Queen Margot

As a consequence, the actor is led to experience something like the authentic Macbeth miasma: he is haunted by others even when he is alone; he is alone even when he is with others; he is secure only in being unreachably cut off; he denies it all (because lying to others) even as he confesses it (because speaking to himself). What is at stake, therefore, is both a manner of acting (how declamatory, knowingly false, mock-theatrical, pleading, uncertain, etc.) and, embodied in this acting, a state of mind. Above all the part is written - and must be acted - in a style that is very finely tuned to the ironies that can mediate speaking: how one may in different moments be differently revealed to or concealed from oneself.

Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare in Parts

And Then There Were None (2015) — Episode One

Felix Vallotton At the Francais,3rd Gallery, Theater Impression 1909

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, Los Angeles (1995) photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Emma Woodhouse Costume Appreciation Series-

White day dress with green and yellow embroidery and ombre ribbon.

Carved walrus ivory comb with scenes from the life of King David and Bathsheba, France, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

∙ She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.  

a week with @pemberleynet  |  day O2:  a female character - elinor dashwood

Ball Gown

Emile Pingat (Paris, France)

c.1864

The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)

A nice place to start. (via http://nihilnovisubsole.tumblr.com)

Pages from a scrapbook made around 1883 by Minnie C. Woodbury Goodwin

From the collection of Mandy (Paper of the Past), who posts all sorts of delicious scrapbooks and ephemera on Instagram and here

Alice in Wonderland (1951) Alice and Dinah concept paintings by Mary Blair

Mrs. James Brown Potter, 1883

Taken by Jose Maria Mora, 707 Broadway, NYC

via david shields on pinterest

being a vampire rn is really hard bc of the housing crisis like. older vampires do Not get it. if you were turned in France in 1350 I literally do not want to hear about it from you. do you know how hard it is to lure a young lawyer to your home when you have roommates?? and the roommates aren’t your accursed brides for the record. they’re just some dudes. one of them is a middle school teacher.

not to mention some landlords these days will even just straight up use the basement in the place YOU’RE renting for their own storage?? so you can’t even access the basement so you’re not sleeping in soil down there.

my one friend literally pays $1300 a month for a STUDIO and she just has a bunch of soil in a big plastic tub and she has to sleep with her knees all bent up.

and like at least she can lure artists there pretty easily because it’s like very industrial

but idk. and older vampires will be like “a year of your rent costs more than my entire manor and all of its grounds! why don’t you simply buy an estate?”

yeah dude I don’t doubt that you bought your entire manor and the monastic ruins and its cemetery and the haunted woods for €4,000 in fucking 1708!!! DUH!!! Fuck off

Warwick, England

1914 "Violet" by Heinrich Lefler from Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.