#billy Shakespeare

[thethirdman8]

Before the snow storm baby.. Billy Shakespeare is concerned. Atta boy Billy..

[thecapuletjuliet]

WELCOME VERONA!

Since the rest of gang are doing introductory posts, I decided one was needed for thecapuletjuliet!

FIRST OF ALL!

This account, thecapuletjuliet, is an RP blog that's part of an entire Romeo & Juliet blog web. This mini blog universe consists of:

@urfavmontague

@romeonotexiled

@tybaltcapuletsblog

and @county-paris !!!

Now that we've cleared that up, let's tackle the biggest fish we have to fry.... ME!!!

THECAPULETJULIET:

ABOUT:

This account, thecapuletjuliet, is an RP blog of Juliet Capulet from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Shoutout to all my Billy Shakespeare fans... I gotchu bro.

The admin of this account is @scremmurrejones , a page that is dry and desolate and void of all life! Over on that page is random, unimportant content and is not active at all because I'm not a devout tumblrer. You can refer to me, the admin, as Murphy, who uses any and all pronouns you wanna. ANYWAYS.

RP BLOG ETIQUETTE:

Asks: Ask Juliet Capulet any question about her or her situation you desire! Also feel free to ask the admin of this account anything, as long as you specify it's OOC (eg. "ooc question: blah blah")!

Generalized Interacting: Comment and reblog what you wish, as you wish. You can find the other R&J characters occasionally reblogging and interacting with the posts as well!

DO NOT'S ❌: Thou shan't NSFW nor politics in asks, comments, or reblogs! Remember, Juliet is a 13/14 year old. She is a child, and should be treated as such as canon-compliant as you can! The only people she will be interacting with romantically and semi-romantically will be Romeo and Paris. The Paris part is simply because she has to. Sorry Paris.

Do not bring real world politics into this account! It is unrelated to Juliet and the fair city of Verona. If you bring up anything in terms of the world Juliet lives in it should be regarding Verona, Italy. Feel free to ask her thoughts on Verona or the prince, but not anything above her pay grade.

SIDE NOTES:

"Murphy, O fair ruler of thecapuletjuliet, why is Juliet's tumblr page so much less serious than the rest of its RP blog peers?"

Well, I'm gonna be real! I'm not a big Romeo & Juliet lover. My favourite Shakespeare play is The Merchant of Venice. I'm also not a very serious person in nature, and don't care much for making a super-accurate super-in-character page for Juliet, especially considering we don't know a lot about her personality wholly outside of anything relating to Romeo. My take on Juliet in this RP blog is more juvenile, especially since she's literally a teen girl. What I'm gonna portray is a more slice-of-life, mildly unhinged little Julie. Still Juliet, but as immature as you might expect your average 13/14 year old to be. It's literally Juliet Capulet if she had Tumblr. If that's not your jam I apologize, and please feel free to make your French Exit.

"Wait, so does that mean you're going to forsake Shakespeare on this blog?!?!"

Nah. I'm gonna be whipping out the Shakespearean where I see fit, interacting with the rest of the cast as you would expect, and whatever. Just don't expect Juliet to be 100% straight from the script. 🔥🔥

'Tis all, everybody!

I sincerely hope you enjoy whatever comes of this account. ❤️

See you in Verona 😈

[timidwerewolf]

The opening of MacBeth…

[thethirdman8]

@fille--de--joies Sir John for you.. Pretty good stuff for the end of summer. 👋😁🌻

Sir John Gielgud reads Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

[kindepilogue]

neon lights shakespeare is kind of a vibe

(illustrated by Lucie Louxor and designed by Arabella Jones)

[checkoutmybookshelf]

*hysterical laughter*

Oh sweetie, you only cannae believe it because you weren't privy to the scene where Lady M bullied Maccers into doing it.

