#as shakespeare intended

[hamletkin]

hamlet does not think he has much skill for poetry which absolutely means he has texted random lines of his letters to ophelia to his friends at 2am while googling synonyms and pulling his hair out

[kaiasky]

listen up chucklefucks, i just gotta say. I'm not defending zir, but I'm sad zie deactivated. Like, i get that trauma lasts a long time and the good stuff is maybe easy to forget?? so maybe it's just like that. And my beloved mutual @/pompeyspuppygirl made a post about zir clout chasing behavior, which is pretty shitty behavior if it's true (and if we're canceling someone it had better be pretty severe). anyways now that zie's gone pompeyspuppygirl said it was okay to make this post (again, thanks ppg everyone go follow her--really everyone in this whole drama is worth a follow)

ANYways yeah zie was my mutual and like, reblogged a lot my smaller posts. (that isn't to discredit what my mutual pompeyspuppygirl is saying about zie clout chasing ofc). AND idk zie was always reblogging art from new and undiscovered artists and reblogging donation posts (which if you don't know is really bad if you're trying to clout chase...) (again, though, ppg is my mutual i believe her.) and like, remember on valentines day i tried to blaze zir posts and zie told me to stop because zie didn't want the posts to go viral? (but again ppg is my mutual and has a lot of proof in the Google doc I'm not trying to disprove that I'm just saying what else I know)

Idk, like i feel like a lot of people loved zir's blog a while back, bc like zie DID make some good posts?? So idk why everybody's acting like they aren't even a little bit sad.,. like ngl this feels like maybe all the reasonable people left to Twitter and all the Twitter refugees who love drama came here??? shdfhhdhdhdhdh haha but idk...look idk, i just, julie i do miss you. idk. more thoughts later sorry I'm getting worked up shshs

[lisa-cuddys]

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

[unicornofthemidwest]

every time someone says that Shakespeare is better seen than read just know I am shaking and shuddering and forcing myself not to argue because GOD. God. Because yes, I mean, Shakespeare didn’t even write down his plays in their entirety; they weren’t written for publication; they were quite literally written to be performed. AND. And Every story has meaning. Every word in a story has meaning. That’s just true, and it’s inevitable that one is going to miss some of that meaning if one is watching it onstage. Acting is not meant for analysis unless one is pretentious or a theatre critic. Acting is not designed for analysis. One doesn’t even have footnotes if it’s onstage! and I personally suffer when I don’t have footnotes for Shakespeare. Footnotes are my best friend and I love them. but that would still be fine if all the Shakespeare we see onstage was good Shakespeare but oh my god there is so much bad Shakespeare in the world. Holy goddamn fuck there is a lot of Shakespeare where the actors clearly have no idea what they’re saying or sexual assault is implicitly condoned or everyone’s just reciting lines or the entire concept of the show is apologizing for doing Shakespeare or Juliet is stuck in a register three octaves above sounding like a normal person and oh my god. Oh My God. YES, reading Shakespeare is hard. YES, it’s going to be boring at some points. Everything is boring at some points. But it’s not a magic cure-all to watch it onstage. Onstage Shakespeare has a whole other set of problems. One medium does not have a monopoly on Shakespeare. One medium is not inherently better. There are different things that you will get out of what medium you experience it through. I can’t think of a good conclusion and I’m losing my gol-dern mind so I’m just going to leave it here. Read some Shakespeare. Good night.

[neighbourhoodtwo]

[queeringclassiclit]

please send me submissions!

[butchhamlet]

that quote about shakespeare being “not of an age, but for all time” does, of course, oversimplify the way shakespeare’s plays were shaped by his time period, but sometimes i do think about how you can read the merchant of venice as making a statement that white people who are marginalized (see portia, white woman, and antonio and bassiano, white gay people) are still, first and foremost, white people who will enact social violence on jewish people & people of color in order to keep their own societal standings secure. which is fascinating from a standpoint of intersectionality & dissecting the violence in white womanhood, and is also fascinating because shakespeare wrote this play in 1596

[factual-flittermouse]

Broke: Old-timey grave curses using “he” because that was the norm and expectation

Woke: Trans grave robbers intentionally triggering curses for validation because “it said “cursed be he” not “cursed be ye””

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

it’s so annoying that every single thrift store i go to has a decent book collection with like. every single shakespeare play except for hamlet. like what is that about. let me have her.

Shes just so popular its hard to get a date ....... shes got too many friends!!!!!!

[squishmallow36]

Not my spanish teacher giving me a homework that is just go on an aro rant for 150 words

[laiqualaurelote]

chapter ten - my reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault

In moments like that, there would come the memory from that Henry IV rehearsal when Roy had broken form and slammed Jamie to the ground, arm on his throat, and snarled “I can no longer brook thy vanities”, and oh, Jamie knew he weren’t playing. Roy was a scab over an old wound and Jamie never could help himself from picking away till it bled fresh. No idea why it kept coming up in the orgies, though. He put it down to apocalypse doings. It was a confusing time to be alive.

In which Jamie Tartt, prodigal son, returns.

The Station Eleven post-apocalyptic theatre AU in which American comedy actor Ted Lasso, in the wake of a worldwide pandemic, winds up leading a Shakespearean theatre troupe through the ruins of England (no knowledge of Station Eleven necessary to read).

For this chapter, I am indebted to moviemuncherao3, whose advice on Mancunian phrases and geography has been invaluable, and who gamely answered bizarre queries such as "in event of an apocalypse (not zombies) and the collapse of civilisation, what would be a good place in Manchester for survivors to base themselves?" Thank you!

The border image for this is from one of James Chadderton's incredible artworks of post-apocalyptic Manchester.

[snowshinobi]

controversial hamlet opinion several hundred years late but guys let's face it: hamlet adores the sound of his own voice. so much he breaks the fourth wall to ramble. he fully commits to the visual presentation of grief. head to toe black. his own mother, wife of the dead man, asks hamlet to tone it down. he refuses. hamlet pretends to go insane so he can investigate his dad's suspected murder out in the open. he sets up a play WITHIN HIS OWN PLAY to give his shitty uncle the heebie-jeebies.

guys. hamlet is having fun. oh he's in agony, unequivocally: he grows numb to his friends as he realizes he cannot trust anyone. he loses his grip on his identity, his truth -- maybe he is truly mad after all, no act. he falls prey to the same murderous betrayal he set out to solve in the first place. his own story eats him.

but GUYS. hamlet had fun. despite everything.

[kanerallels]

Listen. It's about the fact that Ms. Baker (an English teacher) is married to a man named after a character from Shakespeare's plays (and maybe that's why she loves them! Or maybe they're the reason she first had interest in him)

But it's not just any Shakespeare character. Oh, no. It's Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet

And it's probably unintentional-- probably just a random Shakespearean name

But Tybalt in the play dies fighting

And Tybalt in the book goes missing in action, presumed dead, fighting in the Vietnam War

BUT he comes back! He doesn't die, unlike the play's Tybalt. And that makes me think of this part

Unlike Shylock, Tybalt isn't trapped. He can be something else, he doesn't have to die. He's not trapped in the script of a tragedy. He can come home, and he does

[nastasya--filippovna]

Happy Birthday Billy Boy

[creatediana]

"The Duke of Somerset" - an extremely simple no. 2 pencil drawing done 1/08/2024, of actor Brian Deacon in Henry VI, Part 2 (1983) directed by Jane Howell for the BBC Television Shakespeare, done in about 10 minutes. Would've been more detailed but my sister said "I'm bored and hungry, come eat with me" and that sounded pretty compelling.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone / trying to find the one where I went wrong