hamlet: horatio, I’ve never met anyone I feel like I can talk to the way I can talk to you. like I feel like we can talk to each other

horatio: oh, uh, I mean—

hamlet: no no no I’m not. I can see you just think I’m bullshitting you the way that everyone here manipulates each other to try to get what they want but that’s not what I’m doing. I mean, what do you have to offer me? it’s not politically advantageous to me to be your friend, and that’s why you can trust me. please. I need you to trust me. I have loved you as long as I have known what it is to love someone, because you’re never—you never—it’s like anything can happen to you and you just accept it and move on, you’re not totally destroyed and paralyzed by the difficulties you face the way I am. I love people who are like that, people who can be rational in the face of disaster. I need someone like you.

horatio:

hamlet: sorry that was a little intense anyway forget what I just said here’s my secret plan

why cant i be a 20th century schoolboy studying shakespeare with his group of morally grey friends

Update i also need it to have pole dancing at some point (preferably by Demetrius but i'm open to suggestions:))

Hear me out i need a stage adaptation of A midsummer night's dream where Hermia is a goth girl and Lysander is her alt bf, and Demetrius is a cringy guy with a hawaiian shirt and Helena is a bi girl who actually likes his cringiness (but she also can't properly talk to Hermia cuz like women am i right)

This is just the perfect day to reblog this, isn't it

okay but if we talk about words in their literal meaning then brutally murdering someone is gathering all the people who hate him and than stab him to death together

Its always "I love you" never "Im being chased by walt whitman!"

Hear me out i need a stage adaptation of A midsummer night's dream where Hermia is a goth girl and Lysander is her alt bf, and Demetrius is a cringy guy with a hawaiian shirt and Helena is a bi girl who actually likes his cringiness (but she also can't properly talk to Hermia cuz like women am i right)

So i started writing a story and my goal with it is for it to be dark academia, and my mom read what's done so far, and at the middle of it she puts down the papers, looks at me and says i should really read Babel.

By R. F. Kuang.

Which is. One of the fucking pillars of the genre. And apparently my story reminded her of that--

My favorite Shakespeare thing is when he writes a major plot point but just has someone tell us about it to save on special effects.

Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates but we don’t see that part. It’s a letter.

The Oracle of Delphi shows up in the Winter’s Tale and rather than do all the special effects required to make that adequately supernatural, two guys come on stage and go “woah that was cool”

There’s a big storm on the night that Duncan is murdered and we learn about this when half the cast of Macbeth says “sure was stormy last night”

Shakespeare, the OG low-budget director taking the easy way out.

"problem plays" this "romances" that I'm proposing new and exciting Shakespearean Play Groupings for your amusement!

The Bad Dad Triad: King Lear, Henry IV Part 1, Romeo and Juliet

The "My Wife's A Floozy" Trifecta: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, the Winter's Tale

The "Me And My Shitty Little Minion Are About To Fuck Up Your Shit Hardcore" Trilogy: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, the Tempest

The Falstaffiad: Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor

The "Holy Fuck There's Two of 'Em" Saga: Twelfth Night, the Comedy of Errors

The "Dear Diary My Homoerotic Bullshit Has A Body Count Now" Series: Richard II, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus

The "Why Are The Fucking Trees Trying To Kill Me. Hate This Shit" Trilogy: Macbeth, the Winter's Tale, As You Like It

"GOD i love this!"

"what, me?"

hold on i wanna see smth. trans/nonbinary ppl rb this and put in the tags what animal u associate w ur Gender

Some days ago i saw a Complete Works of Shakespeare production by teenagers (funny version) in which Hamlet took a longer part and may i just say that the guy playing Hamlet just played the best Hamlet i have ever seen.

He basically wore a deep cut black t shirt and a silver necklace and was so dramatic and girlypop and couldn't finish To be or not to be because he had a nervous breakdown. He was exactly how i imagined Hamlet's character in the first place and i'm just so glad i got to see it

I don't know about you, but the lyrics "in the whitest water on the banks against the stone, you will lift his body from the shore and bring him home" and "walk with me down the beach and through the valley floor, love for the one you know more" is so iwwv coded

Oh and the song is called 'oliver james'

So i'm doing a research project for english class and i want to do it about manipulation as a theme in shakespeare plays. I currently have 3 plays on my mind, but i'll only choose 2 to write about and eventually compare and i have no idea which two should it be so if you can, please help me

I’m nonbinary in the way of girly popping male Shakespeare characters and also keeping the use of he pronouns for them. My Antonio was a he. He also had long hair and a smoky eye and a dark red lip.

it’s called a riverbed for a reason. lie down in it

And yet some kind of weird alternative ending is known worldwide like in that version Neil dies???? Who thought of that??? And the original version with this happy ending is barely known by anyone... it's sad honestly, how people like to suffer when they should just watch the original version

oh my god dps is sooo silly ! i love the part where the play ends and todd comes to congratulate neil behind stage and they kiss and mr perry accepts neils acting career after seeing how good he is and all the poets go back to the cave and celebrate and mr keating is sooo so proud and all is well !

…right…