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Obtained a (digital) edition of Hamlet that - for some reason - decided to illustrate Horatio and Hamlet’s scenes using art lifted from Mark Twain’s first edition of The Prince and The Pauper. And frankly it’s incredible:

I mean they’re not wrong for this choice, but it was definitely a choice

#hamlet #huh

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My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

#twelfth night #hamlet #much ado

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rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead moodboard but its full of metafictional doomed yaoi so yeah basically its just a normal r&gad moodboard

hi @ascendantdreamweaver

#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

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she rosencrantz on my guildenstern until the both of us are dead

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i want to make a "he should've been at the club" post about hamlet but there's so much controversy about his actual age that i can't while still maintaining any claim to academic integrity

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12th night would be by far one of the funniest potential all female Shakespeare adaptations possible if they kept everything about it and implied the drama taking place within the extremely insular butch-femme dyke social circle of a single location

#lmao #twelfth night

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this casting is so insanely powerful

#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #BRUH

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I really do just feel sorry for the fictional students of the university at Wittenberg

You’ve got a scenario where it’s possible for them to have had both Hamlet as a classmate and Faustus as a professor

#literally a play about this called Wittenberg #something something faustus and martin luther and hamlet #and it goes about how you might expect

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L + horatio + there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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If Shakespeare was LIBERAL

King QUEER

HE/HIMlet

MASCbeth

The Merchant of FEMINIST

STEALTH Night

WOKEthello

#i love this format it’s so silly

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i know it's also a really tragic moment that seals the final fate of every character in the play but the scene in hamlet where hamlet has a chance to kill claudius while he's praying in the chapel but doesn't, not because it would be dishonorable to kill a man while he prays for forgiveness from his sins, but because he wants to send his evil whore uncle directly to hell SO badly, is one of the funniest moments in any of shakespeare's plays to me

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Hamlet as a D&D paladin.

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can someone who knows about you/thou divide in shakespeare help me out bc I just skimmed through all of horatio and hamlet’s interactions to find that hamlet consistently refers to horatio as “you” in act one, but starting with his very heartfelt speech in act 3 scene 2 praising horatio, he consistently uses “thou” until the end of the play (which does, sadly, imply that “o, I could tell you— but let it be.” is not actually directed at horatio…) more interesting to me is that horatio only ever uses “you” to refer to hamlet until after hamlet has died, when we get “goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” does this have to do hamlet with hamlet being dead? or?? what are the general connotations of you/thou at this time (bc I know it has changed over time). why did the changes happen as they did or does literally none of this matter ?

#hamlet

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i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

#makin me want to see much ado again

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always thinking about the production of hamlet i saw at the pop up globe a couple of years ago where everyone was costumed in typical shakespearean dress and the set was fairly minimal BUT! they gave polonius an iphone. it was like a running gag that his ringtone kept going off when hamlet or claudius were trying to speak and they would get more and more impatient with him every time. the cast had perfect comedic timing and it was such a perfect modernisation of typical shakespeare humour

but oh my God. the nervous laughter that rippled through the audience when his phone went off behind the tapestry. the heavy silence that followed, interrupted only by the incessant chime of polonius’ ringtone and a muffled “shit, shit!” while he tried to decline the call. it keeps ringing even after hamlet has already put his sword through him. hamlet picks it up in his bloody hands and ends the call, puts it back in polonius’ grasp before turning back to face gertrude.

hands down the best set up and pay-off of any addition to a shakespeare play i have ever witnessed

#yoooooo #that’s so good #hamlet