#as you like it

[andietries]

If you think about it “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players” has to be one of the greatest examples of sudden self awareness in a character. Because their world is indeed a stage, and the people they interact with, players

It’s not like a metaphor or something, they’re stating a fact

#ramblings #william shakespeare #as you like it

[sparknoteslitmemes]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #spark notes twitter #spark notes #spark notes meme #spark notes killing the queue #literature meme #romeo and juliet #a midsummer night's dream #as you like it #twelth night #king lear #Hamlet #much ado about nothing #merchant of venice

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

brb I'm stealing his gender

[David Tennant as Touchstone in As You Like It, 1996]

#david tennant #shakespeare #as you like it #gender #the tights #the heels #the HAT

[emotinalsupportturtle]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant

#david tennant #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #benedick #much ado about nothing #romeo #romeo and juliet #hamlet #richard ii #macbeth #touchstone #as you like it #berowne #loves labours lost #antipholus of Syracuse #comedy of errors #Shakespeare characters #theatre #text post

[bookholichany]

David Tennant in Shakespeare plays

[As you like it , love's labor lost, Richard II, Hamlet, The Comedy of errors, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, much Ado about nothing, Macbeth]

P.s. he had also been in Edward III as Edward the black prince and the midsummer night's dream as Lysander/flute but I couldn't find any pictures from those plays.

#shakespeare #david tennant #literature #theatre #as you like it #macbeth #hamlet #love's labour's lost #much ado about nothing #romeo and juliet #richard ii #the comedy of errors #king lear #edward iii #a midsummer night's dream #i updated the Macbeth photo because it's fuckin stunning

[ganymede-time]

WOKE Shakespeare

Julius SHE/HER

CorioGAYNESS

THEY/THEMpest

The Merry WIVES of Windsor (LESBIANS??)

ACE You Like It

Titus ANDROGYNOUS

#the merry wives of windsor ARE lesbians #julius caesar #coriolanus #the tempest #merry wives of windsor #as you like it #i feel like these are all pretty accurate.. who's androgynous in titus you ask? the baby.

[femmefatalegoth]

#shakespeare #the tempest #hamlet #as you like it #king lear #romeo and juliet #the taming of the shrew #macbeth #a midsummer night's dream #othello #poll

[legendary-dumpster-fire]

RIP William Shakespeare, you would have loved neopronouns

#william shakespeare #willy shakes #twelfth night #the tempest #a midsummer night's dream #two gentlemen of verona #romeo and juliet #macbeth #as you like it #hamlet #the taming of the shrew #juno's junkyard

[wreaths-of-myrtle-and-rose]

#poll #polls #new poll #shakespeare #theater #trans #transgender #nonbinary #i'm really normal about shakespeare and gender can't you tell #i want to play at least half of these characters So Bad #the tempest #midsummer night's dream #twelfth night #as you like it #hamlet #macbeth #romeo and juliet #i made this poll instead of making run sheets for tech of love's labor's lost tonight oops

[iamnmbr3]

So you know the scene at the end of The Taming of The Shrew where they have that stupid competition to see whose wife is most obedient? Can you imagine if other Shakespeare characters were there?

Ophelia: You called, My Lord?

Hamlet: No I didn’t. Why are you here when nobody likes you? Go away!

Petruchio: Even I think that’s mean.

Romeo: Go find Juliet and ask her if she would come here and tell her she has the most beautiful eyes, that make the very sun seem dull, and the loveliest hair and a face that puts to shame Aphrodite herself...oh and bring her this sonnet I wrote her...and actually I’ll go find her myself for I can’t bear to be apart from her another moment!

Petruchio: …

Petruchio: … Yeah he’s not coming back. Next!

Coriolanus: Go find my wife and ask her to come here and also ask her if she's seen Aufidius. Actually, have you seen Aufidius...or heard any news of him?

Servant: No I haven't… Is there a name or a description I could use to find your wife?

Coriolanus: Hold on. I know this one.

Petruchio: Wow... We’ll come back to you. Next!

Orlando: I refuse to participate in this farce. It’s demeaning to women.

“Ganymede”: Nonsense! Any real man (which I totally am) wants women to obey him without question!

Orlando: That’s wrong! That’s not being a “real man”; that’s just being a bully. I would never treat Rosalind that way and I hope no one else would either!

