#shakespeare's ladies

[two-bees-poetry]

[irate-iguana]

Single funniest piece of Shakespeare merch I have ever seen.

[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

[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.

[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.

[sbarrysncream1]

(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

[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.

[two-bees-poetry]

my voice is in my sword

[eirene]

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889 John Singer Sargent

[officialfoxsquadron]

padmé amidala and lady macbeth have blood on their hands // insp. by this post

[adventuresofalgy]

This time Algy was ready and waiting…

So when the sea rushed in where fluffy birds fear to tread, Algy stood not upon the order of his going but went at once, leaping up into the air with glee, chortling happily at the waves below as they entreated him in vain to take swimming lessons once again…

Hovering low over the water at the point where the tide was washing in over the rocks, Algy began to dance in the sparkling spray, bobbing up and down with each new wave to prevent the surf from catching him by the tail feathers as he whirled and twirled just above the foam, and laughing and singing merrily at the top of his voice:

Oh friends, no more of these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, More full of joy! Joy, bright spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, Fire-inspired we tread Thy sanctuary! Thy magic power reunites All that custom has divided; All men become brothers Under the sway of thy gentle wings.

Algy wishes you all a truly joyous Saturday 💕

[Algy is singing the opening (in a standard English translation) of the famous Ode to Joy by the 18th century German author and philosopher Friedrich Schiller. Those who are familiar with the even more famous setting by Beethoven are warmly invited to sing along 😀]

[ahauandthesun]

MACBETH (2023-2024) dir. by Simon Godwin Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth Indira Varma as Lady Macbeth