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Anyone got ideas for other shakespeare themed poll brackets?

#just thinking about how it's getting on for a year since gayest couples started #it was such a good time #lars speaks

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no thoughts just trans man cassius

#i recommend reading all the tags on this post #jc

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the biggest tragedy about classical education is that people think it's meant to make you become a pretentious snob that quotes plato or seneca unprompted when in truth it's meant to make you a freak who cries and shakes profusely thinking about the fucked up family dynamics from 2000 year old plays

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#im losing my shit #'CAP'

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#take a guess- oh right I never changed my URL back to agenderviola

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#im obsessed with hamlet but i know my heart belongs to twelfth night #shout out to the coriolanusheads like prev who didn't get theirs even listed here #I was gonna say op has a rlly good selection tho idk any other plays that would be anyone's favourite that aren't here but then I remembered #that the histories exist. oh right

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I'm so glad that, judging from my notifications feed, everyone else here also loves Andrew Scott

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HELLO whoever at buzzfeed made him read a lesbian-on-gay thirst tweet you are my idol

#I'm obsessed with him (non sexually) #You get it rbed here too bc the main reason I'm obsessed with him is him being The Best Hamlet™

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"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.

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WOKE Shakespeare

Julius SHE/HER

CorioGAYNESS

THEY/THEMpest

The Merry WIVES of Windsor (LESBIANS??)

ACE You Like It

Titus ANDROGYNOUS

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#obviously othello in an agatha christie murder mystery #he would be such a fantastic red herring murder suspect

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macbeth really is such a fascinating guy because when he's thinking about doing the murder he actually sits with himself for a second and goes "if i do this, i'm signing over my immortal soul, and i'm probably going to be miserable with guilt" and then he does it and is miserable with guilt. and it makes him very very interesting! because it's not an impulse thing! he knows! so what makes a person make that choice? what amount of personal ambition, what lust for glory, what amount of wifely-pressure-fueled conception-of-masculinity-as-violence can get someone to do that?

because it isn't idiocy. he knows damn well. and none of his asides, none of his elaborate visually-fantastical speeches or deft metaphors, are the words of a blundering dumbass. personally, i think the core of macbeth is exactly what we find out before he ever steps on stage: he's a soldier, and more than that, he;s a killer. and he's extremely good at it. fuck diplomacy--basically every single problem he faces in the play is one he tries to kill his way out of, because it's the only strategy he knows. at some point, i don't even think it's just manhood-as-violence for him; it's personhood-as-violence. in 3.1 he threatens to get into the lists against fate, against the price of his own defiled soul; at the end, he resolves to go down fighting no matter what. as much as people love to joke about macbeth being foolhardy and easily-pressured and not looking more than five minutes into the future--the guy knows. but all he's ever done, all he can do, is fight. he's not a fool. he's a machine.

but also, fascination aside, what the fuck is wrong with him lmfao my guy you KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN

#Macbeth

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

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Much Ado About Nothing is really funny bc it’s a Shakespeare play where one of the couples already love each other before the play begins and one of them start the show by calling each other brainless backstabbing insufferable whores and you’d think the ones that like each other would be the easier ones to get together but Here’s The Thing

#...damn you're right #maan

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HAMLET from HAMLET

JUSTIFICATION:

"If she'd tuned girl and formed real, honest relationships with Ophelia, Rosencranz, and Guildenstern, maybe she would've stabbed her uncle right up and saved the whole of Denmark a lot of bloody succession drama." - @nihilbliss

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Anyone here into Chekov?

I didn't know a single thing about him or any of his works but I went to see (a live screening of) National Theatre's Vanya, a loose adaptation of Uncle Vanya in which every role is played by Andrew Scott. I was blown away both because Andrew Scott is a literal acting god and because as it turns out I think I like Chekov as well? Obviously hard to tell from seeing a weird adaptation but I love those "character drama" type plays.

But yeah Andrew Scott is just fucking unbelievable. I thought he would be excellent in a one-man-play because he blew me away as Hamlet with how he acts *mannerisms* and fidgeting and such in such a believable way there, and I was right.

#lars speaks