#hermia and helena

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

This painting is made by Washington Allston (wikipedia link)

[praisethelorde]

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~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[push-tet]

My fanon Helena and Paris because yeah

Helena Snout

She may seem like a nerd. But she just really likes to be disciplined. No one knows where she got her inclinations from. Is it her ex-military mother, her gruelling kungfu training, or is it something else?

Like - martial arts and tea Didlike - rule-breaking and be fairy

Paris Count

Paris is the heir to the Count family business. He dreams of having a happy family and following in his grandfather's footsteps and becoming a supreme judge. He may look terrifying from the outside, but you just have to get to know him better

Like - his job and Juliette Didlike - fights and Romeo

please don't go looking for comparisons to the orig plays. there are hardly any

[regicidal-defenestration]

Could polyamory have saved them: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

[lesbocrocker]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Edward Poynter (British, 1836 - 1919) Helena and Hermia, 1901

[elden-hicks]

obssesed with those two from the upcoming @push-tet's veronaville

[mortal-sarah]

The four lovers being a ployquad in the Bridge Theatre/National Theatre 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[rusted-phone-calls]

keefe is just. you got the girl after all these years and you're so happy and she's so important to you but your best friend (is he still your best friend? are you still fighting about- her?) has been ignoring you and you don't know if things will ever be fixed between you. after all you left him (and the world) behind, and now you have so much that he doesn't. maybe things won't ever go back to the way they used to be. you kind of wish they won't. while having mommy issues

[bumblebugwrites]

Is that a Folger Edition of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

[iamstandingwater]

You know how it is. You're a girl. You give a speech detailing extensively your intimacy with your closest friend, also a girl. In this speech you say the words 'two seeming bodies but one heart'. You are incredibly straight.

[beebrainedbisexual]

[lohstandfound]

thinking about shakespeare x bmc

[cto10121]

The gays are not okay

[creatediana]

Monologue of the character Helena to Hermia, from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a fantasy romantic comedy written in the 1590s, one of the earlier plays of his career and one of only a few with no prior literary or historical source for the plot

Expressions of same-sex affection can be found throughout Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays, including The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, and Two Noble Kinsmen. However, the Renaissance did not have the modern concepts of sexual identity and sexual orientation that we have inherited from 19th- and early 20th-century theories of human sexuality and psychology. Hence nobody in this period would have conceived of themselves in terms of modern sexual categories such as heterosexual and homosexual, or gay and straight. The challenge in reading passages such as this is to understand the personal, social, and political significance of same-sex relationships in Renaissance culture without applying anachronistic labels or standards of judgment. In Renaissance England, intimate relationships between women were generally accepted as long as they did not interfere with the women’s conventional sexual and social duties: getting married, having children, maintaining chastity, and behaving in an appropriately feminine manner. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It, adolescent female friendships finally give way to the new bonds between husbands and wives that signal entry into adulthood. However, being married did not prevent adult women from maintaining or establishing affectionate intimacies with other women through relationships of friendship, patronage, or service.

—Annotation in Barnes and Noble Shakespeare’s edition of the play (the first edition I read when I was seventeen), edited by Mario DiGangi

[come-see-our-show]

i DARE you to tell me this painting isn’t fruity as hell