#and maybe like shakespeare - idk

[flowersforfrancis]

Why is blood kinda, fucking, ...Beautiful?

#I blame donna tartt #and homer #and all of the fine art mfs #and maybe like shakespeare - idk #like #ethereal #beautiful #beauty is terror #romanticism #aestethic #red academia #red aesthetic #academia #classic academia #dark romantica #dark romanticism #chaotic academia #books and literature #romeo and juliet #the secret history #camilla macaulay #dark academia #fine art #greek mythology #greek aesthetic #idk honestly

[whatkindofnameisella]

average experience watching a clip of andrew scott's hamlet

#idk maybe its just that i have clinical depression and the fact that it is rightfully considered one of the best plays of all time but god. #his to be or not to be. my fucking god. #the gentleness and honesty and patience with which he delivers every line. like hes accepted the state of his mind. sees the darkness ahead #oaguhshdghgghhh. #shakespeare #hamlet #andrew scott

[sailforvalinor]

My literature professor: “When Benedick says, ‘Peace! I will stop your mouth’ and kisses Beatrice, Beatrice has no further lines in the play, she’s completely silent, symbolizing how by marrying Benedick she is surrendering all of her power. In being silent she is submitting to patriarchal values of—“

Me: “—ma’am, there are 29 lines left in the play.”

#my professor: ‘well that’s just one interpretation’ #me: ‘but it’s the only one you provided??’ #like seriously maybe some things are just meant to be funny?? #maybe it’s just meant to illustrate the end of their constant bickering (or at least bickering with malicious intent)? #idk if this is contraversial but not everything is commentary on the patriarchy #and Shakespeare does have plenty to say about gender roles #but really I think most people think about it too hard #95 percent of the time he’s doing it for comedy. that’s it #it’s funny!! the point is that it’s entertaining!! it’s supposed to be a COMEDY for crying out loud #(and yeah I know comedy had a slightly different meaning at the time but the point still stands) #sometimes entertainment is just entertainment #shakespeare #much ado about nothing #benedick x beatrice

[dockaspbrak]

you know, i dont know a single other person i could tell about this dmitri thing except my girlfriend and i basically just reeled her to opera after a lot of "no no its ok its not that serious its just pretty soap opera plotlines its nice its silly dont take it that seriously" for awhile ughguhtorroijg honestly its a shame im sorry if it seems pretentious i assure you its really not something im proud of liking i just think its silly and fun. like games youd play as a kid but if theres x100 the drama and a soundtrack made just for it. affairs and murders....i wish it was less held up as fancy and unreachable literally anyone could like it you dont need a degree or anything

#ive read fanfics more complicated than opera plots #alas......maybe i could talk my dad into it? no he barely wants to talk to me anyway #people who really like poetry probably get the feeling like. maybe its how earnest and emotional it is thats off putting #idk im clearly having some kind of weird feelings about this #personal #opera #shakespeare too shouldnt be perceived as so high and mighty to like but yet it is....even as english majors there was this cock of a girl #who was bragging about reading othello in middle school....like girl who cares but you definitely didnt understand it? no self awareness #fucking asshole god im so glad i never have to speak to her again she was the worst. had those black eyes like a doll and bright pale skin

[burinazar]

i’ve not linked the Ganja squad server on here recently for The Usual Reasons but i currently have a free trial of fancy nitro so i boosted the thing and, by member request, immediately added a completely irresponsible amount of new emojis that will most likely perish in a few weeks. if you like the gang weeders ganja squad characters join us and use our ((checks)) …S I X DIFFERENT Despairing Belaf emojis while we have em. (link) (note: please be 18 or older!)

