#and sad about hamlet

[hamletthedane]

*laying on my floor staring at the ceiling, completely distraught* I mean, what even is Horatio’s role in the play??

“Horatio, Friend to Hamlet.”

Horatio, stranger, young student, trusted confidant and friend of Hamlet, trusted aid to everybody else in Elsinore, advisor, assister, orator, oracle, Cassandra, mourner, witness to all events unfolding, lingerer in all scenes with no dialogue, more an Antique Roman than a Dane, thou that he knowest thine, the sole survivor of tragedy, the audience itself-

#Hamlet #horatio #he IS the audience #he is the witness to the ghost just as we are #his heart dies with Hamlet as does ours #he’s stuck watching an inevitable tragedy play out before him and is powerless to stop it - as are we #It’s sad about Hamlet again hours

[simmyfrobby]

― “Landscape,” Louise Glück, Averno.

Hockey Poetry Post 7/?

(Photo credit: Chris Tanouye, Mitchell Leff, Len Redkoles, Jonathan Kozub, Bruce Bennett, Tim Nwachukwu)

#look dont yell at me im as sad about this as you are #also you know those tragic characters who are genre aware #like Shakespeare's hamlet. cleopatra. troilus. cressid. #hector #your name as your fate etc. #Giroux is SO aware of his own myth. look at the Len Redkoles pictures especially. #anyway #take a shot if you participate in the Will Joy Mention Louise Glück In This Post drinking game #I love her. im not sorry. #claude giroux #philadephia flyers #ottowa senators #also lets play spot the konecny #I just like his face #hockey poetry posts #sens #flyers

[aq2003]

saw a letterboxd review of 2009 hamlet saying they didn't like how hamlet just seemed to be crazy all of the time and i was reminded of when david tennant said this

#literally exactly how IIIIII feel about HIS hamlet like brother i fucking get it #hamlet #not to say hamlet is very rational bc categorically he isnt but like. #if the thing in MY head that told me to be considerate of the ppl around me got switched off i would act + feel extremely similarly to him #and why would hamlet be very considerate of the emotions of the ppl around him if he's being told #that his feelings are unworthy of his status and that he should move on (when ALSO there is a clear injustice happening besides his grief) #not talking abt his sexism that is a WHOLE different beast that changes completely depending on a variety things including his gender #but like his sadness and anxiety and frustration and anger and fear are all very very very familiar to me

[thehamletdiaries]

Thinking about how much Hamlet and Ophelia's friendship means to me and how we really see...none of it in the play...the only part where they are interacting close to normally is the play within a play scene and even then obviously the wider context is deeply not normal but I still think in that there are hints at a dynamic that was once very beautiful and sweet.

Two kids who grew up together.

#why did I even write this it just made me sad #this is the problem with talking about hamlet #it makes you sad #hamlet #ophelia #hamlet x ophelia #but really it's ultimately a friendship dynamic

[lizardrosen]

man, what if gertrude can't sleep in her own bedroom anymore after she's witnessed a murder there?? does she move into claudius's chamber, after hamlet specifically asked her not to, or have a spare room set up? or maybe she just stays in the same place and suffers. after all, what's one more ghost, when she's already getting used to all the places and moments where her husband no longer is.

#hamlet #gertrude #shakespeare #i'm real sad about her!

[existential-sunbeam]

- Dracula, Lucy Wenstera

And Hamlet, "To die, to sleep; /To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; /For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"

#I swear I read on here that Stoker was a fan of Hamlet which makes this Dracula passage so much more sad! #Lucy is just talking about her fear of sleep but we as readers know what comes later. #re dracula #dracula daily

[unicornofthemidwest]

And what about Shakespeare's missing fathers? What about Henry 5's funeral being the first scene of his son's plays? What about Coriolanus becoming a missing father after his own father is missing? What about Helena's father, who gave her the power to heal the king and start the plot? What about Olivia's dead father and Viola's dead father? What about King Hamlet? What about all the children who can't grieve and can't even revenge themselves? What about the missing fathers?

