…'Lest ?

[bishiedoll]

夏の夜の夢 (A Midsummer's Night Dream) by Katsudi Matsumoto.

[wyrmsfornerves]

Titania & Oberon

[baddreamland]

A Tree Creature, The Tempest, 1951. Loudon Sainthill.

[hamletthedane]

When Shakespeare describes the eventual end of human history as “the last SYLLABLE of recorded time” suggesting that the end of humanity will not be with a bang, a whimper, a gunshot, a sword, or even a breath, but with a syllable - a word….

And the fact that the line ends on the word “time”, which is one stressed syllable past its welcome in the iambic pentameter, suggesting that time itself continues long after human speech (iambic pentameter) has already ended AAAAAAHHHHHHH-

[clementine-kesh]

traveling back in time to provide 17th century 14 year olds with the equipment necessary to make the epic hamlet amvs they’ve been imagining during choir practice. as an important work of historical documentation

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[laikaru]

I saw a wlw version of julius caesar at the theatre recently and it‘s been on my miiiind

[manny-jacinto]

legend 🙌

[imeverywoman420]

Defining yourself by your romantic relationships is so unhealthy like what if he dies sis what then

[djpaulyd]

the friar to juliet when she came to talk about romeo

[paper-mario-wiki]

ok but wait. is the Hamlet thing real

Yeah! It's a super interesting paper on ethnocentrism and an argument against the idea of "universal values".

Essentially what happened is an anthropologist went to spend time writing an ethnography on a rural tribe in the Indian Bush called the Tiv. During her stay she told them the story of Hamlet, and in doing so it made clear the very glaring differences in the culture of the tribe vs the culture of Europe through their interpretations of events.

I'm sure you've heard of Translators vs. Localizers right? A translator tells you what is said, and a localizer takes the information and changes it to fit a different culture.

We can see that kind of early on in the article when a member of the Tiv begins changing nouns to fit how they understand the world.

Later on it greatly affects not only the tangible aspects of the story, but also the thematic meaning behind the actions each character takes.

And it culminates in the thesis statement: most people around the world, no matter where they're from, are predisposed to seeing their perspective as universal.

It's a super cool essay.

If you'd like to read it, it's called "Shakespeare in the Bush: Diversity or Universality?"

[macbooth]

Genuinely I think anyone who is a Shakespeare nerd should talk more about what Shakespeare play they fucking hate. Sure, knowing your favourite play might be good and all, but being a hater and knowing your LEAST favourite is where the fun is. 

[aletheyass]

it makes me insane that being familiar with shakespeare plays is considered pretentious. like girl. they are on google. it takes less than 2 hours to read one and some of them are dumb as hell as well. give it a rest

[shakespearenews]

Audience Behavior in the West and Africa

In her experience, a Malawian audience expects to participate and be a vocal partner in the experience—shouting out advice to the actors, heckling, noisily laughing, and cheering. She gave an example of one of the Shakespeare productions she directed: when Hamlet is at Ophelia’s grave and cries out “I loved Ophelia,” in anguish, a member of the audience in Malawi shouted, “Too late” and got a huge laugh. With a Western audience, that the same moment was met with silence and quiet emotion from the audience. When Nanzikambe performed Hamlet at the British Council in Malawi, which is a venue where most people from the Western world watch theatre, she observes that all was very quiet right until the end, when the audience stood and clapped and cheered. Until that moment, the Malawian actors were convinced that the performance was going badly because they were getting no vocal feedback.

[ladyhawke]

Audra McDonald, Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in Twelfth Night by Brigitte Lacombe, 2009.

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[thejackalhasarrived]

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - 2019 Free Shakespeare in the Park

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I am not joking when I say that this version is Shakespeare as it was meant to be performed. It is fucking hilarious.

[mscaptainwinchester]

OMG, how did I not know about this?

[mybisexualwife]

The original link is now behind a paywall so use the internet archive link here!

[yosisoy]

“Romeo is banish’d; and all the world to nothing, That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth. Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the county.”

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968)