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Rules: List 5 of your favourite films in a poll and have people vote on which is their favourite.
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This is a Shakespeare blog, so gotta keep it exclusively to films based on plays by ol' Shaky boy!
5 favs
Hamlet (1996)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Hamlet (1990)
Richard III (1995)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
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The best tragedies will have you thinking "I wish it could've gone any other way" and "this is the only way it could've ended" at the same time
"i asked chatgpt" okay well i asked the weird gay court jester and he gave me a foreboding omen in the form of a riddle. we are not the same
Lear is appalled his children use AI, that’s the real reason they need to be disinherited! Get an insane creepy jester bestie, kids!
Oliver Chris being, um, cheeky... as Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2019)
"Hamlet" (1996) - Kenneth Branagh
Seen it
Haven't seen it
rereading a midsummer night's dream and the amount of trust the craftsmen have for the nobles' reading comprehension is just hilarious
"i wonder if they will understand that i'm actually not a lion" "i think we should make it clear that i'm a person playing a wall and not actually a wall" "are they in fact at all familiar with the concept of acting"
I'll just leave this here...
rereading a midsummer night's dream and the amount of trust the craftsmen have for the nobles' reading comprehension is just hilarious
"i wonder if they will understand that i'm actually not a lion" "i think we should make it clear that i'm a person playing a wall and not actually a wall" "are they in fact at all familiar with the concept of acting"
I'll just leave this here...
Fellow Bard enthusiasts!
I have a question: Is it common to portray Edmund and the Duke of Cornwall as having an affair, in productions of "King Lear"?
(This is in addition to Edmund's other canon affairs, of course.)
I just watched a version from the mid-80s and its version of Act III, Scene V left NO ambiguity about it.
I mean...
Cornwall on the left, Edmund in the water, on the right.
(Yes, I had to blur, um, certain 'parts of Cornwall', shall we say? Because it was all out in the open...)
Cornwall is a key member of Edmund’s Polycule of Evil.
My understanding of the Polycule of Evil (it’s quite complex):
Now, you see, this is the kind is Shakespeare analysis we all need! A+
Or as Shakespeare would say: Hamlet.
is Edmund supposed to be insanely sexy or do Regan and Goneril just both have a thing for evil guys
I'm reading a thing analyzing King Lear and asking if there are clues that he was abusive. As always, my response is "you can play it that way," but I definitely believe he was always in some way making them compete for his affection, and Cordelia threw away her inheritance prospects because she had just plain had enough, especially when he tried to make them do it in front of an audience.
This obviously doesn't excuse Goneril and Regan of doing things like torturing innocent third parties, but it would explain why, once they have their inheritance, they don't want to have anything to do with dad anymore. The play is still a tragedy, and we can still weep for Lear as we can for many flawed characters, but he is definitely the guy who started the whole thing.
Fellow Bard enthusiasts!
I have a question: Is it common to portray Edmund and the Duke of Cornwall as having an affair, in productions of "King Lear"?
(This is in addition to Edmund's other canon affairs, of course.)
I just watched a version from the mid-80s and its version of Act III, Scene V left NO ambiguity about it.
I mean...
Cornwall on the left, Edmund in the water, on the right.
(Yes, I had to blur, um, certain 'parts of Cornwall', shall we say? Because it was all out in the open...)
For those who commented - @transsexualcoriolanus @tragedyposting @beforeviolets and @callixton - this is from the production made by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in 1985. (It's just a short scene, but it really made me wonder if this was the usual interpretation of this.)
Part 1
Part 2
It does not have English subtitles, but if you know the story, I'd say it's worth a watch. Not least because Edmund is played by an actor who does the whole "sexy bad boy" thing very well.
Fellow Bard enthusiasts!
I have a question: Is it common to portray Edmund and the Duke of Cornwall as having an affair, in productions of "King Lear"?
(This is in addition to Edmund's other canon affairs, of course.)
I just watched a version from the mid-80s and its version of Act III, Scene V left NO ambiguity about it.
I mean...
Cornwall on the left, Edmund in the water, on the right.
(Yes, I had to blur, um, certain 'parts of Cornwall', shall we say? Because it was all out in the open...)
Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS
btw this is literally what goes down. it’s great.
You just know the ye olde peasants went NUTS at that last part
If that ain't just the most relatable reaction!
("Twelfth Night", NT Live, 2017.)
Thus production truly gets the queerness inherent in Orsino x Cesario. Orsino trying to get comfortable with loving a man is a very subtle but significant character journey. Even his finale “yay” reaction to discovering she’s a woman doesn’t feel like bi erasure! It could, but that actor plays an Orsino so sweet and gentle and well-meaning, and clearly bi, that it doesn’t. I don’t recall it exactly, but it had a vibe of relief that he had a break from tackling his sexuality head-on and that he could come to it more slowly.
If anyone remember specifically how that ending goes, please chime in! But I just remember feeling that that whole production did such a good job with queerness. The actor, whose name I forgot, also does a great job with a queer Oberon in NT’s MSND!
To quote myself from an earlier post I made about this production:
Oliver Chris is just perfection as Orsino! He could SO easily have been just a bland, self-pitying simp who lays about all day listening to depressing love-songs and sighing dramatically, but instead we get this enthusiastic, athletic, passionate and emotional golden retriever of a man who's convinced he's in love with Olivia but is also deeply confused by the deep feelings he's developed for his new servant, Cesario.
I mean, if this isn't bi-panic in glorious technicolor, I don't know what is!
I absolutely agree about the ending, because it is set vaguely in the 60s (judging by the clothes, etc.) it feels much more like a case of "Oh, thank goodness! I'll actually be able to live my life openly and safely with the person I love."
And look at his adorable, self-conscious little wave just after that outburst. 😭🥰
I've written a whole thing on this production a while back, which can be found here.
And, yes, he's truly amazing as Oberon!
I wish I had a Shakespeare production company so I could stage that BDSM performance of TAMING OF THE SHREW I want so badly
It would be the absolute BEST way to stage TAMING. Maybe the only way that really works in this day and age?
BDSM is all about theater for 2. Even when nobody's watching you, which is often, you're playing a role that doesn't look the same as normal life.
And TAMING is all about performance! You could keep it at the outermost layer, the framing story of TAMING. Have the whole thing take place inside a BDSM club or something. Heighten the unreality - remind the audience of a show within a show.
Or get more thematic - Kate and Petruchio are both performing all the time. Performing as jerks, trying to be unlovable and scare people away. It would be really powerful to show them both as understanding the performance of the other, and then them joining to make it a performance of 2 against everyone else.
You could use a wide range of BDSM activities, too - everything from light spanking, to a fetish club, to lifestyle BDSM would work!
If you want something done right, do it yourself - but I don't have a theater company, so I can't!
imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell
yeah cause thou art so well otherwise, tumblr user currently crying about Lancelot
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