immortal longings

kate, she/her

[fittes]

let me assign you a shakespeare play

i made one of these quizzes because i, am gay. tag your results!

[shakespearenews]

Ian McKellen has returned to the role of Hamlet, at the age of 82, in a new production at Theatre Royal Windsor

Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

[enchantedbook]

Hamlet and Ophelia - Hugues Merle

[samsmyth]

David Gentleman’s New Penguin Shakespeare covers.

This month on The Poster Boys: the history of Penguin Books cover design. Follow theposterboys.tumblr.com and subscribe on iTunes for more.

[gnossienne]

Irek Mukhamedov (Romeo) and Viviana Durante (Juliet) in Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet, 1992)

[oiseauroi]

William Shakespeare, Macbeth and Edvard Munch, Separation

[mephistopheles]

[sweetlapin]

Romeo and Juliet and other stories (Svetlin Vassilev)

[mattlyon]

Romeo & Juliet, 2021

National Theatre’s film production of Romeo & Juliet premieres in the US on PBS at 9pm Friday 23 April. Starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley in the lead roles, it was filmed over seventeen days in an empty theatre during the pandemic

It’s definitely one of the best things I’ve seen this year – go check it out!

[ And it’s still available to watch in the UK on Sky Arts ]

[binary-bird]

happy shakespeare day! ✨

[roscolux]

like not to act like it's 2014 but hamlet was written like a million years ago and people on here are still like "that's my friend hamlet". marveling at this and loving it

[roscolux]

hamlet from the play hamlet: [insane little soliloquy]

average tumblr user: rest in peace king you would've loved ice coffee

[mjvnivsbrvtvs]

updated an older piece in celebration of 🗡the ides of march 🗡

[neetols]

Beware the Ides of March 🔪

[jewishhamlet]

it’s been said before but fortinbras pov really is the funniest thing. imagine you’re waging war on some country because their old king killed your dad and then you walk into their throne room and there’s 4 dead bodies and one guy who instantly says “i can explain”

[princesskuragina]

Me: this is hamletcore

My therapist: we actually call it clinical depression

[reginalds-deactivated20210314]

"I am really not making any attempt to enact anything gendered in my performance," she says. "I'm just being there, and just being a Hamlet." Bell Shakespeare's production of Hamlet, staring Harriet Gordon-Anderson in the titular role.

[ileftnoring]

Sebastian and Viola reunite. 💙 Twelfth Night Alexander Kasser Theater, 2017