#Shakespeare was a woman

[notaguidinglight]

The Lover House & William Shakespeare's Plays

Here is a quote from Elizabeth Winkler's book, Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies, where actor Mark Rylance speaks about different perspectives on who authored Shakespeare's plays:

"I really like that there are different windows into these plays," said Rylance. "That's my image of it really. The Shakespeare works are a house, and you can go and look in one window or another. Each case provides a different perspective and reveals a different quality in the works." He liked exploring the haunted Shakespeare house, visiting the different rooms with their different authors. "The Stratford biography is actually a welcoming front door, but you can get no further than a front hall with a lot of locked doors. Bacon's window looks into a study with musicians playing and mysticism. With Oxford you see Italy and this extraordinary psychological torment and passion."

Sounds just like the Lover House and it's front hallway to me...Maybe we should be asking what is behind those doors and if a queer lens is the key to opening them.

#lover house #taylor swift #shakespeare #mark rylance #shakespeare was a woman #elizabeth winkler #lgbetty

[matt00794]

Jodi Picoult has a new fiction book coming out about the woman who really wrote the Shakespeare plays. And just I still love this conspiracy theory, like yeah he probably did write them but this is way more fun. It’s like the tiny desk concerts being a concert at a tiny desk is way funnier than it’s a tiny concert next to a desk. We used to be a society

#william sheakespeare #Shakespeare was a woman

[nysocboy]

Tony Cavalero's reading list

Let's see if we have the same taste in literature:

Tender is the Flesh: A dystopian society where cannibalism is legal.

Cursed Bunny: "Stirring, surreal tales that take on capitalism and the patriarchy"

What Moves the Dead: A twisted take on The Fall of the House of Usher

Falling: "Jaws at 35,000 feet"

Holly: Stephen King's "most political novel to date."

Breathe: The New Science of a Lost Art: Nonfiction. We aren't breathing properly.

Among the Bros: "hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder" in a college fraternity.

Ok, here's my reading list:

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Notes of a North American Monster Hunter.

Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards

The Dark Shadows Daybook

Trespassers on the Roof of the World

Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies

Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

American Vikings

#Tony Cavalero #Keefe Chambers #reading list #Shakespeare was a woman #Secret History of Bigfoot

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Paul Gervais (French, 1859-1944) The madness of Titania, 1897 Musèu dels Agustins

#Paul Gervais #french #french art #1800s #the madness of titania #shakespeare #art #fine art #classical art #fine arts #Mediterranean #european art #europe #europa #female nude #women in art #female #women #woman #Greek Mythology #oil painting #traditional art

[nataliemarsxo]

To be free , to see from outside the box, to breathe in air , to relish the little things of life and to suck your cock until your legs shake from ecstasy, lol.🌚😋

Felt Shakespeare might delete later.😌

#18+ content #content creator #cute #dm me for my content #lgbt nsft #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #lgbtqplus #sexy content #transgender #transfem #trans pride #transmasc #trans nsft #transgirl #trans woman #transisbeautiful #hook me up #smart woman #shakespeare

[iamnmbr3]

So you know the scene at the end of The Taming of The Shrew where they have that stupid competition to see whose wife is most obedient? Can you imagine if other Shakespeare characters were there?

Ophelia: You called, My Lord?

Hamlet: No I didn’t. Why are you here when nobody likes you? Go away!

Petruchio: Even I think that’s mean.

Romeo: Go find Juliet and ask her if she would come here and tell her she has the most beautiful eyes, that make the very sun seem dull, and the loveliest hair and a face that puts to shame Aphrodite herself...oh and bring her this sonnet I wrote her...and actually I’ll go find her myself for I can’t bear to be apart from her another moment!

Petruchio: …

Petruchio: … Yeah he’s not coming back. Next!

Coriolanus: Go find my wife and ask her to come here and also ask her if she's seen Aufidius. Actually, have you seen Aufidius...or heard any news of him?

Servant: No I haven't… Is there a name or a description I could use to find your wife?

Coriolanus: Hold on. I know this one.

Petruchio: Wow... We’ll come back to you. Next!

Orlando: I refuse to participate in this farce. It’s demeaning to women.

