theatre & classic lit

[melissa-benoists]

[thebubblesoutlet]

I hate how much I enjoy bridgerton like yes come here you lil campy show with the most ridiculous marriage entrapments and historically inaccurate costuming and the instrumental pop covers and the two definitely fruity siblings that everyone keeps insisting are straight

[lungthief]

no offense but. how does the sun even fit in the sky it just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky and the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky how long how long how long

[sondheimfam]

Stephen Sondheim lived for 91 years. We are all so lucky to have lived a time intercepting with those 91 years. Without Stephen Sondheim, not only would musical theater not be half of what it is today, but I know personally that no one here on this blog would be the same. ❤️ I think I speak for us all when I say I am devastated

[tlirsgender]

What's the opposite of shipping but not in like, a disliking the ship way necessarily. I mean like, these two characters are divorced. If they aren't, they should be. Just two people who are both horrible for each other and I find it entertaining to watch. Imagining amvs for them set to no children by the mountain goats. The ship is sinking and I'm the band on the titanic

[tlirsgender]

I don't want to see them kiss and be happy I want to see them fall off a cliff

[tlirsgender]

[ID: tags from @drscalie that read "#i want to watch their custody battle" /end ID]

Exactly

[blondechorine]

shakespeare moodboards: desdemona 🍓

she had a song of willow; an old thing ‘twas, but it express’d her fortune, and she died singing it: that song to-night will not go from my mind.

[orsimplydreaming]

Julius Caesar when his friends started pulling out the daggers:

[godlessondheimite]

gabe goodman being dead revelation vs. clara johnson being kicked in the head by a horse revelation

[orsimplydreaming]

shakespeare’s women x taylor swift songs

i’m making a tiktok abt this cause im a huge classic lit person & swiftie but i need more ideas!! if there’s any shakespearean women you associate with taylor songs please comment them— it would be extremely helpful :)

here are some of my ideas:

ophelia - dear john

"don't you think nineteen’s too young/ to be played by your dark twisted games,/ when i loved you so?/ i should've known"

"I lived in your chess game,/ but you changed the rules every day/ wondering which version of you I might get on the phone"

helena - gold rush

"what must it be like/ to grow up that beautiful?/ with your hair falling into place like dominos"

"I don't like anticipating my face in a red flush/ I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch/ everybody wants you"

desdemona - tolerate it

"I greet you with a battle hero's welcome/ I take your indiscretions all in good fun"

"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky/ now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"

[lesblep]

take my quiz if you want to feel sad about yourself

there are ten results, all colours, and no pop culture questions whatsoever.

[orsimplydreaming]

mine called me out... "when your theatre clears you do not stop performing... because when you do someone is going to see you as a person instead of a pedestal"

[orsimplydreaming]

anyways,

[rainfight]

cant believe im watching kenneth branagh making out with kate winslet in the 1980s under the guise of shakespeare

[orsimplydreaming]

rip to ophelia & desdemona, you would’ve loved willow by taylor swift

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

elizabethan playwrights when there’s been three scenes of serious drama and they know the groundlings are gonna get antsy:

[your-angle-of-music]

 You are not immune to “Wake up, Johanna! / Another bright red day, / we learn, Johanna, to say / goodbye (I’ll steeeeal youuuu).”

[your-angle-of-music]

You are also not immune to “You stay, Johanna / the way I’ve dreamed you are! / Oh look, Johanna, a star, / a shooting star (Buried sweetly in your yellow hair)!”

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

othello when he knows somebody’s lying but he’s not sure whether it’s iago or desdemona:

[cosed]

if you dont have brown eyes….. sorry i guess. also fuck you

[orsimplydreaming]

jealousy is a disease 💗 get well soon

[7upofficial]

girl you got so mad over a tumblr post and for what

[orsimplydreaming]

it was a joke :) op was more agressive than me