#hamlet and horatio

[cupids-fiction]

happy 408th death day william shakespeare

i liked the little gay ones you wrote

[iveseenitinmovies]

hamlet goodbye my danish sweetheart edit !!

[pucepink]

If I could draw, I would draw Erwin with a skull. Dude is so Hamlet coded. Erwin with a skull from a fallen soldier who died on an expedition years ago. Erwin seeing visions of his father, and then there’s Levi right there with him, the only one to whom Erwin confesses his dreams and visions, and Levi is the only one who can see the ghost of Erwin’s father and believes Erwin but tries to warn Erwin away from following his fathers footsteps.

[geekyhumanbean]

Just found out that there is a a whole community dedicated to Hamlet and Horatio being gay and in love. I’m fucking enthused by this.

I love them

[katiethedane12]

Hamlet: I prevented a murder today.

Horatio: Really? How'd you do that?

Hamlet: Self control.

[cpcampanello]

Hamlet and Horatio

[two-bees-poetry]

horatio’s epilogue

[mx-myth]

Idea for a hamlet production:

The opening night, the program says The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and it's performed accurately, word for word. The play, however, closes exactly after Horatio tells Fortinbras that he will tell what has happened. The lights hone in on him, cradling a dead Hamlet and wearing bloody clothes, before the play ends there.

The second night, the program says The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as Told By Horatio. The play begins with a small spotlight over Horatio in the same bloody clothes, cradling a dead Hamlet. He says, "Let me tell you how this all began." Everything much everything is the same as opening night except for a few wording changes.

But after that, it goes off the rails.

The subsequent programs say The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as Remembered by Horatio (One/Two/Three/etcetera). Each night more changes are made. Early on Polonius shows up with an absolutely ridiculous mustache. Claudius' hair colour changes at some point midway through. Towards the end Ophelia just starts naming random flowers. Laertes, when he's angry/sad/feeling a lot, just straight up starts lapsing into French.

Each night the spotlight on Horatio in the opening grows a little bigger until the audience starts seeing background nobles, then soldiers, and then a figure wearing a crown sitting on a throne who isn't facing the audience. Each night the Ghost looks less like King Hamlet and starts looking more like Horatio's Hamlet. Each night, whenever Horatio is on-scene, Hamlet stops speaking in Shakespearean and starts speaking plainly, because Horatio always understood what he meant.

On the closing night, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as Remembered by Horatio (Finale), it's all gone wrong. People are speaking lines they're suppose to say later or earlier in the play, or they're speaking someone else's lines. The opening scene is fully lit, and the audience can finally see that Horatio is talking to Fortinbras. The Ghost is now fully Hamlet. Horatio spends the entire play wearing the bloody clothes he's worn when Hamlet's died. Every time Hamlet isn't looking at him Horatio is looking at him, heartbroken, grieving, sad. Hamlet is the only one who's still saying accurate lines, except for when Horatio is on-scene and he's speaking modern English.

At the end, the play continues after Hamlet has died. Fortinbras commands that Hamlet be given a grand funeral, and Hamlet's body is taken away, with everyone following it out like a funeral procession. Horatio is left as the last one on the stage, staring at his bloody hands.

It is very, very obvious, the closing night, that Horatio has gone mad.

[greyycey]

Felt intellectual

(i have no friends to find this funny with me)

[ghost--bot]

[katiethedane12]

Hamlet: Do you think birds get sad for not having arms?

Horatio: Well, do you get sad for not having wings?

Hamlet: *choked up* every single day.

[karl-von-moor-official]

Ok but consider: A production of Hamlet that starts with the last scene and then Horatio has to play his role in the rest of the play, but he’s still completely dissolved in tears. Everyone else is oblivious and he has to keep it together for the sake of storytelling, but his voice cracks as he says “I think I saw him yesternight”, regret filling his tone, and he frantically holds on to Hamlet as he begs him not to follow the ghost; he practically chokes on his words as he shouts, “Be rul’d!” And he knows it’s no use, but he’s so reluctant to play his part in this and he can barely keep his emotions at bay. And then the end of the story draws nearer. He takes longer and longer to say his lines. He hesitates, tries to stretch out the little time he’s got left with Hamlet. He doesn’t want to be in this narrative, but he is. Until finally, as Hamlet decides to duel Laertes, Horatio simply gives up. Reluctantly, but knowingly, he accepts the fact that there’s nothing he can do but play his part and relive it all, just to honor Hamlet’s legacy and story. And Hamlet dies in his arms a second time.

[kvothes]

devastated to report that in the french translation of hamlet that i have, horatio uses a very proper formal “vous” for the prince up until the MOMENT hamlet dies, where he sneaks in a little “te” for “and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”

[weird-but-hey]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Something Rotten in the state of Denmark” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: Dude I swear I just saw the ghost of our late king

My buddy Hamlet pacing: I have to kill Claudius

[hamlet-prince-official]

fellows is it gay to admire thine best friend as if he were a beautiful painting and want to caress his face because thou treasures him so dearly

[aq2003]

i know these are rehearsal pics but This is kind of the most hamlet and horatio that these two have ever looked (including when they were actually in costume for the characters)