“Ganymede”: Nonsense! Any real man (which I totally am) wants women to obey him without question!

Orlando: That’s wrong! That’s not being a “real man”; that’s just being a bully. I would never treat Rosalind that way and I hope no one else would either!

“Ganymede”: … You pass the test.

Orlando: What?

"Ganymede": What?

Benedick: HEY BEATRICE!

Beatrice from 3 rooms away: WHAT?

Benedick: CAN YOU COME HERE A SECOND?

Beatrice: WHY?

Benedick: SOME MAN HERE WANTS TO SEE IF YOU’RE OBEDIENT.

Beatrice: WHY ARE YOU PERPETUATING THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN INSTEAD OF PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE?

Benedick: YOU MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO COME HERE AND SHOW OFF YOUR OBEDIENCE? I AM SHOCKED AND HEARTBROKEN!

Beatrice: HA. HA. SO HILARIOUS.

Beatrice: … HE STILL DOESN’T SOUND VERY PUNCHED IN THE FACE. I SUGGEST YOU FIX THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOREVER!

Benedick: ON IT!

Benedick *rolling up his sleeves*: Isn’t she great?

#Petruchio: Why are you rolling up your sleeves? You’re not just going to let some woman tell you what to— *gets hit right in the jaw* #Benedick: She is not *punch* “some woman”! *punch* She’s *punch* Beatrice! *punch* #Benedick: WAS THAT ENOUGH DARLING? #Beatrice: YEAH! SOUNDS GOOD #Petruchio to “Ganymede”: YOU'RE a man after my own heart. Will you help me up? #“Ganymede”: I am neither a man nor after any heart but Orlando's. *punches him while he still is trying to work that out* #Coriolanus: We’re fighting? Who are we fighting? Is it Aufidius? #listen. after they get together Beatrice and Benedick are THAT couple and they absolutely make that everyone's problem #humor #Shakespeare #Shakespearean shenanigans #the taming of the shrew #much ado about nothing #hamlet #Coriolanus #As you like it #gen

[knittedbond]

Much Ado About Nothing, Great Performances (2019) dir. Kenny Leon // Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Frederic William Burton

#shakespeare #much ado about nothing #great performances #this production was so freaking good #danielle brooks the woman that you are...... #semicolon

[scribblesscribblings]

Recently started playing Limbus Company and these two are my favorites so far

#limbus company #gregor lcb #don quixote lcb #I love you ipis man #I love you shakespeare woman

[flowersandfashion]

Sun & Moon

requested by @oops-it-is-i

#mitski is modern shakespeare for real #moon wlw and sun mlm solidarity #< that mitski song is about a woman and that shakespeare sonnet is about a man ! #my first thought with sun & moon was a good ol' 'the moon will sing' by crane wives / 'sunlight' by hozier / icarus and apollo / toxic love #but that's been done enough so fuck it we're doing transcendent eternal love. unfortunately of a heterosexual variety. #also I'm still playing around with layouts and things so I'm sure any future moodboards will look different #also also. yes I snuck in an anne of green gables quote. as is my right #moodboard #collage #web weave #light academia #romantic academia #dark academia #art #poetry #greek mythology #renaissance #baroque #mitski #william shakespere #selene and endymion #selene #apollo #sun and moon #sun and moon dynamic #renaissance art #painting #oil painting #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism

[theimpossiblescheme]

Staging concept: Ophelia carries around a book that she uses to press different flowers and plants. At one point we see her actually pressing one of the flowers Hamlet's given her before, and we get the impression that she wouldn't part with this book for the world. During the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, Hamlet rips the book out of her hands, and she goes diving after it to make sure he didn't damage it. And during her final "mad scene", she starts tearing out the relevant pages (rosemary, pansies, fennel, columbines, etc.) to give to everyone present. Laertes is the only one to get the significance of his sister giving away parts of her prized possession, and it adds an extra layer to his grief.

