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King Lear Masterpost
"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)
Costume Design and Execution of King Lear by William Shakespeare (2010)
Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature (2019)
"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)
Edmund's Redemption in King Lear (1975)
Elements in the Composition of "King Lear" (1933)
Humans And Animals In King Lear (2018)
In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)
"King Lear" and Chaos (1991)
"King Lear" and Negation (1990)
Performing Australian Identity: Gendering "King Lear" (2005)
"Service" in King Lear (1958)
See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)
âStruck with Her Tongueâ: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)
"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)
The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)
The Emotive use of Animal Imagery in "King Lear" (1962)
The Mirror and the Feather: Tragedy and Animal Voice in "King Lear" (2013)
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Ophelia just drowned herself in her grief-driven madness and the next stage directions are "enter two clowns" gotta love Shakespeare
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youâre in her dms? well she sent me a letter telling me about how much she loves me. she told me she likes my smile and that i should start being mean to people below me. she likes my yellow stockings and thinks i should wear them more. she called me âfellowâ and sent no worse man than sir toby to look to me. itâs all going as planned. soon i will be rich and powerful. olivia will be mine. we are not the same.
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literally if i did love you in my masterâs flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial i would find no sense!!! i would not understand it!!!!!!!
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I'm currently writing about Twelfth Night for a paper and... man... I love Olivia so much she's so real. No wonder she feels like she should shut the door on everyone when the people who want to marry her only do because of selfish reasons!!!
She's mourning her brother and father and yet she's constantly got Orsino knocking on her door and Sir Andrew knocking and probably various others knocking because they want her money or her status or her looks or all of it. Even her trusted servant Malvolio would go after all of that if he could, and after the letter he does :(
She's in self-imposed isolation, but even if she wasn't in that state, she would most likely still be isolated due to the transactional nature of a lot of the relationships people would want with her. No wonder that as soon as she found a 'man' who didn't fixate on her, treated her like a person and was sweet and funny, she fell for 'him' and begged for marriage. 'He' was a revelation in her life!
But then 'he' wasn't interested and couldn't give her the love that she wished for :(
She's also just dramatic and funny and kind. She doesn't mind Sir Toby and the gang being in her house and court and lets them have their little karaoke parties and graciously hosts them! She shows love and support to her remaining family!! She also manages the court alone after both of her male relatives died. She doesn't let Malvolio's meanness or grumpiness affect her or let it change her opinions about her servants in the court, and I find that to be so sweet.
In conclusion, we stan Olivia
#playing her in a production right now and this is so central to my interpretation!!!#yes yes yes#twelfth night#olivia#shakespeare
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"lady macbeth was manipulating macbeth because of her own ambition to be queen" "lady macbeth never really wanted to be queen she was only doing it because she loved her husband" no you don't understand she was doing it for them. at the beginning of the play the macbeths are a team, partners in greatness, one cannot exist without the other. she doesn't want power only for herself or only for him, she wants them to rule together, equally. that's why it's so devastating when she doesn't get that, when becoming king and queen only drives them apart, because she wanted them to be partners in greatness and she got the opposite.
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All mentions of love and death in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597), colour-coded, in order of occurrence.
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iâm like natalya petrovna from turgenevâs a month in the country was a teenage girl
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Production of Hamlet where during the play scene Hamlet sets up a projector and puts on the Lion King
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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
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The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try, there is no escaping being yourself forever.
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ever since i was a small child i knew i wanted to have an unemployable skillset
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the woke mob won't even let you long to decompose into your beloved anymore smh
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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.
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âif you ever have need of my life, take itâ is such a metal line. you would think itâs from the seagull by anton chekhov or something and it is. it is from the seagull by anton chekhov.Â
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