[i-daresay-i-have-too-many]

(pt 1)(pt 2)(pt 3)(RESULTS+superlatives)

[sotruefeste]

happy pride to literally every shakespeare character! they’re all gay because I said so

[sorryiwasasleep]

In honor of the trailer and them back as the Doctor and Donna enjoy this sketch that has lived rent free in my brain since I first saw it in approximately 2011.

[superconfusedcoryn]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are like the Numbers 12 and 13.

I won't elaborate. I don't think I can elaborate. It just makes sense.

[ladymacbeths]

macbeth related posts/articles/essays masterlist

hi! here's a list of almost every single anaysis Thing I've come across in like two months of being insane about the scottish play. Most are about lady macbeth/the gender theme btw.

‘He has no children’: The centring of grief in The Show Must Go Online’s Macbeth - Gemma Allred: on the misogyny that frequently surrounds conversations around Lady Macbeth

this post by @amillionmillionvoices: Same topic as the previous one, but goes more in depth, explains ladymac’s motivations as mostly coming from love not self-serving ambition.

this post by @dukeofbookingham: also explains the prior point very prettily— that ladymac is (mostly) motivated by love, but also makes the case that many of it is guilt born from not fulfilling societal expectations

On the character of Lady Macbeth - Dr. Emil Pfundheler: paper that explains the same point made in the previous post, using the text to explain. Written in 1873 so explains gender as a dichotomy, but once you take that out, its points are very good.

Characteristics of women: moral, political, and historical - Anna Jameson: aka Why Lady Macbeth is not inherently evil— same topic and the other two, but focuses a bit on the fact that she is A Woman. Not my favorite, but worth reading I suppose. Also includes analyses of many female Shakespeare characters. It does include some very bad history in the beginning— Gruoch did not orchestrate Duncan’s murder. That’s something Hector Boece made up.

Lady Macbeth: “Infirm of purpose” (from The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare) - Joan Larsen Klein: on how she both fits and doesn’t fit the idea of a reinassance wife— doesn’t fit because she isn’t aligned to god (this read more like a Christian analysis than a feminist one if I’m being honest), but fits them because she behaves like one, only subverts them because she’s like, the evil murder girl version of the Wife. The essay right after this one is also very good.

The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth: required reading if you wanna play her Btw not kidding. Analyzes her character thru the lens of freudian psychology. Screws up the text of the play a bit but provides an actual in-depth explanation of how sonnambulism works. Note that "hysteria" is not a current psychological diagnosis, but a symptom of other conditions. Still extremely interesting.

The Macbeths - G. K. Chesterton: analysis of their relationship, makes some interesting point on the differences of the nature of their ambition and desire to kill the king

Shakespeare’s tragic frontier; the world of his final tragedies - Willard Farnham: this one is long but oh boy does it go deep. Talks about the lore of the witches, explains historical context to find out how the real events were so screwed up, makes an interesting point about Macbeth’s conscience against Lady Macbeth’s, and lastly talks about the tragic world of Macbeth compared to other tragedies.

Women’s fantasy of manhood: a Shakespearean theme - D. W. Harding: exactly what it says on the tin, using ladymac and her skewed (and I’d call romanticized) idea of what a man is that she pushes on Macbeth. So yeah, talks about the gender theme. Also talks about Goneril from Lear, Cleopatra, and Volumnia from Coriolanus and how they fit the theme— although ladymac is the only one who goes downhill from it.

Unnatural women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth - Elizabeth Klett: I’ll be honest I didn’t love this one a lot. Basically talks about how every woman in Macbeth defies gender roles. Doesn’t go too deep however. But the book has a ton of essays analyzing female characters in classic lit.

[thethirdman8]

Billy Shakespeare enjoys the early morning sun on this Friday March 1st 2024.. not caturday lol, what day is it? "The rug really tied the room together, did it not?" Lol..

[rambleonwithrosie]

I wonder if the ye olde Shakespeare fandom had Poins stans who were outraged when he just didn't appear in Henry V...

[asideofkimchi]

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

[authenticity2025]

If we were meant to be, we would have been by now. Billie Eilish