and i the elder and more terrible

medieval, renaissance, modernism! studying literature

[girldante]

a vision inspired by some very enlightened evening yapping with @eresia-catara <3

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

on a separate note i can’t stop thinking about evil therapy speak claudius

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“honestly hamlet you’re violating a lot of boundaries by constantly trauma dumping on your mom about your dead father. it’s manipulative and toxic to refuse to hold space for her and her new marriage when she’s just trying to do what’s best for her peace. anyway get the fuck over it it’s been a month”

[midnightinshadow]

[etinarcadiaegos]

angelo poliziano you are actually so special to me like yes king you are not cicero you express yourself!!

[pmamtraveller]

"Everything Appears as it is: Infinite" by Alex Dodge

[urgetocreate]

Andrew Gifford, Hawthorn Blossom in Late Sunlight, 2021, Oil on canvas, 2021

[hayaomiyazaki]

"I had not forgotten Sebastian" | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (1945) by Evelyn Waugh

[cuties-in-codices]

sweeping up the alphabet

border illustrations from the hours of marguerite d'orléans, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Latin 1156 B, fol. 135r

[midnightinshadow]

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Voting ended onAug 11

[moszertone]

Giovanni Bellini, Pietà, detail, c 1460, Pinacoteca di Brera

[devilsskettle]

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm in my disgusting withering era unfortunately. the era will be short, two days tops, but I'm in it

[girldante]

so you're telling me carlotti has allegedly put arnaut daniel to music. and i can't seem to find literally ANY information about it.

[girldante]

update:

i found something

[girldante]

for the love of god if you're reading this give it a listen it might be the most beautiful rendition of arnaut ever put to music

[chokinggame]

jeremy irons and anthony andrews could do saltburn but jacob elordi and barry keoghan couldn’t do brideshead revisited

[somanyhumanbeings]

Rogier van der Weyden (Woprkshop of), A Man reading (c. 1450)

[akajustmerry]

Kendall Roy is like Hamlet if Hamlet's dead dad was King Lear and Hamlet’s brother was Macbeth, but they were both trapped in the plot of Richard III which is to say that Kendall Roy is a character of all time, an endless babushka doll of all Shakespeare's failkings and their pursuits of hollow crowns.