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artthatgivesmefeelings · 1 year

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Paul Gervais (French, 1859-1944) The madness of Titania, 1897 Musèu dels Agustins

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nataliemarsxo · 1 month

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To be free , to see from outside the box, to breathe in air , to relish the little things of life and to suck your cock until your legs shake from ecstasy, lol.🌚😋

Felt Shakespeare might delete later.😌

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iamnmbr3 · 8 months

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So you know the scene at the end of The Taming of The Shrew where they have that stupid competition to see whose wife is most obedient? Can you imagine if other Shakespeare characters were there?

Ophelia: You called, My Lord?

Hamlet: No I didn’t. Why are you here when nobody likes you? Go away!

Petruchio: Even I think that’s mean.

Romeo: Go find Juliet and ask her if she would come here and tell her she has the most beautiful eyes, that make the very sun seem dull, and the loveliest hair and a face that puts to shame Aphrodite herself...oh and bring her this sonnet I wrote her...and actually I’ll go find her myself for I can’t bear to be apart from her another moment!

Petruchio: …

Petruchio: … Yeah he’s not coming back. Next!

Coriolanus: Go find my wife and ask her to come here and also ask her if she's seen Aufidius. Actually, have you seen Aufidius...or heard any news of him?

Servant: No I haven't… Is there a name or a description I could use to find your wife?

Coriolanus: Hold on. I know this one.

Petruchio: Wow... We’ll come back to you. Next!

Orlando: I refuse to participate in this farce. It’s demeaning to women.

“Ganymede”: Nonsense! Any real man (which I totally am) wants women to obey him without question!

Orlando: That’s wrong! That’s not being a “real man”; that’s just being a bully. I would never treat Rosalind that way and I hope no one else would either!

“Ganymede”: … You pass the test.

Orlando: What?

"Ganymede": What?

Benedick: HEY BEATRICE!

Beatrice from 3 rooms away: WHAT?

Benedick: CAN YOU COME HERE A SECOND?

Beatrice: WHY?

Benedick: SOME MAN HERE WANTS TO SEE IF YOU’RE OBEDIENT.

Beatrice: WHY ARE YOU PERPETUATING THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN INSTEAD OF PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE?

Benedick: YOU MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO COME HERE AND SHOW OFF YOUR OBEDIENCE? I AM SHOCKED AND HEARTBROKEN!

Beatrice: HA. HA. SO HILARIOUS.

Beatrice: … HE STILL DOESN’T SOUND VERY PUNCHED IN THE FACE. I SUGGEST YOU FIX THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOREVER!

Benedick: ON IT!

Benedick *rolling up his sleeves*: Isn’t she great?

#Petruchio: Why are you rolling up your sleeves? You’re not just going to let some woman tell you what to— *gets hit right in the jaw*#Benedick: She is not *punch* “some woman”! *punch* She’s *punch* Beatrice! *punch*#Benedick: WAS THAT ENOUGH DARLING?#Beatrice: YEAH! SOUNDS GOOD #Petruchio to “Ganymede”: YOU'RE a man after my own heart. Will you help me up?#“Ganymede”: I am neither a man nor after any heart but Orlando's. *punches him while he still is trying to work that out*#Coriolanus: We’re fighting? Who are we fighting? Is it Aufidius?#listen. after they get together Beatrice and Benedick are THAT couple and they absolutely make that everyone's problem #humor #Shakespeare #Shakespearean shenanigans #the taming of the shrew #much ado about nothing #hamlet #Coriolanus #As you like it #gen

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knittedbond · 1 year

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Much Ado About Nothing, Great Performances (2019) dir. Kenny Leon // Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Frederic William Burton

#shakespeare #much ado about nothing #great performances #this production was so freaking good #danielle brooks the woman that you are......#semicolon

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scribblesscribblings · 14 days

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Recently started playing Limbus Company and these two are my favorites so far

#limbus company #gregor lcb #don quixote lcb #I love you ipis man #I love you shakespeare woman

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flowersandfashion · 3 months

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Sun & Moon

requested by @oops-it-is-i

#mitski is modern shakespeare for real #moon wlw and sun mlm solidarity #< that mitski song is about a woman and that shakespeare sonnet is about a man !#my first thought with sun & moon was a good ol' 'the moon will sing' by crane wives / 'sunlight' by hozier / icarus and apollo / toxic love #but that's been done enough so fuck it we're doing transcendent eternal love. unfortunately of a heterosexual variety.#also I'm still playing around with layouts and things so I'm sure any future moodboards will look different #also also. yes I snuck in an anne of green gables quote. as is my right #moodboard #collage #web weave #light academia #romantic academia #dark academia #art #poetry #greek mythology #renaissance #baroque #mitski #william shakespere #selene and endymion #selene #apollo #sun and moon #sun and moon dynamic #renaissance art #painting #oil painting #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism

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theimpossiblescheme · 5 months

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Staging concept: Ophelia carries around a book that she uses to press different flowers and plants. At one point we see her actually pressing one of the flowers Hamlet's given her before, and we get the impression that she wouldn't part with this book for the world. During the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, Hamlet rips the book out of her hands, and she goes diving after it to make sure he didn't damage it. And during her final "mad scene", she starts tearing out the relevant pages (rosemary, pansies, fennel, columbines, etc.) to give to everyone present. Laertes is the only one to get the significance of his sister giving away parts of her prized possession, and it adds an extra layer to his grief.

