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Shakespeare writing side characters

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#shakespeare #romeo and juliet

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I've decided to make a masterpost of free and full adaptations:

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)

Richard II: here is the BBC version

Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 one with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 version with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC radio one is here.

Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe american version has a young Michael Caine and a young Christopher Plummer. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here.

Timon of Athens is here. Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a kng lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here.

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version.

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here.

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

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me watching one of shakespeare's plays: wow this is like.......really good. do people know about this. do they know that this shakespeare guy is good

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#aha #a midsummer night's dream #the banshees of inisherin #shakespeare #william shakespeare

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David Tennant and Catherine Tate as Signior Benedick and Beatrice in a production of Much Ado About Nothing in 2011

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#will always love this production #much ado about nothing #david tennant #catherine tate #shakespeare #william shakespeare

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Margaret W. Tarrant (1888-1959), Titania and Oberon, illustration for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, watercolor and ink on board. 228 x 177 mm; 9¼ x 7 inches, image, on 10 x 8 inch board.

#lovely #a midsummer night's dream #william shakespeare #shakespeare

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The Woman's Part

Sooo hey. I finally did something with my Shakespeare MA...

The Woman's Part is a collection of original prose and erasure poetry inspired by Shakespeare's women — their unlived lives, unspoken desires, and unwritten stories — using speeches and characters from thirteen plays.

It's been described as:

"A small piece of genius [showing] not only a profound understanding of Shakespeare, but of humankind in general." — Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You

and

"[The Woman's Part] has reimagined Ophelia and Juliet and more into striking freedom through speaking up, sailing away, and eating hearts." — Gwen Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw

and

"To read it is to join the rebellion. An affecting and finely-crafted masterpiece which invites us to unlearn our deepest Bard-based archetypes. Stunning, incisive and fearless writing from one of the most exciting new voices on the literary scene." — Dr Chris Laoutaris, The Shakespeare Institute

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I put my heart, my rage, and all my obsession with Shakespeare into this, and I would love for you to read it.

Available from most places you get books — a list of easy links at Stanchion Books

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Saddest, most pathetic wet cat of a blorbo: Shakespeare edition

Since y'all like Hamlet so much

Day 1: Hamlet vs Macbeth, Romeo vs Othello, Mercutio vs Horatio, King Lear vs Benedick, Iago vs Beatrice, Viola vs Puck, Ceasar vs Prospero, Cleopatra vs Banquo

Day 2: Hamlet vs Romeo, Horatio vs Benedick, Beatrice vs Viola, Caesar vs Banquo

Day 3: Hamlet vs Horatio, Viola vs Banquo

Day 4:

Winner:

#nerves …… #very tense #polls #poll #william shakespeare #shakespeare

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Saddest, most pathetic wet cat of a blorbo: Shakespeare edition

Remember: it's about who's more SAD, WET, and PATHETIC, not which one you think is cuter or cooler. The messier they are at handling their own life, the better.

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REVIEW: THE TEMPEST: Alex Kingston is a magnificent Prospero

Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon

If there were prizes for inventive recycling of props, this RSC staging would get the soup-tin statuette. Oil drums are rolled to illustrate anecdotes, drunkards quaff from petrol cans and Ariel’s flute is twisted together from plumbing pipes. With references to “the quality of the climate” and “mutinous winds”, The Tempest sustains director Elizabeth Freestone’s contemporary interpretation with little strain, helped by the opening storm being made by man. Or, in this version, woman. Alex Kingston’s Prospero, though still an exiled “duke” of Milan, is mother to a daughter. This affects the text, neutralising Shakespeare’s “farther” puns and forcing recounts in Miranda’s lines about how many men she saw before Sebastian, while Prospero’s rather creepy concern with the security of Miranda’s hymen feels unlikely from a bohemian modern mother. Gender-stubbornness about Shakespearean roles would have robbed us of great Lears from Glenda Jackson and Kathryn Hunter, and also of Kingston’s magnificent, revelatory Prospero. “Our revels now are ended” and “this rough magic I here abjure”, the soliloquies disavowing super-powers, are often played as elegiac farewells, but from Kingston feel closer to Christ at Gethsemane, a war between two natures. This Prospero rages against the dying of her might. Heledd Gwynn’s Ariel, hair and makeup channelling Aladdin Sane, is alternately punchy, touching and tuneful until a spectacularly athletic exit. A very modern staging that is fundamentally true to the text and the RSC’s intellectual, rigorous, clear-speaking traditions. At the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 4 March.

#alex kingston #the tempest #tempest #shakespeare #rsc #william shakespeare

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This delivery kills me every time

#eheh #much ado about nothing #david tennant #shakespeare #william shakespere

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JESSIE BUCKLEY as Miranda The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

#the tempest #theatre #shakespeare #william shakespeare #jessie buckley

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Titus Andronicus photos (part 1), © Camilla Greenwell

Daneka Etchells as Lucius in Titus Andronicus (2023). Mei Mei MacLeod as Chiron, Georgia-Mae Myers as Alarbus and Mia Selway as Demetrius in Titus Andronicus (2023). Katy Stephens as Titus in Titus Andronicus (2023). Kibong Tanji as Aaron and Kirsten Foster as Tamora in Titus Andronicus (2023). Sophie Russell as Marcus and Katy Stephens as Titus in Titus Andronicus (2023) Lucy McCormick as Saturninus and Kirsten Foster as Tamora in Titus Andronicus (2023). The company in Titus Andronicus (2023).

Creatives Assistant Director: Indiana Lown-Collins Co-Designer: Rosie Elnile Co-Designer: Grace Venning Composer: Jasmin Kent Rodgman Costume Supervisor: Sian Harris Director: Jude Christian Globe Associate – Movement: Glynn MacDonald Head of Voice: Tess Dignan Lighting Designer: Ali Hunter Seasonal Voice Coach: Katherine Heath Song Writers: Liv Morris and George Heyworth

Musicians: Francesca Ter-Berg Fred Thomas Uchenna Ngwe Hilary Belsey

#titus andronicus #shakespeare #william shakespeare

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broke: juliet shouldn’t be able to stab herself in the chest because that is INCREDIBLY hard to do; there’s a reason why romans literally had to FALL on their swords so gravity would do it for them

woke: this isn’t the only time shakespeare has placed dramatic effect over realism, which makes perfect sense in a medium like theatre (especially early modern theatre which was less concerned w realism in general)

bespoke: juliet is fucking yolked

#it’s the last one for sure #romeo and juliet #shakespeare #william shakespeare

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#tense #shakespeare #william shakespeare