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[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

daily affirmations:

do not go gentle into that good night

rage, rage against the dying of the light

lock the fuck in

[hamletthedane]

I can’t BELIEVE I haven’t plugged this yet, because it’s so legit.

@jstor just sealed itself in my heart as the coolest resource ever by combining my two greatest loves - Digital Humanities and Shakespeare - to create an AMAZING site called Understanding Shakespeare.

It works like this (hold on to your seats, this is so cool):

Say you reach a line in a Shakespeare play where there’s a reference or symbol you don’t understand and/or would like to know more about. Usually, it would take a substantial amount of time to figure out the meaning, find the key theme, search through research databases, and maybe hit something that references your line.

But no longer!

Because with Understanding Shakespeare, you can go to the line and look at all the scholarship published on JSTOR that features or references to it! Oh my god!!!

An example:

So I really love Richard II’s “graves, worms, and epitaphs” speech, it’s one of my very favorites, and I’d love to learn more about it and the symbols of death and historical references contained within it. So I go to the line in Richard II:

Click on the first line and voila! There’s a ton of articles that quote this line, and several of them look really interesting and relevant!

So whether you’re looking for more information on a line for research or performance understanding, or you just like being sucked down the addictive rabbit hole of reading JSTOR articles all afternoon (me), Understanding Shakespeare is AWESOME and a resource you should totally take advantage of.

[jstor]

OK friends - reblogging this again because I just talked to our Labs team (who made Understanding Shakespeare) and they are recreating this resource with other authors/texts and want to hear from you! What work do you want to see this replicated for? Any authors where this would help your research??? Let me know by reblogging and leaving a comment.

@dark-haired-hamlet @dukeofbookingham

[wittyhistorian]

Why do I need a man when I have a database boyfriend who understands me?

[georgiacooked]

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah, well I asked the ten-year-old version of you who wanted to be a writer, and they are SO disappointed in you.

[sickfreaksirkay]

i found an extremely low budget 40 minute amateur movie of sir gawain and the green knight here's some of my favourite things in it:

arthur makes the gigachad face at the green knight

the green knight says "all i see are lily livered bitches" and gawain replies with "the only bitch i see is thou"

all the knights hop around with hobby horses whenever they need to be riding a horse. gawain is seen driving a car with gringolet in the passenger seat but then he hobby horses across a busy road to chik fil a

gawain gets offered drugs by someone wearing a plague doctor mask and a dressing gown

gawain is given an enchanted sword which is just a soggy baguette from a lake

"cometh at me bro"

a scientologist monk almost gets kicked to death

"these are no ordinary breeches they come from the land of (checks label) old navy"

bertilak hunts a teddy bear and a pineapple which are attached to strings like puppets

there is a close up shot of bertilak gripping gawain's ass

[marghen]

It's an old tale from way back when/ And we're gonna sing it again and again...

[3liza]

touching grass isn't enough we should be staging small community productions of shakespeare

[queen-mabs-revenge]

happy 214th anniversary of percy shelley and thomas hogg getting expelled from oxford after having written and published the pamphlet 'the necessity of atheism' and personally sending a copy to each of the heads of the colleges def one of the top 10 ways to drop out of school tbh

[point-two-two]

yeah

[can-of-w0rmz]

Ive been KingLearpilled guys

[amelielb]

Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

[bitchesgetriches]

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

[morethanfantasy]

macbeth but the three witches have an ipad and they're on the wikipedia page for the timeline of scottish rulers

[morethanfantasy]

macbeth but the three witches have an ipad and they're reading ahead on the wikipedia page for the play

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[can-of-w0rmz]

Cosette Fauchelevent you will always be famous 🫶

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

[teaboot]

[wheresmyphonemp3]

[fadingponycookiedream]

[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[gemini-serpentis]

Carmilla and Laura ❤️🥀

[garland-on-thy-brow]

"The decision to start the play Dido, Queen of Carthage with a homoerotic scene between Jupiter and Ganymede that bears no connection to the subsequent plot has long puzzled scholars" - Wikipedia about Christopher Marlowe.

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happy 203rd king!!

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happy 204th king!!

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happy 205th king!!