Peanut Butter War Cry

Hey I'm a massive fan of reading and just books in general. I plan on writing short reviews for books I've read or am currently reading. I'm more than happy to give book suggestions or discuss books :) My Twitter: https://twitter.com/PBWarCry

[musemonthly]

girls don’t like boys girls like advance reader copies

[peachpulpeuse]

I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. … When Ophelia appears onstage in Act IV, scene V, singing little songs and handing out imaginary flowers, she temporarily upsets the entire power dynamic of the Elsinore court. When I picture that scene, I always imagine Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Horatio sharing a stunned look, all of them thinking the same thing: “We fucked up. We fucked up bad.” It might be the only moment of group self-awareness in the whole play. Not even the grossest old Victorian dinosaur of a critic tries to pretend that Ophelia is making a big deal out of nothing. Her madness and death is plainly the direct result of the alternating tyranny and neglect of the men in her life. She’s proof that adolescent girls don’t just go out of their minds for the fun of it. They’re driven there by people in their lives who should have known better.

B.N. Harrison, from “The Unified Theory of Ophelia” (via shakespeareismyjam)

[threebigolsausages-deactivated2]

me apologizing: .. – / … — .-. .-. -.–

them: whats that?

me: remorse code

them: im even angrier at u now

[anunperfectactor-blog]

‘How much do you know about Shakespeare,’ I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, 'Not as much as he knows about me.’ Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.

Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life, by Arnold Weinstein (New York Times, Feb. 2016)

[fine-eyes]

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Mr. Darcy

Chapter 34 of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(via elliebeth-marie)

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

*Switches languages in mid-sentence while talking to myself*

[schmergo]

“I Like Hanging Out With Guys Because There’s Less Drama.”

Translation: whenever I spend time with my female friends, we always end up doing an unabridged reading of Hamlet, and I’m salty because they always make me play Polonius.

[literatureismyutopia]

[dovumaithi]

[jstor]

WHO IS THIS HERO?

Asking for a friend.

[wordsnquotes]

When you read a book, you hold another’s mind in your hands.

James Burke (via artannis)

[drunken-shakespeare]

List of things Hamlet is handling well

1.

[halfagony-halfhope]

In dreams I meet you in warm conversation. We both wake in lonely beds in different cities.

[bravebattalion]

“meet me in the pit!!” I scream at you

So we have a nice night at the globe theatre. We may be peasants, but we love a good Shakespeare show

[mbacani]

Your eyes make me shy.

Anaïs Nin (via mercurieux)

[citizenjordan-deactivated201705]

Do not fall in love with people like me we will take you to museums and parks and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place so that you can never go back to them without tasting us like blood in your mouth

(via rauchwolken)

[corvidcall]

my favorite part of hamlet is at the beginning when they see the ghost of hamlet sr for the first time

and the guards are like “Horatio, you go talk to it! You went to college!”

and Horatio is like “Yeah! I did go to college! I will go talk to the ghost!”

like. where did horatio go to college. did he go to ghost college