some angel has your name

what a perfect name it is

[lipstickhamlet]

some of my oddly specific shakespeare staging opinions:

modern stagings of hamlet should keep them as royalty unless the fact that they aren't is hugely relevant to that production.

benedick and beatrice should be in their early 30s at least and claudio and hero should be noticeably younger. beatrice being adamant against marriage and both her and benedick's reaction to each other makes more sense if they're older.

this one's controversial but i think paris should be in his late teens, not way older. i might make another post elaborating on this but paris' death frames him as another victim of the families' violence, with romeo mourning + identifying him as being in the same situation as himself. it's not that old man paris isn't a good interpretation; it's often the easiest way to show romeo and juliet's positions as children helpless under their parents, and makes very clear what demands are being made of juliet. but i feel that adding paris to the list of young people killed in the play as a byproduct of the adults' violence gives romeo's identification with him more weight. given that he clearly has much more control than romeo and juliet but is still identified as a victim of the violence, i think it makes the most sense if he's a bit older than r&j but still very much young.

modern stagings of julius caesar should keep all the knives as knives, but if there has to be a gun, make cassius shoot himself in the head while caesar and brutus still die by stabbing. i've posted about this but the short version is that's it's the best way to show cassius' death as cowardly in contrast to brutus and caesar, whose deaths still mirror each other.

give the fool in king lear an onstage reason for disappearing. i like the 2018 national theatre version that has edmund kill him, and the 2023 south korean production that had cordelia be the fool in disguise the whole time. there was one from 2014 where lear beat him to death in madness which i think would be very shocking, but to good effect. the subsequent lack of comedy in the play after his disappearance would feel more jarring if we actually see his death.

benvolio should appear again in the last scene of romeo and juliet, mourning the two along with everyone else.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet dashboard simulator

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

widowed queen gertrude is crazyyyyy fine

(submitted-via-anonymous)

364 notes

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

.

#personal #to be or not to be UGH that is the question #like is it nobler in the minds to suffering slings and arrows of outrageous fortune??? #or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them #:( #to die #to SLEEP #no more #and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to #tis a consummation DEVOUTLY to be wished #to die to sleep #to sleep perchance to dream?? #ay THERES the rub #for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil #that gives me pause tbh

2 notes

📚 horatio.the.truant

can we please stop fear mongering and spreading misinformation about what has been going on lately. take it from a wittenberg uni student: there is no such thing as ghosts, and there is not one roaming around elisnore castle. there are literally guards patrolling 24/7. if there were ghosts we would know.

📚 horatio.the.truant

hey guys! so turns out there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy

#actually shaking right now #what the fuck is going on

43,576 notes

👻 ghost.tracker Follow  

spotted last night, marcellus and myself, when yond same star that’s westward from the pole had made his course t’illume that part of heaven where it now burns. the bell was then beating one

(submitted-via-bernardo-the-guard-o)

200 notes

😊 average-dane-20 Follow

omg murder of gonzago is touring here this month!! i just got my tickets im SO excited

✉️ im-orsick-of-this

honestly don't get your hopes up about this production. i heard they're changing the whole story around and it's kind of a weird modern retelling :( sounds like it's gonna be a waste of time unfortunately

#i signed an nda at work so i cant really say how i know this #but trust me guys you do not want to be there when this happens

16,312 notes

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

it's actually so fucked up that people are just on tumblr blogging about how hot they think the queen is. does no one care about the fact that she literally has a son who is probably really uncomfortable seeing these comments on his dash. is anyone thinking about him. does anyone care that he's probably having a really hard time right now

(submitted-via-anoynmous)

#one can literally smile and be a villain in denmark this place fucking sucks

4 notes

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

im actually going to kill my uncle

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

im not joking like im really going to do it

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

guys should i kill my uncle????

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 16, 2025

#FUCK what an ass am i #this is most brave #im literally the son of a dear father murdered #prompted to revenge by heaven and hell #and im out here like a whore unpacking my heart with words #fuck thisssss #hmm ive heard guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the cunning of the scene #been so struck to the soul that they just proclaim their malefactions #👀

10 notes

👴🏻 p0l0nius Follow

goodbye son @ laertes and good luck in paris! the wind sits in the shoulder of your sail and you are stayed for. i send my blessing with thee and these few precepts in thy memory Read more

1 notes

🤺 laertes

au revoir bitches ya boy is on his way to parissss

#FUCK this court #not really sure what is going on here but i am not sticking around to find out lmfao #also does anyone know if the ghost stuff everyone is reblogging is real

