#shakespeare & sons

[jasontoddsguns]

Black Adam: The gods won’t be able to save you now, son of cur!

Shazam, under his breath: Solomon, I need a classy old-timey insult for this guy. Okay- got it-

Shazam: OH YEAH? VILLAIN, I HAVE DONE THY MOTHER!

#dc #captain marvel #shazam #billy batson #teth adam #black adam #basically adam called him a son of a bitch #and Billy used Shakespeare’s your mama joke

[adhd-merlin]

hey you!! yes, you!

do you want to watch Colin Morgan in All My Sons (legally and for free)?

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as well as other plays?

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ETA: Offer available until 18 March, while stocks last (from the NTL newsletter)

#I'm not in any way affiliated to the national theatre #this could save so many lives. mine included #colin morgan #ben whishaw #ides of march #< lol. I want this to reach people ok! it's important #national theatre #national theatre at home #fleabag #all my sons #julius caesar #shakespeare #signal boost

[thehamletdiaries]

I am currently on my second go round binge watching Prodigal Son and I would love to see Tom Payne play Hamlet he is so Hamlet coded as Malcolm.

Also:

#hamlet #shakespeare #prodigal son #tom payne #malcolm bright

[fallimentiquotidiani]

Sons of Anarchy

#Nove anni da quando hanno trasmesso questo episodio capolavoro #Sons of Anarchy #Shakespeare #Con le #Moto #E le #Pistole #Samcro

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

getting emotional about the last issue of sandman again (cw for major comic spoilers, discussion of suicidal thoughts)

because like. so we learn pretty early on what dream's deal with shakespeare was, allowing him better access to his creative potential in return for two plays, and we know this because we get midsummer night's dream, which was commissioned by dream for the actual titania as a parting gift before the faeries left earth forever

but we don't learn the second play until right at the end, after dream is dead, after the funeral, after sunday mourning and exiles, both of which make really beautiful endings to the story in their own right

the second play is the tempest. and there's a lot of the play that neil gaiman quotes in this issue, but i'll focus on the specific two that shakespeare reads aloud

the first is our obvious one - prospero's address at his daughter's wedding.

Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air. And like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

it's a beautiful passage, and exactly what to put at the end of this story - prospero is reminding everyone that stories are just stories, they aren't real and can't hurt anyone, but also they are the one thing that lives forever. humans are shaped and formed by our dreams, by our stories, we come from them, and in the end, we return to them.

now, prospero is the character we focus on in this issue. because there's a three-way parallel here between dream and prospero and shakespeare himself.

dream and shakespeare have both lost their sons, were both irreparably changed by that. both regret decisions they've made in their lives, and wish to leave the path they've found for themselves, but don't feel they can - their responsibilities are too great, they have no choice but to be what they were born to be. both wonder what might have happened in a world where things were different, but they know that could never have been

and prospero is the balm to that. prospero has made mistakes in his life, he's in several ways the antagonist of this story, but at the end, he gets to put it all aside. his daughter lives, and is happy. he gives up his magic - the source of his power, but also his suffering - and abandons his role, leaves the island he'd been ruling for decades. and this is his happy ending.

when shakespeare asks dream why this play, why he wanted that ending, instead of some great tragedy or drama, something more fit for a king, dream responds "because i will never leave my island."

and we see throughout the issue that that was personal to shakespeare too, it was a wish fullfilment for both of them.

but then we get to the epilogue, the second quote i'm focusing on. because shakespeare doesn't know how to end the play, until he has that conversation with dream.

this is the tempest's epilogue, in full:

Now my charms are all o'erthrown/And what strength I have’s mine own/Which is most faint. Now, ’tis true/I must be here confined by you/Or sent to Naples. Let me not/Since I have my dukedom got/And pardoned the deceiver, dwell/In this bare island by your spell/But release me from my bands/With the help of your good hands.

Gentle breath of yours my sails/Must fill, or else my project fails/Which was to please. Now I want/Spirits to enforce, art to enchant/And my ending is despair/Unless I be relieved by prayer/Which pierces so that it assaults/Mercy itself and frees all faults.

