#William shakespeare

[petaltexturedskies]

Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

[bodhrancomedy]

I mean, technically I’m not *that* wrong.

(I got audition sides for Julius Caesar today)

[cafeandarsenic]

I love Shakespeare.

love shakespeare. did a hamlet run tonight, looked someone dead in the eye to say “am i a coward?” during a speech and the fucker shrugged and nodded

[lascitasdelashoras]

William Shakespeare - Hamlet. Penguin

[bugwolfsstuff]

We're doing Act 2 scene 2 of Macbeth in english rn and if anything happens to Lady Macbeth im resurrecting Shakespeare to kill him

[angstandhappiness]

BAH HAH

“This is what Shakespeare would have wanted.”

“Shakespeare wouldn’t have wanted this.”

No! You’re both wrong! Shakespeare wanted one thing and one thing only. To sell tickets.

[doctorfriend79]

The Shakespeare Code

[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.

[foxglovevibes]

Again, somebody needs to do what they did for The Responder and write him a role for an action film/series that, isn't set in the 1800s, because he will knock it out of the goddamn park, I am TELLING you-

Adam Nagaitis as Hamlet!

RADA rehearsal, 2012

(now in HD)

Did you know that Adam played Hamlet when he was in RADA, and even was awarded for it? (BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award 2012 for Best Solo in Shakespeare/or Classic Theatre)

I wanted to get this one in HD for so long, and im so happy i managed to! Fencing Adam is not something you see every day.

I had to smash and split and tear this video apart (it was the only way possible, unfortunately), so there are two parts:

1) ⬇️

2) ⬇️

Bonus:

Boxing Adam sooo hot! (im pretty sure you saw that one too, but we're archiving here)

[britneyshakespeare]

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[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]

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.

[paholaisnainen]

do you see the vision?