#OH I LOVE SHAKESPEARE

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I’m Lea! She/they, I’m 18 (and honestly idk how I successfully made it this far). I’m a lesbian and autistic and my default state of being is confused 💅

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[rottenbittenglass]

even a worm will turn.

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

Photographed at the Donmar rehearsal rooms by Alex Lake for the Observer in November 2023

with some photos thanks to the David Tennant Asylum

[arthursfuckinghat]

God guys I'm really in the trenches with thinking about Mary and Arthur and how utterly tragic they are.

After so many years of no contact, Arthur only meets Mary three times throughout the span of the story, three times where they talked about love and regret and pain and wishing things were different. Three times was all it took to officially break both of their hearts again, and one broken forever into the grave.

They wanted to run away, they wanted to run away and be happy, they wanted to be together again, they wanted it so badly and it was just so out of reach.

The last thing Arthur ever did with Mary was take her to the theatre, the last thing Mary ever did with Arthur was give back the engagement ring he had given her.

Because Arthur wanted to marry her.

Arthur wanted to marry her and run away with her and forget their families and make a life together.

But Mary didn't get a letter back, she didn't hear anything from Arthur, maybe she hoped that Arthur had moved on too, but Arthur died and had been dead the whole time. Mere days or weeks after she sent that letter, Arthur died.

How utterly soul destroying would the guilt and pain be after finding that out? That the last thing you did with the love of your life was write about how you're ready to move on days before they died? How she wrote about never forgiving herself for falling back in love with Arthur again when he was alive, but now he's dead? He's dead and there's so many things she'll never be able to take back or write about again, now she's all alone without even Arthur to help her even when she felt horrible for asking in the first place, now she will have to grieve instead of trying to move on like she promised, god you guys.

[imomnba-x07]

🚨NEW BLOOPER CONTENT FROM THE DVD, NEW BLOOPER CONENT, I REPEAT NEW BLOOPER CONTENT🚨

THEYRE SO SILLY, IM SO HAPPY, I CANT WAIT FIR MY DVD TO ARRIVE

[backjustforberena]

What poor an instrument May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty. Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (2014)

[somewhereincairparavel]

i like how ironic it is that Cardan's birth prophecy was probably very unique to baphen simply because of how straightforward and up to the point it was, no vague metaphors or dilly dallying like you usually see in prophecies, but Cardan turns out to be like the biggest poet ever with the best diction?? He is never too curt or blunt with his words, there's this certain 'silky' way he uses to convey things while exerting authority/malice simultaneously in a sly manner. It's just something I noticed.

[heir-of-the-chair]

I just need everyone to know that I fucking hate Hamlet prince of Denmark. This stupid fictional man makes me so goddamned angry I need to squeeze him like one of those rubber toys where the eyes pop out and shake him so violently like a child discovering snow globes for the first time. I fucking hate Hamlet prince of Denmark oh my god.

[sh4thesh33p]

Guys please watch Something Rotten! its so good,,

also who knew that William Shakespeare would give me gender envy..

[aq2003]

How's Love's Labour's Lost? I heard some critics at the time said DT was much more suited to Berown than Hamlet lol. Well, maybe one critic idqr, but I read something to that effect.

On that point, reading up on those reviews from that time, it's kinda strange that a significant portion of mainstream coverage of DT's mid-Doctor Who RSC season was taken up by hack writers being pretentiously disdainful about "Doctor Who in Shakespeare". I remember reading an article in Sunday Times or Daily Mail, the writer clearly thought he was being super clever and treated DT as if he had no previous theatre career, including RSC. Like he's some fleeting US sitcom star who's never been to drama school, but wanted to star as Hamlet in the West End for some reason.

As someone who became a fan about 10 years after that, it was really odd. I was used to DT being treated as a respected veteran Shakespearean actor, even before I was a fan, by reputation. But here he was, mocked and doubted and treated like an outsider.

i expected going in that i would love his berowne and i did god bless <33 hamlet will always be The dt role for me (well. um. besides macbeth. my brain is still processing that) but this LLL was SOOOO much fun.. it was so much better than the 2015 one sorry like greg doran understood the assignment the play is so fucking unserious and the lords are the most "me and the boys" friend group of all time and this production was this to a T. i think i will make posts on all of the archive recordings i watched later (need to organize my notes. and my thoughts) but yea!!

i think maybe theater critics back then were killjoys and got really snobbish about the doctor who guy bringing lots more young people to the theater. because david having a solid background in shakespeare/the theater is something you'd know if you looked into the stuff he's done for like 5 seconds. like hghhbshghdfw free him from the people that do not know what the hell they are talking about. he thinks of stage acting as his day job do not forget this!!!

[i3eelie]

i love them ♡

also him :)

(he is literally the definition of a tumblr sexy man how bro)

[heyitsspaceace]

one does not simply realize they're transmasc

one sees david tennant's version of Hamlet and Benedick and realizes they're transmasc

[sforzesco]

Shakespeare's JULIO CESAR trans. Bienvenido Lumbera

you know the scene, "You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you." "Nor construe any further my neglect, Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men," aka the conversation in Act I Scene II that makes me feel a little unraveled in every language I read it in :')

and ofc, the shows of love

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[tamaruaart]

"God i hate shakespeare" I say with hearts in my eyes

[cto10121]

I can’t believe I must live in a world where the French Romeo and Juliet musical is considered a ~controversial musical adaptation when Wicked the musical is right there

[averlym]

some very very quick costume shorthands!