#shakespeares plays

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Shakespeare Week.

Lillie Langtree as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra 1890.

#shakespeare plays #shakespeare week #lillie langtree #antony and cleopatra #cleopatra #shakespeares plays #1890 #shakesperean actors

[fakemichaelsheen]

-the theatre, 1597-

aziraphale, wiping tears: what did you think?

crowley: ...

aziraphale: did you not like it?

crowley, hesitates: weeell...

aziraphale, sighs: what was wrong with this one?

crowley, shrugs: I don't know. it was all so...depressing. I mean, they were kids, angel

aziraphale, rolls his eyes: it's romantic

crowley: it's morbid

aziraphale, shakes his head: yes but it's about the star crossed lovers. the forbidden love. the tragedy. two feuding families. you wouldn't understand

crowley: *stares at him*

crowley, incredulous: sorry, did you seriously just say that?

aziraphale, oblivious: yes. so?

crowley, sighs: nothing *takes his arm* come on, let's get out of here

aziraphale, smiles: yes, I believe I owe you a drink. for coming with me

crowley, nods: several, I should think

aziraphale: it wasn't that bad

crowley, glares at him: dead kids, angel

aziraphale, agreeing: yes, I see your point

#az: we loved the play. tell me what inspired you? / shakespeare: ... / shakespeare: nothing in particular #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens #good omens 2 #the audacity of aziraphale. like he said that to his face

[blondepw]

the sluttiest thing a man can do is be good at performing shakespeare

#this is about rsl <3 #robert sean leonard #rsl #much ado about nothing #shakespeare #william shakespeare #acting #plays #romeo and juliet #dark academia #leo dicaprio #keanu reeves

[writtebycamus]

from a Prince to a King; David Tennant in Shakespeare plays throughout the years

Hamlet (2009) // Macbeth (2023)

#shakespeare #shakespeare plays #theatre #theatre aesthetic #Hamlet #macbeth #david tennant #patrick stewart #cush jumbo #rsc #donmar warehouse #These two shots are almost contradictory in a way #Not included - Richard ii

[flowerytale]

William Shakespeare, from "Henry V"

#william shakespeare #henry v #plays #typo #typography #fragments #witchcraft #*

[transsexualcoriolanus]

"lady macbeth was manipulating macbeth because of her own ambition to be queen" "lady macbeth never really wanted to be queen she was only doing it because she loved her husband" no you don't understand she was doing it for them. at the beginning of the play the macbeths are a team, partners in greatness, one cannot exist without the other. she doesn't want power only for herself or only for him, she wants them to rule together, equally. that's why it's so devastating when she doesn't get that, when becoming king and queen only drives them apart, because she wanted them to be partners in greatness and she got the opposite.

#macbeth #lady macbeth #the scottish play #shakespeare #willy shakes

[emotinalsupportturtle]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant

#david tennant #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #benedick #much ado about nothing #romeo #romeo and juliet #hamlet #richard ii #macbeth #touchstone #as you like it #berowne #loves labours lost #antipholus of Syracuse #comedy of errors #Shakespeare characters #theatre #text post

[the-evil-clergyman]

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Gustave Doré (1870)

#gustave doré #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #romanticism #romanticism art #painting #french art #french artist #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #a midsummer night's dream #fairy #fairies #classic art

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The hot new thing on Tumblr was the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear with Ian McKellen, so every meme and reaction image was just screencaps from King Lear.

#dream #text #March 2nd 2024 #royal shakespeare company #shakespeare #king lear #production #play #theater #ian mckellen #meme

[charl3ss]

One thing about me is that I will defend Romeo and Juliet until the day I die. “They weren’t in love—” the point is that they were never allowed to figure that out themselves because of the hateful society they lived in. They were kids who didn’t get to figure these things out because they died. “Romeo should have checked—” Juliet didn’t have a pulse. He didn’t know about the plan. “Juliet was dumb for taking the potion—” She was a 13 year old girl. That was the Friar’s fault, not hers. It was the fault of the adults who should have known better.

#R&J is my favorite Shakespeare play it’s a masterpiece and not at all shallow #shut up #romeo and juliet #shakespeare

[thatsbelievable]

#Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe #Edgar Allan Poe #poe #writing #writers #writerscommunity #author #authors #authors of tumblr #literature #books #poetry #poems #William Shakespeare #plays #drama #Murders in the Rue Morgue #apes #Oh Edgar

[queenklu]

I was so confused during today’s Drac Daily about this part in particular

Because that??? Bro, that ain’t Hamlet.

I went digging and found someone attempting to explain it:

If it is referencing this scene then it’s the part in the play where Hamlet says he’s going to throw everything off the table of his mind and focus only on revenge (this does...not work out for him).

BUT THEN

SO BASICALLY

B A S I C A L L Y

Stoker’s dumb acting friend MISQUOTED SHAKESPEARE loudly and often enough that it wound up in this novel????????

#dracula #dracula daily #hamlet #shakespeare #i teach this play every january so i KNOW...I know that isn't in it!!!!! #mr stoker i understand you didn't have internet but did NO ONE double check you???

[karl-von-moor-official]

Ok but consider: A production of Hamlet that starts with the last scene and then Horatio has to play his role in the rest of the play, but he’s still completely dissolved in tears. Everyone else is oblivious and he has to keep it together for the sake of storytelling, but his voice cracks as he says “I think I saw him yesternight”, regret filling his tone, and he frantically holds on to Hamlet as he begs him not to follow the ghost; he practically chokes on his words as he shouts, “Be rul’d!” And he knows it’s no use, but he’s so reluctant to play his part in this and he can barely keep his emotions at bay. And then the end of the story draws nearer. He takes longer and longer to say his lines. He hesitates, tries to stretch out the little time he’s got left with Hamlet. He doesn’t want to be in this narrative, but he is. Until finally, as Hamlet decides to duel Laertes, Horatio simply gives up. Reluctantly, but knowingly, he accepts the fact that there’s nothing he can do but play his part and relive it all, just to honor Hamlet’s legacy and story. And Hamlet dies in his arms a second time.

#i made myself sad #i want to direct a play so badly pls wtf #Hamlet #horatio #hamratio #shakespeare #literature #william shakespeare #classical literature

[wreaths-of-myrtle-and-rose]

#poll #polls #new poll #shakespeare #theater #trans #transgender #nonbinary #i'm really normal about shakespeare and gender can't you tell #i want to play at least half of these characters So Bad #the tempest #midsummer night's dream #twelfth night #as you like it #hamlet #macbeth #romeo and juliet #i made this poll instead of making run sheets for tech of love's labor's lost tonight oops

[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