DMs open :D

[captain-lewis]

I need you guys to understand. That I just HAPPENED to walk onto the back porch at work while a man was mansplaining “methinks the lady doth protest too much” to his date. And I had to physically restrain myself from correcting him and promoting my production of Hamlet coming up lol.

He said that the quote is from Macbeth (wrong you fool it’s from Hamlet) and then that you say it when someone is lying. WRONG u say it when the lady doth protest too much. Why are you stupid and acting like your date is stupid for not knowing what it means when YOU don’t know what it means.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

another thing about setting hamlet at christmas is that it reflects the beautiful human experience of having a long holiday stay at your parents’ house that makes you feel like you are going insane

[hamletkin]

not a fully formed idea but something about a modern hamlet using AI to talk to his "father" and slowly succumbing to very real and true madness as he loses his grip on reality in favour of clinging to this last remaining piece of his "father" that isn't real at all...

i've toyed with the idea that maybe, instead of having them be royals, hamlet's father started a tech company and was a ceo and the AI is still something discovered by security guards + horatio. maybe hamlet sr created it himself as a prototype or safeguard. maybe claudius made it for funsies or more nefarious purposes i.e. using his brother's voice/image for evil

i just think it would be a lot of fun... and painful. i'd probably have the AI be ever present in all of hamlet's scenes. maybe he wears a bluetooth earbud the whole play through which his "father" speaks to him and now and then the audience can hear what his "father" is saying to him. sometimes it's urging him to act, sometimes it's berating him, sometimes it's playing ads

[danishprince]

Literally everybody does have that friend named Polonius that hides behind their tapestries

[kylorens]

I stumbled upon this cartoon of Hamlet made for kids and THIS SCENE MADE ME SCREAMMM

edit: added the link bc why is this still getting notes 😭

[zoesupreme]

Christopher Nolan almost allows colors into his mythical epic shot on 70mm IMAX film. thank god they stopped filming in time.

[kusnechik]

Big fan of the bottomless well that is the crossover potential of Sherlock Holmes x Gothic/Classic literature as a whole.

And not always in the sense of grandiose adventures and cases surrounding them (though I love them dearly and they are, to my unpleasant surprise, a rarity) but like just...a subtle nod sometimes. Holmes just happens to *know* a handful of other characters from other works and it's up to us (and Watson) to imagine the how and where of those accquaintancs.

Exhibit A:

(in a letter to Watson):

Dearest friend. If you are not busy this evening, I kindly ask you to visit Cavendish Square and deliver this sample to Dr. Jekyll for analysis. If you are busy, deliver it all the same.

-S.H.

PS: Hurry up to be there before 9, lest you should run into his much less civil housemate.

[frostycausedaniceage]

N E E D T H I S

[watermelonsloth]

The push and pull of “relationships can be very affectionate and still be platonic” and “those are the gayest motherfuckers I’ve ever seen”.

[licebeam]

[charmstrangebeauty]

Hamlet, a (gay) summary

Aka the closet is glass

Gertrude: Hamlet I know you want to go back to university (where Horatio is) but I need you here (where Ophelia is)

Hamlet: UGH fine

Hamlet: *sees Horatio* 😍😍😍

Hamlet: uh oh, do I forget myself

Ophelia: Hamlet says he loves me

Laertes: Please don’t believe him - he’s not allowed to follow his heart, he has to do whatever is best for Denmark [babe you are his beard???]

Polonius: Please don’t believe him - the prince can have sexual indiscretions, but you can’t [girl he’s screwing around with guys???]

Hamlet: *sees his father’s ghost*

Horatio: Stop! What if it’s dangerous??

Horatio: *physically holding Hamlet back* I can’t let him hurt you

Polonius: Hamlet wrote Ophelia this love letter

Gertrude: Really? Hamlet??? 🤨

Polonius: Yeah it says “I’m totally in love with you, babe, I swear, why don’t you believe me?”

Polonius: But don’t worry, I know she isn’t in a good enough social sphere to marry him

Gertrude: Wait no I want Hamlet to marry literally any girl Ophelia actually

Gertrude: God wouldn’t it be great if Hamlet was acting so weird because he thought a girl was hot

Hamlet, to Polonius: *cishet voice* Better lock up your hot daughter so I don’t get her pregnant, amirite fellow straight dude 👉😎👉

Hamlet, to his friends: I don’t like men

Hamlet: WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING

Hamlet: The pangs of despised love are too much to bear 😢

Hamlet: Hey hottie! Did you pray for my sins lol

Ophelia: Here are your love letters back

Hamlet: I gave you no such thing

Ophelia: You did though???

