The hot new thing on Tumblr was the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear with Ian McKellen, so every meme and reaction image was just screencaps from King Lear.

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

here have some of my favorite pictures of david tennant as richard ii to make your day better :)

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MATHEW BAYNTON

THERE IS A RECORDING OF AS YOU LIKE IT (1996)

Breaking news!! Extra, extra, read all about it!!! You may have been pictures of David Tennant such as this one:

but upon trying to find a way to watch the production this is from, been told that there's no way to do so. And this is partially true: there is no copy of this floating around on the internet, and no DVDs have been released. BUT! Not all is lost! @raining-stars-somewhere-else and I have been investigating, and there is a recording of As You Like It (1996) housed in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. According to their website, there is a VHS tape and two DVDs (though one of them stops playing halfway through). There are no digital copies of available to the public, but you can go to their reading room for free and access their archives that way. Neither my fellow detective nor I have ever been, so we're not sure exactly how it works, but we believe that you can watch the archived video recordings so long as you're in-person. Unfortunately, we cannot get there ourselves, but we're sharing what we know in hopes that someone who reads this can do some on-the-ground reconnaissance. According to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's website, the reading room is located "on Guild Street to the rear of the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6QW" in England. If you find anything new, please let us know, and if you want to remain anonymous we can do that. Good luck everyone!!!

relevant links:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's home page

Archive page for the recording

Information about the Reading Room

RSC's page for the performance (this is where the picture is from, and has information about the cast and crew)

A different kind of April Fool...

David as Touchstone in As You Like It (1996-97)

More images in this fascinating article of DT recounting this turning point in his career

Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade, 1967, 1986

Ian McKellen as Macbeth | Royal Shakespeare Company (1979)

The way how David Tennant played Richard II is the only thing I've been thinking about for last couple of days🙏

Thanks to Shakespeare for writing historical dramas

the david tennant wearing stupid shirts in shakespeare plays cinematic universe

tender moments between achilles (andy apollo) and patroclus (james cooney), in troilus and cressida, directed by gregory doran, royal shakespeare company, 2018

sam rehearsal stills from his new play, ben and imo at the rsc

can we PLEASE talk about how young david tennant as romeo is THE MOST theatre aesthetic ever i am begging you

As part of the 400th anniversary of the first Folio, the RSC had a copy which they were encouraging people to scribble notes in.

My incredibly academic contribution to this was to go through Hamlet and write "boyfriends" next to all the parts where Hamlet and Horatio are clearly boyfriends.

This note, however, was not written by me but instead written by someone who came before me.

MATHEW BAYNTON Royal Shakespeare Company | ph. Henri T, 2023