#shout out to shakespeare

[princesssarisa]

Shakespeare's Cymbeline obviously has some story elements in common with Snow White. A princess heroine, a wicked queen stepmother, a servant is ordered to kill the princess but instead lets her go, she finds the home of some men in the wilderness and lives with them, but then she succumbs to "poison" from her stepmother and is mourned as dead, yet she isn't really dead, and eventually there's a happy ending.

In the play, the character of Belarius, the foster father who takes Imogen in (and whose foster sons turn out to be her long-lost brothers), goes by the pseudonym Morgan.

In the Let's Pretend radio adaptation of Snow White (or rather Snowdrop, as it's called), the leader of the seven dwarfs, basically a more dignified version of Disney's Doc, is named Morgan.

I see what you did there, Nila Mack. I see what you did there.

[viva-la-bohemia]

Macbeth: “Hey now, I think maybe killing the king isn’t totally my jam.”

Lady Macbeth: “Pussy.”

Macbeth: “Well now you’ve hit my weakness. You’ve corrupted my mind and manipulated me. How dare you.”

[dailymercutio]

Day 23: bro is MAIDENLESS

[gentleaffectionss]

Sometimes in life, you need crappy Dream Bard animations to help deal with things

Which Is why I wasted 3 hours of possible sleeping to do this! Might just be a dreambard sweep for the like. 3 dream bard fans.

(I'm also never planing to do an animation again cause what the freak !!!!)

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Forever annoyed by the lack of Scottish accents in Macbeth adaptations

[waateeystein]

I found this at the thrift today. I think it would be really funny to speed run the pop quizzes like it was a video game. Like imagine a Frankenstein DVD Study Guide 100% all quizzes run.

[n0-eyed-girl]

I'll definitely get better photos, but I finished my Nick Bottom mask last night!!

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

can i just say my Richard III having a bird spider as the cover plays into my hands so so well

[hussyknee]

Just discovered these lines by John Webster from The Duchess of Malfi:

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,

like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

That's what I call metal.

Also:

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil;

He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard

Um. Hello?? Goddamn??

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

coming out as no.1 hamlet apologist fr, if I was an angsty emo teen being shown an apparition of my murdered father killed by my uncle who my mother then married, I think I'd lose it a bit too

[wishmemellon]

The three genders

[drfaustus]

don’t know if this is going to end up in my paper but it’s an interesting trend

[merely-a-player]

the apparent curse as an english major: act 1 of hamlet or so much franz kafka he starts to make sense

[bookwyrminspiration]

hi it’s me again here to annoy you about hamlet - you’re on act 2 right? That’s the beginning of the “fuck around” stage of the play as I would call it. A lot of it is setup for what happens in act 3, which really gets the ball rolling imo. But! Since you’ve started, you’ve met my favorite character (horatio) who I can’t really talk about in full perspective until you’re finished but… he really is an important character even if he doesn’t seem important at certain points. Do you have a favorite yet? (sorry I don’t want to pester im just really excited to hear what you think about it)

Hi again! It's not annoying, don't worry; you're allowed to express your interest and excitement :)

I just finished act 2 and am now at the beginning of act 3! And I think I can see what you mean--I'm not far, but it seems like things are about to Start Happening. We've got the ghosts, we've got the foul players, we've got the background. Now it's time to Do It.

I don't think I know any of the characters well enough yet to have favorites, though I am intrigued by Ophelia. And of course having more info about Hamlet makes him more appealing by default for the time being. But! I have seen you talk about Horatio quite frequently, though in all honesty I didn't read the posts in full because I hadn't read Hamlet. I'll keep my eye on him though :)

And of course, Polonius and Claudius's schemes and what each of them are doing intrigue me, even though I may not like them!

[fruitsilly]

every shakespeare character with a fun gender is genderqueer because um im genderqueer and i said so