#shakespeare's histories

[socialshakespeare]

(Source)

So who's playing this month?

#Henry V #Shakespeare's Histories #Bingo #goodticklebrain #sign-up

[skeleton-richard]

Do you have any particular Histories you’d recommend? I’ve already seen Richard II and Henry V, but I’m hoping to watch/read all of them at some point

You definitely need to see/read Henry IV pts. 1 and 2 then! Those fill in what happens between Richard II and Henry V and they're awesome.

There's also the First Tetralogy, Henry VI pts. 1, 2, 3, and Richard III, which covers the Wars of the Roses. I'm not as big a fan of those but they are good and part of the cycle.

King John gets overlooked a lot but it's actually great and @ardenrosegarden and I will die on that hill.

Are you looking for specific versions too?

#shakespeare #shakespeare's histories

[heartofstanding]

Just over a week left to sign up for the Histories Ficathon!

Sign ups for this year’s Histories Ficathon close on Saturday, 4 June at 11:59PM EDT. This is the ficathon for Shakespeare’s History plays and the history it’s based on.

If you’re interested, please check out our AO3 Profile >>here<<

We’d love to have you!

If you have any questions, please ask either skeleton-richard​ or @heartofstanding

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[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

#media #theatre #history #shakespeare #media piracy #media preservation

[demigoddessqueens]

Happy 2,068th to when we should totally just stab Caesar!! Grab a knife with your bestie!

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[yourgirlfoe]

Ya'll ever go, "fuckin' hell, I know this smell!" and it's the smell of a February evening from 2017 ?

#studyblr #dark academia quotes #poetry #the secret history #donna tartt #lana del rey #classic lit art #classic literature #web weaving #february #birthday #spring #dark academia #cottagecore #vanilla extract #give me polls #shakespeare #dostoevsky tag #hamlet #aesthetic #nostalgic #nostalgia #teenage dirtbag #teenage angst #childhood #daddy issues #streetview #street style #maple tree #sunset

[dogzcats]

OPHELIA (details)

But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

#ophelia #hamlet #shakespeare #shakespeareedit #art #art history #19th century art #20th century art #women in art #oil painting #oil on canvas #artedit #artblr #anna attempts photoshop #1k+ #5k+ #6k

[ctnsto]

Beauty is terror.

#dark academia vibes #dark academia #libraries #slytherin #louvre #vincent van gogh #art history #academia #reading #shakespeare #dark academism #dark acadamia quotes #dark academic aesthetic #books #pinterest #picture #history #the secret history

[the-overanalyst]

i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

#literature #classic literature #greek mythology #shakespeare #dark academia #romeo and juliet #macbeth #tragedy #antigone #history #hadestown #orpheus #the song of achilles #song of achilles #patrochilles #the iliad #classics #living up to my url for once

[hello-is-anyone-there]

Me and the boys on Dunsinane Hill

#macbeth #you know exactly what im talking about #shakespeare #dark academia #academic #light academia #literature #dark academic #dark academia aesthetic #darkest academia #transmasc #the secret history #romantic academia #shakespeare memes

[illustratus]

The Assassination of Julius Caesar by William Holmes Sullivan

#julius caesar #assassination #ides of march #art #william holmes sullivan #caesar #ancient rome #rome #roman #romans #theatre of pompey #assassins #conspiracy #conspirators #history #antiquity #roman republic #europe #european #dagger #daggers #toga #senators #dictator #et tu brute #shakespeare #william shakespeare

[diioonysus]

women in art: titania

#artist is john simmons #artist is edwin landseer #artist is umberto brunelleschi #artist is joseph noel paton #artist is thomas stothard #artist is alexandre bida #artist is john anster fitzgerald #artist is c wilhelm #artist is henry fuseli #artist is william blake #artist is richard dadd #artist is emma whitney #artist is joel noel paton #artist is arthur rackham #artist is walter stanley paget #artedit #art history #art #arthistoryedit #titania #a midsummer night's dream #shakespeare #*mine*

[trips2saturn]

telling my future kids that they were romeo and juliet

#FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS #shakespeare wrote about them no proof just trust me bro #LOOK AT THEM #NO NOTES 🥹❤️‍🩹 #trips talks #the ones who live #the walking dead #rick grimes #michonne grimes #richonne

[canyourfavesurvivecastledracula]

I realize you don't like doing actual real people, but in honour of the date, what about Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE - 44 BCE) the Tumblr stabby boy?

You had me at "the Tumblr stabby boy" as if he didn't already get duper duper stabbed in real life also, as well as on the stage. But no, he's ours now.

So okay. We say Jonathan Harker ignores red flags, but like, a soothsayer bids Caesar beware the Ides of March, and our buddy Julius says "no 😌" Like the thing he's famous for (today at least) is ignoring warnings shouted at him by weirdos as he passes by. (By contrast when Jonathan is told to beware Castle Dracula - in much less clear terms, mind - his response is more on the order of "y tho?" at which point everyone suddenly stops being able to speak German. They are not the same).

The other main character trait he has, in the play at least, is arrogance. That's why they stab him all those times. The fear is that he's going to make himself King - Brutus says Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. All through those early scenes, his advisors are advising him to maybe chill a bit, and he's just like "😎 haters gonna hate" about it - and then is genuinely surprised when they do. My guy...

Julius Caesar thinks he's All That, he thinks he's untouchable, he thinks he's a god. They may bond over stories of conquest but he's not going to take anyone's warning seriously or give Dracula the respect or deference he demands. And even if Dracula is baffled by his +7 shift ciphers (which he may be if he hasn't read the Dancing Men yet) it'll only make him angry. No matter his high opinion of himself, at the end of the day he bleeds like any other man, whether you're stabbing him 33 times on the senate floor or seeing if he really does have kisses enough for everyone.

Also apparently his horse had human toes instead of hooves, which is super freaky and I don't like it. It's not relevant in any way (or, in all likelihood, true) but I thought you should know.

Julius Caesar, the Tumblr stabby boy, at least as depicted by ol' Billy Shakes, can not survive Castle Dracula. And now we know where the Roman coins in Dracula's pile came from.

#julius caesar #shakespeare #classics #royalty #now as depicted in Asterix maybe we get a different outcome who knows #yeah Caesar used the same +7 shift cypher for everything and it worked because nobody could read in the first place #the history of cryptography is wild

[regsswimminglessons]

why cant i be a 20th century schoolboy studying shakespeare with his group of morally grey friends

#just a 1900s boarding school boy with his close totally platonic friends #if we were villains #the secret history #dark academia #shakespeare #classics #dead poets society #picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #morally grey

[ctnsto]

#academia #dark academia #dark academia vibes #libraries #reading #shakespeare #slytherin #art history #books #louvre #the secret history #history #art #dark acadamia quotes #quotes #quoteoftheday #dark academic aesthetic #aesthetic