#to hamlet and a midsummer nights dream

[eliasbouchardslut]

me and my coworkers were talking and it made me curious

#i personally read 4 in school #i read romeo and juliet. taming of the shrew. hamlet. and midsummer nights dream

[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

[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

[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

[royalmessofdenmark]

do you think Shakespeare lived with his characters dancing around his head rent free

do you think Shakespeare heard a new tune while listening to his church’s choir and went ‘oh my god that would be perfect for hamlet’ and reimagine hamlets death scene to it or something

or saw a love poem and went ‘Romeo and Juliet core’ before getting inspired to add another addition to his play that has practically nothing to do with the poem but couldn’t have happened without it

or saw idk a sword or something I’m running out of options here and was like ‘THATS MACBETHS NOW. HE OWNS THAT. IN MY HEART.’

#hamlet #shakespeare #william shakespere #willy shakes #macbeth #romeo and juliet #I’m sorry for all his comedy lovers I’ve only seen midsummer nights dream and I couldn’t think of anything taht would fit that TT

[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

[madebyancientomens]

shakespeare + polaroid movie posters

#i went down a shakespeare rabbit hole #dark academia #midsummer night's dream #romeo and juliet #hamlet #othello #macbeth #shakespeare #much ado about nothing #king lear #the tempest

[primasveraas]

#willy shakes #william shakespeare #shakespeare #a midsummer night's dream #julius caesar #hamlet #much ado about nothing #romeo and juliet #classic literature #literature #mine poste #my polls #polls

[i-daresay-i-have-too-many]

(pt 1)(pt 2)(pt 3)(RESULTS+superlatives)

#billy shakes #the plays in order: #the tempest #romeo and juliet #julius caesar #twelfth night #hamlet #macbeth #twelfth night again #troilus and cressida #hamlet again #a midsummer night's dream #shakespeare #shakesQUEER #polls #classic literature #trinculo/stephano i believe in you!! #gay

[wowwforever]

gonna do my own adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that's entirely the same except the poison scene goes on for a bit longer. Juliet drinks the poison that makes her go to sleep but Romeo drinks poison that supposedly kills him but it's actually a mislabeled vial of the first poison so Juliet wakes up and drinks some of that poison and then Romeo wakes up and is like "oh shit this poison doesn't work, here Juliet has some poison!" and he drinks that which is of course the go to sleep poison and then Juliet wakes up again and is like "What the fuck" and then Benvolio comes in and is like "My boy Romeo is poisoned! I'll join you bro." and now he's asleep, and then Juliet is like "I need some wine to process this" - Drinks out of the poisoned cup Romeo poured sleeping in and then Romeo wakes up again and is like "JULIET AND BENVOLIO?!" and he's so pissed but also confused and is like mentally 'well if drinking this poison twice brought my friends here i guess i'll drink it again and see what happens' and then Juliet wakes up again and she's like "Okay hold on. Let's see how this plays out" but she can't because then Fortinbras shows up and is like "I'm invading Verona! Fuck you!!!" but then Juliet splashes some sleeping poison in his face and he's out now and then Romeo wakes up and Benvolio dies because he was allergic to sleep poison and also the lion from Pyramus and Thisbe comes and kills them both The End

#text post #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #hamlet #a midsummer night's dream #poison

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 45: If You Could See the Premiere of One Shakespeare Play, Which Would You Pick?

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

#William Shakespeare #Shakespeare #Time Travel #Love's Labour Won #Much Ado About Nothing #King Lear #Coriolanus #Hamlet #Richard III #Richard II #Macbeth #A Midsummer Night's Dream

[zforzelma]

A list* of Shakespeare characters for which casting a trans actor is the strongest choice.

Take a look at your complete works of Shakespeare. You can pack so much Gender in those plays. I am of the opinion that casting should be undertaken to highlight the text and make new discoveries.

Really, any Shakespeare role can and should be played by a trans person of any variety, but there are some roles in particular that I think would unfold incredible revelations about the text. I'm leaving out magical characters and fools because that's too obvious.

Lysander - Mids; why don't you want me to marry your daughter? Say it, you coward.

Helena - Mids; This one would be psychologically intense for the actress, so really only attempt if you've got a good therapist. Having a trans woman in this role would be such a gut-punch for so much of the text, I honestly think it would make the audience uncomfortable at some parts. To which I say: GOOD.

I have so many more.

Viola - 12th; Also pretty psychologically intense with all the cross dressing, and the wow-you-look-just-like-your-brother, but her equivocation about gender in her conversations with Orsino would absolutely sing.

Orlando - As You Like It; His older brother won't let him go to college with the other men. Proves himself by winning in a wrestling match. Doesn't recognize his crush when she's cross dressing.

Mercutio - R&J; At this point I feel like everyone knows Mercutio is a nonbinary lesbian or trans masc. Right? Like, we all know that. Jokes aside, I think his difficult relationship with masculinity and honor would be interesting if interpreted by a trans actor.

Hamlet - Hamlet; Obviously. I mean duh. trans masc, trans fem, man, woman, both or neither. Any queer person probably gets Hamlet on a visceral level better than any cis straight person. Who's even casting a cis man as Hamlet in the year of our lord 2023? Yawn.

Laertes - Hamlet; Yeah I don't know what it is. This one is purely vibes based.

Macduff - Macbeth; I actually made Macduff a woman, changed all the pronouns and made him a lesbian when I directed, and I'd probably do that again. But I think Duff could also - or alternately - be trans. I think it would say something interesting about violence of his journey, the scene with future King Malcolm, and the fact that Duff is the one to behead ol' Mack.

What do you guys think? Did I miss an obvious one?

* this is not at all a comprehensive list

#Shakespeare #gender #midsummer night's dream #twelfth night #As You Like It #romeo & juliet #R&J #Hamlet #Macbeth

[dearest-lady-disdain]

‘why do you like shakespeare so much?’ because i’m queer and mentally unwell?? next question?

#same goes for dostoyevsky btw #shakespeare #william shakespeare #king lear #richard III #hamlet #a midsummer night's dream #coriolanus

[femmefatalegoth]

#shakespeare #hamlet #othello #julius caesar #macbeth #richard iii #a midsummer nights dream #the tempest #titus andronicus #much ado about nothing #poll

[attemptedvictorian]

Shakespeare side of Tumblr.

I want to get more into his works but don’t know where to start. Guidance is welcome.

#shakespeare #william shakespere #king lear #hamlet #macbeth #a midsummer night's dream #romeo and juliet #the tempest #much ado about nothing #othello #as you like it