498 notes

🧪 not.king.claudius

stop reblogging that post about the king's wedding

okay buckle up because i have been seeing a LOT of people talk about how the timing of the king and queen's marriage after the late king's death was weird. but first of all, the picture that has been going around alleging that they used the same food from his funeral to furnish the wedding feast is NOT real and has been debunked multiple times by @ also-not-king-claudius. so please stop reblogging that. second, i've been seeing posts saying that the late king hamlet was way hotter than claudius (like hyperion to a satyr etc) which is honestly so disrespectful when claudius threw an awesome wedding feast that a lot of you all benefitted from and all king hamlet ever did was wage war on fortinbras. also gertrude and claudius were NOT having an affair before they got married. i dont even know how that rumor got started because there is absolutley no proof. it's incredibly irresponsible to spread rumors like that when they are so destructive and hurtful and i cant believe people never check their sources before reblogging. and btw @/elsinore-confessions is NOT a reliable source. sorry but i will be blocking anyone who reblogs posts claiming there was some kind of affair. anyway i dont know what i expected from this hellsite but tbh it was more than this :/

#claudius was literally just in equal scale weighing dole and delight #but of course thats controversial now #🙄

25,785 notes

🌼 opheliaaaaa

view from my walk this morning!

#nature #flowers #wildlife #aesthetic

1,657 notes

💁🏻‍♀️ concerned.danish.mom

hey guys. does anyone have tips on how to connect with your teenage son when he keeps accusing you of unchastity and incest :(

422 notes

🌹 rose.n.crantz Follow

yayyyy king claudius gave us free cruise tickets to england

⭐️ youre-looking-guildenstern Follow

it's actually been forever since we hung out with hamlet. this is gonna be so fun

⭐️ youre-looking-guildenstern Follow

does anyone know how to send a distress signal

74 notes

🌄 remembering-denmark-54 Follow

Today we remember Yorick, a former court jester of the late King Hamlet who passed away several years ago. He is now buried in the Elsinore Castle Graveyard, and is remembered as a fellow of most excellent fancy.

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

omg poor yorick :(( @ horatio.the.truant i knew him!!! a fellow of infinite jest

#he hath borne me on his back like a thousand times!! #and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! #my gorge straight up rises at it #here hung those lips that i kissed i know not how oft #where are ur gibes now? #gambols? #songs? #flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

15 notes

🌼 opheliaaaaa

ummm ok hiiiiii <3

2 notes

👑 young.fortinbras Follow

anyone else been lowkey thinking about invading denmark lately

78 notes

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

not to insult the crown prince or whatever but does anyone else think he seems like a fucking loser

(submitted-via-anonymous)

9,845 notes

[panthermouthh]

(angriest I’ve ever been in my life) and Brutus is an honourable man

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

christopher nolan shakespeare would be like “our much ado has been about nothing”

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“our twelfth night is coming to an end”

[coldswarkids]

"that love's labour sure did get lost"

[curly-cottage-girl]

“that midsummer night was a dream”

[the-davest-of-uncles]

"that to be wasn't"

[swanonymous]

“he certainly was the third of the Richards”

[isadorethefool]

“those two gentlemen really were from verona”

[funkythingsthatmyfriendssay]

Shakespeare describing his mistress’s breasts in sonnet 130:

[theres-rue-for-you]

to my own horror i cannot stop imagining a production that alternates between "twelfth night" and "hamlet" every night (think of that one production of "rosencrantz and gildenstern are dead" that alternated with "hamlet"), where ophelia and laertes are played by the same actors as viola and sebastian. like imagine this staged as a time loop situation, but with two VERY different outcomes. i'm sick. think of the deafening silence after sebastian says "She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more." I'M SICK!

[aq2003]

grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested

[moonlitdatura]

— ♡ Balanchine’s production of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ - New York City Ballet, 1996

[red-the-raspberry]

[trigona-necrophaga]

Shakespeare referencing his hit fanfiction ‘The Tragedie of Julius Caesar’ in his other hit fanfiction ‘The Tragedie of Macbeth’

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet dashboard simulator

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

widowed queen gertrude is crazyyyyy fine

(submitted-via-anonymous)

364 notes

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

.

#personal #to be or not to be UGH that is the question #like is it nobler in the minds to suffering slings and arrows of outrageous fortune??? #or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them #:( #to die #to SLEEP #no more #and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to #tis a consummation DEVOUTLY to be wished #to die to sleep #to sleep perchance to dream?? #ay THERES the rub #for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil #that gives me pause tbh

2 notes

📚 horatio.the.truant

can we please stop fear mongering and spreading misinformation about what has been going on lately. take it from a wittenberg uni student: there is no such thing as ghosts, and there is not one roaming around elisnore castle. there are literally guards patrolling 24/7. if there were ghosts we would know.

