#shakespeare's macbeth

[couldtransitionhavesavedthem]

MACDUFF from MACBETH

Gender identity: epicene

Why would transition save them?: "Well, the essay I'm reading is arguing it already HAS saved them due to the author arguing that Macduff embodies the gender of humanity rather than manhood or womanhood, and because they aren't trapped in manhood and womanhood, rather being some sort of epicene, mentally indeterminate person who has characteristics of both male and female mentally but is neither at the same time, he was saved from making some of the stupid, toxically masculine mistakes Macbeth made, and thus survived the tragedy. Also the only person not to mock the Weird Sisters for their implied transfemininity which implies a sort of transfem/epicene solidarity." --mod @sunkern-plus

[wynsvre]

snoopy as lady macbeth

[mrs-starkgaryen]

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P.s: I chose to do this poll cuz after r&j, hamlet, macbeth and midsummer's night's dream, I didnt study any of the others.

I was curious to see which one I should read first (as I want to expand my reading and I'm getting shakespeares works for christmas which I wanted after I went to see Tom Holland's r&j which blew me away and made appreciate shakey a lot more)

I'm sorry I failed you 'much ado about nothing' fans 😭

[romavitae]

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

[irate-iguana]

Single funniest piece of Shakespeare merch I have ever seen.

[mongeese]

Did Lady Macbeth successfully utilize "girl power" when she convinced her husband to murder the king thus damning them both to a slow descent into insanity and eventual death?

[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

[natequarter]

It’s always “why did you commit regicide” and “your covered in blood” and never How was the treason The treason looked fun was it fun

[songbird-orpheus]

there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here

[selfoftheseus]

Has anyone made a Forcemasc post like this yet

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[withasideofshakespeare]

My favorite Shakespeare thing is when he writes a major plot point but just has someone tell us about it to save on special effects.

Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates but we don’t see that part. It’s a letter.

The Oracle of Delphi shows up in the Winter’s Tale and rather than do all the special effects required to make that adequately supernatural, two guys come on stage and go “woah that was cool”

There’s a big storm on the night that Duncan is murdered and we learn about this when half the cast of Macbeth says “sure was stormy last night”

Shakespeare, the OG low-budget director taking the easy way out.

[ahauandthesun]

INDIRA VARMA as Lady Macbeth Macbeth (2023-2024)

[veggie-dailies]

had to search youtube real hard for this but i FOUND IT

Edit: Since this very unexpectedly blew up and it was formerly undescribed, a description has been added under the cut!

[Video ID: Mike Nawrocki, the voice of Larry the Cucumber, stands in a voice booth wearing a grey sweater and rectangular glasses situated low on his nose. He is holding a binder full of paper (presumably scripts) in his left hand and a toilet plunger in his right, occasionally gesturing with said plunger as he does a version of the Macbeth 'is this a dagger' monologue by Shakespeare in Larry's nasal, squeaky voice. "Is this a plunger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet, I see thee still. Art thou not fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a plunger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" Mike turns his head slowly towards the plunger and exclaims, "This thing is disgusting!" End ID.]

[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.

[tenaciousgeckos]

Shakespeare: So, in Macbeth, the forest doesn't actually move, it's just an army holding branches

C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: And we took that personally