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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.
#william shakespeare#cymbeline#snow white#fairy tale#let's pretend#radio#nila mack#literary allusion#shout out to shakespeare
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Macbeth: âHey now, I think maybe killing the king isnât totally my jam.â
Lady Macbeth: âPussy.â
Macbeth: âWell now youâve hit my weakness. Youâve corrupted my mind and manipulated me. How dare you.â
#Shout out to everyone in my English class who does NOT understand Macbeth#He was a GROWN MAN yâall he was not âmanipulatedâ đ#Stop victimizing Macbeth 2024#macbeth#shakespeare#lady macbeth
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#big shout out to @vickythestrange @the-mad-woman-in-the-attic and @suburban-critic for the suggestions#classic literature#dracula#mina murray#lucy westenra#mina murray x lucy westenra#anne of green gables#anne shirley#diana barry#anne shirley x diana barry#bleak house#esther summerson x ada claire#jane eyre#helen burns#pride and prejudice#charlotte lucas#elizabeth bennet#emma woodhouse x harriet smith#emma jane austen#northanger abbey#catherine morland#eleanor tilney#as you like it#shakespeare#celia x rosalind#the count of monte cristo
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Day 23: bro is MAIDENLESS
#valentine escalus#ooc: shout out to the one post that suggested szabĂł dĂĄvid as rĂŠsjâs valentine#mercutio#romeo and juliet#retj#resj#art#rĂŠsj#shakespeare#ooc: âoh no Iâm high and forgot to put âhelp��
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This is my special no one knows au it is named "sophomore year english class group project au" in which danny won't finish his part in the group project and sam kills him for real
#danny phantom#dp#dpau#danny fenton#sam manson#art?#shout out to that time in tenth grade when i hated the reimagined shakespeare play my classmates spewed out#so i typed out my own and made the group vote
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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 !!!!)
#dream bard#quatern art#gutenberg#doug simon#gutenberg the musical#something rotten#william shakespeare#im actually bawling. why are animations hard#might be the end of my art career! lol#shout out to the 3 dream bard fans#im nomral trust#perchance a dreambard sweep
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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.
#they had a bunch fo shakespeare ones too#shout out to my friend for spotting this gem#frankenstein#frankenstein or the modern prometheus#mary shelley#waateeystein speaks
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1. It - Stephen King / 2. Louise Bourgeois / 3. Wuthering Heights - Emily BrontĂŤ / 4. Untitled - Jasmin R / 5. Succession (2018-2023) - Church and State / 6. King Lear - William Shakespeare
#shout out to all the girlies who can relate!!#also i cannot find a source for number 4 besides random tumblr posts which is annoying#web weave#web weaving#parallels#words#art#poetry#stephen king#wuthering heights#emily bronte#louise bourgeois#succession#king lear#shakespeare
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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
#never getting over his mother marrying his uncle#id be so pissed#and shout out to horatio trying his damn hardest to take care of his emo boyfriend#i am very pro revenge we love revenge here revenge safe space#shout out to my girl ophelia too though i love you you deserved better đ#hamlet#shakespeare#suddenly the pain of my literature degree is worth it i love studying this little emo boy
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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??
#english literature#i think i'd like shakespeare better if we also paid some attention to the other playwrights of the english renaissance#shout out to marlowe for repping the gays and atheists with his whole chest#jacobean#duchess of malfi#plays#knee of huss
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donât know if this is going to end up in my paper but itâs an interesting trend
#hmmmmm#soo obsessed with âhe is a thing made by some other deity than natureâ#shout out to the shakespeare concordance i love you!!! â¤ď¸#coriolanus#shakespeare#grad school
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post-hamlet thoughts
tl;dr my college did hamlet and i was in it and it was cool
first of all, in case i hadn't made this clear already, this was entirely student-produced. i mean, we got some money from the theater department, but people-wise, it was all students.
i've told the rest of the cast this time and time again, but they're so good. insanely dedicated and humbling in their talent.
our hamlet, horatio, ophelia, and laertes were all freshman, and they were all stellar. ophelia and laertes broke my heart every night in the second half with their anger and their sadness. horatio always brings top energy to scenes and had lots of funny moments (espec counting his doubling as the second gravedigger) but also made me feel things (we staged act 4 scene 6 as him alone on stage reading hamlet's letter to the audience and he killed it every time). and our hamlet was just incredible; a pleasure to act against as guildenstern and a pleasure to watch / listen to in their more emotional scenes.
and everyone else was great too! our polonius was always funny but also had genuine moments of connection with his kids; our cladius brought some great depth to the role (his take on the monologue in act 3 scene 3 was great) while still being despicable, especially in his manipulation of laertes; our gertrude brought our director's take on her to life impeccably; and, of course, i had a wonderful and hilarious partner in our rosencrantz :)
not to mention our quartet of players (who also filled out the other miscellaneous roles) who had a ton of great moments. shout-outs in particular to the guy who doubled as the first gravedigger and sang his sung lines as a sea shanty (honestly, i think he could have been a great guildenstern or rosencrantz in another universe).
