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Bothering the beast

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i said i was going to arrange a list of my favorite articles/criticism about shakespeare, so here’s my first little roundup! obligatory disclaimer that i don’t necessarily agree with or endorse every single point of view in each word of these articles, but they scratch my brain. will add to this list as i continue reading, and feel free to add your own favorites in the reblogs! :]

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Is Shakespeare For Everyone? by Austin Tichenor (a basic examination of that question)

Interrogating the Shakespeare System by Madeline Sayet (counterpoint/parallel to the above; on Shakespeare’s place in, and status as, imperialism)

Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan (also a good parallel to the above; on whether Shakespeare is really culturally “universal”)

The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness (“I was trying to make sense of the different ways men and women related to Ophelia. Women seemed to invoke her like a patron saint; men seemed mostly interested in fetishizing her flowery, waterlogged corpse.”)

Hamlet Is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach It Like One (on teaching shakespeare plays about suicide to high schoolers)

Commuting With Shylock by Dara Horn (on listening to MoV with a ten-year-old son, as modern jewish people, to look at that eternal question of Is This Play Antisemitic?)

All That Glisters is Not Gold (NPR episode, on whether it’s possible to perform othello, taming of the shrew, & merchant to do good instead of harm)

academic articles

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to the Merchant of Venice (apologies about the highlights here; they are not mine; i scanned this from my rented copy)

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to Henry the Fourth part 1 (and apologies for the angled page scans on this one; see above)

Richard II: A Modern Perspective by Harry Berger Jr (this is the article that made me understand richard ii)

Hamlet’s Older Brother (“Hamlet and Prince Hal are in the same situation, the distinction resting roughly on the difference between the problem of killing a king and the problem of becoming one. … Hamlet is literature’s Mona Lisa, and Hal is the preliminary study for it.”)

Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony & Cleopatra Criticism (about more than just reviewers; my favorite deconstruction of shakespeare’s cleopatra in general)

Strange Flesh: Antony and Cleopatra and the Story of the Dissolving Warrior (“If Troilus and Cressida is [Shakespeare’s] vision of a world in which masculinity must be enacted in order to exist, Antony and Cleopatra is his vision of a world in which masculinity not only must be enacted, but simply cannot be enacted, his vision of a world in which this particular performance has broken down.”)

misc

Elegy of Fortinbras by Zbigniew Herbert (poem that makes me fucking insane)

Dirtbag Henry IV (what it sounds like.)

Cleopatra and Antony by Linda Bamber (what if a&c… was good.)

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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults. THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo

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Laios, devourer of all things horrible.

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Absolutely living for Laios’ English VA

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“i’m holding my breath for you”

lyrics from swimming pool by the front bottoms

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Maddie Buckley the love of my life ‘is it circled with a heart around it?’ I fucking love you I would die for you

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The way I watched canon bisexual buck happen live in real time im shaking???? someone please hit me with a fucking brick I feel like I have rabies

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EVAN BUCKLEY IS A MAN-KISSER EVERYONE STAY CALM

#i am in shook #abc i adore you #what has just happened #buck evans #911 #911 spoilers

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pink in the night

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on tumblr you can say words such as ‘doctor who is like mythology to me. it’s like an ongoing cosmogonic folktale’ and you will recieve 5 notes from people that are willing to indulge your insanity. in real life you say things like how are the kids and was your holiday fun and the weather’s lovely this morning. and i think that’s beautiful. autism.com/careers

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As much as I stress whenever we don't hear from him, I'm still on the Colin Becher Final Girl train and I won't get off. Not ever. Not even if proven wrong with concrete evidence.

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Alice broke the computer again

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Everyone is the office acting like Colin’s weird for freaking out about microphones and recordings when that’s just standard behaviour for every computer scientist

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worst part of caring about dr who again is that i end up seeing the discourse in full force every other day

"they can't call it season 1, it's series 14!!" "moffat's coming back? wow, so much for 'a bold new direction', russell 🙄" "Why Bigeneration is Actually WORSE Than the Timeless Child: a Thread 🧵" ncuti gatwa is going to be fighting aliens and kissing men on my screen in two months i don't have time for any of this