#vueko #belaf #wazukyan #belavue #wazubela #pakkovue #irumyuui #pakkoyan #it's been really active lately but goes through laid back periods but we collectively can't calm down this week idk why #'The Usual Reasons': feeling vaguely awkward- yet resolute - about it being 18+ andalso i’m not at all lookin to grow it for growth’s sake #but i hope anyone who Needs It can find it. it spotlights fanwork/discussion of a very special arc/group with sparse but devoted fans #though short and concluded their story is (to me. maybe to you?) endlessly analyzable and interesting. like a shakespeare tragedy is lmao #this is the approximate reason i have tagged this post with character and ship names #if you like this gang enough to be looking up charas by name or even KNOW these ships (note: they have their own channels) you may like it #If You are also Abnormal about Vueko And Belaf And Their Child and Friends. Join Us. #orphan hole tag

[crazyw3irdo]

been asked if i’ll make a hamlet version of my uquiz and truly like i get why you’d want me to do that but why would i do that when rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead exists

#if you haven’t seen it go watch it it rules #& tackles a lot of the same themes of fate and destiny that my quiz does #in more serious reasons: idk i feel like the impact of the hamlet one would be lessened? cause ppl already know that’s a tragedy #i mean ppl know that about r&j too but yknow it’s seen sorta as a corny stupid thing sometimes so the twist catches you off guard #no one misunderstands hamlet to be a beautiful romance or asks ‘well why didnt he check to see if ophelia was REALLY dead’ #(god someone ask me about one of those common r&j complaints i have answers prepared for all of em) #and also straight up i would need to reread hamlet to do that lol. i’ve only read it once or twice a while ago. r&j i’ve read… idk #like… maybe 15 times if i had to guess? and these are the only shakespeare works i’ve actually read lol #well. plays. i’ve read some sonnets but yknow. i should read midsummer nights & othello & [redacted] & twelfth night yknow #anyway yeah it’s a r&j special interest not shakespeare in general #tho i would genuinely say tragedies are a special interest in and of themselves given how like. almost everything i’m into is one #crazwaz posted

[britneyshakespeare]

You know what. Despite it being against my doctor's orders I think I should rewatch Jane Howell's Wars of the Roses tetralogy

#the extent to which i enjoy shakespeare's history plays is condemnable. #especially the henry vi plays. ppl talk about those plays like they're the lowest thing shakespeare ever wrote #can't say i agree with that at all tbh. they're messy yes but they're GREAT #they are riotously entertaining and the conflicts are very engaging. #I JUST LIKE IT WHEN THEY KILL EACH OTHER WITH SWORDS!!! #SWORDS!!! SWORDS!!!!! KILLING!!!!!!! HEADS ON PIKES!!!!!!!! #like that's good old fashion entertainment to be honest. i can totally picture myself as an elizabethan commoner #losing my absolute marbles watching one of these in london #tales from diana #jane howell has so much power over me #i am so obsessed w her having directed the wars of the roses tetralogy AND titus andronicus. #some of the most patriarchal plays in shakespeare's oeuvre or at least the least-discussed-by-feminists. #im not really sure why when it comes to the wars of the roses plays tho. the female characters are so fascinating to me #joan of arc. margaret of anjou. anne neville. elizabeth woodville #altho i guess in terms of the real history those women tend not to be discussed as much as the men around them #(excluding joan of arc whose image is often stripped of historical context) #but shakespeare's treatment of them is well well well worth discussing more. idk #maybe it's just the problem of ppl's degradation of those plays! idk idk #me why me i can never be accused of not loving the wars of the roses tetralogy enough #me diana britneyshakespeare tumblr's no. 1 wars of the roses tetralogy stan #i also love circus (2008) most of all of britney's albums. im ok disagreeing w other ppl's fan favorites

[macroglossus]

one-off movies/single season tv shows of classic lit are always sooo. like not to be pretentious but sometimes it feels like they didnt read the novel and just read a sparknotes? it gives made4english class

#watching great expectations and it starts out with pip being unsatisfied w his village life/memorizing shakespear #which like. yes absolutely once he starts getting lessons and fancying himself Higher Class? but in the beginning he's chilling #idk maybe it jumped straight into it maybe we wont even meet the criminal. looking sideways at it #but this and the dorian grey movie which was SO bad like i dont think it was well done at all....... #i do like both adaptations of pride and prejudice though! the tv show was REALLY charming #the jane eyre tv show i didnt love i know people liked it but i didnt for the most part #and you know. the les mis movie. love it but absolutely hate it. but that's more an adaptation of the musical so some things def got #lost in translation #if anyone has any good classic lit-> movie recs i would love 2 hear em

[musical-chick-13]

The existence of this Rosaline movie makes me so MAD, because SHE WAS NEVER IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ROMEO. SHE TOOK A VOW OF CHASTITY, AND SAID THAT SHE WAS JUST GONNA NOT BE IN LOVE.

