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[uranianrights]

Cruising spots in 18th Century France, from Sodome à Paris: protohistoire de l'homosexualité masculine fin XVIIIe - milieu XIXe siècle

[frevandrest]

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[missjordanbakers]

“I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. … When Ophelia appears onstage in Act IV, scene V, singing little songs and handing out imaginary flowers, she temporarily upsets the entire power dynamic of the Elsinore court. When I picture that scene, I always imagine Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Horatio sharing a stunned look, all of them thinking the same thing: “We fucked up. We fucked up bad.” It might be the only moment of group self-awareness in the whole play. Not even the grossest old Victorian dinosaur of a critic tries to pretend that Ophelia is making a big deal out of nothing. Her madness and death is plainly the direct result of the alternating tyranny and neglect of the men in her life. She’s proof that adolescent girls don’t just go out of their minds for the fun of it. They’re driven there by people in their lives who should have known better.”

— B.N. Harrison, from “The Unified Theory of Ophelia” (via shakespeareismyjam)

[utwo]

This Valentine’s Day,

the home of Shakespeare’s Juliet is available for one night only on Airbnb

© airbnb

[jawnkeets]

newstead abbey, ancestral home of lord byron

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Dress, mid 1870s.

[garettphotography]

Exeter Cathedral | GarettPhotography

[centuriespast]

PESELLINO Virgin and Child with a Swallow 1453-57 Tempera on panel, 60 x 40 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1745 Woman’s dress, said to have been worn by Margaret Oliphant of Gask at the Great Ball of Holyrood after the Battle of Prestonpans

cream-coloured corded silk, with silk and gilt metal threads

(National Museum of Scotland)

[goldentailedmermaids]

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS   ↦   Pride & Prejudice

⇀ “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want for a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some or other of their daughters. “ ↽

[deputy-vania]

The food required by man is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is vital to preserve it is a property common to the whole of society, only the surplus is an individual property that can be left to the industry of merchants. Any commercial speculation that I make at the expense of the life of my fellow man is not trade, it is theft and fratricide.

Maximilien Robespierre, speech on the question of food supplies, 2 December 1792 (via deputy-vania)

[citoyenneprzybyszewska2]

Some pictures from Arras, including rue Robespierre, probably the best hidden street in the town. 

[riesenfeldcenter]

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the States of … Boston, 1778.

South Carolina became the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on February 5, 1778.

The Articles of Confederation was drafted by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and was eventually ratified by all thirteen states by 1781. It provided the initial structure for our fledgling democracy, but was replaced by our current constitution, which favored a stronger federal government, in 1789.

[depthnoir]

[snowce]

Gustave Moreau, Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876

[theladyintweed]

Kedleston Hall

Photo by me

[croathia]

[insipit]

Carlo Bossoli (1815–84, Italy)

Landscapes 2: Great Britain and France

Bossoli was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Ukraine. He is best known for his landscapes, vedute, historical scenes from the Risorgimento, as well as his depictions of eastern Europe.

[history-of-fashion]

1774 Louis-Rolland Trinquesse - The Music Party