#Some extra foreshadowing and a way to organically work in the book she's given in Act 3 Scene 1... #Listen I have a lot of feelings about how to stage Ophelia's final scene--for me it needs to be about *her*grief first and foremost. #It's so grossly easy to play it voyeuristically but this is a young woman who's been let down by everyone she thought she could trust #and now she's come to her lowest point where nothing feels like it matters anymore. #And that needs to hit the other characters present like a truck--they could have done something to actually *help* her #instead of using her for their own agendas but they didn't. #And for Laertes especially... that's his baby sister and he wasn't there for her and now he's watching her destroy something she loves. #Maybe he tries to give her the page back but she pushes it at him and there's a moment of agonizing eye contact between them #where he knows she still loves him but she's never felt so betrayed by everyone and there's nothing he can do to make it right. #hamlet #ophelia #shakespeare #the schemer speaks

[illustratus]

Maria Malibran as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello by Henri Decaisne

#maria malibran #portrait #art #henri decaisne #desdemona #desdémone #spanish #singer #paris #harp #europe #european #beauty #beautiful #woman #gioachino rossini #otello #opera #william shakespeare #othello #shakespeare #beauties #women #history

[stanford-photography]

Ophelia 08 By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

#© Jeff Stanford #midjourney #midjourneyart #ai #discord #digitalart #aiart #Artists on tumblr #portrait #Ophelia #woman #William Shakespeare #drama #Hamlet #contemplation #madness #despair #sadness

[1five1two]

'Heroines of Shakespeare'. John W. Wright.

#art #vintage art #figure #shakespeare #woman

[anliafail]

TOBY STEPHENS (Duke Orsino) and IMOGEN STUBBS (Viola) in TWELFTH NIGHT (1996) | dir. Trevor Nunn

#1990's cinema #1990's #1996 #twelfth night #toby stephens #imogen stubbs #duke orsino #viola #william shakespeare #shakespere gif #shakespeareedit #filmgifs #filmblr #romanceedit #filmedit #trevor nunn #woman's weeds indeed

[lunataurora]

forever amazed and confused at how often transformers franchise just straight up depicts suicide attempts. like not even considering the superhero trope of "i have to save everyone!!! by choosing to die!!!!!" thing. like. non-allow-yourself-to-die-to-stop-a-thing-from-killing-everyone-immediately type situations. which tbh i wish more ppl talked about but not the point here

like. sure mtmte, a comic abt mentall illness and war, i expected it to be aware of the concept. but its not handled well and mostly used for shock value or "im better now i swear! i have a husband and everything" BUT ITS IN THE KIDS SHOWS TOO??? MY BESTIE G1 RODIMUS?? BEAST WARS DINOBOT???

#my pupils dilating so wide when that one beast wars episode opened on dinobot reciting shakespeare and then pointing a sword at his chest #also im mean i think only beast wars was successful at trying to be like 'but you Have to Live.' #i love them both dearly but g1 does not love me and mtmte does not love me. do u understand #mtmte being like 'you just have to meet someone to live for!!!' -> doesnt work even in canon -> #-> 'nono im still right you just have to meet someone to live for!!!' #but im fond of g1 just showing a guy whos told to die go 'yknow what yeah ok'. and then gets revived but god thats so fucking funny #psychological drama where rodimus doesnt get found on time and now the autobots have lost two leaders and my girl haunts the narrative #suicide tw #suicide ment #dummy posts #srry im still thinking abt mtmte. cd being like. i dont want to kill myself bc of my spouse. my spouse is dead but #i dont want to kill myself. ok my spouse is back time to kill myself so he can be happy with someone else. #ok no killing myself my spouse said no. #everyday tho im upset abt my babygirl red alert. mental illness woman used for jokes shock value rodimus angst then tossed tf out only to #come back 'better' but then BAM 'evil influence mind control by evil villain'. but shes polygamous now i guess thats going for her #sorry um. red alert isnt canonically a woman im just weird abt her. shes a mentally ill butch woman to me i need to hang out with #her so bad we could spiral together

[sydcarmyfan]

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,

Lives not alone immured in the brain

- William Shakespeare

#Syd and Carmy got me quoting Shakespeare #When a man loves a woman #sydney adamu #syd x carmy #sydney x carmy #carmy x syd #chef's kiss #carmen berzatto #syd x carmen #carmy x sydney #sydcarmy