#upstart crow

[thequantumranger]

Tim Downie in Upstart Crow (2016-2020)

#upstart crow #tim downie #tvedit #mine:misc #mine #made bestie sit through the entirety of this series just for Gale 🙈 shout out to bestie for suffering with me #we didn't like this show very much #Tim (and the guy who played Robert Greene) carried the show tbh

[shazzam76]

#baldurs gate gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #gale bg3 #baldurs gate 3 gale #upstart crow #tim downie

[sagegarnish]

ok but like....

Hear me out

#tim downie #upstart crow #kit marlowe #i am shamefully attracted to this man #i'm gonna watch the whole show JUST FOR HIM #I didn't even know about this show before and i grew up watching Blackadder #i am having a major crisis where i am forced to admit i would fck this man #what has the video game done to me #he gives me the same tingly feeling i got when i was a kid and watched Red Dwarf and Rimmer showed up #yes i was a weird kid #i was a 10 yo girl with a crush on Arnold J Rimmer #it explains a lot about me actually

[crowleysgirl56]

When you suddenly realise that this guy:

Is also this guy:

HOLD THE FUTTOCK ON!

#good omens #upstart crow #mr brown #kit marlowe #tim downie #hold the futtock on! #I have to go lie down and think about things now

[firlachiel]

Upstart Crow: Who the bard...

#upstart crow #william shakespeare #david mitchell #gemmma whelan #shirtstuff

[lulu-cat-princess]

RIP Humphrey you would of loved Blackadder II or Upstart Crow

#headless humphrey #16th century #bbc ghosts #upstart crow #Blackadder II

[vicsplinters]

Tim Downie as Kit Marlowe is a delight.

#shakespeare nerd #Tim Downie #upstart crow

[shakespearenews]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #upstart crow #hamlet #comedy #shakespeare on film #Youtube

[quietparanoiac]

I'm particularly pleased with the comedy scene where a group of rival serving men exchange a series of increasingly obscure insults.

Upstart Crow (2016–), 1x01

#Upstart Crow #Upstart Crow BBC #Upstart Crow 2016 #period drama #William Shakespeare #Will #Anne Hathaway #Anne Shakespeare #David Mitchell #Liza Tarbuck #Upstart Crow 1x01 #my gifs #team Much Ado About Nothing agrees with Will #guess who's rewatching #and having all the 'why didn't they film s04' feelings #and also having all those awful shipper feelings #not that Kit x Kate is an awful ship there's just zero content #AND I NEED FICS YESTERDAY #in other words - expect a whole pack of Upstart Crow posts

[just-a-unicorn-in-space]

Credit to the talented gif makers.

#For the little part that imagines these two meeting instead #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #upstart crow #Shakespeare #Tom Sturridge #David Mitchell #The sandman Netflix #neil gaiman #dream

[pimentogirl]

So I am that person who goes to comic con to see an A lister and then spots that actor from that niche thing that I love that they are not even there for and barrel over like a maniac and proceed to blurt like a fool and discover the guy is really cool, funny as fuck and proceed to talk like old friends for the next few minutes about every possible shared interest before remembering actually while I feel like I know them, we are actually complete strangers and I am just a weirdo.

What's the slammed together German word for that?

#comicon #i'm lucky they are all so patient #upstart crow

[melis-ash]

#upstart crow

[variousqueerthings]

today am stuck on the fact that yes, shakespeare put a whole bunch of crossdressing in his plays, on top of the crossdressing that simply existed in any play of the time that included women, because women weren’t allowed to act (here pour one out for the movie “shakespeare in love” which could’ve gone one further on this and played with 5d gender, but is instead headachingly straightcis) 

and the crossdressing (in the play) is all kinds of things, but most simply it’s... normal? at least normal enough that a crowd of people are watching the convention happen and it’s popular enough to happen multiple times in multiple plays, which suggests that there was some knowledge at the time that people did this for xyz reasons and even that there are circumstances where it’s noble and right to do so -- compared to, say, 80s-2000s film conventions that position crossdressing + gender transgression of other kinds in the realm of deceitful/villainous/predatory (depending on the film)

(here I add a little read about eleanor rykener, who is generally considered the first trans person we know of in England, in the sense of transgender* as a transgression of gender that is illegal/socially unacceptable -- and we know about hir because of a court case after hir arrest for being a sex worker in the 14th century, almost 200 years before shakespeare was writing. if something was made illegal, it means that that something was happening, and happening enough to be noticeably dangerous to social convention)

*transgender here being used in the traditional sense of “a body that is crossing gender lines in one of many ways,” more along the lines of the 90s use of the term (although I do anecdotally see that coming back into popularity)

(and here a consideration about the overlap between the theatre and sex work that I am not well-versed enough to go into detail on beyond: that was, as we know, definitely a thing)

so you get lines from twelfth night that are very much positing cesario/viola in a state of being both man and woman that could exist in poetry today (I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too -- and yet I know not...) and you’re like... did that resonate with some person in the audience in a way it does today? where was shakespeare seeing this happen enough that it was a repetitive theme in his works? how commonly understood was the existence of this for the majority of the watchers? 

am also reminded here of that one episode of upstart crow “the most unkindest cut of all,” which has a character called toby who is an intersex man and a  genius actor -- the character is played by cis and I believe perisex actress beattie edmondson. cannot say to the otherwise respectfulness of the portrayal, but it at least isn’t comical or villainous, and I do wonder where the impetus came from david mitchell et al to discuss the crossdressing of the theatre partially from this perspective

this is all very surface-level, I would love to know what essays are written about it.........

#shakespeare #twelfth night #upstart crow #queer stuff #trans stuff #intersex stuff #trans history #crossdressing #lots of overlaps of histories and terminologies happening here #and further research would go even further into terminologies

[stuff-i-watched]

Upstart Crow (season 1, 2, 3 + 3 specials) / 2016 — IMDb, TMDb

#Upstart Crow #comedy #history #TV Series

[aclownwalksintoalibrary]

Fuckpost

#ocs #antonia #drake #ludwig #upstart crow

[scumbag-monthly]

Happy Birthday to Ben Elton!

Born: 3rd May 1959, in London

TV: The Young Ones; Alfresco; Saturday Live; Happy Families; Filthy, Rich & Catflap; Blackadder; Mr Bean; Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie; The Thin Blue Line; The Ben Elton Show; Blessed; Get a Grip; The Wright Way; Upstart Crow

Books: Bachelor Boys; Stark; Gridlock; This Other Eden; Popcorn; Blast From the Past; Inconceivable; Dead Famous; High Society; Past Mortem; The First Casualty; Chart Throb; Blind Faith; Meltdown; Two Brothers; Time and Time Again; Identity Crisis

Theatre: Gasping; Silly Cow; Popcorn; Blast From the Past; The Beautiful Game; We Will Rock You; Tonight's the Night; Love Never Dies; The Upstart Crow

Alma mater: University of Manchester

#happy birthday #ben elton #the young ones #tyo #happy families #filthy rich and catflap #blackadder #mr bean #upstart crow #we will rock you