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wandering-alien · 9 months

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I love Much Ado About Nothing for many reasons, the main one being that my friends would definitely come up with an elaborate scheme to get me a partner despite me being resistant to it.

Although I fear it may be more ominous in real life than it was in the play.

Speaking of which, PLEASE watch the adaptation with Catherine Tate and David Tennant as Beatrice and Benedick, it's hilarious.

There's a full version on YouTube here:

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theofficialpresidentofmars · 3 months

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I’d like to propose a performance of Hamlet in which the audience is addressed, looked at, and treated as if they were there but ONLY by characters who have gone mad.

in Act 2, when Hamlet’s pretending to go mad, while in the presence of Polonius and others, he sort of pretends to look at the audience, but always glancing over, looking sort of in the wrong direction, putting on a show for the only eyes he thinks are watching. When he’s alone and doing his soliloquies, it’s clear that he’s talking to himself, even though we’re listening in.

And it continues this way until Act 3 Scene 4, when Hamlet runs Polonius through with the sword. For a moment after the deed is done, there’s a shocked silence on the stage. As Hamlet goes to examine the body, he falters, slightly, as he becomes aware of just how many eyes are on him. And slowly; he looks at us, and through the rest of the scene his attention is torn between the audience and his mother, until the ghost appears (perhaps in the audience as well) and he’s… sort of put back on track. But from then on, all his soliloquies, asides, he begins to talk to us, in the audience.

And we notice the change, sure, but we don’t really get what it means, not until Ophelia goes mad, and while onstage she begins to give audience members flowers, to talk to them as the others call her crazy. And at that point most of us can make the connection.

From then until the play is over, Hamlet can’t fully ignore us. Every other character will, and does (besides maybe the gravediggers if you wanted to include anyone else), but we’re ever present in his sight. As he dies, we’re the ones he refers to when he says ‘you that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes or audience to this act’

#hamlet #shakespeare #am i a hamlet goes a little bit mad truther? perhaps #i just love to explore motifs of insanity in various forms of media #and i have some more opinions on how I’d adapt this to film

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l832 · 11 months

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myfriendfaust · 8 months

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Do the good omens fans know how pretty david tennant is in richard II btw? or am I the one who has to post about it

#ignore me I just remembered this performance existed and wanted to make a photoset for myself #bolingbroke's actor is kind of mid in this version but other than that it's my favourite.#the ben whishaw version is also good but I'm discounting tv adaptations sorryyy #richard ii #good omens #david tennant #shakespeare #text #(also outing myself as a shakespeare nerd)

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gunsatthaphan · 6 days

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also was anyone gonna tell me that The Heart Killers is based on The Taming of the Shrew by fcking Shakespeare lmao????

#the heart killers #firstkhao #joongdunk #gmmtv #gmmtv2024 part 2 #LIKE HELLO???? WHAT???????#isnt that also what 10 things i hate about you is based on?????#WHAT DOES THIS MEAN LMAO #i might have to take some of my comments back sjkhdfs #getting my boys in a Shakespeare adaption was surely not on my bingo card lmao

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emotinalsupportturtle · 6 months

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Blackadder vs Shakespeare

This is THE most satisfying 2 seconds of a comedy sketch

Thank you sincerely Blackadder Sir. Especially because that is the version you have to inevitably suffer through (very much against your will) when you are studying Hamlet

#I actually cheered at that bit #blackadder is my hero #it was well deserved #tbh I would kick him much harder for that #I'm always here to diss that unnecessarily long #and insufferable hamlet movie adaptation #kenneth branagh #hamlet 1996 #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #hamlet #blackadder #rowan atkinson #colin firth #the entire point of this scene is literally to get back at Will Shaky #for all those school years studying his plays in boring classrooms #AND being subjected to that Ken Branagh Hamlet #and that's valid

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shakespearenews · 7 months

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Henry Henry is a reworking of the Henriad, the set of Shakespearean history plays dealing with the fates and fortunes of the final Plantagenet King Richard II and the first Lancastrians Henry IV and Henry V. They are plays about family dysfunction and the relationship between the self and authority, between society and the individual, duty and care, responsibility and vice. Bratton fondly describes them as “the daddy issue plays.”

...Bratton also has this great read on Hal as a gay disaster: “It’s funny because Shakespeare’s Prince Hal is, I think, one of the progenitors of the modern Gay Disaster,” he said. “He drinks too much; he plays stupid, mean pranks; he’s torn between his daddy and his disappointed father. But Shakespeare’s Hal is generally seen as a lovable scamp whose redemption is inevitable. I found myself trying to play with the sympathies of my imaginary audience, taking Hal back and forth very rapidly between the roles of victim and perpetrator. It mirrors the way Hal uses the people around him to play with his own sense of self—he has this little dance he does that’s like, ‘Do you hate me now? How about now? How about now? Ahh, but don’t you love me really.’”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #brandon taylor #new book #books #shakespeare in literature #shakespeare and adaptation #henry iv #henry v #prince hal #hotspur

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odairfilm · 5 months

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so suzanne collins names coriolanus after caius marcius coriolanus who was a roman general in real life, but also the main character in shakespeare's play called 'coriolanus'. what's so interesting to me though is that dr gaul's real name is volumnia, the name of coriolanus's mother in the play (veturia, historically).

i just find it so smart to make a connection saying that dr gaul is coriolanus's mother, not in the literal sense, but in the sense that she essentially passes down her philosophy to him. she's the mother of his ideals (?) in many ways.

