#Hamlet

[copperbadge]

I don’t know if you saw, but Eddie Izzard is doing a two-week run at the Chicago Shakespeare theater doing a one-woman show of Hamlet. I know you’re a big fan, so I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out!

HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT

I didn't think she'd be back in Chicago for honestly years. TICKET ACQUIRED. I'm going on Thursday!

I wish there was a non-creepy way to inform her that there are very few shows for which I break my embargo on Chicago Shakes. And, having taken THREE TRIES to buy the ticket, I see their box office is still just the pinnacle of high-quality customer service...

ANYWAY very excited and thank you VERY much for the heads up!

#suzy izzard #eddie izzard #hamlet #chicago

[socialshakespeare]

Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

400-someodd years ago our favorite bloody, brilliant Bill was born. Let's celebrate... with a bracket.

Yes, it's been done before; no, we don't care. Propaganda encouraged. Fight dirty if you have to. There will be a loser's bracket as well, but be warned - some of these choices are tough!

Speaking of...

(summaries from Shakespeare.org.uk)

Hamlet: Hamlet sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: People get lost in the woods. Puck manipulates their romantic affections and (in one case) anatomical head-shape. They put on a play.

#shakespeare #hamlet #a midsummer night's dream #poll

[sluttypatrickstar]

#hamlet #my stuff

[atariforce]

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Douglas Blanchard

#Atari #Atari 2600 #William Shakespeare #The Tragedy of Hamlet #Hamlet #parody #illustration #graphic design #video games #retro gaming #Douglas Blanchard

[waitingforthesunrise]

no because listen. one of the major themes of hamlet is that the characters have to do the opposite of what they think will complete them, what could tie them to survival. horatio is convinced he can do anything as long as he isn’t alone (he ends the play pulled from the body of the one he loves most. he is not allowed to follow.) ophelia could do anything as long as she’s loved (she looks into hamlet’s cold face and knows the truth. unwanted and unworthy daughter. scream so they can’t make you shut your mouth.) hamlet could do anything if he could just figure out how to be okay on his own (he refuses to hold on to horatio in life, so he clings to him in dying and death. you tried to fight loneliness with chosen isolation. you created the poison and refused to drink the antidote. you were meant for laughter, but not like this.)

#brainrot hours #hamlet #shakespeare #shakes #william shakespere #hamlet prince of denmark #hamlet x horatio

[stanford-photography]

Ophelia Adrift By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

#© Jeff Stanford #midjourney #midjourneyart #ai #discord #digitalart #aiart #Artists on tumblr #Ophelia #Hamlet #Shakespeare #play #drama #tragedy #madness #drowning #Suicide #water lilies #reflection #ripples #blue water #tranquil scene #nature #peaceful #outdoor #vibrant colors

[welldonekhushi]

Finally drew Smoktunovsky's Hamlet. I'll say and I'll keep saying it again, he was FANTASTIC. The acting. His way of talking. I'm in love, your honor.

Original reference from the film!

Don't tell me I was the one who kept simping for this madman I FELT MYSELF LIKE *passes out on the floor*

#hamlet #hamlet 1964 #hamlet fanart #grigori kozintsev #william shakespeare #innokenty smoktunovsky #soviet film #soviet cinema #artwork #digital art #digital painting #digital illustration #artists of tumblr

[shakespearenews]

Her staging of the Scottish play opens with an arresting tableau. Lady Macbeth sits hunched over, her face hidden under a disheveled mane. As she rips out clumps of her hair, a portrait of Macbeth, her husband, starts spinning on a wall behind her — until an invisible knife seems to cut into the painting.

It’s an ominous way to position Lady Macbeth, as a shadow addition to the three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will be king. When the trio appears shortly afterward to deliver their message, a giant ring materializes above the empty stage. In true “Lord of the Rings” fashion, it then descends upon Macbeth (Noam Morgensztern), metaphorically anointing him even as recorded whispers of “murder” fill the Comédie-Française’s auditorium.

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At the Comédie-Française, Costa’s “Macbeth” edits the two dozen named characters down to only eight actors and leans heavily into religious symbolism. In “Hamlet,” Jatahy goes so far as to keep Ophelia alive. Far from going mad, Ophelia climbs down from the stage and exits through the auditorium after declaring: “I died all these years. This year, I won’t die.”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #odeon #comedie francaise #macbeth #hamlet #france #paris #french theater #theater #theatre

[pers-books]

As it's Bill the Bard's birthday, have three photos of David Tennant in the three Shakespeare plays that I have seen him perform.

#David Tennant #Hamlet #Richard II #Much Ado About Nothing #William Shakespeare #Theatre

[bloodybellycomb]

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

#dc comics #disco elysium #shakespeare #hamlet #scott pilgrim #<- all this things have made me a better #writer and artist for both fan creation #and for my own original work #literal life hack #allow yourself to become obsessive and cringe to a certain degree #birdy chirps

[moonlarked]

monarchy has no real purpose and should be abolished irl but im a slut for royal families in fiction. the politics. the intrigue. families divided by the eyes of a nation. the pressure of children told from birth that they are born to rule, born for only one purpose. the stifling of empathy and real bonds and love. the loneliness when all eyes are on you. it’s so inherently tragic and yet everyone involved is terrible because that’s all they can be. gimme.

#this is obviously about #hamlet #I’ve seen a lot of other fantasy monarchies that I like too tho

[ancientbread]

David Tennant in interviews is just a Nice Scottish Man and then every director he works with goes you are a SLUT!!! And you are SO SO SAD!!

#david tennant #good omens #doctor who #can I tag this with #hamlet #im gonna say yeah #fright night (2011)

[william-shakespeare-official]

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet 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. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

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

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version 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)

#adaptations #macbeth #hamlet #king lear #twelfth night #much ado about nothing #henry iv #henry v #richard iii #julius caesar #timon of athens #troilus and cressida

[shesnake]

doom yourself before the narrative does

#decision to leave #also: alice in luther and saya in deadly class #and kendall roy <3 #if you cunts make this post about megamind again I will kill #d #hamlet

[romavitae]

someone can ask me the definition of gender and I’ll just say "david tennant in shakespeare plays" :

#david tennant #richard ii #much ado about nothing #hamlet #macbeth #shakespeare #lgbt #lgbtqia

[marvels-universe]

@giftober 2023 + @mcuchallenge prompt Day 8: Funny.

Owen Wilson: I had a nice conversation one day where I was talking with Tom and he quoted something, and I said, "Is that Shakespeare?" And he said, "Yes, Hamlet." And I was proud just that I got the Shakespeare part. - Marvel Studios Assembled. The Making of Loki

#giftober2023 #mcuchallengefilled #marvelcastedit #marveledit #Owen Wilson #Tom Hiddleston #Hamlet #Shakespeare #hiddlesedit #Loki #lokitvsource #dailyloki #userelysia #tuserpolly #userflor #useraurore #tuserpris #noalook #usertammy #mcufam #marveldaily #dailymarvelstudios #Marvel Studios Assembled #to me‚ a lover of British actors‚ that was so funny #like of course that'd be such a natural thing for Tom to ask 🤭 #that clash of the English and the American worlds 😄