bored high schoolers and poor teaching. It manages to be so much more than a “horny teenage love story” without ever losing that immaturity that makes it so, SO fucked up. The vast majority of the deaths are kids!

And the writing!!! It feels like it’s going to be a silly comedy for the first few acts and then Mercutio dies and suddenly, all you can see in hindsight is the foreshadowing. When played well, I fully believe it can be just as good and moving as the “big four” tragedies.

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more people on tumblr would fuck with romeo and juliet if they engaged with the plays themes beyond a surface level and realised that at its core its about trying to escape the cycle of abuse

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i have actually read a LOT of the ones in the bottom tier but I don't remember them well enough and so i felt like grading them on vibes alone would be unfair

Macbeth my beloved

feel like im weird for liking titus andronicus but idk. something about cycles of violence and blood begetting even more blood until a family devours itself alive. idk

as a classics major i did Not love troilus and cressida but it might just be the weird characterization differences between this and the epics lmao

something about as you like it scratches my brain so good

EDIT: op i just saw your custom tier names and im like ohhhhhhhhh. I should've made a "this play exists" category LMAO

My Shakespeare play tier list!

(Slightly terrifying to see how many I still have to read, seeing as I've read 25 already...)

Here's the tier maker if you'd like to make your own:

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Prince of Cats

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Concept: Macbeth parody but after Macbeth kills the king he marries the king's widow and then the prince sees the ghost of his father and is sent on a quest of revenge where he pretends to act crazy and ultimately his inaction causes more pain than what he intended.

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obsessed with the timeloop quality of stage plays...romeo and juliet can not escape verona even in death... theyve been repeating the same tragedy for hundrets of years again and again and again, details like what they look like or wear get altered but the core of the story stays the same. romeo dies and juliet follows. the knife draws blood and juliet wakes again to news of her betrothal to paris. does romeos depression stem from rosalines rejection of him or from the fact that hes done this a thousand times over?

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Macbeth - Shakespeare Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Cawdor (Macbeth), Macdonwald (Macbeth), Lennox (Macbeth) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Guilt, idk what else to add lmao., Religious Guilt Summary:

Cawdor had been informed that someone else would be joining the meeting between him, Macdonwald, and a couple of Norwegian officials. Never in his life would he have expected the man who stood before him.

(mini-fic inspired by @withasideofshakespeare’s tumblr posts detailing Lennox's weird seemingly-disloyal nature in the text!)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Macbeth - Shakespeare Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) Characters: Macbeth (Macbeth), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Banquo (Macbeth), Ross (Macbeth), Lennox (Macbeth) Additional Tags: superpower au, Implied/Referenced Character Death, (Banquo's body got killed but he himself didn't? yknow? it's confusing), Telepathy Series: Part 4 of macbeth superpower au Summary:

Banquo is dead for good, he thinks. And as he is about to take his seat, Macbeth reaches out to survey the crowd and picks out an alarmingly familiar--living--voice. (The latter half of Act 3, Scene 4.)

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hamlet

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I have a headcanon about Macbeth.

What if the reason that MacDonwald rebelled was that he encountered the three witches?

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idk something about Ross and Angus riding up to Macbeth and Banquo in 1.3 and they're both co-fronting so they're like "yeah he bade us call you thane of cawdor :)"

wondering how much the play would change if i just (aims the Plurality Laser at characters)

obviously it would be a LOT easier to do with minor characters like. Ross/Lennox/etc but idk. just Interesting to me. (ignore the fact that they're all separate thanes with their own thanedoms lmao)

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ooough. nonbinary Macduff whom Macbeth has always admired/envied

"Macduff doesn't need to overperform masculinity to be seen as Powerful and Masculine (to a degree. maybe only in just a default Strong = Man kind of way)" he thinks.

then he thinks about how much he had (and still has) to struggle, overperforming masculinity to be seen as a man. and even though Macduff is a good friend of his and a fellow thane, he can't help but feel bitter sometimes.

something something transmasc macbeth transfem lady macbeth

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wondering how much the play would change if i just (aims the Plurality Laser at characters)

obviously it would be a LOT easier to do with minor characters like. Ross/Lennox/etc but idk. just Interesting to me. (ignore the fact that they're all separate thanes with their own thanedoms lmao)

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having a crap day, might put old (like 2018 era) macbeth AU writing up on my ao3. lmao

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something something transmasc macbeth transfem lady macbeth

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