Dressing Shakespeare

A collection of inspiration, sources, references and thoughts from an actor and costumer specializing in Shakespeare and Early Modern English drama. (This is a sideblog. My personal blog is senselessconjuration)

[lewdhat]

Made myself a friend!

[lewdhat]

When you’re drunk as fuck, stranded on a haunted island, and the weird fish monster your friend just adopted is trying to convince you to do a murder.

[lewdhat]

Made myself a friend!

[chevaliermesfait]

illustrations by Walter Crane in Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays, 1909

[tomoleary]

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) “Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet” The Tempest: Act 3, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (undated) Source

[thesobsister]

Leonora Carrington, A Set of 3 Masks (used in the 1959 production of The Tempest)

[linkloki]

[estoult]

(person who hasn’t read the primary text voice) what if I made some reductive assumptions

[lesbianshepard]

Hating how Nolan's Odyssey looks on the basis of being into Classics, but chuds have made it a culture war thing, so now I'm fighting for my life arguing that the issue isn't that Nolan cast trans and black people as gods and heroes, it's that he cast those people and then put them in dogshit costumes

[digitalnewberry]

Patricia’s Self-Help Grimoire Has Entered the Chat

We were watching Widow’s Bay when Patricia’s self-help book took a distinctly occult turn—and suddenly looked very familiar.

The Newberry’s “Book of magical charms” has entered the chat.

Coincidence? Probably. But the grimoire energy is undeniable.

- NL111O1R Some watermarks visible (chalice and grapes?) but tightness of the binding makes identification difficult.

[enchantedbook]

‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Svetlin Vassilev

[heycallmered]

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

[llama2237]

What... What movie is this.

[heycallmered]

[heycallmered]

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

[marmoset-marmoset]

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[toddsolondz]

when you’re having a laugh with your dad but then you suddenly remember that he’s going to hell

[theprincehamlet]

topical

[toddsolondz]

oh my god hamlet

[dragongirlsweetie]

boss makes a spider i make a slime. that's why i . thas why, tthats why i uhhh. t. thawhy

[dragongirlsweetie]

t.gats why i can't think up an end to the rhyme

[evilwizard]

GET BACK TO WORK

[itsjesscapade]

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[nemfrog]

"Andras, grand marquis of Hell. He is seen with the body of an angel (and) the head of an owl." The owl head symbolizes nocturnal malevolence and secret knowledge; the wolf, ferocity; the angel's body, his fallen character.

Dictionnaire infernal. 1863.

Internet Archive

[garneneva]

Some art I made of spirk based on “Romeo and Juliet” by Frank Dicksee!

[northstararia]

I can’t believe that this is fan art and not in a museum