#William shakespeare

[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.

[majestativa]

His traditional black clothes, almost a dark nakedness, as if out of a Goya painting.

— STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ ⚜️ Divagations, on Hamlet, transl. by Barbara Johnson, (2009)

[bardtournament]

FINALS !!!! 🚨‼️

[kurumuskirazdali]

[writing-for-life]

More S2 (re)Casting News…

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[claraoswalds]

Oh, is that who I am now? Well, it was never that far from the surface, mate.

[mrs-starkgaryen]

MORE PRECISE POLLS:

Comedies

Tragedies

Histories

Please say why you chose, I'm interested and please share for bigger sample

P.s: I chose to do this poll cuz after r&j, hamlet, macbeth and midsummer's night's dream, I didnt study any of the others.

I was curious to see which one I should read first (as I want to expand my reading and I'm getting shakespeares works for christmas which I wanted after I went to see Tom Holland's r&j which blew me away and made appreciate shakey a lot more)

I'm sorry I failed you 'much ado about nothing' fans 😭

[offonaherosjourney]

Last night I dreamed that someone invented a new version of chess called Rookmeo and Juliet where two rooks are in love and trying to run away together. To achieve this they have to make it to the other side of the board, but these rooks don't have any visible signs to differenciate them from the rest, just a small mark in their base. Neither of the players knows what rook from the other side is in love with their rook, so they have to play a regular game of chess, fully aware that they might unknowingly kill the lover of their rook. If they kill it, the game keeps going, but their rook betrays them, switches sides and turns into a second queen for the other player. People wrote a ton of essays about the symbolism and metaphors of that version of chess and the creator didn't have the heart to tell them that he simply invented it because he thought Rookmeo was a great pun

[bodhrancomedy]

Nerdy Deaf actor talks best minor Shakespeare roles.

- Hamlet

- King Lear

- Romeo & Juliet

[nipuni]

Sweet prince Hamlet 👑🗡️💀

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

hamlet (1623) - william shakespeare

"polonius, behind the arras: o i am slaying!"

[thecollectibles]

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Anastasia Shutova

[paholaisnainen]

do you see the vision?