#HamLet

[dragawayyourbones]

You’re laughing… the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing Hamlet with Jared Harris and the setting is a ship… and you’re fucking laughing

[eccentricechoes]

"Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison." -Hamlet

Not a perfect parallel, but I was reminded of Hamlet's "Denmark is a prison" lines.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[aq2003]

messy sketches of that one shakespearean actor guy

[sanseterrer]

January 7, 2025

[grimmbunny24]

I love this execution of Hamlet so much, this is so perfect. Can I eat your post?

I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

[spelacchiotto]

had to doodle the man of the moment in my silly journal

[captainjackscoat]

me and my cousin for the first eight years of knowing each other -

me:*uncomfortable silence*

her:*uncomfortable silence*

vs

me and my cousin after not seeing each other for like two years, thinking we have nothing in common -

my mum and aunt: go bookshop *pushes us into Waterstones*

me: *picks up hamlet*

her: oh u like Shakespeare?

me: mate I LOVE Shakespeare. Specifically Hamlet. Love those wet dog boys doomed by the narrative.

her: omg same. have you read the odyssey?

me: yeeees where is this going

her: ....have you heard of epic

me: YES

Fastforward one month, she and I text daily about poetry and Ancient Greek wet dog men, and we also talk like we're two bros at a gym despite us being sort of related. I should have listened to epic years ago.

[theshakespearetrash]

I failed the perception check

[monstrousliarstold]

[sanseterrer]

Christmas walk to the village of Povstikhovo // part 2

[mahlikes]

#did a bit of a redesign #taking notes from kozintsev's version of ophelia where she ties her hair up #the change in act 4 feels more drastic bc she'd let her hair down

heyyy scrolling through your hamlet stuff and i saw a post bout laertes and fortinbras and hamlet and horatio with the like face shapes (ex. hamlet being pizzafaced, horatio having a squarish face, laertes rocking a rhombus, etc.) so i was wondering what Ophelia's shape would be

i get that you're more focused on oc's right now but i would still love to see it :)

circle! but she starts to incorporate sharper elements into her design later in the play.

this way she starts to mirror hamlet, who's also perceived as volatile and dangerous as a result of mismanaged grief.

[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.

[someone-will-remember-us-i-say]

I will be coming back to this concept. We're not done here

[horaitos]

being a fan of a character is sometimes “look at how complex he is. he’s so intricate and his story is so tragic and he’s so much more complicated than people give him credit for” and sometimes it’s like “haha look at this failure of a person. I wanna throw him off a cliff and see what happens”

[handmemyshovel]

@i-kiss-clowns i know you know nothing about hamlet other than what i tell you but who are you in this situation: hamlet or horatio? hamlet is actually so me in this case. i say dumb stuff and regret it quickly and never really want to know the truth in fear i wont like it.

also ignore me tweaking out in the tags!!

Horatio should call hamlet “sweet prince” more often. Why is it only just once. Mr shakesqueer why. why.