#shakesposting

[two-bees-poetry]

so soft it hurts

[rowleianlove]

don’t let them lie to you. romeo and juliet is, in fact, a good play. fantastic even. not overrated. don’t let them lie to you, child

[qu4lc0s41ncu1cr3d3r3]

Non trasformare i tuoi pensieri nelle tue prigioni

[a-j-s-the-only]

And yet, to say the truth,

reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene i

[eden-writes-stuff]

Fuck Romeo and Juliet. I want what these bitches have

[iamstandingwater]

Richard ii works best if you're a butch woman or a femme man. It's about the androgyny, it's about the obvious physical differences that clearly mark the vulnerability of a queer monarch, the religious trauma and the active deconstruction of a false identity handed to you at birth. It's also about being incredibly attractive.

[crims0nstardust]

[sparklyshakespeare]

shakespeare plays as fashion shows

[fiercestream1]

Go my unrequited yuri

[languidspaniel]

just realized I put march instead of april, nevermind

escapril #19 - between my teeth

on Olivia from Twelfth Night

[n0-eyed-girl]

What do you guys think of my Twelfth Night project for school?

[two-bees-poetry]

the grief of growing

[shesnotallthere]

To love is to die and I have died many times, trying to love you.

Love and Death

[fraterrisus]

The DNI explainer, or, what the heck is an Anti-Stratfordian?

Okay, I've gotten enough questions about why I put "Anti-Stratfordians DNI" in my blog blurb that it seemed time to explain it.

Y'all already know I'm a big fan of #shakesposting.

The DNI blurb is both a joke – poking fun at people who think that including DNIs in their blog blurb will actually work, and picking one that is not particularly important to include in mine – and not a joke – I genuinely think that the anti-Stratfordian argument is idiotic, specious, and classist and don't think it deserves any actual airtime, so I generally will not discuss it on my blog (beyond this post).

In short: sane people, as well as the vast majority of literary scholars, believe that the plays commonly attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by William Shakespeare, the person born in Stratford-upon-Avon who was an actor and shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's men around the year 1600.

Anti-Stratfordians, however, believe that Shakespeare's plays could not possibly have been written by that person, and that a different person (or persons) wrote those plays under a pseudonym. If you want to learn more about why they believe that or who they think might have done it, do your own damn research.

I don't want those folks anywhere near my blog, so, they get a DNI.

[oscarwildin]

he jests at scars that never felt a wound

[a-j-s-the-only]

”Love looks

not with the

eyes, but with

the mind, and

therefore is

winged cupid

painted blind.”

-Shakespeare