#i fucking LOVE shakespeare

[februarys-wednesday]

never understanding y'all who hate shakespeare or studying shakespeare because ONE shakespeare fucks very hard and TWO if you are in like middle school high school it is the easiest shit to study i mean the EASIEST if you don't like to read shakespeare you can go to YOUTUBE DOT COM and type in ANY OF SHAKESPEARES WORKS and you will find a FULL PRODUCTION OF IT for FREE you SHOULD follow along with your book but you don't HAVE TO because you're experiencing shakespeare in the WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE EXPERIENCED and you will ENJOY YOURSELF and you will LEARN SOMETHING and this is the ONE OPPORTUNITY YOU'LL EVER HAVE IN LIT/ENGLISH/WHATEVER TO WATCH THE "MOVIE" VERSION OF THE BOOK I CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT HOW BORING AND DIFFICULT SHAKESPEARE IS!!!

[tristansfreezingtheirbrain]

SHAKESPEARE INVENTED THE UR MOM JOKE. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR TWO MINUTES AND TELL ME YOU DONT WANNA WALK INTO THE OCEAN

[eli-is-an-idiot]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS COOL POSTER I GOT

[silverdoe]

I still cannot believe this man hasn't earned all the praise and awards a performance of this level merits

[transsexualcoriolanus]

okay but "would i were a man, i would eat his heart in the marketplace" is like. The Line of the play. it's beatrice's anger and frustration and, most importantly, her complete lack of power as a woman. her best friend and cousin was humiliated, abused, and left for dead, and there is nothing that she can do, because, even if she's allowed to make fun of the men when people find it funny, she ultimately has no power as a woman. and no one understands, no one believes her, no one gets the absolute rage that she feels on behalf of hero. to the men it's all a game. and it's this line that makes benedick understand. after that line, he goes from refusing to hurt claudio to promising to fight him, because he understands. he sees when no one else does that beatrice has no power. and he agrees to fight his friend, not because he wants to, but because he sees that she can't.

[sneakertin]

hamlet and horatio being in love for six minutes straight

[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.

[flowersandfashion]

Sun & Moon

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[dustykneed]

one moment theyre arguing on the bridge the next theyre necking in a turbolift (bickering is their foreplay.) also mckirk is peak "i married my best friend" energy

also i LOVE the idea of bones being inexplicably more flustered than spock over kissing the vulcan way,, theyre both terrible terrible tsunderes but jim thinks its so funny that they play it up sometimes when hes feeling down just to see him laugh

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Edward Lionheart

Theater of Blood (1973)

[aq2003]

berowne "my girl is so beautiful i hope i die" love'slabour'slost

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I am exhausted, good heavens.

[ilredeiladri]

I will see Tom Hiddleston.

I will see Tom Hiddleston live.

I will see Tom Hiddleston speaking Shakespeare's words.

I will see Tom Hiddleston playing Benedick.

I will go to fucking London to see Tom fucking Hiddleston in Much ado about fucking nothing!!!

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AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHTIWLDJSLWBCSHEEJQLDBWKWDKDBWALDBWWBSL!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍

[sforzesco]

Shakespeare's JULIO CESAR trans. Bienvenido Lumbera

you know the scene, "You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you." "Nor construe any further my neglect, Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men," aka the conversation in Act I Scene II that makes me feel a little unraveled in every language I read it in :')

and ofc, the shows of love

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[hampterguts]

forever amazed and confused at how often transformers franchise just straight up depicts suicide attempts. like not even considering the superhero trope of "i have to save everyone!!! by choosing to die!!!!!" thing. like. non-allow-yourself-to-die-to-stop-a-thing-from-killing-everyone-immediately type situations. which tbh i wish more ppl talked about but not the point here

like. sure mtmte, a comic abt mentall illness and war, i expected it to be aware of the concept. but its not handled well and mostly used for shock value or "im better now i swear! i have a husband and everything" BUT ITS IN THE KIDS SHOWS TOO??? MY BESTIE G1 RODIMUS?? BEAST WARS DINOBOT???

[raine-dance]

In love with the fact that Mimir makes reference to Macbeth which implies a post-Shakespeare Ragnarök (which, given that Ragnarok is a prophecy of the future in actual Norse mythology, is entirely possible).

I love this because that, along with Mimir's backstory, with God of War subscribing to A Midsummer Night's Dream as a source of inspiration for Mimir as Puck, implies that Willie Shakes might've accidentally stumbled upon the Actual Fucking Summer Court and witnessed Mimir executing the role of Puck firsthand...

And wrote a fucking play about it???

Like there are eldritch fey powers at work here sir are you SURE that's a good idea???