#William Shakespeare

[bardtournament]

semifinals

[adventuresofalgy]

Despite the forbidding weather, Algy managed to struggle slowly onwards, battling his way against the driving sleety snow with his precious pumpkin lantern gripped firmly in his beak.

Before long, however, the too-short November day began to draw to a close… but as it did, the precipitation finally stopped, and the setting sun managed to break through the clouds for its only moment of glory on that dim and dreary afternoon.

Alighting on a bank beside a pretty lochan, Algy rested briefly on the frosty ground with his magic pumpkin tucked in close by his side, to watch the fleeting burst of golden light before finding himself a safe perch for the night in the inviting tree which overlooked the water.

With Elizabethan poetry still running around inside his chilled but still-fluffy head, Algy was reminded of a famous sonnet, and although he had read in learned tomes that Shakespeare was actually thinking of a Fair Youth when he wrote this verse, in his own case Algy was reflecting solely on the perfidy of the sun itself, which would be his for very much less than one hour on this particular day…

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack! he was but one hour mine; The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

[Algy is thinking of Sonnet 33 by the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan) famous English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.]

[backjustforberena]

Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (2014) Act Four, Scene 1 - for @lazyreinelle

[istanbulhanfendisi8]

"Binlerce kez iyi geceler sana!"

"Binlerce kez beter olsun gece, senin ış��ğın yoksa."

[austin-friars]

'Ophelia' Wip

[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

[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?

[nipuni]

Sweet prince Hamlet 👑🗡️💀

[illustration-alcove]

Anton Lomaev's illustrations for William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

[stingrayextraordinaire]

My students’ adventures in trying to spell “tragedy” for their Romeo and Juliet quiz.