sad stories of the death of kings

leo // 21 // she/they // way too many thoughts about shakespeare // huge fan of @dogearedfriends🥰

[lipstickhamlet]

i've never seen a production of richard ii where bolingbroke just kisses richard normally in 1.3

[lipstickhamlet]

henry you are nowhere near your sovereign's hand

[leosmiserables]

i love you ”well, we’ll know better next time”. i love you ”to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again”. i love you theatre that’s fundamentally about the concept of theatre.

[linkloki]

Production of Henry V that treats it like that when

[psalms-and-spells]

Art with Jesus having the kindest eyes and the scruffiest beard gets me every time. Like he purposefully didn’t look ‘holy’ or ‘regal’ he was your neighbor. He was your carpenter.

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Yay an excuse to share my favorite paintings by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki!

[hamletthedane]

I don’t quite go here (not a Christian in the traditional sense) so pardon me for intruding, but I do also love this theme in art. Here are a few of my favorites:

Rembrandt’s Faces of Christ series (circa 1640s-1650s)

Woman, Why Weepest Thou? (circa 1890), by Fritz von Uhde

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1605) by Lavinia Fontana

Christ on the Mount of Olives (1919) by Gyula Benczúr

And then of course everything the Eastern European and Russian artists were doing with Christ depictions in the late 19th century was insane:

Christ in the Desert (1872) by Ivan Kramskoi

What is Truth? Christ and Pilate (1890) by Nikolai Ge

Christ in the Garden aka Christ on the Mount of Olives (1878), by Vasily Perov

Head of Christ (circa 1880), by Leon Wyczółkowski

[leosmiserables]

i love you ”well, we’ll know better next time”. i love you ”to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again”. i love you theatre that’s fundamentally about the concept of theatre.

[professorsparklepants]

Sorry I'm not over the framing of Hadestown as a cyclical story. This is an old, old song, but we're gonna sing it again. We've been singing it for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It is the oldest surviving opera, the second ever written. It is, I cannot express this enough, the most common opera adaptation of all time. As soon as this story existed we were putting it to music and on a stage. This is an old, old song. And we're gonna sing it again. Because we love to sing. And because we love.

[dearreader-archive]

i’m going to go lie flat on some train tracks

[leosmiserables]

hi have you guys ever thought about here’s the thing to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again as if it might turn out this time i learned that from a friend of mine

[highly-illogical]

its an old song

[dogearedfriends]

om resten av världen hade tillgång till kent skulle de vara på varenda ship-spellista. sanna mina ord

[shredsandpatches]

Onion Headlines + Richard II (6/?)

I haven’t done a round of these in ages, but I had a bunch of leftover headlines. This may be the grimmest round yet.

[occhiofino]

there are actually not that many things in heaven and earth horatio. your philosophy probably covers most of them tbh

[soloorganaas]

GOOD OMENS | 2019 - 2026

[dogearedfriends]

lezzing out online with @leosmiserables >:]

[lipstickhamlet]

why didn't they invite king richard ii of england (1367-1400) to the met gala

[delfin-zlosliwy]

behind every problematic age gap yuri there's an even more problematic, bigger age gap yaoi

[trigona-necrophaga]

nothing fills the heart with dread more than the word “fresh” being used to describe a theatre production

[aviewtodeath]

hello twelfth night fans. is thi̇s anything