#sherlock and shakespeare

[ogsherlockholmes]

Whilst we’re taking Holmes and Watson into different time periods, instead of taking him to the modern day, why don’t we do a complete u turn me take him back in time, pre-Victorian era?

Holmes and Watson in the Elizabethan times and watching Shakespeare’s newest play after solving a murder.

Holmes and Watson running around during the witch trials, trying to disprove all of the witch allegations (then running away when Holmes gets accused of being a witch after deducting the witch finder’s entire life).

Holmes and Watson discovering the wheel. Because why not.

I don’t know, I have many ideas which don’t make sense but do with this what you will.

[dakukabi]

chaldea's book club has strong opinions on shakespeare's reading recommendation

source for text: x

[starstrider]

A collection of my FGO shitposts

[countingyellow-cars]

I like a very specific kind of character

They need to be sad and suicidal, insanely smart, misunderstood by all people, fuckin dRAMATIC, and have this very close homoerotic relationship with their one (1) and only friend, who is calm and appears ordinary

...alright I just like Hamlet and Sherlock Holmes.

[friday411]

Jeremy Brett as Macbeth

~Full stage production - 1981 ~

🔥 🔥 🔥 The most snogging I've ever seen in a play - EVER!

-=<+>=-

@amypihcs @blistering-typhoons @calaisreno @helloliriels @totallysilvergirl

[arthursfuckinghat]

So you're telling me that Arthur Morgan could have read Sherlock Holmes back in in 1887

[purrlockswatson]

@w0lfinsheepscl0thing Yes we can! It's a drawing from my website!

How many literary cats can you recognise?

[romeoisalesbian]

so. sherlock and co has already been adapting stories from after sherlock returns from the dead, in the timeline of publication of original stories. which makes me realize the possibility that the show might END somewhere around the final problem (or they will do some sort of seasonal divide, perhaps).

but my goodness imagine getting through all other 60 or so (depending on what, exactly, they decide to go into) stories, at least over 100 episodes at that point, and realizing the final problem is all that's left to adapt. I don't have many thoughts about this podcast, beyond casually enjoying it as a longtime fan of the original Holmes and Watson stories, but DAMN it would hit me hard if they had some sort of ending with Holmes' death.

I would actually be really into the show seeming completely done with the final problem and then, perhaps a few months or a year later, getting some sort of epilogue or resolution focusing on Holmes' return. I don't exactly think this will happen, but damn am I curious about if, when, and how they will adapt Sherlock's death.

on another note, I also am deeply curious about how their moriarty will turn out, but that is neither here nor there

[holmesxwatson]

The place was pitch-dark, but it was evident to me that it was an empty house. Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons. Holmes's cold, thin fingers closed round my wrist and led me forwards down a long hall, until I dimly saw the murky fanlight over the door. Here Holmes turned suddenly to the right, and we found ourselves in a large, square, empty room, heavily shadowed in the cor-ners, but faintly lit in the centre from the lights of the street beyond. There was no lamp near and the window was thick with dust, so that we could only just discern each other's figures within. My companion put his hand upon my shoulder and his lips close to my ear.

"Do you know where we are?" he whispered

"Surely that is Baker Street," I answered, staring through the dim window.

"Exactly.

We are in Camden House, which stands opposite to our own old quarters."

"But why are we here?"

"Because it commands so excellent a view of that picturesque pile. Might I trouble you, my dear Watson, to draw a little nearer to the window, taking every precaution not to show yourself, and then to look up at our old rooms-the starting-point of so many of our little adventures? We will see if my three years of absence have entirely taken away my power to surprise you."

I crept forward and looked across at the familiar window. As my eyes fell upon it I gave a gasp and a cry of amazement. The blind was down and a strong light was burning in the room. The shadow of a man who was seated in a chair within was thrown in hard, black outline upon the luminous screen of the window. There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features. The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame. It was a perfect reproduction of Holmes. So amazed was I that I threw out my hand to make sure that the man himself was standing beside me.

He was quivering with silent laughter.

"Well?" said he.

"Good heavens!" I cried. "It is marvellous."

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety," said he, and I recognised in his voice the joy and pride which the artist takes in his own creation. "It really is rather like me, is it not?"

"I should be prepared to swear that it was you."

— The Adventure of the Empty House

[howdoispectate]

Sorry for not being active! Here's what I've been up to ^_^

Drawings will return, promise! I'm just very busy. :)

[platonicpolycule]

Does anyone on this entire planet still think about Gnomeo and Juliet as much as I do? Did they ever?

[shsl-debbie]

non-canon afterstory

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Favorite character meme

*I have other favorites from SGE, but I wanted to list ones from other fandoms.

[ch3ck-mat4]

Uh. I went to the Oregon Shakespeare festival last week and saw five shows. I decided to draw a scene from each one we saw, so here they are. :]

My favorites are Lizard Boy and Macbeezy (if you know, you know).

[purrlockswatson]

I may work at a desk so deeply buried in paraphernalia that I only have one small square of surface where I put either my keyboard OR sketchbook, but I insist that my phone apps have a uniform colour that matches the wallpaper.

Hold up.

Tumblr, care to explain yourself?

[shakespearenews]

Today is January 6th — and that marks the date on which we traditionally celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday.

We say "traditionally," because there is no definitive statement of his actual date of birth in the Canon, but beginning with Christopher Morley, the date of January 6th has become the de facto accepted date for Holmes' birthday. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons.

Of all of the quotes in the Canon, William Shakespeare was the most oft-quoted author. There is but one Shakespearean play that Holmes quotes twice: Twelfth Night. In The Sign of the Four, Holmes concludes, "All is well that ends well." This is from from Act IV, Scene 4. And in "The Empty House," Holmes states "'Journeys end in lovers meetings,' as the old play says," from Act II, Scene 3.

The reason the date was chosen is that in Christianity, January 6th is the Feast of the Epiphany, or officially the twelfth day of Christmas. I suppose if we were being truly technical about it, the twelfth night of Christmas would fall on January 5th...

In addition, William S. Baring-Gould in his The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, posited that because Holmes was a little cranky on the morning of January 7th — the date on which The Valley of Fear began — he had a hangover, induced by birthday celebrations the evening prior.