📚 horatio.the.truant

hey guys! so turns out there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy

#actually shaking right now #what the fuck is going on

43,576 notes

👻 ghost.tracker Follow  

spotted last night, marcellus and myself, when yond same star that’s westward from the pole had made his course t’illume that part of heaven where it now burns. the bell was then beating one

(submitted-via-bernardo-the-guard-o)

200 notes

😊 average-dane-20 Follow

omg murder of gonzago is touring here this month!! i just got my tickets im SO excited

✉️ im-orsick-of-this

honestly don't get your hopes up about this production. i heard they're changing the whole story around and it's kind of a weird modern retelling :( sounds like it's gonna be a waste of time unfortunately

#i signed an nda at work so i cant really say how i know this #but trust me guys you do not want to be there when this happens

16,312 notes

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

it's actually so fucked up that people are just on tumblr blogging about how hot they think the queen is. does no one care about the fact that she literally has a son who is probably really uncomfortable seeing these comments on his dash. is anyone thinking about him. does anyone care that he's probably having a really hard time right now

(submitted-via-anoynmous)

#one can literally smile and be a villain in denmark this place fucking sucks

4 notes

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

im actually going to kill my uncle

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

im not joking like im really going to do it

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

guys should i kill my uncle????

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 16, 2025

#FUCK what an ass am i #this is most brave #im literally the son of a dear father murdered #prompted to revenge by heaven and hell #and im out here like a whore unpacking my heart with words #fuck thisssss #hmm ive heard guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the cunning of the scene #been so struck to the soul that they just proclaim their malefactions #👀

10 notes

👴🏻 p0l0nius Follow

goodbye son @ laertes and good luck in paris! the wind sits in the shoulder of your sail and you are stayed for. i send my blessing with thee and these few precepts in thy memory Read more

1 notes

🤺 laertes

au revoir bitches ya boy is on his way to parissss

#FUCK this court #not really sure what is going on here but i am not sticking around to find out lmfao #also does anyone know if the ghost stuff everyone is reblogging is real

498 notes

🧪 not.king.claudius

stop reblogging that post about the king's wedding

okay buckle up because i have been seeing a LOT of people talk about how the timing of the king and queen's marriage after the late king's death was weird. but first of all, the picture that has been going around alleging that they used the same food from his funeral to furnish the wedding feast is NOT real and has been debunked multiple times by @ also-not-king-claudius. so please stop reblogging that. second, i've been seeing posts saying that the late king hamlet was way hotter than claudius (like hyperion to a satyr etc) which is honestly so disrespectful when claudius threw an awesome wedding feast that a lot of you all benefitted from and all king hamlet ever did was wage war on fortinbras. also gertrude and claudius were NOT having an affair before they got married. i dont even know how that rumor got started because there is absolutley no proof. it's incredibly irresponsible to spread rumors like that when they are so destructive and hurtful and i cant believe people never check their sources before reblogging. and btw @/elsinore-confessions is NOT a reliable source. sorry but i will be blocking anyone who reblogs posts claiming there was some kind of affair. anyway i dont know what i expected from this hellsite but tbh it was more than this :/

#claudius was literally just in equal scale weighing dole and delight #but of course thats controversial now #🙄

25,785 notes

🌼 opheliaaaaa

view from my walk this morning!

#nature #flowers #wildlife #aesthetic

1,657 notes

💁🏻‍♀️ concerned.danish.mom

hey guys. does anyone have tips on how to connect with your teenage son when he keeps accusing you of unchastity and incest :(

422 notes

🌹 rose.n.crantz Follow

yayyyy king claudius gave us free cruise tickets to england

⭐️ youre-looking-guildenstern Follow

it's actually been forever since we hung out with hamlet. this is gonna be so fun

⭐️ youre-looking-guildenstern Follow

does anyone know how to send a distress signal

74 notes

🌄 remembering-denmark-54 Follow

Today we remember Yorick, a former court jester of the late King Hamlet who passed away several years ago. He is now buried in the Elsinore Castle Graveyard, and is remembered as a fellow of most excellent fancy.

🏴‍☠️ tragical-prince-of-denmark

omg poor yorick :(( @ horatio.the.truant i knew him!!! a fellow of infinite jest

#he hath borne me on his back like a thousand times!! #and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! #my gorge straight up rises at it #here hung those lips that i kissed i know not how oft #where are ur gibes now? #gambols? #songs? #flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

15 notes

🌼 opheliaaaaa

ummm ok hiiiiii <3

2 notes

👑 young.fortinbras Follow

anyone else been lowkey thinking about invading denmark lately

78 notes

😱 elsinore-confessions Follow

not to insult the crown prince or whatever but does anyone else think he seems like a fucking loser

(submitted-via-anonymous)

9,845 notes

[danishprince]

Literally everybody does have that friend named Polonius that hides behind their tapestries

[rosesdamasked]

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir, 1859

[rosesdamasked]

Plants look after us, if we look after them..

John Muir, 1867