#richard ii shakespeare

[queeringclassiclit]

King Richard II

from Richard II by William Shakespeare

[britneyshakespeare]

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.

[monochromemoomin]

thinking about the richard ii kiss. just letting you know because my brain won’t stop letting me know.

i just think it’s the most human kiss i’ve ever seen. and the dialogue leading up to it is gorgeous. and silence afterwards says so much.

and it had david tennant which is always a bonus

“let us play wantons with our woes” me and who

[romavitae]

someone can ask me the definition of gender and I’ll just say "david tennant in shakespeare plays" :

[aq2003]

david tennant + shakespeare

[nastasya--filippovna]

Source: guards! read me my bedtime yaoi – @hollowslantern on Tumblr

[stastrodome]

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings and doesn’t sit around using phrases like ‘caloric efficiency’”

[koifishhies]

“you’re not supposed to like richard he’s a tyrant king” then why did you cast david tennant to play him huh? why did you cast david tennant and give him the most lusciously beautiful long hair and make him kiss men while crying and lamenting like a pathetic little baby huh? you think I can resist such a girlfailure of a character? you’re WRONG. he’s my blorbo now.

[emotinalsupportturtle]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant

[writtebycamus]

From a Prince to a King: David Tennant in Shakespeare plays throughout the years

Hamlet (2009) // Macbeth (2023)

[sunaddicted]

My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

[babyrubysoho]

All my illustrations for David Tennant's magnificent Richard II.

Act One

(No Act Two because 1) it's very short, and 2) he's a complete and utter raging git in it XD)

Act Three

Act Four

Act Five

(Thought I'd throw them up all together because right now it's the art I'm proudest of😊)

[bookholichany]

David Tennant in Shakespeare plays

[As you like it, Measure for measure, love's labor lost, Richard II, Hamlet, The Comedy of errors, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, much Ado about nothing, Macbeth]

P.s. he had also been in Edward III as Edward the black prince and the midsummer night's dream as Lysander/flute but I couldn't find any pictures from those plays. Also he had taken part in many audio performances from Archangel archive full Shakespeare plays collection to BBC radio Macbeth 2022.

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

He came to eat face and serve cunt

[hellyescharlesedwards]

The tragedy of Richard II

[aq2003]

grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested