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ariel-seagull-wings · 6 months

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The Voodoo Macbeth is a common nickname for the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Orson Welles adapted and directed the production, moved the play's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely Black cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the role of Scottish witchcraft. A box office sensation, the production is regarded as a landmark theatrical event for several reasons: its innovative interpretation of the play, its success in promoting African-American theatre, and its role in securing the reputation of its 20-year-old director.

Shakespeare's play is about the downfall of a usurper in medieval Scotland, who is encouraged in his actions by three witches. The central idea behind Welles's production was to perform the text straight, but to use costumes and sets that alluded to Haiti in the 19th century, specifically during the reign of the slave-turned-emperor Henri Christophe. Although the main reason for this choice was that it was an appropriate setting for an all-black cast, Welles felt that it also enhanced the play's realism: he thought the production's popularity was partly due to the fact that the idea of voodoo was more credible to a contemporary audience than was medieval witchcraft.

In many productions, the character of Hecate, the Queen of the Witches, is often cut. Instead, Welles turned the character into a pivotal figure. Performed by Eric Burroughs as a huge man with a bullwhip, Hecate presides over events as a ringmaster of magicians, and often closes scenes. Hecate ends the play with the line, "The charm's wound up", repeated from Act 1. Welles's 1948 film version of Macbeth, in which Hecate does not appear, also ends with this line.

The production used a single, unchanging set of a castle in a jungle. The backdrops featured stylized palm trees and skeleton imagery.

It is not certain whether the production removed references to Scotland from the text. Welles's promptbook keeps them intact, but in the surviving film record of the production's climax, the line "Hail, King of Scotland" is truncated to "Hail, King".

#macbeth #orson welles #voodoo macbeth #bardolatry

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impossibleengineerlady · 2 years

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Lutar pelo amor é bom, mas alcançá-lo sem luta é melhor.

William Shakespeare

#william shakespeare #fyp2021 #fypシ #foryou #fypシ゚viral #frases #desamor #tristeza #pensamientos #escritos #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #hamlet #macbeth #bardolatry

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fbhnydj6elb · 1 year

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thebridgesandtunnels · 1 year

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happy (probable) birth (and death) day to mr william. I bought a jesters cap and my roommate and I threw a dinner party.*

*caveat: I am not actually invested in the historical william shakespeare and I do not condone cornball bardolatry. however, catch me DEAD sleeping on an opportunity to make themed cocktails

#about me

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turniptitaness · 2 years

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This chapter has made it very clear to me that I am a frustrated theater director as well as a frustrated theater kid. I really want to do my own production of Lear now. Yep, there's lots of Shakespeare in this chapter. But hopefully I have managed to make it interesting for those of you who aren't quite as heavily involved in Bardolatry as I am. (Also, sorry for not uploading this chapter on Saturday... I was crazy busy and it just slipped my mind.)

#leave my mind (fanfic)#lovers and survivors #thea made a thing #fanfic #only lovers left alive #olla #tom hiddleston #tilda swinton #mia wasikowska #ben platt #matthias schoenaerts

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crristinaa-level6 · 6 months

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Specialist practice: Research

Facts about the English language

Shakespeare added over 1700 words to the English language

Most English words come from French or Old English

The United States does not have an official language

English used to have grammatical gender

English uses the Latin alphabet

The British Empire and the iPhone are two of the biggest reasons English is so widespread today

English used to have 29 letters instead of the current 26

English is the official language of the air

You can blame confusing English spelling on a guy named William Caxton

Cute aggression

Gender Neutral Pronouns

Genderlect

Heuristic

Bardolatry

Boffola

Mouse Potato

Snollygoster

Petrichor

A new English word is added to the dictionary every two hours

There are approximately 1.5 billion English speakers in the world

English has more words than most languages

The average English speaker only knows between 15,000 and 20,000 words

The most commonly used letter in English is “E”

The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

The shortest, non-elliptical sentence is I am

Some of the older words in the English language are still very common

The most commonly used adjective is good

The most commonly used noun is time

The closest living language to English today is Frisian Amusing Alphabet Tricks and their names

Two English words can combine into one

You can fit every letter of the alphabet into a single sentence

Some English words look the same backwards or forward

Some English words look the same upside-down

There is a name for words and phrases where each letter is used the same number of times

Some English words repeat to make a new word

#specialist practice #research #visual communication

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autodaemonium · 9 months

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lufəskmktərnðləstrsn

Pronounced: lufuhskmktuhrnthluhstrsn.

