#A WINTER’S TALE

[chicademartinica]

To those who didn’t know me back when To my star 2 was airing (I legit almost died)I M SO SORRY FOR THE FULL MONTH OF INCOHERENT SNOT BUBBLE WHIMPERING ON YOUR DASH.

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Fumi Kaneko and Vadim Muntagirov in A Winter’s Tale.

Photo by Andrej Uspenski.

[wildsaltair]

Due to the fact that I am a sunken wreckage of a human being for Russell Crowe, I'm working on collecting all the books related to his movies! Here's what l've discovered so far, but l'd love to know if y'all know of any others! :)

Books that were made into movies:

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)

L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)

American Gangster (Steve Zaillian)

A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar)

Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

A Good Year (Peter Mayle)

The Silver Brumby (Elyne Mitchell)

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Short Stories (Elmore Leonard)

Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin)

An Exorcist Tells His Story (Gabriele Amorth)

Body of Lies (David Ignatius)

Tenderness (Robert Cormier)

Hammers Over the Anvil (Alan Marshall)

Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (James Hadley Chase)

True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel)

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (John "Chick" Donohue and J.T. Molloy)

The Book of Mirrors (E.O. Chirovici)

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (Jack El-Hai)

Novelizations of movies:

Gladiator (Dewey Gram)

The Quick and the Dead (Jack Curtis)

Virtuosity (Terry Bisson)

Cinderella Man (Marc Cerasini)

The Next Three Days (Jennifer Krediet)

The Water Diviner (Andrew Anastasios and Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios)

The Nice Guys (Charles Ardai)

Proof of Life (David Robbins)

Noah (Mark Morris)

Man of Steel (Greg Cox)

Robin Hood (David B. Coe)

[totallyboatless]

Spending the last day of pride popping an edible and seeing a live production of A Winter’s Tale which is not the gayest of Shakespeare but is still fairly gay given the campy drama

Petition to rename “problem” plays to “it’s me hi i’m the problem it’s me” plays

[fanrifficnumber1superguy]

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

the @socialshakespeare mood

(from act iii, scene 3 of the winter’s tale, with @cobbled-vibrance reading stage directions and yours truly screaming her head off as antigonus getting pursued by a bear)

[toyastales]

Raw Edge Countertop

[britneyshakespeare]

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[hypewinter]

Ok ok ok so hear me out. I've seen a lot of stories and prompts where the Joker is scared of Danny. But honestly? Big scary ghost? Whatever, doesn't phase him. He's seen scarier. He's done scarier. Try again.

But you know what has been actually proven to scare the Joker? The IRS. So imagine this man's utter horror when one day an IRS agent just appears in his hideout and lets him know that he still owes them money. The agent gives him a deadline to pay his remaining taxes then leaves.

Joker immediately starts scrambling. He needs to come up with this money fast. No way he's making an enemy out of the IRS. But before that, Johnny? Find my accountant and give him the most painfully funny death you can think of.

For the next few days, Joker is running around, trying to collect the remaining money that he owes but he still doesn't have enough. As the IRS agent so helpfully reminds him every time he shows up.

On the day of the deadline Joker is still just short of what he owes so he pulls out his trump card. Begging.

That's how Batman finds one deranged clown killer on his hands and knees begging for a loan or at the very least some protection and he is utterly confused. It's at that moment when a young man appears out of nowhere.

"I'm sorry. It looks like you still haven't paid all of your taxes," he says in a frighteningly cheerful voice before he grabs the Joker by his collar and drags him into the shadows.

[withasideofshakespeare]

My favorite Shakespeare thing is when he writes a major plot point but just has someone tell us about it to save on special effects.

Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates but we don’t see that part. It’s a letter.

The Oracle of Delphi shows up in the Winter’s Tale and rather than do all the special effects required to make that adequately supernatural, two guys come on stage and go “woah that was cool”

There’s a big storm on the night that Duncan is murdered and we learn about this when half the cast of Macbeth says “sure was stormy last night”

Shakespeare, the OG low-budget director taking the easy way out.

[aq2003]

grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested

[aromiekimart]

Hello everyone! Since there was interest in it, this RWBY fanart piece is now available as a high-quality print on INPRNT!

There's a sale going on right now on the site too :)

If anyone buys it, please feel free to send me a pic of how the physical print ends up looking, I'd love to see it

[bequietanddrivefarawayy]

[regina-del-mare]

[garlandedspirits]

Stage decoration for William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"- by the Brückner brothers (1878)

[alrauna]

Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg)