Gay(er) Shakespeare

WLW/NBLW are good, Shakespeare is good, what're you to do? Trans friendly blog

[gayershakespeare]

URL change!

sapphic-shakespeare -> gayershakespeare

[vampirecorleone]

"Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night." Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

[tootruefunfacts]

Shakespeare Fun Fact

[kallimakhos]

[image description: a statue of shakespeare with the text, "William Shakespeare was born on April 23 and also died on April 23, but in those few hours he accomplished so much." there are watermarks with the copyright year (2019) and page name "Too True Fun Facts" as well as with the image source, which is pixabay.com. end image description.]

[s4ltedcod]

random compilation of some shakespeare posters I've made over the last few months

[sectumsempraxz]

Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) dir. Michael Hoffman

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” is such a zinger even 400 years later. hamlet truly would have killed it on twitter

[joe-spookyy]

fully sober in the club googling rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead full play pdf free

[justahumanbeann]

Cate Blanchett as Richard II in The War of Roses

[lipstickhamlet]

richard ii au where bolingbroke starts crytyping in his last speech in 5.6

[lipstickhamlet]

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[manny-jacinto]

HAROLD PERRINEAU as Mercutio | ROMEO + JULIET (1996)

[mjvnivsbrvtvs]

in which brutus becomes mars

[stealingpotatoes]

happy ides of march i 3D modelled Caesar so i could make him do fortnite dances

[iguanamarina]

[wishing-on-stardust]

A day for this song…

[sforzesco]

LOOK ALIVE, SUNSHINE

I was going to skip doing an Ides illustration this year, but I decided to pull out something from my illustrations vault at the last minute after watching the news in the Philippines the other night. the first Ides illustration was prompted by feelings of frustration and grief seeing the Marcos family come back into power and also that ballot substitution bullshit. and. well!!! you know how it is! we're on year 3 of making these illustrations, baby!

so let’s get into it: fuck Brutus, my man Cassius is getting center stage this time! after all, it’s Cassius who typically initiates the conspiracy while Brutus steals the spotlight. Brutus is here, though, he’s the one with blood on his hand, in reference to the account where Cassius accidentally stabs him in the hand trying to get another hit on Caesar.

it’s thematically compelling if you take into account that Cassius is mentioned at the start of Brutus’ biography as someone who finds tyranny intolerable (in addition: that dinner scene with Mark Antony)

Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators, Elizabeth Rawson

Brutus, the Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest

Cassius Dio 44.34

and Brutus is later mentioned to have taken part of Caesar’s power only to be dissuaded from people from fully embracing all of that

Plutarch, Brutus 7 (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert)

and Cassius, by accident, wounds Brutus in the act of assassinating Caesar. It’s like….he’s being compelled…..to act as a hand of Justice on behalf of the Republic……a little bit…..

Life of Augustus, Nicolaus of Damascus (trans. Toher)

and to preemptively cut off people from doing Caesar apologia in my inbox: we are engaging in a long and established tradition of using the Ides of March and the people who participated in it to discuss other stuff. you know. allegory and allusion and all of that. also ancient Roman conspiracies are fun. thank you & goodnight.

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[atlaskrr]

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