#as you like it

[bpdlottiematthews]

we are what we pretend to be

bojack horseman/william shakespeare/charles bukowski/bojack horseman/kurt vonnegut/bojack horseman

[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.

[fluentisonus]

rosalind from as you like it was insane (affectionate) for all that. she disguises herself as a guy & then upon meeting the guy she is in love with (also in love with her) in the woods decides to pull the greatest gender stunt in the world and convinces him to roleplay wooing the lady he's in love with (her) with her (as a man) pretending to be herself. and incredibly he goes along with calling this handsome young man by his girlfriend's name & wooing her & halfway getting gay married just in time for her (a woman disguised as a man roleplaying a woman) to break out the line "I will be more jealous of thee / than a barbary cock-pigeon over his hen" leaving us with a stunning Four Levels of Gender (1. woman 2. woman disguised as a man 3. woman disguised as a man roleplaying a woman 4. woman disguised as a man roleplaying a woman who (in her persona as a woman) then refers to herself as a 'cock-pigeon' and the man she loves as a 'hen')

[catabasis]

this is a good april fools day kind of post. thank you royal shakespeare company

[sparknoteslitmemes]

[lipstickhamlet]

sparknotes blog you are so dear to me

[petercushingscheekbones]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

brb I'm stealing his gender

[David Tennant as Touchstone in As You Like It, 1996]

[kamishirowxs]

kimi to ima saa saa majiwatte me o sorashiau

dandan iya ni natte demo suki ni naru

[bookholichany]

David Tennant in Shakespeare plays

[As you like it, Measure for measure, love's labor lost, Richard II, Hamlet, The Comedy of errors, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, much Ado about nothing, Macbeth]

P.s. he had also been in Edward III as Edward the black prince and the midsummer night's dream as Lysander/flute but I couldn't find any pictures from those plays. Also he had taken part in many audio performances from Archangel archive full Shakespeare plays collection to BBC radio Macbeth 2022.

[avrscn]

Remembering Val Kilmer, who brought passion and depth to every role, including his unforgettable turn as Orlando opposite Patti LuPone’s Rosalind in the Guthrie’s “As You Like It” (1981–82).

[2000sscribbles]

btw if we're posting dt shakespeare related things for macbeth day here's a bit from as you like it (that i spent an afternoon also subtitling into chinese lol)

[aduckwithears]

The only type of April Fools Day post I wanna see.

[unreesonable]

Notebook Magazine, Feb 2014