@luckyleftie on tiktok has a great analysis (with a different view) on this as well!

(btw here's a small summary of the play ss'd from wikipedia)

#hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #coriolanus snow #president snow #suzanne collins #william shakespeare #shakespeare #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #book adaptation #bookblr #trending #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

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starchaserdreams · 1 month

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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

#and Dante's inferno #etc etc #but im sticking to the real masterpiece here #10 things i hate about you #shakespeare #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom #just writer things #adapt atyd to the screen you cowards #movies #books #william shakespeare

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mortallyperfecttimemachine · 9 months

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My good friend @goofgoofdildo finally got me to watch Goncharov, and I just had to make fanart for it. I don't art very often though, so I'm also honoring my favorite Witcher 3 dlc 🩶

#the reference i used is from an adaption of 12th night which is my favorite shakespeare play #so technically it's almost tripple fanart #goncharov #the witcher 3 #hearts of stone #the witcher fanart #gaunter o'dimm #olgierd von everec #iris von everec #unreality #morts art

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checkoutmybookshelf · 6 months

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You Have My Attention: Secret Shanghai First Lines

Chloe Gong's Secret Shanghai universe has been hugely popular. It's based on a couple of Shakespeare plays combined with the glittering world of 1920s-30s Shanghai, so this universe is rich and packs a punch. We know Shakespeare's reputation for amazing lines, but how does Gong catch a reader? Let's find out!

So this universe is four novels and two novellas, so actually we get six first lines instead of five!

"In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens."

-- These Violent Delights

"The New Year in Shanghai passed with such fanfare that a sense of party still permeated the city a week later."

-- Our Violent Ends

"Two knocks meant 'all clear,' and three knocks meant 'dorogaya, for the love of God, I'm holding something in my hands.'"

-- "A Foul Thing" in Last Violent Call

"The socks were bundled at the upper left corner, the shirts crammed along the middle, and the gun tucked right in between, nestled gingerly among the most padded clothes so that it wasn't knocking against the hard material of the luggage case."

-- "This Foul Murder" in Last Violent Call

"Out in the countryside, it doesn't matter how loud you scream."

-- Foul Lady Fortune

"The easiest way to disappear was to never disappear fully, always hovering right at the periphery of being caught, responding in an instant when there was movement."

-- Foul Heart Huntsman

#chloe gong #secret shanghai #these violent delights #our violent ends #last violent call #foul lady fortune #foul heart huntsman #ya fantasy #ya romance #shakespeare adaptation #books and reading #books & libraries #books and novels #books #book recommendations

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hms-tardimpala · 6 months

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Shakespeare truly is the proof that people have always been people and we're barely changing as the centuries go by, huh

#we've always been petty funny ridiculous hateful besotted annoyed sarcastic silly angry compassionate sad etc #shakespeare #hi I've watched two adaptations of Macbeth and one of Much ado about nothing today

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pink-evilette · 1 month

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♡ original × modern adaptation ♡

#much ado about nothing #anyone but you #shakespeare #shakespeare adaptation #romantic comedy #rom com #glen powell #sydney sweeney

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anotherclassicpretence · 9 months

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Tabu and Irrfan in Maqbool (Macbeth) dir. Vishal Bhardwaj + colour coordination

This movie has made many, many changes to the characters of the play, but they work well with the chosen backdrop of Mumbai's underworld. These two give a life to each other's presence that is sooo Lord and Lady Macbeth that it pulls off the motive of the murder being their chance to be together rather than just ambition for the "throne".

#maqbool #macbeth #tabu #irrfan khan #bollywood #desiblr #hindi cinema #shakespeare adaptations

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horizon-penblade · 8 days

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#i have like. a few hours left to do this. more if i let myself work on it on sunday #i have already drawn the bonus image version #but if i use the tee for one of the costumes that's actually required for class it *might* save a bit of time/creative energy lol #if you don't get the context check the post i reblogged before this lol #my costume history homework is designing costumes for two predecided characters (i picked ham and oph) in like 12 different time periods #and ever since we got into the latter half of the 20th century it's been a bit tougher to plan #because like. I absolutely hate when modern shakespeare adaptations put every character whose involved in politics in a business suit #but for the last few time periods (now decades basically) I thought I had to do it and then I was like 'wait no that's dumb'#so now i am just ignoring that aspect of the plot. he spent a nonzero amount of time on the run with pirates he can wear a t-shirt

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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

Richard III / Mary Kerridge as Queen Elizabeth

Hmm, black spots creeping into our white costumes again? Strange....

This costume, nice as it is, baffles me. It's a fine example of fashion from the 1300s, worn for a scene (the death of King Edward IV) that takes place in 1483. See the picture below: Jane Shore in the red and blue dress shows an example of what women were actually wearing at the time (see here for a more detailed look at that costume). The queen even wears other costumes more along those lines in other scenes. So why on earth did they choose to put her in clothing that was a hundred years or more out of date for the first part of the film? I would love to know the answer.

She's not the only one, either--one of the photos shows her walking with the Duchess of York (Helen Haye, in black), who is wearing a gown of a similar era but almost a perfect palette-swap of the queen's costume.

#richard iii #white dresses #mary kerridge #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #period film #medieval style #medieval costumes #medieval fashion #1955 films #1955 movies #shakespeare on film #shakespeare adaptations #shakespeare costumes

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