ophelia

Hi y'all!

This is so, so random but for a project I'm working on - if you have a moment and are able to answer this question that'd be amazing.

You don't need to answer more than one word or one sentence - but also feel free to write an essay, or anything in between those. You can also say you don't know or whatever; really any answer is a good answer!

Tuning into tonight's @socialshakespeare reading of Hamlet like...

Grateful to have a bunch of nerds reading Hamlet in my ears tonight whilst I try and work out how to get my life together.

“(…) Richard’s not the sparrow, it’s you. You’re- I don’t know, this fragile, elusive thing, and I feel like if I could just catch you, I could crush you.”

Borderline Disney prince James from IWWV because apparently it’s canon, too.

you guys don’t get it I love this version of them so so much

(from: “Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Manga Edition” by Adam Sexton and Tintin Pantoja)

In the first Hamlet I ever saw, Sam West played three blind mice on the pipe and for whatever reason, eight year old me thought this was the funniest thing I'd ever seen and I was laughing for so long my mother had to threaten to take me out of the theatre so I'd stop…

Just out here making myself laugh.

Everyone on tonights @socialshakespeare call: whatever the players were paid it was not enough

@alltheverses, changing my life with a post:

Excellent points being made at the @socialshakespeare reading tonight.

OK but this is actually wild.

Grand Theft Hamlet Review

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Oh my god my whole heart!

Obtained a (digital) edition of Hamlet that - for some reason - decided to illustrate Horatio and Hamlet’s scenes using art lifted from Mark Twain’s first edition of The Prince and The Pauper. And frankly it’s incredible:

I mean they’re not wrong for this choice, but it was definitely a choice

Over the weekend, my friend read me his diary entry from the first time we met, back in 2014, when I went to Manchester to see Maxine Peake's Hamlet with him and our mutual friend...

Also bought at the National Theatre - new notebook and a matching bag.

Statue of Olivier as Hamlet from outside the National Theatre.

Found this in the National Theatre bookshop and was having many feelings about the choice to use "our" instead of "your" so I bought it...

Yes, and also: the fact that rue could be used to induce an abortion... https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/Medant/rue.htm

Okay guys, do we think Ophelia was pregnant in the play the tragedy of Hamlet? There are a few pieces of evidence but I think the one that really gets me is when Hamlet says to Polonius “let her not walk in the sun: conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to it” in act 2 scene 2. I feel like this is a really interesting line, but what do you guys think?