#measure for measure

[socialshakespeare]

Shakes-Tourney, Round 1

(summaries from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)

Two Gentlemen of Verona: Valentine and Proteus are best friends, except Proteus is disloyal to his girlfriend in pursuit of Valentine's fiance. There's a dog. Everyone gets married in the end, though.

Measure for Measure: Angelo rules as a religious tyrant, tries to manipulate a nun to sleep with him, is foiled, and ultimately punished.

#shakespeare #two gentlemen of verona #measure for measure #poll

[transsexualcoriolanus]

obsessed with tragedies that were almost comedies and comedies that were almost tragedies and comedies in which the happy ending is actually tragic

#romeo and juliet #much ado about nothing #much ado #honestly so many plays could apply to the last one #uhhhhh #taming of the shrew #the taming of the shrew #a midsummer night's dream #twelfth night #shakespeare #willy shakes #measure for measure #merchant of venice #the merchant of venice #troilus and cressida

[iamstandingwater]

Female rage in shakespeare like 'i would eat his heart in the market place' 'take my defiance! Die, perish' 'yet have we some revenge' 'in rage, Juno-like' 'i will to him and pluck out his eyes' 'let him that makes but trifles of his eyes first hand me' 'Princes and Counties!' not to mention Lady M, Regan, Margaret of Anjou in Richard iii. So much popular media today still can't even pass the bechdel test when shakespeare literally got it four entire centuries ago

#shakespeare #much ado about nothing #measure for measure #coriolanus #the winters tale #macbeth #king lear #richard iii

[macbooth]

I - X of shakespeare tarot lineart

find xi - xxi here

some of these are in their ugly phase i know but im trying to have faith that they will end up looking good okay...

#also dont ask where the fool is hes a different matter entirely #shakespeare #shakespeare tarot #tempest #cymbeline #antony and cleopatra #king lear #measure for measure #romeo and juliet #love's labour's lost #coriolanus #timon of athens #midsummer night's dream #macbooth original

[withasideofshakespeare]

Do you remember The Great Shakespeare Playlist?

Well, I've finally caught up with submissions, now with a new playlist on a Shakespeare-specific YouTube channel (also withasideofshakespeare) and individual playlists for each play!

Find out more (and listen to the main playlist or the playlists for your favorite plays) here:

#shakespeare #the great shakespeare playlist #the plays with the most songs (in order) #hamlet #two gentlemen of verona #love's labor's lost #(both of these have musical versions!) #romeo & juliet #macbeth #the henriad (combo of richard ii through henry v) #much ado about nothing #julius caesar #twelfth night #measure for measure #coriolanus #the tempest #othello #king lear #a midsummer night's dream #the winter's tale #the merchant of venice #troilus and cressida #the war of the roses (a combo of 1 henry vi through richard iii) #the taming of the shrew

[misslevel]

Don't just vote for your fave play, vote for your fave title drop!

If you have another one that I missed, put it in the tags and I might make a second poll!

#shakespeare #all's well that ends well #comedy of errors #measure for measure #merry wives of windsor #midsummer night's dream #taming of the shrew #the tempest #twelfth night #winter's tale #richard iii #antony and cleopatra #romeo and juliet #shakespearepolls

[bethanydelleman]

Angelo 🤝 Bertram

Shakespearean men who can't tell women apart in the dark

#measure for measure #all's well that ends well #I mean I guess it worked on Jacob from the bible too #but really dudes? REALLY? #It's a little dark and you can't tell that you're sleeping with the wrong girl?

[doctorhoe]

why is measure for measure not a more widely known shakespeare play!? the scene where isabella addresses the audience and asks them "to whom should I complain? Did I tell this, Who would believe me?" literally makes me lose my mind because she poses the question to the audience! You, watching this play, would you believe this woman if she told you she was assaulted by somebody who everyone believes to be a righteous man? Would you believe her?

#it gave me chills when i first saw it #shakespeare #measure for measure

[ladymacbethisagirlboss]

I LOVE PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE

AAHAGAGAGAYAYAAAAAAAAA

#drama kid #drama #shakespeare #measure for measure

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend

Shakespeare’s comedy Measure for Measure, is volume twenty-two of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The play was likely first acted in 1604. It was first printed in the folio of 1623. 

