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"Shakespeare is a specter haunting queer theory—our ideas of normativity and desire owe a debt to Shakespearean ideas and language that we have been strangely unwilling to pay. Instead, we banish him to the realm of the pre-queer, where he is sometimes considered worthy as an object of queer theoretical attention but is rarely recognized as having provided, to a significant extent, the very vocabulary for that theory."

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hamlet x ophelia mixed messages amv

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Penelope Trappes - Sleep

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The Way We Live Now (2001)

Episode 1

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Maxine Peake as Hamlet (2015)

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Maxine Peake reads 'I Grant You Refuge' by Hiba Abu Nada.

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old. Huda Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a writer, a translator, and the author of several scholarly books.

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"Consider it an engagement. The day you come to live with me, we shall wear these rings on our fingers."

MAXINE PEAKE & ANNA MADELEY as Anne & Mariana THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER (2010, dir. James Kent)

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This lovely blue dark dress is worn on Poppy Miller as Isabella Knightley in Emma (2009) and worn again on Maxine Peake as Anne Lister in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) and many years later worn on Emma Greenwell as Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) and worn again on Crystal Clarke as Georgiana Lambe in Sanditon (2023)

Credit: fictionturnedherbrain

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305 - Peterloo (with Fran Hoepfner)

With the upcoming return of Mike Leigh to cinemas with Hard Truths, we invited writer and Fran Mag creator Fran Hoepfner to join us to talk about his last theatrical effort, 2019's Peterloo. The film tells the story of the buildup to the Peterloo massacre, in which years of political movement to get parliamentary representation for the people of Manchester resulted in bloodshed. Told with the attention to detail that has long been Leigh's trademark, the film had a cold fall festival response in 2018, which led American distributor Amazon to punt the film to an unceremonious 2019 release.

This week, we dive into the film's underrated and underexamined merits and what contributed to its unfair reception. We also talk about our anticipation for Hard Truths, this film's lack of marquee Leigh players, and some of Leigh's other undervalued films.

Topics also include the film's political timeliness, Amy Raphael's Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, and Leigh on the THR Director Roundtable.

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My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?

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'The Falling' (2014) film

-watched 7/27/2024- 2 [1/2] stars- on Tubi (free)

76% Rotten Tomatoes

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My Martin K Blackwood friend also has introduced me to Maxine Peake's portrayal of Hamlet and I'd like to say...oh my god. She's giving Daisy Tonner if she were more self-reflective.

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Gazelle Twin & Maxine Peake - We Wax / We Shall Not Wane (2024)