As you from crimes would pardoned be/Let your indulgence set me free.

like most shakespeare epilogues, it's a direct address to the audience, talking about the play. prospero is asking forgiveness from the audience for all he did wrong, but then reminding them that he's only human, don't we all want to be forgiven? and after all, all of this was just a story. he only wanted to create something for you. so applaud the ending, tell him it was worth it, and only with your permission can he finish the story, and finally leave.

and that's the thing, about dream's particular brand of suicidal thoughts. being dream of the endless has been weighing on him for centuries, if not millenia, he longs for an escape, but he knows he can't. when they see it's breaking him his siblings try and convince him to leave, like destruction did, but it's not in him to abandon the dreaming like that.

and that amount of responsibility, of staying alive because you owe it to other people - it's a relief, then, when a battle comes along that's too great for you to face, but there's also a lot of guilt in it. because he gave up. and he knows he did. letting the kindly ones win was the most selfish decision he's ever made

and you might say, well, he's dead, he doesn't have to face it, but that's not wholly true. because all three of the last issues deal with some version of dream after death.

there's the dream of him hob has in sunday mourning, which isn't the true dream, he's dead, except of course it is dream, because he was only ever made of dreams anyway, so does it really matter whether it's real or not?

in exiles the protagonist talks to both morpheus and daniel in the desert, and for dream this was two very different time periods, but to the man crossing the desert, they happened simultaneously, so if time can be warped like that in dreams, who's to say that the ripples of morpheus won't continue long into the future?

and then we have the tempest. dream has appeared after death as a dream, as a mirage, and finally, in perhaps his truest form, as a story.

when dream said he will never leave his island, shakespeare reminds him that all men can change. and this is the fatal flaw of dream - he doesn't see himself as a man, as a person, as anything but the entity which must fulfill his function. he tells shakespeare that men have stories, men change - he does not

and when we end this entire 75 issue run with the epilogue from the tempest, dream is prospero. even after death he's still reckoning with the guilt of making that decision. even now, he won't allow himself that freedom.

and that's the reminder, that all of this was just a story - dream's story. the reader is a character in sandman, all of this was created for us. did he manage to create something beautiful enough, despite the pain? can he be forgiven for the decisions he made along the way? if eventually he gave up, does that make all the time he fought so hard for meaningless?

and he can't be free of the story until we answer that all important question - was it worth it?

to which the answer can only be of course it was.

#you did good kiddo. take your rest. it's okay #interestingly enough the tempest isn't the only play that refers to the afterlife as a dream #hamlet does too (which you know is the piece inspired by shakespeare's dead son) #but that's just me and my shakespeare nerd #i've won literal monetary awards for my writing on shakespeare but here i am rereading sandman and crying #so you all get to cry too #neil gaiman you madman give me your writing talents #the sandman #sandman comic spoilers #dream of the endless #....it feels weird to tag shakespeare in this #wake #mine #meta #suicide tw

[aintinacage]

Uh… Shakespeare in the park.

William Shakespeare’s Avengers (Part 17/?)

#William Shakespeare’s Avengers #william shakespeare #marvel #mcu #marvel gifs #mcu gifs #avengers 1 #marvels avengers #avengers #thor odinson #Thor son of odin #thor god of thunder #chris hemsworth #iron man #Ironman #tony stark #robert downey jr #robert downey junior #RDJ #part 17

[relatableblorbopoll]

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 17

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Berdly (Deltarune)

"he's a bird and all birds are autistic (to me)"

Hamlet (Hamlet)

"My brain doesn't have the capacity to elaborate right now but he's so emo and dramatic. Just a weird fucking guy."

Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob)

"fast food worker who hates his job but keeps working there because they need to make money. just like me fr"

Hunter (The Owl House)

No Propaganda

Szeth-son-son-Vallano (The Stormlight Archive)

"He struggles to know himself and his own desires, and often relies on others to guide him. He is secretly just a silly little guy. He once said "I don't want to study. I want to be dead.""

Nami (One Piece)

"fucked up situation... but FRIENDSHIP"

#berdly #deltarune #hamlet #shakespeare #squidward tentacles #spongebob #hunter toh #the owl house #szeth son son vallano #the stormlight archive #one piece nami #one piece #preliminaries #tumblr polls #tumblr tournament #character bracket #character tournament

[bedlemboy]

Worf the Spy

Shortly after realizing the position of ambassador and envoy to the Klingon Empire was going to require a tad more subtlety than even he was anticipating; Worf, son of Mogh, Bane of the House of Duras and Slayer of Gowron sent a back channels message to his ex-wife, who passed it along to her husband, who passed it along to his boyfriend, and in short order found himself on Cardassia across a cafe table from Elim Garak.

