#shakespeare endings

[claire-de-lune-poetry]

To be or to not-

The day old question of a turning century

"Do we consume the poetry, or does the poetry consume us?"

I suppose in my theroy

If you are more of a reader, you consume it

Gluttonous to the detriment of our curiosity

If you are a writer though..

It consumes you.

Swallows every aspect of your passions

Lusting for the very burn your soul waters for

Desire wouldn't be a big enough plate

You'd eat the table just to be descriptive

Just to put eyes, minds, feelings, exactly where we were

Writing, producing, directing your very own image

To bring the Frankenstein of creativity to life

How much power black and white symbols become

Words don't hurt for those who have never enjoyed poetry

It's impossible to feel nothing and write

Even nothing is felt across blank pages

Even silence screams an echo dogs can hear

So to let it burn or be burned

I guess would be the cost of our desires

And you know what they say

Everything comes at a price

Are you willing to pay without paper fallacy

Illusions of monetary value while you waste time

All for the question at hand

To not be a consequence of something so sublime

12/09/23

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #dead poets society #spilled poetry #spilled in poetry #poetic #creative writing #spiritualpath #edgar allen poe #original poem #writers and poets #poets on tumblr #to be or not to be #shakespeare #shakespeare endings #passion #spiritual path #art #writing #your not a product #capitalist dystopia

[bloodybellycomb]

I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

#mine is shakespeare #hamlet #specifically #although i will defend #romeo and juliet #to the ends of the earth #also #the iliad #the odyssey #literature #writing #classics #although it can be so much more than just books #i also think that I would defend the story of kingdom hearts like this as well #probably homestuck too #completely unironically #birdy chirps

[megamindsupremacy]

a random child asks Batman “How many times a day do you think about the Roman Empire?” for the meme and accidentally unlocks a 45 minute unskippable cutscene that only ends when Superman physically picks Batman up and flies him away from the enthralled history nerd child

#mads posts #Batman #dc comics #Superman #Bruce starts off with ‘what’ and ends with a long rant about Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

[tuverras]

on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.

oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera

#web weaving #web weave #tragedy #poetry #song of achilles #patrochilles #hadestown #orestes #romeo and juliet #aristotle #the book thief #the hunger games #antigone #richard siken #they both die at the end #books #shakespeare #quotes

[liones-s]

the experience of tragedy in plays specifically because ‘maybe it will end differently this time’ feels possible. This isn’t pre-recorded. This isn’t set down in time and film. This is live, this is now, these people are real and maybe this time when they open the letter it won’t say ‘kill the messenger’. Maybe this time they get to live

#yes this IS about Rosencrantz and Gildenstern #even when I know the end #a part of me thinks every time that they might get to live #theatre hits in such a specific way #tragedy #theatre #Shakespeare #hamlet #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #personal

[too-funky]

David Tennant performing a soliloquy from Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7 🎭

#david tennant #shakespeare #macbeth #watch to the end!

[edathetublady]

The Catherine Tate, David Tennant version of Much Ado About Nothing has been taken off youtube and I don't know how to cope.

How am I supposed to sleep without those lovely idiots talking Shakespeare in the background?

My top contenders for what to do now this is gone are scream and cry so if anybody can weigh in on whether I should scream or cry or scream and cry, I would be most grateful.

This post is my first step of grief. I am in mourning now.

#david tennant #catherine tate and david tennant being material gowrls #catherine tate #disaster which will end all of mankind (no exaggeration) #shakespeare #much ado about nothing #doctor who #donna noble #10th doctor #hey nonny nonny #i will cry now

[l832]

[iamstandingwater]

Saw a production of Romeo and Juliet recently where the actors never actually left the stage but sat in the shadows in the scenes they weren't in, watching the action. It made everything feel really claustrophobic and also managed to visualise the fact that every single character in the play is complicit in its tragedy precisely because they are more content to sit and watch than make an effort to change. All of them perpetuate the cycle of violence that traps the two lovers and leaves them with nowhere and no one to run to. In the Capulet's tomb, Juliet ran at her silent onlookers, desperate, pleading, looking for a way to escape. But the citizens of Verona only really understand one language and that language doesn't speak of change, it demands violence. Juliet knows what is expected of her, this young girl with a knife in her hand and death on her lips. Her chance at a life that transcends the horror of everyday brutality and the terrible tedium of misery and pain is dead on the floor at her feet and none of her family members, her friends, the people who claim to care for her, will let her out alive.

#shakespeare #romeo and juliet #one of my favourite plays actually #also this production ended with that scene on the capulet's tomb #which made it even more brutal #like give me some time to process please #i cant clap whilst sobbing

[thecandlewasters]

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#destiel meme #NMTD #Nothing Much To Do #Much Ado About Nothing #shakespeare #superwholock #maan #supernatural #the candle wasters #dracula daily #a show by tumblrinas for tumblrinas #destielputinelection #NMTDaily #tumblr #sorry this isn't like important breaking news #but c'mon ends on 5 November?? had to do it to 'em #MG

[thelastharbinger]

This Boy Was Made To Suffer.