SHE. REJECTED. HIM.

SHE WAS NEVER INTERESTED IN BEING WITH HIM AT ALL.

And then they just...make a whole movie from her supposed perspective (which is loosely based on a book which...hoo boy we’ll get to that in a second), where the premise is that she’s jealous and wants to break him and Juliet up? That she’s so in love that she has to win him over again? (Also, how do they justify her knowing that they’re together? The entire point is that no one knows Romeo and Juliet are in love?? I know this is an adaptation, but Jesus Christ.)

WHY DID YOU PICK THIS CHARACTER. TO HAVE THIS STORY WITH. THE WHOLE POINT OF HER CHARACTER IS THAT SHE CHOOSES NOT TO BE WITH HIM. THAT’S WHAT OPENS THE DOOR TO HIM MEETING JULIET. IF ROSALINE IS DEEPLY INTO ROMEO, THE ENTIRE PLAY DOESN’T WORK.

Are we saying that she was just “““playing hard to get”””? That she was toying with his heart for fun? That when she told him no, she really meant “yes”?? I THOUGHT WE LEFT THAT BEHIND OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST DECADE, I THOUGHT WE DECIDED THAT WAS BAD???!!?

Don’t even get me started on the book this is based on, where that general premise is that Rosaline is just an Innocent Average Girl, and her cousin who is Beautiful™ and vOLaTiLeLY uNsTAbLe and cRaZy comes and “takes” her poor unsuspecting boyfriend who is completely blameless for his own terrible behavior away from her while being called a “slut” the whole time. (I doubt much of this carried over into the actual movie, because that’s being billed as an ironic rom-com, and I highly doubt ANYONE would try to make that genre work while keeping this premise 100% intact.)

WHY WOULD YOU EXPAND THIS CHARACTER LIKE THIS. WHY. WE STUDY THIS PLAY IN SCHOOL AS AN EXAMPLE OF LITERARY STRUCTURE AND POETIC LANGUAGE AND FORESHADOWING AND HOW TO WRITE A TRAGIC NARRATIVE AND FOR WHAT. FOR PEOPLE TO NOT TAKE AWAY ANY OF THE INTENDED MEANING FROM THIS PLAY???!?!?!? I AM SCREAMING SO HARD I WILL BREAK THE EARTH’S CRUST UNTIL I AM SUBSUMED INTO HELL.

If you’re going to adapt something, you’ve gotta make it clear that you have some significant understanding of the original work. Retellings are fine! They can even have different functions or deconstruct tropes or be unexpectedly edgy! But it’s 1000% obvious when you don’t have any knowledge or engagement with the source material, and that is a problem. It’s ignorant, it’s lazy, and everyone involved deserves better.

#also like...juliet has been praised as a compelling and well-rounded theatrical heroine with clear goals by literary scholars for a LONG #time. you don't get to just...ignore that and say 'lol nope she's just cRaZy instead' #am I a LITTLE sensitive when it comes to people adapting shakespeare?? maybe. but also I don't care. #is it just because people are thirsting over That One Guy?? is that it?? is that why this movie was made???? I hate it here. #ANYWAY you want an actually GOOD expansion of rosaline's character that gives her Secret Feelings For Someone that she can't say #out loud because of a JUSTIFIED narrative reason and also gives her a well-developed #tentative-allies-to-lovers romance story watch still star-crossed #(which is also apparently based on a book. which I sadly have not read. maybe it'll be the next thing on my reading list) #GOD this is the 'lady macbeth is a stoic badass who never really loved her husband' all over again but like. in the opposite direction #UGH after juliet did the same ''she was just playing COY and HARD TO GET' thing too and I hate it #WHY CAN'T WE JUST HAVE WOMEN REJECT MEN? WHY IS THAT SO HARD FOR PEOPLE TO WRITE??? #we could EVEN have a story about rosaline GENUINELY NEVER FALLING IN LOVE because she doesn't want to!! #wow shocking I know! #okay I'm done now #sorry #salty mc13 is salty #anti rosaline movie #idk how the fuck to tag this #romeo and juliet

