#Shakespeare actor

[bodhrancomedy]

In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely 'First Servant'. All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine, long term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it. His sword is out and pointed as his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted.

- CS Lewis on King Lear.

[gauntletqueen]

@thestuffedalligator I made you a soundpost hope you like it!

[detroitlib]

Portrait of actor James Earl Jones in a scene from Shakespeare's "The tempest." Stamped on back: "Friedman-Abeles Photographers, Inc., 351 West 54th Street, New York 19, N.Y." Handwritten on back: "James Earl Jones in 'The tempest.'"

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[aq2003]

for the love of fucking god hello .

[olemisekunst]

Does Tom Hiddleston know his lines? 🎭

[silverdoe]

I still cannot believe this man hasn't earned all the praise and awards a performance of this level merits

[ihearttseliot]

Shedding Falstaff

Hair/Grooming by Luke Davies

[hamletthedane]

Obtained a (digital) edition of Hamlet that - for some reason - decided to illustrate Horatio and Hamlet’s scenes using art lifted from Mark Twain’s first edition of The Prince and The Pauper. And frankly it’s incredible:

I mean they’re not wrong for this choice, but it was definitely a choice

[ineffablelifetoallmetatrons]

gulp

[baltimoresciencefictionsociety]

[bodhrancomedy]

I forgot that I have 12 years of having to analyse Shakespeare’s language, so here is Puck’s speech about the backstory to Midsummer Night’s Dream spoken as modern gossip.

(This was way harder to perform than the Shakespeare version. Also Titania is 100% in the right here. The Prince is the half-orphaned son of one of her friends and followers whom she promised to look after if something happened)

[detroitlib]

Portrait of actor James Earl Jones in a scene from Shakespeare's "The merchant of Venice." Stamped on back: "Friedman-Abeles Photographers, Inc., 351 West 54th Street, New York 19, N.Y." Label on back: "From: Merle Debuskey & Seymour Krawitz, 137 W. 48 St., CI 7-7507. James Earl Jones in a scene from "The merchant of Venice,' which opens the seventh season of the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park on Tuesday evening, June 19th, at 8:30 p.m. The production, directed by Joseph Papp, will inaugurate the new Shakespeare Festival Theatre in the Belvedere Tower area (entrance at 81st St. and Central Park West). Ming Cho Lee designed the sets and Theoni Aldredge the costume; music is by David Amram."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Edward Lionheart

Theater of Blood (1973)

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Who wants to get in a time machine and go tell him?

from that 2005 R&J essay by David Tennant

[theoscarsproject]

Henry V (1989). In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Kenneth Branagh has truly been collecting Shakespeare roles like infinity stones for more than 30 years. 7/10.