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so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least.
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Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944.
Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538.
Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.
#found this in my drafts thought it was still funny#archposting#richard III#archaeology#alevelposting#<- contains tudors memes#i've actually met one of the cited authors here they were very cool. we weren't talking about riii though (iron age greece)
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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
#adaptations#macbeth#hamlet#king lear#twelfth night#much ado about nothing#henry iv#henry v#richard iii#julius caesar#timon of athens#troilus and cressida
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Richard III starring Danai Gurira as the title character is now available to watch for free on the PBS website! Beware though, it will only be available a few weeks. Been wanting to watch forever and I'm so glad I finally can!
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it’s really easy to become obsessed with a shakespeare play you just have to watch one version of it and then read the play and then go mad trying to watch every possible version of it you can find and then study several centuries worth of performance history and controversy
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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
#shakespeare#henry vi#richard iii#comedy of errors#titus andronicus#two gentlemen of verona#love's labour's lost#romeo and juliet#richard ii#a midsummer night's dream#king john#merchant of venice#henry iv#much ado about nothing#henry v#julius caesar#as you like it#twelfth night#hamlet#troilus and cressida#all's well that ends well#measure for measure#othello#king lear#macbeth#antony and cleopatra#coriolanus#the winter's tale#the tempest#can you believe i was using genius.com rather than these things for a while LMFAO anyway!
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"Henry VII stole the throne!" Ah yes who could forget Richard III's landslide victory in the General Election of 1483.
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Elizabeth of York, fashion character design, c. 1481.
#the wars of the roses#15th century#historical#medieval#british history#medieval england#art#illustration#sketch#edward iv#elizabeth woodville#elizabeth of york#henry vii#henry vi#margaret of anjou#margaret beaufort#isabel neville#richard iii#the white queen#the white princess#medieval fashion#historical fashion#character design#artists on tumblr#medieval costume#royals#house of york#plantagenets
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If there is love enough, then nothing - not nature, not even death itself - can come between two who love each other. The SONS OF YORK will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)
#the white queen#twqedit#perioddramaedit#pscentral#historyedit#perioddramasource#thewhitequeenedit#by zaynab#*usergif#userzil#userlenna#tusereliza#tuseraixa#usersjen#userhellshee#edward iv#george clarence#richard iii#userfefa#userbennet
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Aneurin Barnard as Richard III in The White Queen | 1x09
#pov: I told him that the war would end if he married henry tudor#“a gay catholic couple would heal england” I said. We laughed and then sent me to the stake#richard iii#aneurin barnard#periodramaedit#twqedit#the white queen#violaobanion#valyrianpoem#userzaynab
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George is loyal to your husband, it seems. Today, we may have to forgive him and leave our vengeance to God. THE WHITE QUEEN — 1x05: War at First Hand.
#the white queen#thewhitequeenedit#perioddramaedit#tvedit#gifshistorical#usersjen#userlenna#userzil#userhellshee#heymax#twqedit#ours#max irons#edward iv#david oakes#aneurin barnard#richard iii#zaynab#*gifs
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Inspired by this post by @bunniesandbeheadings , a list of explanations for what happened to the Princes in the Tower:
They both fell down the stairs.
They murdered EACH OTHER.
Everyone who has been accused of murdering them turned up to murder them at the same time, only to find they had died of natural causes already, so they all backed out of the room without saying anything.
They escaped out of the window by tying bedsheets together.
They were murdered by George Duke of Clarence's ghost.
Aliens.
Autocannibalism.
Spontaneous human combustion.
The plot of season one of Blackadder is 100% factually accurate.
They were eaten by wolves.
A surge of improbability caused them both to turn into bowls of petunias.
They became companions of the Doctor and ended up settling down on a planet three galaxies away.
They are both still alive TO THIS DAY.
#history#the princes in the tower#richard iii#blackadder#doctor who#the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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richard iii dashboard simulator. i thought it would be funny and here we are
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what if i caused problems on purpose <3
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oh no... i cant believe the king is having my brother killed... oh noooo
#FUCK YOU GEORGE
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💥ladyanne Follow
man i miss my husband and father in law
🐗halfhearteddickjoke
hey
💥ladyanne
shut the fuck up you literally killed them??? get off my post
🐗halfhearteddickjoke
can i try rizzing you up
💥ladyanne
um. sure?
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PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
💥ladyanne
i can't believe i'm saying this but this is kind of working.
🧍♂️gentleman-retainer
anyone else in this thread smoke weed
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you all suck.
@/elizabeth-woodville your son will die and you will be deposed and youre gonna die SAD and ALONE.
@/river-severn @/dorset-sheep and @/billhastings you're gonna get executed
@/halfhearteddickjoke hm. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. nobody hang out with this conniving bitch i hate him i hate him so much and i am three seconds away from killing him constantly.
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get off tumblr margaret we're in court
🌹lancaster-official
he's not gonna want you as his boytoy forever
🐦fuckinghim
WE'RE NOT EVEN IN A RELATIONSHIP??????