#Shakespeare #henry iv #coriolanus #all's well that ends well #twelfth night #hamlet #someday I'll write about the parents that are actually in Shakespeare and then you'll see. you'll all see #also is it true that Antonio is Beatrice's father?? wild #let helena and olivia and hamlet and goddamn henry 6 be sad about their dead dads 2k24 please #also there's definitely something to be said about aaron and tamora and chiron and demetrius but we so do not have time for that rn

[gravedangerahead]

It's sad emo boy season on tumblr.com, with sandman and batman, but we must never forget our roots 💀💀💀

It's a snarky dunk AND it's hella sad, nobody does it like my boy Hamlet, okay?

And the echolalia too, at the end? He was never king of Denmark, but he was a king all the same

#Hamlet #Shakespeare #Rapha rambles #sandman and batman sad boys in black owe it all to him okay #my poor little meow meow #I love Hamlet so much except when I'm thinking about Ophelia then I hate him #might not be echolalia in him if it actually has to be repetition of somebody else's words #but it causes echolalia in me

[uncommon-lamp]

Having a lot of thoughts about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #hamlet #shakespeare #tom stoppard #rosencrantz and guildenstern #literature #literature memes #memes #original memes #theres just something about the extreme meta-ness that makes me sad #in a good way

[trial3]

funnily enough i think moreso than distasteful jokes or willful misinterpretations what really bothers me when it comes to representations of Her are people not picking up on the fact that shes a freak alt girl

#ill get screenshots tomorrow but like what do we know about her personality wise? #1. purportedly the sort of person who would greatly enjoy kirumis lab on an aesthetic level #2. weird and incredibly intensive creative hobby #3. presumably a vkei fan??? #4. even more purported but most likely contains some kernel of truth: notably sad and gloomy due to miserable life #5. Her Bangs Covering One Eye Hairstyle. #of course this may not always come through in sense of dress but i can tell when people draw her and think shes not like. #a teen girl who has never interacted face to face with another teen girl and is convinced shes Ophelia From Hamlet in real life #t3tw #im so taken by the madness right now its not even funny . im literally taken by the madness btw

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

bro for the ship bingo… hamratio? 👀

KISSING YOU ON THE LIPS FOR THIS ONE

they are such guys. i miss them.

#the only reason i didn’t say the ‘aw i love them’ or the otp one is that they’re too sad for that. #they’re not like. a cute little ship they tear my heart out and crush it into a million tiny pieces. #also i will say that using the phrase ‘canon did them wrong’ (while very true) about a shakespeare play is so funny to me #hamlet #hamratio #eli.ask #eli.posts

[hereforyourdispleasure]

I am genuinely so close to losing it all there's no articles I can quote for my essay how are there fuck all articles about politics in Hamlet

#Feel like shit never want to socialise again #And now all the sad old men who waste their lives writing essays about Hamlet wanting to screw Gertrude #can't be assed to just give me a one liner of “oh yeah politics in Denmark are a bit shit here”

[withasideofshakespeare]

I’m currently re-reading Hamlet (…again) and I realized that I’ve always assumed that the main cast is clued in to the fact that Hamlet is behind Polonius’s murder, but I’m pretty sure that Gertrude and Claudius (and Ros & Guil- who are sent to find the body) are the only people who are explicitly stated to know.

Laertes is the only person who is confirmed to not know (he assumes Claudius was behind the murder and none of the men of his short-lived revolution plan seem to know either, or they surely would’ve told him.)

This leaves a few questions. One: do Horatio & Ophelia know? Two: who told Laertes that his father died (thus calling him back to Denmark) without bothering to mention who murdered him?

Horatio, I think, has to know. He appears in scenes with both Claudius and Gertrude multiple times throughout Act 4 and unless they were explicitly keeping it from him (why?), he probably found out.

Ophelia is more ambiguous. I prefer it that she knows, because this way, her role in Act 4 makes more sense. She’s pushed over the edge not just by the death of her father but the betrayal it represents, committed at the hand of her own (ex) lover. But it’s entirely possible that she doesn’t, at least for a while, because that explains Laertes’ confusion- she sends word to him before finding out who did it.

This is a minor detail, but could be fun to play with in adaptions!

#hamlet #Shakespeare #my ramblings about an extremely small detail in a play nobody except your high school English teacher cares this much about #horatio knowing makes his role so damn sad :( #his (boy)friend is a murderer and still he welcomes Hamlet home when he returns from his adventures on the high seas #Horatio is extremely devoted #tragically devoted #tragic danish boyfriends

[thehamletdiaries]

Dancing at The Globe

So, I have been lucky enough to see Comedy of Errors and Macbeth at the Globe recently. After Comedy of Errors, they did a dance - a jig, which would have been what happened after plays during Shakespeare's time.

