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Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"
Artist: Unknown artist eighteenth century - Formerly attributed to Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date: c. 1780
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States
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In Shakespeare's "The Tempest," Prospero is a powerful magician and exiled Duke of Milan, Miranda is his innocent and sheltered daughter, and Ariel is a spirit servant to Prospero, who uses his magical powers to control the island where they live; essentially, Prospero is the father figure, Miranda is his daughter, and Ariel acts as a loyal, magical servant to Prospero on the island.
#painting#literary theme#oil on canvas#bright#costume#forest#ghost#island#landscape#light#man#mollusks#sleeping#spirit#walking stick#the tempest#play by william shakespeare#theater#women#prosper#miranda#ariel#oil painting#artwork#fine art#18th century painting#yale center for british art
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I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.
I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.
Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.
#yeah that's that!#shakespeare#william shakespeare#english literature#i guess i'll tag some random plays so this has better reach in searches#ill do some popular ones and also some obscure favs lol#hamlet#othello#macbeth#king lear#much ado about nothing#twelfth night#as you like it#the winter's tale#cymbeline#the tempest#henry iv part 1#henry v#richard ii#richard iii#all's well that ends well#antony and cleopatra
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MORE PRECISE POLLS:
Comedies
Tragedies
Histories
Please say why you chose, I'm interested and please share for bigger sample
P.s: I chose to do this poll cuz after r&j, hamlet, macbeth and midsummer's night's dream, I didnt study any of the others.
I was curious to see which one I should read first (as I want to expand my reading and I'm getting shakespeares works for christmas which I wanted after I went to see Tom Holland's r&j which blew me away and made appreciate shakey a lot more)
I'm sorry I failed you 'much ado about nothing' fans 😭
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“…make death proud to take us.”
-Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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shakespeare is lowkey more progressive than most writers these days and that is a hill i am willing to die on. he lets women be loud and clever and tricky and stubborn and delighted and fierce. AND he has a million little twinks who are just adorable. looking right at u, claudio
#much ado about nothing#shakespeare#much ado#comedy#progressive#writing#theatre#claudio#shakespeare plays#william shakespeare
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"Julius Caesar", William Shakespeare
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The Scottish Play, but all the murders are carried out via Stabby the Roomba
#i should add as a disclaimer that i've never actually read the scottish play#shakespeare#william shakespeare#macbeth#*turns around three times and spits over my left shoulder*#gonna use my free blaze for the month of november on this one lmao#go forth my textpost...go forth into the wilds of tumblr
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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.
#I just think it would be cool to play around with the meta side of hamlet#Ophelia and Hamlet going mad in different ways with the additional parallel of Horatio just absolutely losing#Hamlet told him to live but there's nothing left#hamlet#the tragedy of hamlet prince of denmark#shakespeare#william shakespere#hamlet x horatio#hamratio
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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.
#i made myself sad#i want to direct a play so badly pls wtf#Hamlet#horatio#hamratio#shakespeare#literature#william shakespeare#classical literature
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Shedding Falstaff
Hair/Grooming by Luke Davies
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#Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe#Edgar Allan Poe#poe#writing#writers#writerscommunity#author#authors#authors of tumblr#literature#books#poetry#poems#William Shakespeare#plays#drama#Murders in the Rue Morgue#apes#Oh Edgar
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Oberon and Titania from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act IV, Scene I
Artist: Thomas Stothard (British, 1755–1834)
Date: 1806
Medium: Oil on paper mounted on board
Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
A Midsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed plays.
Act IV, Scene I
Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the donkey's head from Bottom. The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They find the lovers still sleeping in the glade. They wake up the lovers and, since Demetrius no longer loves Hermia, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers at first believe they are still in a dream and cannot recall what has happened. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream, as they walk back to Athens.
#a midsummer's night dream#literary theme#painting#oil painting#artwork#fine art#play by william shakespeare#costume#crown#dream#king#light#lovers#meeting#performance#queen#sleeping#theater#william shakespeare#titania#oberon#british culture#british painter#thomas stothard#british art#19th century painting#yale center for british art
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What poor an instrument May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty. Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (2014)
#i always feel compelled to add context in case people are unfamiliar with the play#but here is where Cleopatra is committing to the idea of killing herself in order to defy and escape Caesar and join her love: Antony#this is (at least to me) a battle cry#her mind is made up and there is no feebleness of fickleness in her - she will not be inconstant or changeable like the moon or “like women#her will will not be shaken and there is no other path#etc etc blah blah blah i wonder if we can compare this with other instances of shakespeare's women casting off female weakness#(oh god that i were a man / unsex me here etc etc)#eve best#cleopatra#antony and cleopatra#william shakespeare#my gifs#i also love the delivery of this & i love the way she uses the verse & the pauses & then difference of care between the colon & semi-colon#i would have giffed the start of the speech but she takes these really beautiful pauses so it's just SO long for gifs
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Favourite Shakespeare's Tragedies
After my other poll, I am going to be specific.
There shall be a battle of the favourites!!
For the love of Shakespeare, please reblog for a better analysis
#shakespeare plays#shakespeare#william shakespeare#plays#english literature#literature#poll#romeo and juliet#hamlet#macbeth#othello#julius caesar#king lear#polls#antony and cleopatra#coriolanus#cymbeline#timon of athens#titus andronicus#troilus and cressida#william shakespeare plays
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𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞'𝐬 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞' (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔)
#jane asher#1960s#60s#sixties#1966#Shakespeare#william shakespeare#the winters tale#plays#muses#english actress#photography#black and white photography#perdita#fashion#peter asher
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King Lear Shakespeare This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.
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