to bae or not to bae?

fighting to eradicate sit-down-and-read-it shakespeare from english classrooms everywhere a smattering of shakespeare, borne of my late-night musings, excess inspirations, and deep admiration of our dear bard. find things sorted under "index" if organization suits your fancy

[ilovekbranagh]

Sir Kenneth Branagh  used a pun of a bee for charity   (Bees For Development)

[thoodleoo]

girls don’t want boys, girls want to dance in the woods with the god dionysus and tear any man who dares to interrupt their bacchic revelry limb from limb

[edmundofgloucester]

[user0987654321876543]

Claudius: Ophelia, why you be cray? U need help boo?

Ophelia:

[britneyshakespeare]

stage direction: [enter POLONIUS]

me: this bitch

[gnossienne]

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V Scene II

[shakespearenews]

Russian boy reads Shakespeare in English

“Thus CONSCIENCE does make COWARDS of us all!!”

[soupbao-deactivated20210920]

compost, wheat, weeds

[schmergo]

Claudius trying to investigate the cause of Hamlet’s madness:

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

I would love to see a production of Hamlet set in the 80s, if for no other reason than to see Hamlet’s really dark wardrobe come off as even more inappropriate and weird because everyone else is wearing bright neon.

[his-quietus-make]

[english-history-trip]

Macbeth:

[anunperfectactor-blog]

Claudius: hey Hamlet can you-

Hamlet, mouth full of tic-tacs: fuck off (sound of tic-tacs scattering on the floor)

[shakespearenews]

‘Don’t want to be clever.’ That’s the best piece of advice a classical theater director can have.

Gregory Doran  (via shakespearenews)

[dukeofstratford]

i worked very hard on this

[thedamnstars]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theatre (2013)

Yet marked I where the bold of cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, before milk-white now purple with love’s wound and maidens call it love-in-idleness

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

enter the body: women and representation on shakespeare’s stage by carol chillington rutter

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

enter the body: women and representation on shakespeare’s stage by carol chillington rutter