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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

#classics #classics adaptations #master list

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just wanted to post about the books unbanned initiative — it allows teens/college students to get library cards in the following cities:

brooklyn public library (ages 13-21) — email [email protected] to get your free card

seattle public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

boston public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

la county library (ages 13-18; california only) — sign up here

san diego public library (ages 12 -26) — sign up here

brooklyn public library, seattle public library, boston public library and la county library all use libby, whereas the san diego public library uses cloud library.

there's also the queer liberation library, which is a free digital library you can sign up for here. anyone with a US mailing address can apply for this one, and there's no age limit!

#books #libraries #public library #public libraries #unbanned initiative

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Alanna the Lioness, done for Dual Wield Studios 40th anniversary of Tamora Pierce's book!

#alanna #alanna the lioness #art #books #reading #fantasy

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libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

#books #library #public library #public libraries #libraries #libby

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#polls #my polls #fantasy #books #The Lightning Thief #Rick Riordan #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #poll

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Branded by the Pink Triangle

Ken Setterington

A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. This book combines historical research with first-person accounts and individual stories to bring this time to life for readers. From the first chapter, with its story of a young Jewish girl who was rescued from the depths of despair and starvation in the camps by a fellow prisoner who wore the pink triangle, to the last, entitled It Gets Better, which outlines the strides forward in gay rights made in the decades since the war, the feeling of bravery and perseverance in the face of inhuman cruelty shines through.

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#books #reading #lgbtqia #queer #queer history

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#um #algorithms? on my tumblr???? #but still #fun poll #poll

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...Okay, I said last year that we wouldn't be doing another of these "for the foreseeable future." What I didn't foresee was all the medical junk that's been happening to me this year—tl:dr; my spine has gone annoyingly fragile and apparently needs work—in which I keep getting to pay for all the MRIs and other exciting diagnostic things myself. :/

Anyway, all the big-ticket things at our ebook store are reduced right now for the holiday weekend—meaning all the bundles such as the "All The Wizardry" bundle and the Pride Month Package—and the Whole Store Bundle (36 ebooks, folks!) is down to $48.99! And naturally all this stuff comes with our free file-replacement guarantee in case you lose a device or your computer crashes, or you change platforms or just misplace your files. We don't have a space program to finance, and as a result I don't see why we should make you pay for stuff twice. In this economy, once is enough for anybody.

So if you want one of those big bundles and missed earlier chances, your time has come! The sale will last until midnight IST on March 18th (which is when the Saint Patrick's Festival ends in these parts). And if you've already taken advantage of one of these offers, perhaps you'd reblog it anyway for the interest of others? Please & Thank You.) :)

Meanwhile, if you celebrate the Day... enjoy the weekend, all!

(And UK folks: once again the sad reminder... we can't sell directly to you any more. Brexit. [heavy sigh] Our apologies.)

#ebooks #sale #diane duane

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Roran 1st book: I'm gonna marry Katrina :)

Roran 2nd book: I'm gonna kill god.

#inheritance cycle #eragon #eldest #brisingr #inheritance #snort

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

#ursula k le guin #comic post #art comic #quote

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TAMORA PIERCE HAS RETIRED!?!?

#tamora pierce

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It's. HAPPENING.

(July 2nd 2024)

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It's. HAPPENING.

(July 2nd 2024)

#excuse me #i want #gimme *makes grabby hands motions* #this looks amazing!!!!! #protector of the small #tamora pierce #comic / graphic novel #graphic novel

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The Lioness by Elisabeth Alba 7″ x 8″, watercolor and acryla gouache on Arches watercolor paper For the first Month of Love 2016 challenge, Heroes, I immediately knew I had to draw a portrait of one of my favorite characters, Alanna, nicknamed the Lioness, from Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet. I first started reading that series when I was around 12 or 13, and I thought Alanna was this incredible, strong female character, which I hadn’t seen much of in the books I was reading. Also, these books, as well as Ms. Pierce’s other books, inspired my career, since they were exactly the kind of books I wanted to make illustrations for.

#alanna #the woman who rides like a man #the lioness #lioness rampant #i cannot tell you how much i love this! #just finished rereading the Alanna arc in the Tortall series #this is fantastic!!!! #art #character art #tamora pierce

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I love this book and *especially * the audiobook. It's SO GOOD. I still need to watch Handmaiden.

Continuing my TBR shelf reading this year (2 down, 50 to go!) which should I read next of these 4 chosen at random?

#fingersmith #sarah waters #audiobooks #sapphic fiction #sapphic #sapphic books

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if you're gay and like dark academia please preorder a dark and drowning tide by allison saft. it's an adult historical fantasy novel (with a jewish lesbian protagonist) set in a world very similar to ours. the magic system is easy to grasp, the political aspects are intriguing, and the author has a lot to say about antisemitism and classism/elitism. the chemistry between the main characters, as well as their rivals-to-lovers arc, is infuriatingly well-written. it's so .... hnnnng i cannot stop thinking about this book. it's been so long since i've read a sapphic romance this good.

it's coming out in a few months!! i am so excited for people to read it.

#wlw #lesbian books #dark academia #sapphic #sapphic stories #lesbian #sapphic books