[welcometoteyvat]

me @ a kaeya hamlet au

#obviously the horatio contenders are diluc and albedo #kaeluc or kae.bedo realness !! #fortinbras is childe #no idea who evil king claudius is nor who is evil queen gertrude #ig kaeya's supposed father and maybe rhinedottir but we barely know anything about them #i dislike the idea of ophelia as jean bc idk they feel like two different characters but i mean i guess it could work #i dislike jean having no agency tho bc she's not like that in canon lol #old king hamlet is q obviously crepus. altho that would make him married to rhinedottir which is weird but idk #i still maintain that 'good night sweet prince: and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest' most iconic line #also whatever was going on with poisoned ears and the country being physically ill shakespeare motifs do go hard sometimes #edit i forgot about polonius and laertes. L. i guess it could be barbara and their father but uhhhh barbara doesn't seem like the type of gi #girl who'd challenge someone to a duel . #maybe rosaria ? #this au gets more and more messed up as i think abt it but still! the core concept is there that's the point #ramblings! #genshin impact

[jackgoodfellow]

When I die, I am going to have my skull removed and made up for Hamlet productions (jaw optional)

And it will be free to rent but with the one requirement being that I must have a bio in the program with the other actors. With a headshot from when I was alive. Crediting me as Yorick. With no mention of my death. Just a typical list of credits that get further and further into the past with each passing year.

I know this is supposed to be a reaction meme but this IS what my internal monologue looks and feels like. It is past midnight. Sell my bones on the internet.

[ID: the meme of a guy in sunglasses casually speaking to a horrified McDonald's employee at a drive-thru, drawn in a simple cartoon style. There is a speech bubble that makes it look like the guy in the car is speaking the text above the image]

#see jack talk #hamlet #shakespeare #shitposting #they can use the skull for other productions in which a skull is featured prominently #u don't credit the set dressing #but i am prepared to absolutely nail the part of Yorick within the next 100 years or so #I'm in no rush #and the credit has to be among the other actors! #not a separate cheeky little note. if it is alphabetical then i ought to be in there alphabetically #I do not care much what happens to the rest of my body unless someone can think of something funny #i think maybe just burn it and like idk throw the ashes at rich people so they cough? and be like THAT'S MY UNCLE JACK #or just like sprinkle it off a cliff i don't care #i guess i would have to assign someone to rent the thing out and do whatever u gotta do to remove a human skull #which. ya know i gotta say most of my friends probably don't wanna do that #death #humor #the jaw should actually be removed bc that is specified in Hamlet. best case scenario is a detachable reattachable jaw #maybe carve a spooky sweet lil poem on the inside saying hello #don't sell the skull tho there must be a keeper of the skull #passed down to inconvenience and creep out my descendants for generations #and then someday it can be a macguffin in a bad historical fiction movie! The highest honor. 😌 #this is good cos it is my official author blog and if i ever get famous ppl can go back and see that I've been a freak the whole time #memes

[sparklyslug]

I have come to the conclusion that Cordelia only really makes sense in Lear if she is every bit as petty and prideful as her father

#maybe this is very regan or goneril of me idk but like #being THE GOOD ONE THE SWEET ONE isn’t enough to really explain why she does what she does #this is my issue with Lear overall I get actors love it but #motivations and choices in the writing are ALL OVER THE PLACE #and when you look at it too close it KIND OF DOESNT HANG TOGETHER AT ALL #thank you for attending this installment of sparkly Shakespeare shenanigans #Shakespeare #king Lear #sparkly originals

[ghoul-haunted]

huh. should I move shakespeare over to my main art blog or keep it to apmabinis. hm >:(

