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alice. 23. INFJ. theatre/musical geek. sarcastic tyrell. proud ravenclaw. starship member in the weekends. baker when there's time. writer everyday. reading: "The Three Musketeers"

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simultaneously wishing i were a woodland fairy, a maiden in the scottish highlands who is actually a selkie, a victorian naturalist who scandalously wears pants, a 1960s schoolgirl by the sea, a friendly forest witch, a reef-dwelling mermaid, a ghostly gothic heroine, or maybe a cat

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ART HISTORY MEME || Themes or series or subjects (3/6) ↬ Ophelia

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shakespeare’s use of tragedy is different from the classical; what makes him care about his tragic characters is not that they are good, as greek protagonists fundamentally are, but that they might have been.

john vyvyan, the shakespearean ethic (via oephelia)

[kitmarlo]

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger (via amyvnorris)

[shakesnark]

“She said upon a time — the bitterness of it I now belch from my heart — that she held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect than my noble and natural person together with the adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, — which, as I say, to vex her I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, — to the court I’ll knock her back, foot her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly, and I’ll be merry in my revenge.”

Cloten, Cymbeline, III.v

This speech is from the early 1600s, but reflects the terribly misguided attitudes alive and well today. Cloten, an idiot and a villain, ends up sans head at the end of the play.

(via shakespeareismyjam)

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Imogen: Production Photos

Matthew Dunster’s urban reworking of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, Imogen, has rocked the Globe Theatre so far. 

Don’t miss this electrifying new production, running until 16 October. For tickets.

Images © Tristram Kenton

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Types of Shakespeeps

Comedy people: hopeless romantics but also really into dick jokes; unfazed by the wildest coincidence but confused about their gender, their whole identity, or both

History people: either Team York or Team Lancaster and will fight you over it; on a first-name basis with several dead monarchs; on a weird personal crusade to exonerate their problematic fave and won’t shut up about it

Tragedy people: love to suffer and plan to take everyone else down with them; ready to die for the ‘aesthetic’; not-so-secretly into BDSM

Romance people: consider themselves exempt from the forces of time, geography, probably gravity; high like 90% of the time; career prospects include pirate, statue, bear

‘Problem play’ people: too serious for the comedies, too squeamish for the tragedies; have a really strong opinion about the end of Measure for Measure and will tell you about it whether you want to hear it or not; DISCOURSE FOR DAYS

Apocrypha people: Shakespeare hipsters

BONUS

Jonson people: don’t actually like Jonson but Shakesepare is too mainstream

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Can i be Webster people? Or stab-a-douche-Hammie people?

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more text messages here

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Ned Poins be like

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Visit Original Link

Ophelia | The Lumineers

Honey, I love you That’s all she wrote

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one of my favorites 

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When you’re Shakespeare trash.

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Happy October!

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Happy 100th birthday, Roald Dahl! | 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990

Illustrations by Quentin Blake

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Humorous Charts and Graphs Show What Being an Introvert Is All About

[almaviva90]

‘The next five years: it’s gonna be letdown after U-turn after… What if people look back on this? On me? And they simply don’t agree? What if I made a mistake?’

'Nick, come on. You got in. Against the odds. And now we can change everything as two-party politics becomes three, becomes four. We can give people a choice to change how governments are chosen forever. That will be your legacy.’

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Literary Witches by Katy Horan and Taisia Kitaiskaia