After Macbeth, they did not do a dance because to a modern audience, that would have felt out of sync with the mood of the play (for obvious reasons).

But (if my understanding is correct) historically, during Shakespeare's time, the cast would have danced after tragedies, as well as comedies.

And whilst I wouldn't suggest doing that for Hamlet...something you could do would be a slow dance. You could do it with really any combination of characters, but the way I've been imagining it is with Horatio, Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (good luck to any cast getting Hamlet and Laertes off staged and changed in time but these things are doable). All the dead characters would be in white, so only Horatio would wear the clothes he wore throughout the play.

Hamlet dances with Horatio, Rosencrantz with Guildenstern and Ophelia with Laertes, giving us three types of love; romantic, friendship (sorry to R&G shippers, please don't come for me, I love you all and this works equally well if you see them as romantic) and familial. About half way through the music, they move into a sort of "Elizabethan style" slow dance, moving between pairs and allowing everyone to at some point briefly dance with everyone, but everyone ends up with their original pairing at the end.

Perhaps at some point Ophelia breaks down and is just held by Laertes, perhaps at some point Rosencrantz and Guildenstern just stop dancing and stand arm in arm watching Horatio and Hamlet dance...the boys dance, foreheads pressed against each other, not wanting to let each other go to the very end...Horatio's crying, or they are both crying, and Horatio is shaking his head and holding Hamlet as if to say "please don't go".

But towards the end of the music, the five actors playing the dead characters go to the back of the stage area, leaving Horatio alone downstage. One by one, they exit through the door at the back of the stage, Hamlet being the last to go, leaving Horatio standing alone as the music fades.

This could be performed with any number of pieces of music, but when I was imagining this, these were the pieces that I listened to. With that last one, particularly, I imagined Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Laertes and Ophelia emerging first and dancing around Horatio before Hamlet enters upstage and walks towards Horatio, pulling him into a dance.

#hamlet #I made myself sad by thinking about this #naturally #shakespeare #the globe #comedy of errors #macbeth #hamlet/horatio #ophelia #hamlet x horatio #tragic danish boyfriends #laertes #rosencrantz and guildenstern

[sparklyslug]

No one asked but here’s my JQ Shakespearean wish list:

Mercutio / Romeo and Juliet (he gets to be chaotic and queer and dead, all areas in which he excels)

Don Juan / Much Ado About Nothing (I mean I’d love to see him be ANYONE in Much Ado, he might even win me over with his Claudio, but hello scheming and a plain dealing villain and if I had my teeth I would bite??? Yes please and thank you.)

Prince Hal / Henry IV pt I (specifically Henry IV pt I because like yeah Henry V is stirring and all that, but Hal is such a fucking mess and there’s a really interesting streak of nobility and also cruelty in him. Henry V is like a really good action movie, I just find Henry IV pt I an overall more interesting and enjoyable play with more complicated characters.)

Orlando / As You Like It (listen I need one happy ending romantic lead JQ performance in my lifetime and Orlando is DREAMY and he also has some really good HUMOR and some real SINCERITY AND ANGST and he could DO IT)

Richard III / Richard III (aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just want to go apeshit? FULL. VILLAIN. EXCELLENCE.)

#are these all a little basic? YEAH MAYBE WHAT U WANNA GO ABOUT IT?? #Hamlet could be on here duh for v similar reasons as Mercutio #but idk if even I want to see him that skrunkly and fucked up and sad #he’s a little young for Benedick otherwise that would be my romantic lead pick #but yeah Much Ado could just be this whole list tbh #I almost put Coriolanus on here but then I thought maybe my Hiddleston obsession was just coming through too obvious #joseph quinn #sparkly originals #shakespeare

[gremlin-pattie]

i had already watched the movie version of ragad, but i just finished reading the script for the play and i’m losing my mind. i have so many thoughts but no words. hhhrrrrrgghhh

#WAAAAAAAUUGHHHHH #I LOVE THESE GUYS SO MUCH AND IM SAD ABOUT THEM #ragad #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #hamlet