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illustratus · 2 days
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The Ghost of Banquo by Théodore Chassériau
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P'raps I shalt have a little taste
*chokes and dies again*
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romeoisalesbian · 3 days
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hey Macbeth/Shakespeare mutuals I want to pick your brains!
I recently saw a lovely Macbeth performance in which Lady Macbeth performed the “Out, Damned Spot!” scene like a frustrated mother talking to a petulant child.
The counting became one of those “behave yourself in THIS MANY SECONDS” spoken through gritted teeth, the different thought processes became accusations, etc etc.
I really loved this take because it was like. It created SUCH a cool vibe. At first people were laughing but then as the thing progressed and she lost more and more control it was tense and silent and oh my GOSH. And that’s not even talking about the themes of parenthood (which this production really emphasized!) I just loved this take on it, and I generally adore when actors make big choices like this
How does the Shakespeare crowd feel aboie this interpretation out of curiosity?
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trekmascing · 2 days
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Actors burn out if they don’t take breaks. You were always so bad at playing a girl I think you should retire.
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starchaserdreams · 3 days
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People act like fanfiction shouldn't be taken seriously, but 10 Things I Hate About You is Shakespeare fanfiction and I think we can all agree that that is one of the greatest movies of all time
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seycile · 14 hours
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wishmemellon · 1 day
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Something something snake motif
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bigtiefsart · 2 days
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Coriolanus, Act V Scene 4 (dialogue edited by me to fit into a fun little comic)
I guess let’s see how big the audience for fanart of lesser-known Shakespearean tragedies is 😭
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Hubristic assholes Tourney Round 1 part 2b
Hamlet (Hamlet) vs the 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)
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Propaganda below cut (spoiler warning!)
Hamlet
He's hamlet.
10th Doctor
The 10th Doctor starts on a downward spiral after erasing his best friend’s memories of their adventures together to save her life. The only surviving member of his species, the Doctor begins breaking the laws of time and space which he has held onto his whole life and tries to interfere with a fixed point in time, which are critical moments in history that must be preserved for the good of the timeline. The Doctor, tired of watching people die, decides to save the crew of Bowie Base One who were supposed to die on Mars. He declares that “The laws of time are mine and they will obey me!” And saves the crew, which he knows he shouldn’t have done. He takes them back to Earth, and the captain of the group, Adelaide Brook, realizes that her entire family’s future history has been changed. The Doctor declares himself the “Time Lord Victorious”. Adelaide commits suicide to preserve the timeline where she dies before rejoining humanity on Earth.
(Warning for fictional suicide) In “The Empty Child” the (Ninth) Doctor says “Just this once, everybody lives!” and saves the day with no deaths. The Tenth Doctor in “Waters of Mars” repeats this, thinking he can once again save everybody from the base members who are infected by Mars’ waters and prevent a fixed point, which is the Base Commander’s death. He brings the Commander back to earth and believes himself successful since he reads a newspaper that says the Commander saved the base. He then hears a gunshot and finds that the Commander fulfilled the fixed point by committing suicide; Several times in Ten’s run the idea of saving everybody comes up and he is almost never successful. He is very desperate for a win at this point to prove he can defy the rules of time and space.
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lu0na0tic · 2 days
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/ Julius Caesar (Act IV, Scene III), William Shakespeare / Julius Caesar ( Act III, Scene II) William Shakespeare / The Death of Julius Caesar, Vincenzo Camuccini / Brutus: The Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest / I don't have time for destiny, Emily Palermo /
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prokopetz · 7 months
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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
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REBLOG ACCOUNT ANNOUNCEMENT
I've made a new blog, @shakespeare-official-reblogs, for my reblogs. This has my picrew chains, note posts etc. If you want me to participate in these activities, please tag either this blog or that one.
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bloodybellycomb · 4 months
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One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.
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Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.
Last year's collection
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