#shakespeareposting

[lady-tadpole]

Hamlet, lines 185-190

Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange. Hamlet: Don't Care + Didn't ask + L + hoRatio + there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

[akissforthewholeworld]

its all 'david tennant's macbeth' this and 'christopher eccleston's macbeth' that but nobody's talking about ralph fiennes' macbeth

[the--plant]

Pro Tip: You can eat his heart in the market-place.

[jokerpeterson]

TOP TEN INCELS

1. Iago

[koussevitzky]

Seeing The Tempest tonight :D not my favorite Shakespeare but maybe I’ll be able to give it more grace now that I’m seeing it performed for the first time and not just reading it

[mephistopheles]

autism be damned my boy can realise that within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps death his court

[zepuffer]

english class assignment 👍

[2nd-mushroom-circle]

if nothing was slang for vagina in shakespeare’s time, was it an intentional move to put that word in the title of much ado about nothing? i haven’t read the play yet so i don’t know. seems like something he would do.

omg how did i not see this

i mean hard to know what was intentional or not, unless there's some primary source i don't know about with shakespeare's process. but like you said i would be surprised if will shakespeare, who frequently not only used slang but invented his own words and sayings that then entered the popular lexicon, and who is known for his wordplay and love of double meanings, invoked that accidentally. especially in a title that, all respect to willy shakes, means nothing. like what is his obsession with naming comedies the vaguest possible names? "as you like it"? "all's well that ends well"? "measure for measure"? "the winter's tale"? "twelfth night" has NOTHING to do with the play itself, and the other name of the play is WHAT YOU WILL, which again DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!! "much ado about nothing"? be more vague, please!

anyways.

idk if you've read the play by now, but yeah, much ado about pussy would make sense as a title within the context of the play. the main plot is centered around hero being wrongfully accused of infidelity on her wedding day, so you could say that they're making much ado about hero's vagina. when, in fact, nothing happened.

[sunshineonashelf]

sorry for shakespeareposting guys in my defense david tennant was in it

[ponderingsoundtrack]

The Shakespeareposting is gonna be crazy for the next month or so, cause I’m playing Laertes in a production of Hamlet.

[essaytime]

hi i’m reading shakespeare for the first time and all your shakespeareposting is really funny and makes the experience much better and generally i think you’re really cool okaybye

- @iron--and--blood

OH IT'S YOU MY DARLING

thank you so much I think you're really cool too

[akissforthewholeworld]

if a man brutally killed the tyrant king after months of our homeland being in ruin and our families being slaughtered by him and his men, and then not even a minute later kneeled at my feet claiming ME the rightful king of scotland? id have made out with him on the spot

[lumityfication]

not to Shakespearepost on main but romeo and juliet is just such an insane play. every time i watch it or read it i feel such raw emotions that i don’t think any other piece of media really gets out of me

[pleuvoire]

ok back to what i was going to say before i got distracted with shakespeareposting. on the one hand. "booo the classics are all old dusty white men and we've moved past that, surely there is nothing of value to be found in a bunch of books by old dusty white men, i am allowing my annoyance at high school english class to inform my opinions on the value of literature" very annoying!!! very reductive!!! always worth pushing back against!!! but many people respond to this by just... defensively refusing to interrogate the merit of the western literary canon as a concept/category unto itself, or the idea of having a group of works elevated above all others such that they function as a mark of sophistication and intellectual rigor unto themselves, or the idea of evaluating people's knowledge of books and literature or even their intellectual worth off of how many of these they have read and successfully understood. just "you think classics are bad? well actually, classics are good and you're STUPID." and it's such a LAZY LAZY way of pushing back against people being annoying about books online

[toadstoolillustrations]

king why r u shakespeareposting in business class

Fuck u fuck u fuck u fuck u

[mephistopheles]

henry bolingbroke 3 seconds after he has richard deposed and murdered: