#lear oswald

[angelic37]

Christopher Eccleston spam → part 14/∞

King Lear. 2018

#cecclestonedit #christopher eccleston #king lear #king lear 2018 #oswald #christopher eccleston spam #by angelic37 #that cast seriously #so so good #also #yummy #(but then everything from 2018 is so yum)

[lizardrosen]

it's so annoying when a recording of a play focuses on (pfft) the main characters, instead of whatever extremely minor role i've imprinted on for a specific production. how dare they make the best version of the story instead of the version that best serves ME?

#reynaldo #osric #oswald #the actor for the first servant in a really good king lear played a lot of other roles but always in the background #the really hot lady in waiting who was for some reason less important than cleopatra

[quietparanoiac]

So, John Heffernan has two scenes in Having You (2013), each of them about 15 seconds long and only of them with any lines at all. Splendid (no, it's not).

#Having You #Having You 2013 #John Heffernan #Romola Garai #Becoming Elizabeth #my gifs #sorry BE fandom guys but I felt this belongs to BE tag #they also played in King Lear 2008 #but Cordelia and Oswald don't have any scene together so... #no I don't like modern!AUs I'm just overexcited and it shows

[ken-branagh]

King Lear curtain call

William Shakespeare's King Lear (directed and played by Sir Kenneth Branagh) at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, October 22 - November 2 2023.

Playing from October 21 - December 9 2023, 50 performances only. Ken (King Lear) is joined by Mara Allen as Curan, Deborah Alli as Goneril, Raymond Anum as Burgundy, Melanie‑Joyce Bermudez as Regan (RADA graduate 2023, professional debut), Doug Colling as Edgar, Dylan Corbett‑Bader as France, Eleanor de Rohan as Kent, Chloe Fenwick‑Brown as Oswald (RADA graduate 2023, professional debut), Joseph Kloska as Gloucester, Corey Mylchreest as Edmund, Hughie O'Donnell as Cornwall, Caleb Obediah as Cornwall, Jessica Revell as Cordelia / The Fool (RADA graduate 2023).

Source: Jenny_McShane, theothersophiet (via coreymbrasil), zerrintekindor, core_mylchreest

#king lear #king lear (2023) #kenneth branagh #william shakespeare #theatreedit #*theatre #corey mylchreest #doug colling #melanie‑joyce bermudez #deborah alli #caleb obediah #eleanor de rohan #joseph kloska #dylan corbett‑bader #kinglearedit #*edit #i wish i could see it! <3 #it looks amazing and captivating #reportedly it's fast-paced at 2hrs #and ken shines yet again <3<3 #always giving RADA graduates a start <3

[longitudinalwaveme]

Shakespearean Villain Free-for-All

The setup: the villains from ten Shakespeare plays are all competing to become the rulers of a location that none of them are personally familiar with. (This is to prevent, say, Claudius having an unfair advantage in taking over Denmark.) They are allowed to use as much scheming, and as much physical violence, as they like, and they can have as much prep time as they need before they take action.

All teams will also have access to 5-10 soldiers/servants who can fight for them and carry out tasks that the main villains don't want to do.

However, team members (e.g., Macbeth and Lady Macbeth) are not allowed to side with another team or directly kill their own allies. They can fight with each other and hamper the team's overall ability to win, but they can't directly sabotage themselves.

Who takes the crown?

Side note: Regarding the characters from the history plays, this discussion is only considering their portrayals in Shakespeare's plays, not their real-life counterparts.

#shakespeare #othello #macbeth #king lear #cymbeline #much ado about nothing #as you like it #titus andronicus #hamlet #richard iii #henry vi part 3 #shakespearean villains #poll

[abortedfetusgummy]

Quotes said at my local youth shakespeare theater:

“What’s up shawtys can I get audience for a word or two, bitch.”

“Hugo is Juliet and Frank is Romeo and right before they kiss Frank whispers, ‘i really fucking hate sand’ and since they’re in a scene Hugo can’t break so it all works out.”

“Pretend you’re surrounded by cannibals.”

“Yes right everyone’s dead very good.”

“We are wise and valiant Romana that hath found the clitus.”

“You can’t love something that doesn’t exist. Well you can but it’s called Sin.”

“Trans femme Julius Caesar?!”

“Let me, upon my knees, beg to see your grippers.”

“What is Brutus if not kinda thirsty.”

“Strato and Cicero, new slurs.”

“Duke Orsino is clinically gay.”

“I would rather die bitchful that live bitchless.”

“I want to gouge out your eyes. It would be fun.”

“King Lear but it’s animal abuse.”

“Dude that’s a stool, not your daughter!”

“My favorite part in King Lear is when Cornwall hits the griddy on Oswald’s dead body.”

“We only hang children.”

“Cory I really like how proud you are of your bum.”

“Pompey you have a great bum. It will be covered in blood if I see it again.”

“Friar Lodowick, dukely deeds done dirt cheap.”

“There’s a big difference between ‘your brother had sex’ and ‘Your Brother Had Sex 😏”

#shakespeare #acting #theatre #theater #julius caesar #twelfth night #king lear #romeo and juliet #as you like it #measure for measure #queer #funny quotes #inside jokes

[visenyaism]

rhaenyra regancoded is amazing… alicent gonerilcoded and dare i say daemon cordeliacoded…

cordeliacoded daemon is out there but honestly so enlightened and way way aligned with my thing about how lear’s relationships with his daughters get inverted and twisted around until goneril acts as his allegorical mother, regan as his son, and cordelia as his wife in the exact fucked up way i meant it.

if we are learcoding everyone obviously viserys is lear. I was gonna say Kent is Corlys but honestly Kent is too much of a yes-man and Corlys is as it turns out very willing to switch teams, so I guess Kent is Mr. Beesbury. That makes Oswald Criston Cole so like. slay.

I wouldve said Daemon is Cornwall in that he and his wife are matched for each other in kind of a horrifically perfect way terms of the amount of cruelty they’re willing to indulge in at each other’s encouragement. But Mysaria would be good for that too I think.

In terms of Gloucester, Edgar and Edmund, I cannot decide if it’s a better bit to go with Lyonel, Harwin, and Larys Strong or Otto, Aegon, and Aemond. Larys and Aemond are both SUCH edmunds but Otto is a more interesting Gloucester to me so i’m leaning towards the latter trio. would be very fun to see if it’s this entertaining to think about

#rhaenyra starting off as a cordelia and becoming a regan because she just likes the way human blood tastes too much….based #corlys is the king of france i guess but it’s MUCH funnier if i say it’s caraxes #anon this was so fun to think about. you are invited to book club #hotd

[siobhanromee]

I think that one of my favourite shakespeare performances is a supporting character in king lear (oswald) from a random actor who only had extra roles in tv shows.

#Like I really liked it #It wasnt the best performance in that production but it was really memorable for such a small character.

[subliminalrats]

Ways I have said "ow my knees are in pain and I can't stand" today

Lee Harvey Oswald must have been around here, because my knees are dead

Call me Elvis Presley in It Happened at the Fair, because I think Kurt Russell kicked me in the knees

If I were to die today, it would be my knees first

The mafia took my kneecaps

I feel in good company with these old people

The ceiling is a regular friend

I'm like that guy from King Lear only instead of my eyes being ripped out by some king or something it was my knees being ripped out by god

The knee gremlin came today

#knees #knee problems #knee pain #random quotes #bad knees #disabled

[juliehowlin]

King Lear

King Lear is one of just two of Shakespeare’s plays to mention Football (the other being Comedy of Errors). Kent insults Goneril's servant, Oswald by calling him 'Thou base football player.'

10 things you might not know about King Lear:

#Plays

#KingLear #shakespeare #Plays #literature #theatre

[beatlesonline-blog]

[suits-of-woe]

good morning to knaves; rascals; eaters of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knaves; lily-livered, action-taking knaves; whoresons; glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogues; one-trunk-inheriting slaves; people who would be a bawd in way of good service; and people who are nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch

#king lear #i know it's not the morning but this post came to me in the shower and i had to make it #good morning oswald <3 #shakespeare #mine #good morning meme

[longitudinalwaveme]

Ron Pearle's Lear: Act 4 Review

Edgar doesn’t get his whole “things can’t possibly get any worse” speech here. That’s too bad. 

But he still gets the line where he calls himself out for tempting fate. That’s odd. 

Poor poor Edgar and Gloucester.

The servants have some seriously flat line delivery. 

Edgar is insanely cute. 

“Is that the naked fellow?” “Aye my lord.” No idea if the servant’s response was supposed to sound as disgusted as it did. 

