tragic danish boyfriends

hell is empty. all the devils are here. emily. 26. she/they. bisexual. follows from judasofsuburbia

[greelin]

shakespeare would understand me taking two of his background characters and making them fuck nasty. he would get it

[annabelle--cane]

tragedy protagonist categories:

yknow what yeah I think that's just about how anyone would react in this situation. fair enough.

alright this isn't how just Anyone would behave in this situation but I'm humble enough to admit that there have been times in my life when I was doing badly enough that I'd probably also fumble it like this

babygirl what the hell are you even doing

[annabelle--cane]

thank you hamlet prince of denmark for being the character ever for the 437th year in a row

[penny-anna]

i think the reason why the assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the funniest political assassinations is for this very simple reason:

1 guy stabs 1 guy: not funny. that's murder.

2 guys stab 1 guy: even less funny. that's two against one.

60 guys stab 1 guy: uproariously funny. why do you need so many guys.

[emmikay]

60 guys only manage to stab the 1 guy 23 times: I can't fucking breathe I'm laughing too hard, you suck at this

[beforeliteracytherewasdeez]

Does that imply they stabbed each other by mistake?

[penny-anna]

According to Plutarch, yea:

For it is said that he received twenty-three; and many of the conspirators were wounded by one another, as they struggled to plant all those blows in one body.

(Plutarch, Life of Julius Caesar, 66)

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[stuff-that-irks-me]

[punkrock-bottom]

[madlori]

so how am I ever supposed to quit this stupid website when there's just casual shakespeare jokes on the reg

[goth-queen]

[encryptidarchivist]

i’m sorry but this line of polonius’s wikipedia page is so funny to me. white boy you fucked up every time and we all know this

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.

[dailyflicks]

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

[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

[ceausescue]

amateurish first effort

[insomniac-arrest]

hey, does anyone know if tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, or if it's like. a bank holiday.

[hamletkin]

creating a book series called "big fear shakespeare" where i expect you to know every reference and definition and instead there are comments in the margins saying things like "what kind of idiot wouldn't know this?"

[dduane]

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

[introvertia]

And:

“The production will be staged at The Space Theatre in London on 25 July 2025, on the eve of London Trans Pride, with a global livestream available to audiences everywhere.”

[leatherandmossprints]

‘The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet’ by Frederic Leighton, c. 1855.

[fluentisonus]

every version of twelfth night is legally obligated to have a scene staged like this

[fluentisonus]

good question! the answer is no!