all the world's a house tour @ponineserrand - Tumblr Blog

live theatre is probably the most important thing in the world

this sucks so bad im gonna [remembers suicide jokes are bad for your mental health] gouge out the eyes of the traitorous earl of Gloucester

#king lear

queenofiambic

"I asked ai" okay okay fine, but I asked poor Tom and he told me that he's a-cold

#king lear

fairycosmos

im not complaining because i expect you to fix anything im complaining to bond with you. omggggg find your hater spirit

the-reynolds-pamphlet

@ponineserrand

#us...#<- prev... us

lipstickhamlet

guys i can't do this anymore. i have to speak my truth. hamlet is not the emo goth kid lounging around in hot topic clothes and laertes is not the varsity jacket-wearing jock. it's the other way around. before the events of the play, hamlet was very much a jock (4.7.111-114), enough so that his lack of exercise is noticeable (2.2.319-320) and was well-liked and popular by the common people (4.7.20-24). polonius implies to reynaldo that laertes is in france to study music specifically (2.1.81). laertes is easily agitated, provoked, and sensitive, which is arguably more likely to be a pre-existing condition of teenage angst hot topic-ism than hamlet's legitimate grief (open your eyes and look). i can't stress enough that hamlet's transformation into the person we see in the play is so jarring from his real self that he almost isn't the same person anymore, and laertes has similarly been pushed to be the volatile, violent person he is by his circumstances. hamlet is literally the popular athletic golden boy and laertes is, like, the kid lugging around a huge cello case every day to and from school who gets high as fuck behind the bleachers and picks fights with anyone who says anything about his sister

#hamlet #complete with citations and all

lipstickhamlet

sorry i know this is such a hater opinion + ultimately inconsequential but i literally cannot stand mercutio x benvolio. like i'm so sorry to the shippers and i'm sincerely glad they're having fun but there's nothing in the tumblr shakespeare space that pisses me off more than the popularity of this ship. i know it's because romeo and juliet is the most commonly taught shakespeare play in schools & gay teenagers latch onto the trash-talking rebellious side character who is close friends with another side character BUT they are such a nothingburger ship 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭they're nothing 😭😭😭they're two male side characters in a popular play that became the face of gay shakespeare ships on here😭😭😭 and for what 😭😭😭😭

i do actually think the performance history of mercutio (esp. harold perrineau's portrayal in 1996) is very very interesting in relation to sexuality and gender non-conformity. and i think it's really compelling to analyze mercutio in contrast to romeo and juliet's relationship. but i cannot go on seeing these incorrect quotes and shitposts positing these two as the ultimate shakespearean gay couple. like it's not even that reading mercutio as queer isn't interesting or has no merit, it's that they're so oversaturated and taken for granted as the punchline for every fucking gay ship post on here over the legitimate queer readings of other plays 😭😭😭

if you thought mercutio and benvolio were gay reading r+j in school, take my hand. let's read coriolanus together. let's read richard ii together. let's read as you like it, even. troilus and cressida has an actual for real gay couple onstage. please. mercutio x benvolio's tumblr presence is like the shadows in the cave of the actual queer themes in shakespeare. shipping is fun and all but arguing in earnest that mercutio and benvolio were textually queer is like....... there's more to life than this. let's read the fair youth sonnets together.

lipstickhamlet

actually i could've summed up this entire post into just "i think mercutio x benvolio is fun and everything but there are literally textually queer couples/characters in shakespeare and this isn't one of them"

#YEAH. YEAH...#romeo and juliet

shakespeare-guy-anon

hi my name's william shakespeare and you're watching disney channel

chekovs-fuckup

Edmund I love you so much

#the production im seeing has cornwall and regan flirting with him #<- AS IT SHOULD!!! YESSSS #king lear

greelin

[RUINING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REAL] i am playing. With my touys

ponineserrand

@ferrisweel

#unnamed play tag #dead march tag #(working title)

januarycitrus

a letter to a brother

#also bringing this back.#what the fuck.#i am less normal about edgar now than i was then and. holy shit #this is a wonderful interpretation of him. what the fuuuck #king lear #this could be #unnamed play tag #dead march tag #(working title)

laissezferre

“The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long.” —Edgar, King Lear (Shakespeare)

#bringing this back #king lear

xalatath

You misused thou/thee in a joke post and provoked my ire.

mephistopheles

why is shakespeare so good at creating relationships between characters that are just pure unadulterated obsessive psychosexual nightmares. why does this keep happening

toddsolondz

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

topical

oh my god hamlet

I’ve been looking in detail at one of our treasures: Shakespeare’s original will. I’ve come to two new conclusions, which are important for our knowledge of Shakespeare and his family...

A general (but not unanimous) view is that Shakespeare’s will shows him to have been sour, unemotional and unkind, with a dysfunctional family. From this much more has been extrapolated:

Judith was resented for out-living her twin brother Hamnet. She was probably uncared-for, unlike his elder daughter Susanna Hall – his favourite, and the lucky recipient of his wealth.

Shakespeare made no provision for his wife Anne, except for the slighting bequest of the second-best bed.

He had probably lost affection or respect for Anne years ago, if he ever had any – after all, she was older than him and pregnant when they married. No wonder he had abandoned his wife and three children to live in London.

But the will was written as a business document, about a future transfer of property to come into effect on his death. It was not a deathbed declaration, and was no place for expressions of affection. Sourness or coldness can’t be read into the formal language of such a document.