Gloucester seems quite insistent upon holding his arms out straight in front of him even when he has someone to lead him. 

Goneril’s hair is down (it was in a bun earlier) and she’s all giggly. 

It’s not really funny but I did giggle a little when Albany panicked when Goneril came close to him. Poor Albany. 

Wow, she actually slapped him. Wasn’t expecting that. Poor Albany. 

Full-on cat-style “meow” when Goneril’s says “marry,  your manhood mew”. 

Albany’s horrified reactions are quite good. 

The string music is a lot softer now. 

The Gentleman has an enormous hunting rifle. Kent has a gun too. 

The doctor is female in this version. And Cordelia’s voice is much improved. 

Regan’s attempts to see Goneril’s letter are very well handled. She does the flirty in-his-space body language well. 

For some reason she gives Oswald jewelery when she tells him to go and murder Gloucester. 

Edgar has underclothes on now. They seem maybe too modern? 

Edgar leads Gloucester around in a circle while he’s leading him “to the edge of the cliff”. 

“Farewell” (cups hands around mouth to make his voice seem echo-y). Edgar is a gem. 

Gloucester’s fall was more of a roll. 

And now Edgar is Southern. 

Edgar is so cute. 

Edgar’s really really getting into his performance as “guy who saw Gloucester plunge off of a cliff”. He missed his true calling as a theater major. 

Lear has lost a lot of his clothes but somehow still has his cape. 

Edgar is amazingly adaptable. He slips right into the roles Lear casts him in. 

Crazy Lear is surprisingly chill and happy. 

The coughing when Lear says he’s not ague-proof is great. 

Gloucester actually full-on kneels to crazy Lear. While blind. Both admirable and a sign of some seriously skewed priorities. 

Poor Edgar. He’s gonna need some serious therapy after all this. 

Edgar falls down whilst attempting to pull off Lear’s (entirely imaginary) boots. 

Does Gloucester seriously not have any other name?  

Lear’s extensive rant about women’s sexuality was cut. I can’t say that bothers me too much. Especially since they included all of his ranting about the injustices of society. 

Poor Gloucester (and his perpetually-extended arms). 

Oswald swaggers onstage for murder. 

Extreme crazy German-sounding accent from Edgar as he tries to stop Oswald from murdering his father (by running at him and grabbing his leg). He doesn’t have a sword at this point. 

Edgar just grabs the sword out of Oswald’s hands. Good work, Oswald.

I’m starting to suspect that this particular production didn’t have any experienced fight choreographers. All of the fights have been very brief and unexciting. 

The audience is very happy to see Oswald’s untimely demise. 

Why doesn’t Edgar find Regan’s letter? Granted it’s not important to the plot, but still. 

The line delivery doesn’t really help me understand whether or not this Edgar had already suspected Edmund before he found the letter. 

Time for crying! 

Cordelia’s voice is bad again. It seems as though she puts too much emphasis on certain words and causes her lines to sound unnatural.

Good job, show! You’ve successfully made me feel bad for senile narcissist Lear. 

Lear’s little stumble is great. 

This scene gets me every single time. 

#shakespeare #king lear #review #kind of

[butchhamlet]

oswald: h-

kent:

#max.txt #lear #kent #oswald #i know it’s been a while since a lear post but i can’t stop thinking about this video help

[king-lear-sucksandothergoodjokes]

Edgar in disguise: I have handcrafted this 4 elaborate characters using blueprints from the nine muses themselves, all in an attempt to denounce my brother, guide my father, clear my name and receive my inheritance, save Albany, and to restore England after the war. It will be a perilous, godforsaken journey, but I do believe with a can-do attitude I will-

Kent, in disguise: whaddup my names Caius and I am looking for an excuse to punch Oswald

#king lear #king lear memes #Kent #Edgar #shakespeare #shakespeare memes #Oswald #english literature memes #english lit #english memes #english #classics memes #classics #english literature #william shakespeare

[narratorstragedy]

people who should narrate retellings of king lear:

edgar

edmund

cordelia

goneril

regan

the fool

oswald

kent

albany

cornwall

maybe gloucester but you’re on thin ice

people who should not narrate retellings of king lear:

lear

#she speaks.l #thanks nadia for inspiring this post #lear #king lear #shakespeare #should i tag them all? no #actually i'm going to #edgar #edmund #cordelia #goneril #regan #fool (lear) #oswald #kent #albany #cornwall #gloucester (l)