🌹lancaster-official
i've seen you talk to him. i know what you are
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just heard george duke of clarence say "snork mimi" aloud i'm gonna [remembers that suicide jokes do nothing for my mental health] request to be moved away from guarding his cell
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update: so it turns out the malmsey wine is unusable, for related reasons to this man.
#fuckin. dead body in the malmsey. cant have nice things around here #i hate my job so bad
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yayyy everybody is friends now :)
🐗halfhearted-dick-joke
dude you literally killed clarence??? you cant be having other people making friends youre a murderer
eddie-baby-deactivated
WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT I CANCELED THAT ORDER???
🐗halfhearted-dick-joke
you killed that guy man what the fuck. you cant be doing that
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I regret to inform you all that the king has died.
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dude my sons GOTTA stop dying. this is so fucked.
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🐗halfhearteddickjoke
i do so love to cause problems on purpose :)
#sorry to any family members of lords rivers, vaughan, and grey. um. you will not be seeing them anymore! <3
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preteens are so scary for no reason??? had to interact with two for work and like. they suck so bad. "i fear no uncles dead" shut the fuck up you smartass little shit. also had to explain to them the history of the tower of london which. i don't fucking know that shit! i don't know who built the tower of london! it sure as fuck wasn't julius caesar!
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SOMEONE has got to stop waking me up in the middle of the night to hear their dreams
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oh what the fuck.
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crazy day at work today
#never go outside to get strawberries worst mistake of my life #came back in the room and they were accusing hastings of witchcraft. like sure yeah i guess
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richard duke of gloucester should be king because not only are edward v and richard duke of york illegitimate but also so was edward iv. also richard duke of gloucester is just. kind of an all around good guy! as opposed to edward iv who ah. how do i put this in a manner that isn't horribly offensive. yeah okay figured it out. not a great person! unpleasant to be around!
also if you wanna know what was up with hastings he was a traitor don't worry about it.
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RICHARD. RICHARD WHEN I CATCH YOU RICHARD. WHAT DO YOU MEAN KING OF ENGLAND
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shit dude that one vine wasn't lying. what the fuck richard
#i have to leave immediately. jesus fucking christ man.
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🐗halfhearteddickjoke
yay king of england :) i will be very good at this i feel
#everybody's always like "what the fuck richard you can't kill two kids" or "why would you do that" and never like "was it fun having those preteens killed. it looked fun"
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@/halfhearteddickjoke FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
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wow everything is going so bad. what the entire shit @/fuckinghim
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ughhh margaret was right. NOT ABOUT THE BOYTOY THING
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hi ive been here the whole time. ive done the math and i do technically have a claim to the throne :)
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🐗halfhearteddickjoke
i cant believe im saying this but i did just have an ebenezer scrooge moment. god i hate it here.
#maybe i am a bad person
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wow richard has died :) i cant believe i am the king now! yayyyy
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final message from op! sorry everyone. im so annoying about this forever
#richard iii#unreality#sorry everyone!#shakespeare#long post#like. so long that i sent this to my friend who didn't have a tumblr and halfway through tumblr was like “no you need an account”
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Concept for a Richard III adaptation: in the scene where Queen Margaret is not noticed by anyone until she speaks, but is present onstage, put her on a swivel chair and make her turn around the moment she starts speaking.
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ANEURIN BARNARD as Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III)[1/∞] The White Queen | The Price of Power
#please; stop being cute#thw white queen#richard iii#richard duke of gloucester#aneurin barnard#perioddramaedit#*#twqedit#richardiiiedit#house of york#book adaptation#philippa gregory
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Favourite Shakespeare's Histories
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#william shakespeare#plays#shakespeare plays#sonnets#poetry#english literature#literature#poll#henry iv#henry iv part 1#henry iv part 2#henry v#henry vi#henry vi part 1#henry vi part 2#henry vi part 3#henry viii#king john#pericles#richard ii#richard iii#william shakespeare plays#polls
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THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE
FIRST ROUND: 56th Tilt
Robin Hood, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) VS. King Richard III Plantagenet, The White Queen (2013)
Propaganda
Robin Hood, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) Portrayed by: Richard Todd Defeated Opponents: - King Arthur [Graham Chapman], Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1972)
“Unquestionably the hottest Robin Hood! I don't know why more people don't talk about this movie! Richard Todd oozes charm in this role."
King Richard III Plantagenet, The White Queen (2013) Portrayed by: Aneurin Barnard Defeated Opponents: - “Taunting French Guard” [John Cleese], Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1972)
“These puppy eyes could turn anyone into a Yorkist. "He's so pretty I want to cry".”
Additional Propaganda Under the Cut
Additional Propaganda
For Robin Hood:
For Richard III:
“Beautiful Richard. Were I Anne Neville, I too would have been in love with him from the moment I met him. His voice is like the wind; but a whisper, unless he must needs raise it, and then it is a roar; loud and powerful and terrible. I desire him.”
“He's supposed to be the most villain ever but he's so hot in a wet pathetic way. your kingdom for a horse? no need dicky you can ride me.”
#medieval hotties round 1#robin hood#king richard iii#richard iii#the story of robin hood and his merrie men#robin hood 1952#richard todd#aneurin barnard#fuck that medieval man
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