Pantheon of: heliosphere, unsolvability, bioelectricity, wise, domesticity, volatility, indigenousness, statesmanship.

Entities

Hdftkəæoɪorzrvʌʌəpəæ

Pronounced: hdftkuhaoiorzrvuuuhpuha Bioelectricity: brainwave. Legends: x-ray therapy, denationalization, tidal wave, arteriography. Prophecies: extraction, remuneration. Relations: luədufzəzdɪlutʌotntaɪ (cannon cracker), iɪnədszðənrseiɛnyɒzæ (foundation).

Iɪnədszðənrseiɛnyɒzæ

Pronounced: iinuhdszthuhnrseiaynyouza Bioelectricity: brainwave. Legends: inquisition, nonconformism, annexation, three-hitter. Prophecies: flying start, toleration.

Luədufzəzdɪlutʌotntaɪ

Pronounced: luuhdufzuhzdilutuotntai Bioelectricity: brainwave. Legends: brush, safety, telemetry, destruction. Prophecies: military training, breakdown, bardolatry, intestinal bypass.

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mjwrightnz · 1 year

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The obscure word of the week is bardolatry

This week’s obscure English word is bardolatry. It means to like Shakespeare excessively. Really. I mean, sure, every high school kid was tortured by those stupid sonnets which were first made boring by the English teacher, then rammed at them for over-analysis. But apparently there are some people who get quite enthusiastic about the Immortal Bard (hence ‘bardolatry’). Personally I would have…

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#Challenge #Dictionary #Lexicon #Obscure

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wraithwen · 2 years

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bardolatrie > citrinitaes

#wanted something new

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capricorn-0mnikorn · 2 years

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This is a tangent from my “Ophelia was Murdered!” post.

Because I want to go off on a combined Tangent-Rant.

Inspired by tags left by @onyxhellebore, on this post, here (Excerpt, spaces added for readability):

#WHAT IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE TWO PLAYS IN ONE #one for the men to receive with manic pixie dream girl Ophelia singing madly about symbolic herbs #and one for women in the know to realize that this girl had power she knew too much and she is dying of a botched abortion #it doesn't seem out of character for him we know he was always hitting different notes all at once based on class why not gender???

See, now this is precisely why Shakespeare being part of the “Standard Curriculum” is problematic, in my eyes.

Yes, I think he was a great writer (and I think Hamlet, in particular, is one of his finest crafted works). And yes, I think students of all ages deserve access to great writing, and no, I don’t think the work is over their heads (automatically, generally speaking).

But:

For most of the last 300 years, Shakespeare analysis and critique has almost entirely been the purview of upper-class, elite, landowning, men.

And it’s been their analysis (Which is, at best, only half the story) that’s been handed down through the generations to today’s teenagers.

And today’s teenagers are judged on their ability to give standardized answers to standardized tests, to the degree that the can’t graduate from high school if they don’t regurgitate the given answers at the appointed time. So if you want to survive now, and in the future, you better not question it, and just put your head down, and repeat the answer you’ve been told (Most of the time, it’s not the individual teacher’s fault, either, since they have to teach according to the same standardized test in order to get paid, and keep their job, not to mention the fact that this is how they learned Shakespeare, too).

So a lot of people learn that there’s only one correct answer to the question: “How did Ophelia die?” or: “What was Hamlet’s fatal flaw?” (There’s a reason standardized summaries like “Cliff’s Notes”™ are useful at all for cheating on tests, regardless of who the teacher is, or where or when the class is being taught).

Add to that a heaping dose of: “We must Teach Shakespeare, because had an exceptional insight into the Nature of the Human Mind and Soul,”* and the interpretation that “Ophelia went mad and drowned herself because her boyfriend rejected her,” just gives me the heebie-jeebies.

