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[his-quietus-make]

Running a Shakespeare workshop today:

Me: so who knows the story of Julius Caesar?

Student: he got.. a bit stabbed?

Me: he got, like, super stabbed, by a lot of people at once. It was a democratic stabbing.

[his-quietus-make]

“I’m just a soul whose intentions are good / oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood” really is an anthem for autistic people.

(And the little known verse: “the words that I say are the words that I mean / oh lord, there is no subtext in between”)

[bedlemboy]

I guess what I really want out of life is to have that off-stage scene where MacBeth murders King Duncan brought onstage.

MacBeth is played by Rowan Atkinson.

The scene is forty minutes long.

Duncan dies by accident.

[assortedantics]

Cleopatra: Antony, would you still love me if I was a worm?

[his-quietus-make]

The Woman's Part

Sooo hey. I finally did something with my Shakespeare MA...

The Woman's Part is a collection of original prose and erasure poetry inspired by Shakespeare's women — their unlived lives, unspoken desires, and unwritten stories — using speeches and characters from thirteen plays.

It's been described as:

"A small piece of genius [showing] not only a profound understanding of Shakespeare, but of humankind in general." — Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You

and

"[The Woman's Part] has reimagined Ophelia and Juliet and more into striking freedom through speaking up, sailing away, and eating hearts." — Gwen Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw

and

"To read it is to join the rebellion. An affecting and finely-crafted masterpiece which invites us to unlearn our deepest Bard-based archetypes. Stunning, incisive and fearless writing from one of the most exciting new voices on the literary scene." — Dr Chris Laoutaris, The Shakespeare Institute

~

I put my heart, my rage, and all my obsession with Shakespeare into this, and I would love for you to read it.

Available from most places you get books — a list of easy links at Stanchion Books

[his-quietus-make]

A. Burr: Dear Alexander, why were you such a dick to me?

A. Ham:

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one hip always lies

one hip always tells the truth

(shakira plummets into the oubliette)

[shakespearenews]

“I never let him forget the time we were in a very intimate, in-the-round production of Macbeth. I was kneeling at his feet and he said: “Light thickens and the crow makes wing to the wooky-nook.” Wooky-nook instead of wood, said purely by accident. I thought: “Well, I suppose it’d be all right if Lady Macbeth had hysterics at this point because she’s rather tense.” I’ve said that line to him, in so many ways, throughout our careers.”

—

Judi Dench on Ian McKellen 

[reparrishcomics]

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[his-quietus-make]

Shakespeare dramatists have zero chill:

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[thoodleoo]

[incorrect-hamlet-quotes]

Hamlet: Life always surprises you because at every stage of it you’re like, “There’s nothing worse that this,” but then surprise, there is.

[his-quietus-make]

TIL that my 7-year-old got in trouble for writing a simile in which he compared a tiger lounging majestically on a log with Cleopatra dying on her throne, declaring “Oh! Oh! Oh! My bloody one!” (a direct quote from his writing y’all) and I have never been more proud to be THAT fucking parent.

Not only was it a brilliant bit of imagery, it also means he remembers me speed reading the entire play to him and his brother while they were in the bath and I was frantically revising for an exam SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

Yes, baby Shakespeare nerd, you go and be needlessly morbid in your English class!

[stellakowalskis]

may we all take a moment to appreciate these letterboxd reviews for the hollow crown’s richard ii?

[shakespearesiphone]

Shakespeare plays as screencaps from The Good Place

As You Like It

Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

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when i was a senior in college I took an early modern English class and our final project was to write a Shakespearean sonnet about one of the characters in Hamlet. I named mine “Polonius, Thou Art Full of Bolonius” and the fact that I got away with it remains one of my proudest accomplishments

[lookatthesefreakinghipsters-dea]

*Something bad happens*

Priest from a Shakespeare Play: Have you considered faking your death as a way to solve this?