the crew, of course, was also amazing. there were like 150 cues? my friend (the writer i mentioned in this post) did a fantastic job with the lights. the people behind the staging and makeup did just as well. and the costumes were so fun! everyone looked great; we had a consistent black-white-red-brown color palette that tied it all together. special shout-out to the player king wearing a white shirt with a black cape while cladius wore a zipped-up leather jacket and a white cape.
oh, and me and ros? we got fedoras :) i may share a photo later. maybe.
we did our show in the college black box theater (inside the fine arts building), which i do not currently have the brain cells to try and explain the layout of. it's a kind of weird space, but i think we made the most of it. for the majority of the show i was off stage left, meaning i was hanging out at the top of the stairs which serve as the main entrance and exit to the theater (sitting/standing where i couldn't be seen by the audience obv). you can't really see the stage at all from there but you sure can hear the actors, and by the time of the show that was (mostly) enough for me.
as far as how the actual shows went?
friday was our most engaged audience. their laughter was greatly appreciated in the early scenes ...slightly less so when everyone was dying in the final scene. i mean, i get it, people start dropping like flies and actually foaming at the mouth and spitting out (fake) blood; it's a lot. i applaud hamlet and horatio for staying in character through it. everyone did a great job that night; it was probably better than all our dress rehearsals as a whole.
saturday, at least from my pov, had kind of weird vibes at the start? i don't know how much of it was people getting to bed late the previous night, how much of it was overconfidence, and how much of it was people getting in their own heads, but it was our lowest energy show. the audience wasn't as audibly engaged either, but they did give us a big applause. i felt more good than bad about it by the end, for sure.
especially in retrospect, because, despite us having a smaller crowd at today's matinee, everyone was back on the ball. the ending in particular i think was the best we've ever done it. it was probably my best performance as well.
to be clear, i wouldn't rate any of our three shows below an 8 out of 10, for what that's worth. everyone gave so much to their performances; the funny bits were funny even when the audience didn't seem to think so, and i was always getting caught up in my feelings in the second act. you can't ask for much more than that.
now, here's a compilation of things from the production in no real order:
i already posted about this, but having the blood stains on stage where people die from the beginning of every show? *chef's kiss*
i'll also restate the thing i mentioned in the tags of that post: characters who were murderers had symbolic blood makeup after they killed someone. cladius had a bloody ear from the start of the show, the meaning of which becomes clear once you see the player king get poison poured in his ears; hamlet got blood on their face during intermission that's meant to be polonius's blood; and, arguably most significantly, gertrude had bloody handprints around her neck when she entered at the end of act 4, which, in addition to her hair and arms being dripping wet, is meant to suggest that the story she tells about ophelia's death is, in fact, a cover for something less accidental.
as mentioned above, our director's take on gertrude in general was, from my understanding, pretty different from the standard. to quote from his character spines, "you fundamentally want to prepare your son hamlet to be king; you are playing essentially a game of chess to do so." it was really compelling to see in action. the way she performed act 4 scene 7? chilling.
speaking of those character spines, the first line of horatio's is literally just, "You are in love with Hamlet." and boy howdy did that come through
prime example of that (other than just, all of his and hamlet's interactions, which were wonderful): when horatio finished reading the letter from hamlet, he sniffed it, in a very sweet and very not-platonic way
it was an unintentional running gag throughout the whole process that other cast members would forget between ros and me which character we were playing - to the point that every performance, when hamlet first greeted us, even though i would get to them first, they addressed me first, and it's written that they say my name first, they would call me rosencrantz and our ros guildenstern. ...someone should write a play about that.
i might have posted about this already, but in ros and i's first scene with hamlet, when the two of them start talking about child actors, hamlet made us sit in the thrones, and we would make moves to leave of varying boldness that they, of course, never let us follow through on. this then got basically repeated in act 3 scene 2 except that horatio got to join in on the fun of relentlessly mocking us
(the thing where hamlet handed me their copy of william shakespeare's complete works while they dud the "what is a man" mimi monologue got dropped at some point in the dress rehearsals, unfortunately. they did flip through it with the players though)
during the play within a play, polonius would keep falling asleep and ros and i would keep waking him up
(we also got to do some fun silent banter back in act 2 scene 2 while hamlet and the players were doing their thing)
then the bit after that with the recorders, aka guildenstern's defining moment, was just so fun. hamlet and horatio basically sandwiched ros and me between the two of them, and hamlet and i played off each other very well (at least imo), and though i couldn't see what horatio and ros were doing behind me i know that it got some good laughs. and i could tell every night that the scene landed despite the shakespearean language barrier, so i can't help but be satisfied.
my other best moment was when the king told me to go get polonius's body from the stairs and i got to slump and make a "do i have to?" face before my (final) exit. i managed to actually get some chuckles from that tonight, from the crowd that, again, laughed the least in general, and i can't put into words how euphoric i was to have that be my last moment playing guildenstern.