I love (most of) Shakespeare. I want more people to learn of his work. But teaching Shakespeare to-the-test is how you make people hate Shakespeare. Take him off the standard curriculum, and if he’s taught to high school kids at all, let it be by way of electives, led by a teacher who loves the work.

(And teach the comedies, you cowards)

*(Ignoring the fact that he had his own bigotries and blind-spots, and some of what he wrote was actual junk [not everything’s gold]),

#Shakespeare #pedagogy #U.S. eduaction #standardized testing #Bardolatry

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hello-robin-goodfellow · 3 years

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Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet and Natalie Simpson as Ophelia.

(2016)

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#natalie simpson #paapa essiedu #theater #literature #tragedies #shakespeare #will shakespeare #william shakespeare #rsc #hamlet #bardolatry #black excellence #representation matters yes

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ariel-seagull-wings · 2 months

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Daughters & Brothers: Twelfth Night

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#ladyknightthebrave #twelfth night #shakespeare #comedies #bardolatry #Youtube

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circa-obsolete · 3 years

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ca. 1963

#brigitte bardot #vintage magazine #article #1960s #actress #model #bardolatry #cinema #magazine #film #60s cinema #spectator international inc #old hollywood #glamour

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mothdogs · 5 years

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What do you recommend for someone trying to get more into Shakespeare? I read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Mid summer nights dream back in high school. I loved them so much and now I want to get back into it

Ooh, okay! I have four recommendations :-)

1) Reading the plays is great, and even better if you can read them in the original language! Generally I’d advise against No Fear Shakespeare, Sparknotes, and the like; see if you can parse the meaning using just a scholarly annotated copy. (I’ve always used the Norton Editions, which offer translation for archaic words and footnotes for more elusive phrases and terms.) A good annotated edition of the play will also have an introduction to explain context, traditional ways it’s been staged or received, etc. It might also be helpful to read up on theatrical practices in Elizabethan England as a whole. This leads me to my next point:

2) See! the! plays! on stage! if at all possible. The website shakespeareforalltime.com has a listing of theatres that host the Bard’s plays in the US, and I’m sure a simple google search will serve you just as well. Keep in mind that you can try different types of theatres: professional, hobbyist/indie, university, even high school!

3) If you’re not able to see the plays in person, see them on screen. The Royal Shakespeare Company offers recorded versions of lots of their plays (I believe you have to pay for them, but if you’re savvy I bet you could find them online somewhere!) PBS has a great series called Shakespeare Uncovered. There’s also an anthology series called Great Performances which I believe is on Prime Video now. If seeing the plays straight isn’t doing it for you, you can also watch the movies based on the plays. Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado, Ralph Fienne’s Coriolanus, 10 Things I Hate About You, Warm Bodies, Titus, She’s the Man, O, and My Own Private Idaho are all Shakespearean adaptations from the past 20 years or so. And I’m sure there are a million more that I’m missing.

4) Finally, if you really want to take a deep dive, join a group! I started following a lot of Shakespeare blogs on tumblr, and I’m also a frequent contributor to the Shakespeare subreddit which engenders good conversation. If you go to a university, see if they have a literature club, or email the Shakespeare professor and ask if they have any recommendations! Watching and reading the plays is one thing, but true Bardolatry comes from community (imho.) Discussing theories, new film or stage adaptations, critical analysis, etc will only serve to further your love and understanding for the text.

Shakespeeps, let me know if I’ve missed anything obvious!

#asks #overcaffeinatedangel #shakespeare #william shakespeare #bardolatry

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stargabs · 6 years

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Unpopular opinion but Lawrence Olivier is overrated and I don’t care who knows it.

Your Shakeapeare performances are stilted af and making Hamlet wanna fuck his mom isn’t cool or edgy, it’s dumb and unsubstantiated.

#shakespeare #shakespeare scholar #lawrence olivier #hamlet #bardolatry #edgy shakespeare opinions

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macbcth · 4 years

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— Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2

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