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cressida-jayoungr · 10 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

The Taming of the Shrew / Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina Minola

I've been waiting a while for a chance to post this dress! I've always liked the combination of blue, green and white. The bows on the skirt add a festive touch. Once again, Irene Sharaff's designs for Elizabeth Taylor harmonize well with the rest of the costumes, designed by Danilo Donati.

#the taming of the shrew #wedding costumes #elizabeth taylor #wedding dresses #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #1967 films #1967 movies #renaissance costumes #renaissance style #16th century costumes #16th century fashion #16th century style #shakespeare costumes #shakespeare on film #irene sharaff

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shakespearenews · 8 months

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King Lear Alotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters, by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012.

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The Liddells never returned to be photographed by Carroll, but the sisters reappeared a decade later before Julia Cameron’s camera. Alice, Ina, and Edith posed for Cameron’s complicated tableaux vivants as Roman goddesses, literary heroines, and Shakespearean stories. In one photograph that typifies Cameron’s work, Alice and her sisters pose with her husband, Charles Hay Cameron, enacting a scene from King Lear. Charles plays the role of King Lear while the Liddells pose as his three ill-fated daughters, Ina’s index finger poignantly laid on his shoulder while Alice, hair down, fixes her gaze outside of the photograph’s frame, a look echoed by her younger sister Edith.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #shakespeare on film #alice liddell #alice's adventures in wonderland #alice in wonderland #photograph #photogaphy #julia cameron #lear #kign lear #cordelia #goneril #reagan

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hamilpop · 1 year

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Romeo Montague (Leonard Whiting) and Juliet Capulet (Olivia Hussey), Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli, 1968)

Lots of couples returning recently. This time it's Romeo and Juliet from my favorite adaptation. These and other Shakespeare Custom Funko POPs are available HERE!

#funko #funko pop #funko pop custom #funkopop #hamilpop #custom funko pop #pop funko #etsy #etsyshop #etsyseller #romeo and juliet 1968 #olivia hussey #leonard whiting #franco zeffirelli #william shakespeare #Shakespeare on film

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bebemoon · 8 months

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kate winslet as ophelia in "tbt: hamlet" (1996) .

#kate winslet #ophelia #hamlet #shakespeare #film #90s #kenneth branagh #costume #queue

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firelise · 18 days

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Film & TV I Think About A Lot » Much Ado About Nothing (1993) dir. Kenneth Branagh

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh notso, but let them go

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danceblr · 3 days

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Young hearts run free.

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mareestoermers · 1 month

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CLAIRE DANES AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO "Romeo + Juliet" dir. Baz Luhrmann | Love in Film Series

#romeo + juliet #romeo and juliet #filmgifs #moviegifs #userfilm #userconstance #userrobin #baz luhrmann #film #movies #cinema #shakespeare #leonardo dicaprio #claire danes #mine #my gif #love in fim series

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winternymphaea · 2 months

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a midsummer night's dream (1999)

#a midsummer night's dream #a midsummer night's dream (1999)#fairycore #fairies #movies #william shakespeare #films #gifs #ethereal #90s #aesthetic #nymphaea's whispers

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mirriorball · 9 months

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ballet dancer suzanne farrell for diamonds, and a midsummer night's dream ˗ˏˋ✩ˎˊ˗

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theofficialpresidentofmars · 3 months

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I’d like to propose a performance of Hamlet in which the audience is addressed, looked at, and treated as if they were there but ONLY by characters who have gone mad.

in Act 2, when Hamlet’s pretending to go mad, while in the presence of Polonius and others, he sort of pretends to look at the audience, but always glancing over, looking sort of in the wrong direction, putting on a show for the only eyes he thinks are watching. When he’s alone and doing his soliloquies, it’s clear that he’s talking to himself, even though we’re listening in.

And it continues this way until Act 3 Scene 4, when Hamlet runs Polonius through with the sword. For a moment after the deed is done, there’s a shocked silence on the stage. As Hamlet goes to examine the body, he falters, slightly, as he becomes aware of just how many eyes are on him. And slowly; he looks at us, and through the rest of the scene his attention is torn between the audience and his mother, until the ghost appears (perhaps in the audience as well) and he’s… sort of put back on track. But from then on, all his soliloquies, asides, he begins to talk to us, in the audience.

And we notice the change, sure, but we don’t really get what it means, not until Ophelia goes mad, and while onstage she begins to give audience members flowers, to talk to them as the others call her crazy. And at that point most of us can make the connection.

From then until the play is over, Hamlet can’t fully ignore us. Every other character will, and does (besides maybe the gravediggers if you wanted to include anyone else), but we’re ever present in his sight. As he dies, we’re the ones he refers to when he says ‘you that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes or audience to this act’

#hamlet #shakespeare #am i a hamlet goes a little bit mad truther? perhaps #i just love to explore motifs of insanity in various forms of media #and i have some more opinions on how I’d adapt this to film

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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

Richard III / Mary Kerridge as Queen Elizabeth

Hmm, black spots creeping into our white costumes again? Strange....

This costume, nice as it is, baffles me. It's a fine example of fashion from the 1300s, worn for a scene (the death of King Edward IV) that takes place in 1483. See the picture below: Jane Shore in the red and blue dress shows an example of what women were actually wearing at the time (see here for a more detailed look at that costume). The queen even wears other costumes more along those lines in other scenes. So why on earth did they choose to put her in clothing that was a hundred years or more out of date for the first part of the film? I would love to know the answer.

She's not the only one, either--one of the photos shows her walking with the Duchess of York (Helen Haye, in black), who is wearing a gown of a similar era but almost a perfect palette-swap of the queen's costume.

#richard iii #white dresses #mary kerridge #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #period film #medieval style #medieval costumes #medieval fashion #1955 films #1955 movies #shakespeare on film #shakespeare adaptations #shakespeare costumes

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shakespearenews · 25 days

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The cast also lists two new additions to Shakespeare's classic tale: camera operators, who will be played by Callum Heinrich and Kody Mortimer.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #romeo and juliet #tom holland #west end #theater #theatre #camera #shakespeare on film

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dyke-delphinia · 7 months

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hamlet (2009) dir. gregory doran

#hamlet #shakespeare #william shakespeare #dark academia #david tennant #film #movies #cinema #cinematography #screencaps #film stills #hamlet 2009 #my posts

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irate-iguana · 1 year

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Hello and please look at the Stratford Festival’s poster for Richard II. Because I am obsessed:

The play’s been adapted by the queer playwrite Brad Fraser, it’s set in late ’70s/early ’80s New York (aka disco era), and they’ve got a nonbinary actor playing Richard.

I swear I’m not hired by the Stratford Festival, I’m just really excited about this production. Here’s a link to their website, for those curious:

Edit: the Stratford Festival is in Stratford, Ontario. Sorry if I got anyone in England’s hopes up.

#apparently this production will be filmed #i’ll make a post when it’s released for all those unable to see it in person #richard ii #disco richard #shakespeare #original post #stratford festival

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mojogifs · 9 months

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