#bruh why am i crying. this gifset wasn't supposed to hurt me #pls let him smile by the end of the show #my heart breaks for the trickster god #loki #loki series #loki laufeyson #lokius #tom hiddleston #anyways bravo to tom hiddleston for bringing so much heart & shakespeare to this little villain #loki finale

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

Best Shakespeare Adaptation

since the 1600s, people have been rewriting shakespeare and writing spinoffs in good, bad, and frankly just kind of insane ways. today, they will compete until only one is left standing!

during the poll craze i ran a lot of brackets and had fun, but ended up with a couple spare blogs i ended up having to delete, so i'm running this one off my main.

q. is this a tournament for productions or adaptations?

a. adaptations! stuff that changes dialogue or medium (beyond play -> movie) or takes a really new spin on it! west side story counts, romeo and juliet (1996) doesn't.

q. will there be a limit on contestants?

i'll cut it at 64 or 32 depending on how many submissions we get! if we get a lot of adaptations of a few plays and less of others, i won't cut any of them out, but i'll make some of them face off in round one

q. are you biased?

yes. fortinbras sweep. i've been reading 'these violent delights' too and it's pretty good. oh and can't forget haider, and requiem of the rose king is an all timer... basically, yes i really like rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, but i have much room in my heart

q. is it most best portrayal/analysis, or best on its own merits?

a. a little of both, but mostly the latter

q. does [x thing] (that's pretty different than the original inspiration) count?

a. if it is common knowledge that it's shakespeare inspired

q. does the lion king count?

a. yea

signal boosting! if yall great bracket blogs will help out @gayest-classiclit @byronicherobracket (this one's still in qualifiers, it seems cool!) @straightplayshowdown (this one's getting going again!) @bestadaptationtournament @gayestshakespearecouples

#I wanted to put a Shakespeare quote at the end but I'm finishing this post on like 3 hours of sleep and I can't think of one #shakespeare #lit #lets goo I've been meaning to do this for ages #it is a little hard to judge this objectively off of a 'best' metric since they'll all be for different plays as well #but I think it'll still be fun #my dark horse: the midsummer nights dream sequel about being Indian that I will never finish #chitra.txt

[tritoch]

wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!

like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"

the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.

emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.

#emet-selch #ffxiv #hades #shadowbringers spoilers #like by the time you get to the end you've already spoken to the amaurotine shades and hythlodaeus in particular #it's incredibly clear that even if emet's plans come to fruition he is *utterly alien to the world he is trying to restore* #and like prospero is restored in the end. but his wife is still dead. miranda grew up isolated and alone. #also to take a somewhat more jaundiced view #the things he did to caliban and to ariel can never be undone. that stain is with him forever. #and i mean even IF you can just yank all those souls right out of zodiark and fix the whole thing #there's still everyone who died before the first sacrifice and after the second. also THE VOID IS THE VOID. #'yeah uh we'll just fix that. when zodiark is up and running properly.' #sure dude i totally believe your expertise on the problem you caused by not knowing enough. you definitely know enough now. #anyways he can't waver for even a moment bc it means acknowledging he has betrayed everything he ever claimed to believe in due to his grie #he is in blood stepped so far etc. if i can be allowed to mix my shakespeares #emet-selch more like emet-sunk cost fallacy

[golden28s]

i said it on twitter and ill say it again here what do you mean a decade later he looks at mickey the exact same way

#idk he's unhinged for this #a menace to society #Shakespeare is crying shaking because THEY ARE the greatest love story #and also romeo and juliet with a happy ending #shameless #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #gallavich

[demobatman]

[WIP] i am up to something Nefarious

#whatdyall know about the twelfth night 🔥🔥🔥 #favorite shakespeare play bc im a filthy trans gendered #trans mike everyone cheered #anywho #yall look up anne hathaway twelfth night and youll see the reference pic #im allowed to draw milkvan kiss bc in the play mikes character ends up with wills #i promise I PROMISE #3:17 am #doodle #wip

[estellaestella]

MACBETH // DUNE PART ONE & DUNE PART TWO

There's more of course. Prophecies. Visions of daggers and talking babies, etc

#Dune #Dune Part 2 #macbeth #shakespeare #dune part two #Timothee Chalamet #Rebecca Ferguson #Anya Taylor Joy #Paul Atreides #Muad'Dib #Usul #Alia Atreides #Jessica Atreides #Denis Villeneuve #Frank Herbert #feyd #feyd x paul #austin butler #witches & space witches #is Duncan Idaho named after the King in Macbeth? Pure character & all that good stuff plus you know Frank kinda gives him a happy ending et