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[viola-and-chill]

I now have the perfect response next time someone asks me if I’m bi

[scrantonpaper-deactivated201809]

Hey, you know why people here are complaining? They are jealous of two people in love on Valentine’s Day.

[gonegrill]

I always thought my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a cringe compilation.

[autijacen]

Hamlet.

[gonegrill]

how dare you make my post funnier

[shakespearenews]

Hammed Animashaun as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Image courtesy National Theatre. Photo: Manuel Harlan.

[helenasbertram]

[barbaricpoetic]

hamlet but instead of soliloquies he just stands in the middle of the stage and screams

[ignorethepineapples]

listen we can argue about the perfect modern day hamlet as much as we want

but we all know who the true rosencrantz and guildenstern are

[claudiavstheworld]

"Hamlet" Feat. Willa Fitzgerald, Brandon Flynn, Madeline Brewer, Auli'i ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VWKDCQGphE

In case you (like me) didn’t know about this or (like me) live in a different time zone. It is a reading of Hamlet but gender bent, with Auli’i Cravalho and Willa Fitzgerald (among others). Enjoy :)

[manny-jacinto]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[sylviasplaths]

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[nat-20s]

Are they....you know....narrative foils?

[shakespearenews]

Aran Murphy plays the title role in the Irish theater company Dead Centre’s “Hamnet.”Credit…Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times.

[thefugitivesaint]

One of the simplest memes I’ve ever come across. Effective and hilarious. 

[theashesofthefirststar]

This is gonna be the key future historians use to translate meme-language

[amixedwitch]

tchaikowsky donating his skull to the royal shakespeare company in the hopes of becoming yorick is the most dramatic ass dark academia shit ever and you can’t convince me otherwise 

[disordercinema]

I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE and you will not believe it that they never used on actual productions, only rehearsals because people got creeped out and didn’t want to use it, UNTIL DAVID TENNANT IN 2008

THAT MAD MAN ACTUALLY PERFORMED WITH THE REAL SKULL!

They had to stop using cause once the audience found out that was Tchaikovsky’s fucking bones(!) they got creeped out too and didn’t want it there, BUT DAVID JUST WENT “YEAH, LET ME HOLD THIS PIANIST’S FUCKING SKULL, WHO CARES”

[marzipanandminutiae]

Tchaikovsky DONATED IT FOR THAT PURPOSE. why did this creep anyone out? and why did they cave to the audience’s weird hangups?

some people are cowards

[limetimo]

Cowards I’m not watching Hamlet unless there’s a real-ass skull in there

[archaeo-geek]

Let the man have his post-mortem stage time.

[onelonelystory]

Man if you have the chance to recite Shakespeare to Tchaikovsky’s actual skull and you turn it down, I have already lost faith in your ability to embody Hamlet

[swiftactionrecovery-deactivated]

Guys, guys I looked up the rest of the story and it turns out this isn’t the end of it:

After the use of Tchaikowsky’s skull was revealed in the press, this production of Hamlet moved to the West End and the RSC announced that they would no longer use Tchaikowsky’s skull (a spokesman said that it would be “too distracting for the audience”).[10] However, this was a deception; in fact, the skull was used throughout the production’s West End run, and in a subsequent television adaptation broadcast on BBC2.[11] Director Gregory Doran said, “André Tchaikowsky’s skull was a very important part of our production of Hamlet, and despite all the hype about him, he meant a great deal to the company.”[11]

They told everyone they stopped and then QUIETLY KEPT USING IT because OF COURSE they did.

[marisatomay]

he had it coming

[athenaefilia]

the Ides of March on tumblr is like classics Easter - we celebrate a guy that got deified after being brutally murdered

[arrghigiveup]

[source]

[dngrcpckwithmurdericing]

This is the best one I’ve seen yet.