Shakespeare - Blog Posts
"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out"
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene II
“These violent delights have violents ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires”
-Shakespeare, Macbeth
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows”
i just found my city’s university drama students did Julius Caesar but as a political election
apparently the ‘political elite’ were in 1940’s dress/style and the citizens were in modern dress
King Lear Masterpost
"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)
Costume Design and Execution of King Lear by William Shakespeare (2010)
Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature (2019)
"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)
Edmund's Redemption in King Lear (1975)
Elements in the Composition of "King Lear" (1933)
Humans And Animals In King Lear (2018)
In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)
"King Lear" and Chaos (1991)
"King Lear" and Negation (1990)
Performing Australian Identity: Gendering "King Lear" (2005)
"Service" in King Lear (1958)
See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)
“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)
"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)
The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)
The Emotive use of Animal Imagery in "King Lear" (1962)
The Mirror and the Feather: Tragedy and Animal Voice in "King Lear" (2013)
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Lin Manuel Miranda is our generations version of Shakespeare.
Both of them have/had wildly successful careers, popping up all over the place with random things, interactions with the Queen of England, and one of their most known theatre performances was based on a book (Romeo and Juliet / Hamilton)
The owners of Featherstone’s old home is Miss Montague and Mr Capulet. Because I say so
why does everyone find it weird that I enjoyed studying Shakespeare like did you not ever want to watch over epic battles from your tall castle window and then die
“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. When you look up the stage directions, it says, ‘Exit Ariel.’”
— Tom Stoppard, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 (via flameintobeing)
Saw "Ye Gods" and couldn't resist... how wretched 'twould be to render a Shakespearified Steamed Hams...
Julius Caesar, Act 1
This is the pinnacle and absolute of theatre; why try to be film? Why make the proscenium your screen? Let the energy flow, let us truly, truly share in that gathering-place. For there is magic in the mingling of mensch...
love shakespeare. did a hamlet run tonight, looked someone dead in the eye to say “am i a coward?” during a speech and the fucker shrugged and nodded
HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK FROM HAMLET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!!!
(the OG BPD character fr fr)
characters I’m giving BPD
(this is OUR mental illness now - and these are my blorbos)
Jason Todd (DC)
Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)
Bradley Uppercrust the III (An Extremely Goofy Movie)
Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)
Jinx (Arcane)
and many more!!!
you can bet I’ll be reblogging my own post later CAUSE IM THAT B*TCH!
Not born great, don’t achieve greatness, and don’t have greatness thrust upon them - but a secret fourth thing.
(not great at all)
CAPULET GIRL ON FLUTE
I’m realising I have so many bizarre Shakespeare related stories. For English, we had to do a ‘fun’ summary presentation. Somehow one guy ended up convincing our group to write and later perform to the class a parody version of uptown girl. This was accompanied by my recently ex-boyfriend of two weeks (who still was not speaking to me or sitting any less than three seats away from me - even if no one else was sitting there) playing the song on flute. ON FLUTE.
I would say that luckily that no one could hear us over the damn flute. However, another girl had made a karaoke style PowerPoint video creation, so that everyone could see our terrible lyrics on the screen clearly.
a sample of what I can remember:
Capulet girl She's been living in her Capulet world I bet she's never had a Montague guy I bet her momma never told her why
it is the most dreadful thing I’ve ever been a part of and I did high school theatre .
in the production of hamlet I was in there was about a week of rehearsal where we workshopped the idea of me (hamlet) playing a fife whilst strangling a guy around this part.
it didn’t make the Final Cut.
Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth: I am a queen. *The king of Scotland existing* Lady Macbeth: I will be a queen.
why do i not attend my classes for a whole year and then it's the day before the exam an I suddenly realise that the subject (which I chose myself) is actaully extremely interesting so I feel like I wasted a whole year by not attending it????
This deserves a post. We are reading Othello in class and my friend, who cannot for the life of him can draw, drew this masterful piece of artwork and keeps insisting that Othello has a one sided love for Iago. I don’t know what the fuck to say to this…
Hamlet-esq work in progress
HIDING ALL EVIDENCE OF POWER SO ENEMIES AREN'T DETERRED FROM ATTACKING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
TIME TRAVELING CRIMINAL GREEDOS FIGHTING TIME TRAVELING CRIMINAL IRISH BRAIN CABLE BITCHES.
FAGGOT BITCH CRIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES MAKING DECISIONS BASED UPON SENSORY INPUT INFORMATION RELATED TO INDIVIDUALS THAT WIDELY VARIES FROM THE FACTS OF PHYSICAL REALITY BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD AND VIRTUALLY CONTINUOUS SENSORY REPLACEMENT. YOU DON'T CHECK FOR SENSORY REPLACEMENT BEING A FACTOR, EVERY SINGLE TIME IN RELATIONSHIP TO EVERYTHING BECAUSE YOU DON'T USE SENSORY REPLACEMENT IN YOUR OPERATIONS AND DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT AND IT DOESN'T EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE AND IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CAUSE OR ACHIEVE ANYHOW ANYTIME ANY WAY.
SEXUAL CONTACT WITH MADELEINE JEANNE BOUVIER AND MAJOR INVOLVEMENT IN TIME TRAVEL CRIME
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN BUGGERING BOYS
PLANET TERRA
THE NIGHT MAN
AND
THE GIANT KILLER
I think my favorite part of that sentence is “SPEAKS IN SHAKESPEARE”, but your are not wrong, he does
It was tomie, a character from a horror manga, I don’t know how to feel about this so I’ll just say ok 👍
Julius Caesar once received a graphic love letter in the Senate
According to Plutarch, when Caesar and Cato were standing and debating in the Senate chamber, a messenger showed up and gave Caesar a small note. Cato was suspicious about the note and wanted it to be read out to the assembled senators. Caesar handed the note to Cato, and when he opened the note, he discovered it contained a graphic love letter from Servilia (his maternal half-sister), detailing her passionate desires for Caesar. Embarrassed, Cato read the it aloud, then threw the letter back at Caesar, saying, "Take it, thou sot," before continuing his speech as if nothing had occurred.