#alternate title of post: Shakespeare was really REALLY into the theme of predestination huh…

[hamletthedane]

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“This was always going to happen/She’s been dead since the beginning” in the tragedies of William Shakespeare

+ Bonus - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard:

#Shakespeare #Hamlet #Romeo and Juliet #Julius Caesar #Macbeth #Richard II #(technically not a tragedy SORRY) #Othello and Lear are also HEAVILY steeped in this but the quotes aren’t quite as punchy as these #alternate title of post: Shakespeare was really REALLY into the theme of predestination huh… #the inevitability of the stage tragedy #you are killing them by continuing to watch