Measure for Measure was illustrated by German Bohemian illustrator and stage designer Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945). By his fifties Steiner-Prag had designed three hundred and sixty books and illustrated fifty-six books. He was for a time president of the Association of German Book Trade Artists. On illustrating this volume of he says:

I have always been deeply attracted by Measure for Measure with its bright and dark happenings, its glowing passions, its burlesque choirs, and with the frequently more than dubious personages that people this work with its threatening, fateful events that are the cause of such genuine pain and so many tears. It is therefore easy to understand my desire to illustrate it with pictures. 

His vibrant and imaginative illustrations were made in lithography and were printed by Mourlot Freres in Paris. 

The volumes in the set were printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

View more Limited Edition Club posts.

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Shakespeare Weekend #limited editions club #LEC #measure for measure #shakespeare #William Shakespeare #Hugo Steiner-Prag #fine press books #bruce rogers #Herbert Farjeon #Press of A. Colish #Mourlot Freres #lithography

[marvelmaniac715]

Grace Chastity reminds me of Isabella from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Both girls are deeply religious - Isabella wants to become a nun and Grace values her chastity above all else - they both do, actually. When their chastity is threatened, both girls do whatever they must to save it. Grace kills the school bully who gave her lustful thoughts, whilst Isabella lies to the deputy in charge of her city, actively going against her religious beliefs, and pretends to have sex with him when really she’s sent the deputy’s fiancé in her place. Then, at the end of their respective stories, they both hit a new low. Grace goes insane due to the influence of the Lords in Black, casting aside her religion seemingly willingly, whilst Isabella is proposed to by a Duke, the most powerful man in the city who she cannot say no to. This Duke worked with her throughout the play to both save her brother and preserve her chastity, so this betrayal forces Isabella to lose both her chastity and her trust. I just think it’s a cool connection that not many people saw.

#team starkid #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #nerdy prudes must die #grace chasity #measure for measure #isabella measure for measure #shakespeare

[senselessconjuration]

#measure for measure #shakespeare #memes

[macbooth]

i need the tarot girlies and the shakespeare girlies to combine real quick cause uh I’m planning a shakespeare tarot deck and I need opinions on the plays i’ve put down for major arcana. yes some are not there, either i do not care for them or i could not think of a design for them. cope. 

#shakespeare #please help me i need to know #tarot deck #and yes im gonna tag all these plays i need opinions #henry v #the tempest #cymbeline #antony and cleopatra #king lear #measure for measure #romeo and juliet #love's labour's lost #troilus and cressida #timon of athens #midsummer night's dream #othello #much ado about nothing #twelfth night #as you like it #titus andronicus #julius caesar #winter's tale #macbeth #comedy of errors #hamlet #pericles #shakespeare tarot

[withasideofshakespeare]

Re: cowboy Midsummer

What if we did a whole collection of Shakespeare plays but inexplicably changed the setting?

The Winter’s Tale but it is very clearly modern Southern California.

Macbeth but all the castles are children’s haphazardly constructed tree forts (this might actually be on theme somehow).

Hamlet but they’re clearly already in London so the “sent to England” plot is a convoluted argument about what the most Englandy place in England is.

Henry IV except the English court is a high school football team and Eastcheap is the theater building and Warkworth is just the high school in the next town over.

Measure for Measure but they’re in space. Space nuns. Why not?

#shakespeare #hamlet #macbeth #the winter’s tale #Henry iv #measure for measure #you put all the plays in a hat and draw one #and put a whole bunch of random settings in a hat and draw one #and then you have to combine them

[misslevel]

Shakespeare poll tag, for all the different genres!

#shakespeare #all's well that ends well #measure for measure #merchant of venice #timon of athens #troilus and cressida #winter's tale #shakespearepolls

[thinkingimages]

Measure for Measure, Lily Brayton as Isabella, 1907

#miss lily brayton #Isabella #measure for measure #1907 #actress #actresses #British theatre history #shakespeare #problem plays #nun #nuns