Garak's anti-surveillance devices are excellent, and Worf refuses to talk about it, so no one knows exactly what was said that caused both to end up in the medical clinic twenty minutes later with six broken bones, three phaser burns and two kinds of poison ingested between them. Garak says they were "practicing."

From their clinic beds, they agree to meet next month, settling on chamomile tea as a reasonable compromise and agreeing to leave their phasers behind.

The next month, its is eleven broken bones, three poisons, two phaser burns and a knife wound. From their clinic beds, Garak gives Worf pointers on concealing weapons from hand-held sensors for next time. Worf grumbles the Garak stabs 'like a Hom Ha'DIbaH.'

Thirty years later, they still meet every month; discussing opera, theater and their mutual loathing of the Third Taylor Swift Renaissance more than spy-craft these days. They have long since moved on from concealed phasers to subspace micro-explosives, sometimes planted up to a month in advance (Garak was very impressed). They've finished their chamomile tea exactly twice.

Worf is basically immune to poisons, and can lie like a Tal Shiar. Garak has several genial contacts in the Klingon Empire (which he has leveraged into a prosperous post-occupation Cardassia), and is a member of House Martok whether he likes it or not.

They are best friends.

Julian still has the scars from the time he pointed that out.

#worf son of mogh #elim garak #star trek #star trek picard #star trek ds9 #House Martok #chamomile tea #ezri dax #julian bashir #deep space nine #I say mutual loathing #but they've both listened to her entire discography #they have OPINIONS #Worf dismisses her as “no Shakespeare” #Garak allows that “at least she's not Shakespeare”

[tmedic]

“ Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you ’’ - Anne Shirley 🍄🌻🧡

#studyblr #anne of green gables #lucy maud montgomery #anne with an e #AWAE #awae season 2 #puffin books #penguin reader #penguin books #books and libraries #tea and books #booklover #bookblr #booksbooksbooks #book edit #shakespeare & sons #tmedic #autumm #autumn aesthetic #book addict #booklr

[nvskyprospekt]

something is rotten…

#hamlet #shakespeare #tried to depict the imagery of circling birds i hope that was communicated well </3 #asta nielsen #<— sorta #at least like.. vaguely inspired as per usual #emo son beloved

[sonnet20]

too late to apologise

king lear act V, 3, william shakespeare // pietà, michelangelo // act V, 3 // ivan the terrible and his son ivan on 16 november 1551, ilya repin // act V, 3 // the death of barbara radziwiłł, józef simmler // act V, 3 // national theatre live: king lear

#king lear #cordelia #shakespeare #pieta #michelangelo #ivan the terrible and his son #ilya repin #the death of barbara radziwill #jozef simmler #national live theatre: king lear #ian mckellen #anita joy uwajeh #theater #art #web weaving #web weavings

[p4nishers]

i KNEW he reminded me of someone

#but it actually looks good on gimli while crowley is once again there ig #ok ill leave him alone since the Shakespeare shit was just as bad but what was he thinking #bro looks like a fucking gnome #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 #inefabble husbands #crowley #aziraphale #gimli son of gloin

[theoscarsproject]

Ran (1985). In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

King Lear adaptations, my beloved. This is genuinely such a staggering feat of cinema - visually sublime and full of tension, texture and complexity. The use of colour and the environment just sings, and I really wish I'd gotten to see it on the big screen. Magic stuff. 8.5/10.

#ran #1985 #Oscars 58 #Nom: Director #Nom: Art Direction #Nom: Cinematography #Nom: Costume #Won: Costume #akira kurosawa #Hideo Oguni #Masato Ide #william shakespeare #Tatsuya Nakadai #Daisuke Ryû #adaptation #father-son #war #inheritance #8.5/10

[blackcatarts]

Banquo and Fleance for drawing recs 🥺

he is. little

#hello son :) #theo #DIGITAL #SCRATCH #macbeth #banquo #fleance #shakespeare

[polonius-counsels]

Ophelia informs me that Laertes has a "toxic masculinity issue". The concept is not familiar, but I surmise that it is a side product of his rebellion against my words.

#Shakespeare #Shakespeare shitposting #Hamlet shitposting #Hamlet #polonius #ophelia #laertes #Laertes my twice-blessed son #Ophelia my daughter of the lonely stars #On my faith and honor

[sail-away-to-space]

#william shakespeare #sons of anarchy #love #doubt thou the stars are fire #but never doubt I love #soa #rewatch