#shakespeare's ladies

[two-bees-poetry]

so soft it hurts

[irate-iguana]

Single funniest piece of Shakespeare merch I have ever seen.

[bethanydelleman]

I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."

Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.

I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.

[energizrbunni-blog]

Last night was my company Holiday Party, and we're doing really well, so it was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

I was so happy that also included the Styled by Sargent exhibit, of John Singer Sargent paintings and the actual articles of clothing alongside them.

Now, you have probably seen this painting of Lady Macbeth

But have you seen the costume she's wearing??

It's gorgeous, obviously.

But that texture! It's *crochet*

And some knitting

Really simple crochet too; just a chain and single crochet lattice with beads and metallic thread added for this chain mail effect.

Despite John Singer Sargent being an expert painter of fabric (no, really, just look at it), I never knew Lady Macbeth's costume had to be *hand crocheted* for that texture in the painting.

Anyway I'm gonna be making myself some faux-chainmail by crocheting it for the next Renn Faire

[stealingpotatoes]

Lady Normal Girl and her Eunuch brings me such joy and i look forward to reading more as long as you enjoy drawing it x3

i mean it's drawing fake-16th century and my cat, what's not to love!!!

[ahauandthesun]

INDIRA VARMA as Lady Macbeth Macbeth (2023-2024)

[transsexualcoriolanus]

"lady macbeth was manipulating macbeth because of her own ambition to be queen" "lady macbeth never really wanted to be queen she was only doing it because she loved her husband" no you don't understand she was doing it for them. at the beginning of the play the macbeths are a team, partners in greatness, one cannot exist without the other. she doesn't want power only for herself or only for him, she wants them to rule together, equally. that's why it's so devastating when she doesn't get that, when becoming king and queen only drives them apart, because she wanted them to be partners in greatness and she got the opposite.

[sbarrysncream]

(In Obama’s voice)

Fellas, uhhhhhhh, I do believe uhhhhhh…… I cooked.

The final part of my Macbeth series!! I’m so happy with how it came out!!!

This series made me realize that life truly is magical and that drawing hands must be hell’s eternal punishment 😃

@elsinore-and-inverness

@davidtennantgenderenvy

[aguavivia]

John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth | John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa

[swan-of-saraswati]

RIP Lady Macbeth you would’ve loved hydrogen peroxide

[two-bees-poetry]

my voice is in my sword

[goodoldfashionedmurderboy]

Congratulations to Lady Macbeth for being voted tumblr's official number one murdergirl!

The competition was tough but at the end of the day you simply can't outdo the do-er!

[insomniacirl]

Thinking about the line 'A little water clears us of this deed' in comparison to Hannibal and Will Graham throughout the seasons. For example;

Will's first kill - Hannibal rinses his bloody knuckles in basin of clean water.

Hannibal after the events of Mizumono - stops to rinse his face in the downpour outside.

The two's first kill together - They tip off of the cliff together, into the ocean below.

[shakespearenews]

This was wildly fun to write.

[eirene]

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889 John Singer Sargent