“Ganymede”: … You pass the test.

Orlando: What?

"Ganymede": What?

Benedick: HEY BEATRICE!

Beatrice from 3 rooms away: WHAT?

Benedick: CAN YOU COME HERE A SECOND?

Beatrice: WHY?

Benedick: SOME MAN HERE WANTS TO SEE IF YOU’RE OBEDIENT.

Beatrice: WHY ARE YOU PERPETUATING THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN INSTEAD OF PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE?

Benedick: YOU MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO COME HERE AND SHOW OFF YOUR OBEDIENCE? I AM SHOCKED AND HEARTBROKEN!

Beatrice: HA. HA. SO HILARIOUS.

Beatrice: … HE STILL DOESN’T SOUND VERY PUNCHED IN THE FACE. I SUGGEST YOU FIX THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOREVER!

Benedick: ON IT!

Benedick *rolling up his sleeves*: Isn’t she great?

#Petruchio: Why are you rolling up your sleeves? You’re not just going to let some woman tell you what to— *gets hit right in the jaw* #Benedick: She is not *punch* “some woman”! *punch* She’s *punch* Beatrice! *punch* #Benedick: WAS THAT ENOUGH DARLING? #Beatrice: YEAH! SOUNDS GOOD #Petruchio to “Ganymede”: YOU'RE a man after my own heart. Will you help me up? #“Ganymede”: I am neither a man nor after any heart but Orlando's. *punches him while he still is trying to work that out* #Coriolanus: We’re fighting? Who are we fighting? Is it Aufidius? #listen. after they get together Beatrice and Benedick are THAT couple and they absolutely make that everyone's problem #humor #Shakespeare #Shakespearean shenanigans #the taming of the shrew #much ado about nothing #hamlet #Coriolanus #As you like it #gen

[chalicechipper]

as you like it / 3.2.256-60

#as you like it #shakespeare #banger. absolutely

[catullus101]

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

#david tennant #as you like it #royal shakespeare company #william shakespeare #reg wilson

[ink-and-pages]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #twelfth night #romeo and juliet #much ado about nothing #as you like it #classic literature #early modern theatre

[misslevel]

Couldn't fit all the comedies in the 12 options, so made separate polls for Problem Plays and Late Romances.

(Also: Shakespeare poll tag, for all the different genres.)

#shakespeare #as you like it #comedy of errors #love's labour's lost #merry wives of windsor #midsummer night's dream #much ado about nothing #taming of the shrew #twelfth night #two gentlemen of verona #shakespearepolls

[lifeandtimesoftrying]

THERE IS A RECORDING OF AS YOU LIKE IT (1996)

Breaking news!! Extra, extra, read all about it!!! You may have been pictures of David Tennant such as this one:

but upon trying to find a way to watch the production this is from, been told that there's no way to do so. And this is partially true: there is no copy of this floating around on the internet, and no DVDs have been released. BUT! Not all is lost! @raining-stars-somewhere-else and I have been investigating, and there is a recording of As You Like It (1996) housed in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. According to their website, there is a VHS tape and two DVDs (though one of them stops playing halfway through). There are no digital copies of available to the public, but you can go to their reading room for free and access their archives that way. Neither my fellow detective nor I have ever been, so we're not sure exactly how it works, but we believe that you can watch the archived video recordings so long as you're in-person. Unfortunately, we cannot get there ourselves, but we're sharing what we know in hopes that someone who reads this can do some on-the-ground reconnaissance. According to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's website, the reading room is located "on Guild Street to the rear of the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6QW" in England. If you find anything new, please let us know, and if you want to remain anonymous we can do that. Good luck everyone!!!

relevant links:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's home page

Archive page for the recording

Information about the Reading Room

RSC's page for the performance (this is where the picture is from, and has information about the cast and crew)

#david tennant #dt #david tennaissance #as you like it #as you like it 1996 #as you like it (1996) #rsc #royal shakespeare company #shakespeare #young david tennant #lost media #behold! an original post! #Shakespeare birthplace trust

[nobrashfestivity]

Franciszek Starowieyski

Poster for As You Like It

#Franciszek Starowieyski #william shakespeare #as you like it #illustration #posters