Hamlet: haha, are you serious? …You’re hot? Ok, like, yes, I did—

Ophelia: You made me believe you loved me

Hamlet: Oh you should not have believed that, I did NOT

Ophelia: I was deceived 😭

Hamlet: Girl, heterosexuality is a scam, go be a lesbian or a nun or a whore or something, why do you want to be a breeder? Also do you have any idea how much sinning I do? I am picturing so much gay sex that I literally don’t have time to do it all in one lifetime.

Hamlet: Oh shit, is your father spying on us?

Hamlet: Fuck, uhhhh ok ok ok

Hamlet: Listen girl, even if you perfectly perform society’s heterosexual bullshit, they will still talk shit about you, so just go to a nunnery/brothel/whatever, or at least don’t marry an asshole like me

Hamlet: Also since your father is listening, uhh, here’s a bunch of toxic misogynistic bullshit!! And uh, you are the reason for my (fake) madness, just like he suspected!!! Ok bye! ✌️

Claudius, who was listening: Wow, I guess Hamlet doesn’t swing that way

Hamlet: Horatio!!! 😍

Horatio: Sweet Lord 😍

Horatio: My dear Lord 😍

Hamlet: I love you so much that my (female) soul is bonded to you

Hamlet: I love how you are not passion’s slave, like how could I not fall in love with you

Hamlet: …I made it too gay again, didn’t I?

Hamlet: *Loudly making sex jokes about Ophelia now that they’re in public again*

Horatio: *gets a letter* Literally nobody else would be writing to me except Hamlet

Hamlet: I need you to run to my side as fast as if you were running from death itself

Horatio: *Takes off running*

Hamlet, in private: Oh shit, Ophelia died?

Hamlet, in public: *leaps into her grave proclaiming his love for her as loudly as possible*

Hamlet: *is poisoned*

Hamlet: I am dead, Horatio

Horatio: And I’m like those (famously gay) ancient Romans

Horatio: *tries to drink poison after Hamlet is killed, Romeo and Juliet style*

Hamlet: *has to physically wrestle the cup out of Horatio’s hands*

Hamlet: If you ever loved me, you will survive this pain for me ❤️

Horatio: Now cracks a noble heart 💔

Horatio: Good night, sweet prince ❤️

Horatio: *uses the familiar form ‘thee’ instead of the formal ‘you’ for the first time in the entire play now that there’s no point hiding it* and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest ❤️❤️❤️

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

that taylor swift song may be the worst thing to happen to ophelia since prince hamlet of denmark showed up

[aq2003]

i will never weigh in on taylor swift again i promise i swear but the lyrics to the fate of ophelia piss me off because it acts like what could've saved ophelia from the tragedy was a knight-in-shining-armor/someone who truly loved her when the problem was that she was denied her agency by basically everybody around her

[ambidexedition]

ohhhhhh I must not get mad at ms swift for her gross misinterpretation of ophelia from hamlet. getting mad at a billionaire pop star I don't even listen to for a shallow reading of my favorite shakespeare play is the mind killer. but also how do you fuck up ophelia that badly

[placeinthisworld]

🤠

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

They have released Hamlet made like a baby’s picture book and I’m laughing so much

Some pages:

”Look Hamlet.

Hamlet not happy.”

”Now Hamlet’s dad ghost.

The ghost can talk.”

Hamlet’s dad: Your weird new dad killed me.

”Ofelia’s brother dead.

Hamlet dead.

Now all dead.

Good night, good night!”

[poetryofapollo]

"I asked chatgpt—" well I asked the ghost of my dead father and he told me my good for nothing bastard-incestous uncle was a murderer so

[lipstickhamlet]

would hamlet say six seven: a study

arguments for:

six seven itself has no actual meaning and originates from a clip of a viral song on tiktok, so hamlet's way of pretending to be "mad" could be repeating something widespread but meaningless, like how he quotes song lyrics and idioms (2.2, 430-432; 3.2, 306-310; 3.2 371-372)

hamlet often uses nonsensical, surreal humor, usually ones that appeal to the youth and confuse the older generation, to cope with his despair (2.2, 190-199; 5.1, 204-207)

he puts on the antic disposition partly to confuse claudius and gertrude, which this absolutely would

i don't think hamlet would ever have gen alpha humor, which is the point. he's changed to the point of being unrecognizable in his madness (2.2, 4-1; 316-321)

polonius would try to find meaning in it and come to an entirely incorrect conclusion

arguments against:

hamlet may not have tiktok or even know of this meme in the first place, because he's said to be a stable and well-liked individual prior to the play (4.7, 18-20)

it's actually rosencrantz and guildenstern who would keep saying six seven until hamlet decides to kill them