Here Have Some Of My Favorite Pictures Of David Tennant As Richard Ii To Make Your Day Better :)

trying this new thing where I make my decisions based on “common sense” and not my prophetic visions & omens

Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.

More... https://imgur.com/gallery/100MhvX

[insert positivity here]

stratford-upon avon 1973, 2013, 1980 | the other place, 2000 | the hollow crown, 2012 | the dunedin globe theatre, 2019 | the almeida, 2018 | the barbican, 2016

Polonius strikes me as a conservative who somehow raised two queer socialist kids

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.

The older I get the more I don’t see the point in talking

so, its about time i get my own friendgroup of obsessive, academic, generally like minded people and we all end up falling in love with each other in various semi-tragic combinations, and maybe someone ends up dead but its ok it was for the aesthetic

rami just ran by in front of my car lmfao