#Shakespeare actor

[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

[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)

[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

[emailsfromanactor]

"Practically everything you can think of is in Hamlet; even homo­sexuality, if you look for it deep enough."

—Richard Burton, interview in John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals

[ihearttseliot]

Shedding Falstaff

Hair/Grooming by Luke Davies

[ineffablelifetoallmetatrons]

gulp

[baltimoresciencefictionsociety]

[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

[bodhrancomedy]

Working for the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) has its perks 😃

[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

[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.