#shakespeare adaptation

[speerfisch]

the tree where demetrius and helena meet, in my adaption of "a midsummer night's dream" by Shakespeare, 2024

[bladesofkyber]

ANYONE BUT YOU (2023) | dir. Will Gluck

Romeo & Juliet; Act 1 - Scene I Much Ado About Nothing; Act 2 - Scene I Much Ado About Nothing; Act 1 - Scene I Much Ado About Nothing; Act 1 - Scene I Much Ado About Nothing; Act 2 - Scene I

[zketylers]

JOSH HARTNETT as HUGO GOULDING

O (2001) dir. Tim Blake Nelson

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Ran (1985)

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[jingycakes]

A late Duncney piece I did for Halloween, wanted to draw them like that one scene from Romeo + Juliet (1996).

[thecandlewasters]

Celebrating 10 Years of NMTD 🦩🥭

Join the Much Ado About Nothing crew as they navigate high school in New Zealand at the height of superwholock. It's 2014 and you've got nothing much to do...

[cheezewhis]

So I'm far from an expert on Shakespeare, but I do like me some Hamlet and as much as their are adaptations and productions that I enjoy which end the play on "The rest is silence" (for example the 1948 film is one of my favorite movies ever and it ends this way), I do maintain that choosing to end Hamlet that way is sort of antithetical to thr play and to a lot of Shakespeare tragedies.

Im saying "a lot" here and not "all" because again, I'm no expert, and I haven't read or seen every Shakespeare tragedy. However, the ones I do know about (and Hamlet in particular) seem to me to have a common undercurrent that essentially says "You can't fucking live like this anymore, it is not a sustainable society."

I heard on a podcast called Adapt or Perish where they explained the difference between a Shakespeare comedy and tragedy is (and I'm paraphrasing here) that at the end of a comedy, all goes back to normal, all that's right with the world is restored, and the only major change is that some people are married. But at the end of a tragedy, something about society has been fundamentally altered.

For me, ending Hamlet without Fortinbras taking over Denmark is like ending Romeo and Juliet without the Prince giving his "all are punished" speech. Why go through all of that for nothing? Why endure and portray all that tragedy caused by shortcomings of society if there's no lesson about changing society? Why spend so much time telling us things need to change, and then change nothing? I get that part of the tragedies is sometimes that the violence in them is pointless, however the plays themselves aren't ususally pointless. Personally, I just think the whole point of how things need to change is stronger if the change actually begins. Plus, with Hamlet specifically, Fortinbras taking over ups the tragedy because it signifies and end to Denmark and Hamlet's family line entirely. A total erasure of what we've been following until now.

Anyways, like I said, I'm no expert, and there are versions of Hamlet that I still love despite them cutting the ending short. However, I will always maintain that the play is not for nothing, and to end it without a word on who takes over Denmark treats the play as senseless and pointless.

[wandering-alien]

I love Much Ado About Nothing for many reasons, the main one being that my friends would definitely come up with an elaborate scheme to get me a partner despite me being resistant to it.

Although I fear it may be more ominous in real life than it was in the play.

Speaking of which, PLEASE watch the adaptation with Catherine Tate and David Tennant as Beatrice and Benedick, it's hilarious.

There's a full version on YouTube here:

[midsummer-semantics]

Steddie Big Bang 24 Announcement!!🎭🎉

I'm immensely excited to announce that I will be publishing "A Kind of Merry War" for the Steddie Big Bang 2024!

This fic will be an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and features enemies to lovers, background pairings, plot twists, and, of course in true Shakespearean fashion, a Happily Ever After.

I'm so excited to be working with Steve Daddy on this, and to share it with the world when it's done.

Coming September 2024!

[speerfisch]

Demetrius reveals Helena’s letters✉️, a page from my graphic novel in work „the dove chases the griffin“, a Shakespeare midsummernights dream adaption

[checkoutmybookshelf]

You Have My Attention: Secret Shanghai First Lines

Chloe Gong's Secret Shanghai universe has been hugely popular. It's based on a couple of Shakespeare plays combined with the glittering world of 1920s-30s Shanghai, so this universe is rich and packs a punch. We know Shakespeare's reputation for amazing lines, but how does Gong catch a reader? Let's find out!

So this universe is four novels and two novellas, so actually we get six first lines instead of five!

"In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens."

-- These Violent Delights

"The New Year in Shanghai passed with such fanfare that a sense of party still permeated the city a week later."

-- Our Violent Ends

"Two knocks meant 'all clear,' and three knocks meant 'dorogaya, for the love of God, I'm holding something in my hands.'"

-- "A Foul Thing" in Last Violent Call

"The socks were bundled at the upper left corner, the shirts crammed along the middle, and the gun tucked right in between, nestled gingerly among the most padded clothes so that it wasn't knocking against the hard material of the luggage case."

-- "This Foul Murder" in Last Violent Call

"Out in the countryside, it doesn't matter how loud you scream."

-- Foul Lady Fortune

"The easiest way to disappear was to never disappear fully, always hovering right at the periphery of being caught, responding in an instant when there was movement."

-- Foul Heart Huntsman

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Prince Hamlet…

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[cann1bal-kitt3n-x]

♡ original × modern adaptation ♡

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[heavenextdoor]

claire danes as juliet in ' romeo + juliet ' 1996, dir. by baz luhrmann 🪽