from the rest of the second half of the show, which i am not in, i will highlight a) the gravedigger eventually realizing after shoveling for minutes on end that he's been shoveling literally nothing (love me a good little fourth wall break) and b) when hamlet and laertes come to physical blows over ophelia, horatio, on his line, steps between them, draws laertes's sword, and takes a stance pointing it at laertes to hold him off, all in basically one glorious motion.
oh, and the ending, of course.
as i alluded to way earlier, we had fake blood and alka-seltzer tablets that the people who died in act 5 scene 2 used to great effect (particularly the people who died via poison)
speaking of that scene, the sword fight was very neat! well-choreographed and well-enacted. real foils btw
and the way hamlet and horatio performed the ending? more than anything, the way hamlet said "give me the cup; let go!" - that shit hurt, in the best way, every night. (and though hamlet died in the king's throne (with the king's crown on), horatio held / clung to them the whole damn time)
for a lighter final note: our polonius doubled as fortinbras and came on at the ending in this huge, heavy, vampire-ass cloak, accompanied by our director as the messenger from england who announces my and ros's death :)
thankfully, we did record our last dress rehearsal, so we do have a version of it that we'll get to watch back in the future. i won't be able to share it with any of y'all (we will apparently be in BIG trouble if we post it anywhere online) but it'll be nice to have for me.
funny thing that happened while i was typing this long-ass post out: i kept using present tense and then realizing i had to change it to past tense. and by "funny" here, i mean, uh... oof.
we never got a perfect run-through where no lines were skipped over, but, i mean, it's fucking hamlet. we did this shit in like a month and a half (with a week lost to spring break); it's more than impressive that the show turned out how it did. it was a group labor of love, and one of the best things i've ever gotten to be a part of.
and i miss it already.
...at least there's movie night on tuesday :)
#hamlet#so excited to introduce these guys to rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead. they'll never see hamlet the same way again#man. i've really missed acting. or rather... being part of a production like this#shout-out to whoever was originally cast as guildenstern but dropped out because they didn't realize a shakespeare play#would be a big commitment#and thereby gave me the opportunity to be in the show despite having been too busy and insecure to audition#i might come back and add more to this tomorrow if i remember more things that i want to have a record of#i could talk more about how rehearsals went#or about the few places in which i may have perhaps done things differently than our director if it wasn't his show#but i think for now this is enough#thank you all for following along on my hamlet journey#i will say that there is a greater than 0 chance that i'll post some shitty hamlet fancomics here in the future#so. if that's something you really want. let me know. i guess.#and again i don't think any of the cast have tumblr#but if you do and you see this: pls never stop acting#i've got your back <3#yes i am posting this at 1 am when i have class tomorrow (today technically). what of it
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You guys I am happy yet again!!!!! HELL yes
#the earth is tilting back and I am coming alive!#I have also been practicing man spreading in my own house and I sang Billy Joel real loud and friggin danced real badly with all my limbs#pinwheeling#as a way to practice taking up space#and also get exercise#which apparently improves your mood?????#my new mantra is ââIâm the main characterâ which I donât really believe obv lol but damn some of you are right! romanticizing your life can#really improve it! and if the main character dances all crazy in their house or admires the scenery or clomps around the yard we are intoât#(ran out of space; became Shakespeare)#(ros;bs)#and even if they do something dumb youâre like Aw main character! I stan you flawed and silly king#what kind of shenanigans will you get into next?? pushing bags of softener salt down the stairs like slinkys???#(yes)#AND! I had a pleasant interaction buying softener salt that I was also using to practice standing and walking around like I belong places#Iâm loosening up by hips and standing with my pussy out metaphorically!!#*my#and the sky is big and there are clouds and naked trees limned in gold#clumps of dried grass too donât forget#and the redwing blackbirds are shouting at everyone#fuck yeah#onionâs nighttime thoughts#edit: also my hair looks cute
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The three genders
#the cover of TSOA makes me mad#why is the helmet like that#chaotic and inaccurate illiad ff has been a tbing for years#shout out to Billy Shakespeare for being an Achilles and Patroclus shipper#troilus and cressida#the iliad
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Julius Caesar Act IV scene iii is still one of THE most scenes of all time however those guys have got to stop using second person because over the weekend some friends and I performed the play for ourselves and every time Brutus said "Brutus" and Cassius said "Cassius" all I could hear was Elmo
#still the best play#shout out to Luke for calling titinius âtittyusâ over my dead body#shakespeare#julius caesar
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the apparent curse as an english major: act 1 of hamlet or so much franz kafka he starts to make sense
#shout out to year 5 of reading the first act of hamlet#i get it it's shakespeares big thing#but also it drives me insane#college shit#last semester i read 5 or 6 kafka pieces#i was not taking a class about kafka he just appears#like a random pokemon encounter#i guess if i were to follow the pattern it's hamlet in the fall kafka in the spring
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