#we are >:( because i have to think about this and uughh. thinking #leans back in chair. perhaps the brutecass should go on katabay but shakespeare itself can go to apmabinis #or. maybe. the tagalog shakespeare adaption can go to katabay. questions questions questions questions. #the distinction ultimately doesnt matter bc i'd reblog it over wherever i end up posting it #idk shakespeare adaptions with alt settings feel like a creative project which puts it in katabay territory

[nostalgia-tblr]

tom's show the night manager is getting seasons 2 and 3!

one of the reasons i sometimes don't fit in that well in fandoms is that i don't usually care enough about actors to follow their projects :( Except for that period where I decided to watch every Will Smith film and insist on his genius as proved by his choice of such seminal movies as Hancock, I Am Legend With The Wrong Ending And Therefore Without The Moral Which Was The Entire Point Of The Story, and indeed pretty much anything he has starred in since roughly the year 2000. but i wasn't actually in any fandom related to a Will Smith project so does that even count?

(i *was* a bit tempted to find and watch High Rise because i like the works of JG Ballard BUT after obtaining a copy of the book i found that I couldn't actually bring myself to ruin my perfect state of knowing that particular Ballard novel only as "the one that [1987 Doctor Who story] was based on" and it turns out that this extends to any film version as well.)

but i hope you enjoy getting more of a thing you liked, Anon :)

#replies #90s Will Smith? epic. #i even like wild wild west but maybe that's just because it saved me from having to watch shakespeare in love idk really #AND he did the theme songs! in his own unique big willy style! #behold how i managed to fit in my traditional I Am Legend rant in answer to a question that should not have led to that happening!

[britneyshakespeare]

i didn't like the roaring girl by middleton and dekker as much as i was expecting to. i have the feeling it's just one of those you-have-to-watch-it plays but as someone who has read a lot of elizabethan-to-restoration era comedy this year, there are other have-to-watch-it plays that still fare as better entertainment in a reading. basically the selling point to me moll cutpurse as the main character herself, and on that front she didn't disappoint, but every other character in the play had minimal interest to me, or if they did, they only had a little bit of time on the stage. having already known that the plot is that she saves other women from dishonor and remains a single woman by choice, yes, that's still cool—the gender fluidity inspired by the real moll cutpurse is cool. i enjoyed reading about that. but the whole action and plot around it. lackluster.

#im also a bit partial to thinking maybe i just didnt like the editing in my edition? #but i read it in oxford world classics 'the roaring girl and other city comedies' #and that's the first play ive read in that collection but i just. idk i cant tell #when i read something else in that edition ill let you know. but i own other oxford world classics edition of english plays #and i usually like them. #i kinda enjoyed the other middleton comedy i read a few months ago a chaste maid in cheapside #not that that was really groundbreaking but i did find it funnier and the trickery of the plot was more entertaining. #the contrivances were better. and the side characters were waaaay funnier. that guy and his tutor OH my god #tales from diana #yeah if you're interested in the real historical moll cutpurse or any fiction inspired by her? i hate to say it but roaring girl's a skip #or at least it's not the first thing you need to read (it's the first thing i read) #(there must be better work though) #i also havent read enough middleton or dekker to tell whose voice is whose within the writing #but i dont find either of their styles of prose OR verse to be as elegant as shakespeare's. #i found a chaste maid in cheapside to be very modern-friendly in its language and the roaring girl i found. much less so. #i wonder if that has to do with dekker? or maybe just the vocabulary made necessary by the plot was different #hard to know! im not an expert. dont think i have any authority to discern here. #i have to read one of middleton's tragedies sometime. i still havent read women beware women

[grendelsmilf]

What’s your opinion on the novel 1984?

idk i read it a couple times as a kid but i haven’t read it since i was like 15? i think i remember thinking that orwell isn’t a very compelling fiction writer and should’ve just stuck to essays. like the part where rats (almost) eat his face is literally the only part of the book that feels like reading a novel instead of just wishing that he’d written an essay.

#ask #anon #the first time I read 1984 i think I was 8 or 9 and reading farenheit 451 and brave new world also #and I remember liking brave new world the most but maybe that’s just bc I’m partial to shakespeare references #idk #also yeah the misogyny in that book. not great!