#Some extra foreshadowing and a way to organically work in the book she's given in Act 3 Scene 1...#Listen I have a lot of feelings about how to stage Ophelia's final scene--for me it needs to be about *her*grief first and foremost.#It's so grossly easy to play it voyeuristically but this is a young woman who's been let down by everyone she thought she could trust #and now she's come to her lowest point where nothing feels like it matters anymore.#And that needs to hit the other characters present like a truck--they could have done something to actually *help* her #instead of using her for their own agendas but they didn't.#And for Laertes especially... that's his baby sister and he wasn't there for her and now he's watching her destroy something she loves.#Maybe he tries to give her the page back but she pushes it at him and there's a moment of agonizing eye contact between them #where he knows she still loves him but she's never felt so betrayed by everyone and there's nothing he can do to make it right.#hamlet #ophelia #shakespeare #the schemer speaks

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illustratus · 2 months

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Maria Malibran as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello by Henri Decaisne

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stanford-photography · 4 months

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Ophelia 08 By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

#© Jeff Stanford #midjourney #midjourneyart #ai #discord #digitalart #aiart #Artists on tumblr #portrait #Ophelia #woman #William Shakespeare #drama #Hamlet #contemplation #madness #despair #sadness

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anliafail · 7 months

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TOBY STEPHENS (Duke Orsino) and IMOGEN STUBBS (Viola) in TWELFTH NIGHT (1996) | dir. Trevor Nunn

#1990's cinema #1990's #1996 #twelfth night #toby stephens #imogen stubbs #duke orsino #viola #william shakespeare #shakespere gif #shakespeareedit #filmgifs #filmblr #romanceedit #filmedit #trevor nunn #woman's weeds indeed

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sydcarmyfan · 6 months

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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,

Lives not alone immured in the brain

- William Shakespeare

#Syd and Carmy got me quoting Shakespeare #When a man loves a woman #sydney adamu #syd x carmy #sydney x carmy #carmy x syd #chef's kiss #carmen berzatto #syd x carmen #carmy x sydney #sydcarmy

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hopefulqueer · 7 months

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i LOVE it when a fairy is a little freak creature with weird mannerisms and a deep sadness

#this post is about ariel from the tempest played by colin morgan in the globe theater's 2013 production!#but u can make it about whoever u want #shakespeare #on another note holy shit the woman playing miranda in this production is. HOT

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eightdoctor · 7 months

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yeah actually. with how he treated martha & her family (and just the entire rewrite of human nature as a whole, tbh). i have to say i am quite afraid of how rtd is going to handle writing dw with ncuti cast as the doctor. idk. maybe he’s gotten better in the last ten years but i can’t really forget the fact he made the master like. enslave martha’s whole family for a year. so i’m frankly expecting it to be either insensitive at best or egregiously racist at worst. bbc hire 30 sensitivity readers to watch his every move please

#or just. you know. hire a black writer #like in the same way moffats earlier seasons are associated with sexism to me. rtd’s era is associated with racism #not even subtly either #martha spent at least 3 episodes of season 3 as a servant #made simm master just soo uncomfortable to watch #had 10 like beg him to regenerate. disapproved of a black woman punching a racist #had her travel in 3 very racist time periods without like. any sensitivity whatsoever #(saying ‘just act like you own the place’ in response to martha’s very valid worries about racism in the shakespeare code)#i don’t knowwwwww guys i don’t know he better not pull anything fishy this time !#doctor who #//#racism #ask to tag

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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everyone’s talking about enbies named Sock and Leaf but my two (2) friends named Robin Goodfellow who both go by Puck are definitely a distinct Type of Nonbinary Person that must be acknowledged

#nonbinary #enby #shakespeare #I am a cis woman surrounded by Rocky Horror Picture Show and/or Ren Faire enbies and I love them all

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sbrown82 · 1 year

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Marsha Hunt (and her glorious hair) playing the role of “Bianca” in the BBC television production of Othello (1990).

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scottishaccentsareawesome · 4 months

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The first time I ever looked "Anyone But You" up on IMDB and saw that their names were "Bea" and "Ben" I was like, "A 'MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING' VARIATION???!!! WITH GLEN POWELL??? OK!!!!!"

#I love me some Much Ado variations <3<3<3 #shakespeare-based films #much ado about nothing #anyone but you #glen powell #yeah there's a woman named Claudia (Claudio) and a guy named Leo (Leonato) it's totally Much Ado #looks like a pretty loose version of it but still

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