shakesnerd

shakespeare dedicated blog

[morosexualhoratio]

Hamlet but during all of his soliloquies he rolls around like Draco Malfoy in A Very Potter Musical

[the-full-shakespearience]

good news he’s back

[paxbby-deactivated20180604]

*upbeat movie trailer music playing* macbeth was just your average every day war general, until one day, three wacky witches told him he was destined to be king. now he’s about to find out, that being king, isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be

[peoplegettingreallymadatfood]

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

thats what the bathrooms are there for

[mercutihoe]

I love the Shakespeare fandom because there’s like 0 drama at all. like you’re a freshman who read Romeo and Juliet so now you wanna get into Shakespeare more? fuck yeah man that’s great. you grew up on all Shakespeare’s comedies but never really wanted to read the tragedies or histories? sweet yo good for you. you don’t ship hamratio? that’s cool that’s cool whatever floats your boat. you’ve never read a single sonnet? great they’re all mushy romance shit anyway. plus its literally just a bunch of history nerds writing fanfiction about centuries old plays so I mean I guess if we’re all lame as fuck there’s no room for bullying

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

ok but the elitist side of the fandom does exist and they’re awful

you must never go there simba

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

Everyone’s heard “What, you egg” and “Villain, I have done thy mother” but have you considered these equally deserving Shakespearean quotes

-You are a fishmonger

-Well, here is my leg

-Take you me for a sponge, my lord?

-Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in the shape of a camel?

-Eat my leek

[whitmerule]

o flesh how art thou fishified

[majorgenerally]

You crusty botch of nature

[whitmerule]

WHAT BLOODY MAN IS THAT

[majorgenerally]

Reply not to me with a fool-born jest

[whitmerule]

There’s small choice in rotten apples.

[theflashisgone]

“Crusty blotch of nature” will now be my endearment of choice.

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

In case you couldn’t tell, I love Shakespeare

[conversationsfromthebooth]

How To Improv In Iambic Pentameter

SM: Where is Lysander?

ASM: Naked.

SM: Where?

ASM: Serious wardrobe malfunction, blood involved, stand by.

SM: ETA? (estimated time of arrival?)

ASM: 1 minute. One full minute. Using Bottom’s pants.

SM: Stage right, please send Puck on to improvise.

Props: Copy, stand by.

Puck runs onstage like a pro.

Puck: My dearest Hermia, for whom do you wait? Thyne Lysander is but a full minute away! (Winks)

Hermia: I–what?–oh!–Um–(deep breath)…Okayyy.

SM: Hahahahha ohmigod! Best Shakespearean improv ever. Good thing she has a whole minute to think of something better.

ASM: Lysander’s on his way.

SM: Copy that, and thank the theatre gods.

Lighting: “Bottom’s pants” is my favorite pun of the evening.

*Submitted by  themagicnumbat

[marcusbrutus]

I think I might have told this story already but my shakespeare camp director told me he was in a production of Julius Caesar once and that’s my favorite play so I tried to guess what character he was and I went down the line and got down to like first citizen and Titinius and he kept saying no and I was like ??? who were you then ??? and then he looked at me dumbfounded and said “Julius Caesar.”

I had literally guessed everyone except the title character.

[vanwizard]

my names macbeth and wen its nite or wen the moon is shiyning brite and to their sleep the men do cling i stay up late

i stab the king

[leonardcohenofficial]

atrytcne:

*sees a skull anywhere, in any context* aLAS POOR YORICK I KNEW HIM HORATIO A FELLOW OF INFINITE JE-

[kkinglear]

i know it’s midnight but i just saw a production of rnj that was So Good just everything but for now i want to talk specifically about tybalt and mercutio:

- so the play was set somewhere in the middle between 1590 and 1990 and it was Great listen: mercutio had a snap back, skinny jeans, and a doublet, tybalt had khakis and a red button up and a Good Jacket and it was just?? wow the costumes were amazing

- “make it a word and a blow” mercutio blew a kiss ?? and tybalt Blushed ? confirmed ok i was in the 2nd row Trust Me.

- the build up to the fight. and then mercutio seeing the fight as a game, tybalt all riled up by that. the montagues were trying to stop mercutio and the capulets were egging tybalt on, the contrast was!! and the fight choreography!! wow!

- speaking of fight choreography. during one sword-cross mercutio actually, honest to god, kissed tybalt right on the mouth just gonna leave that there

- as mercutio is dying it really looks like a joke at first; like it could really be just a scratch. and tybalt saw that, started smiling because “haha well he’s just joking he’ll laugh in a minute and have been fine all along”

- but then, mercutio starts to lose his step, his confidence. and everyone sees it’s serious. and tybalt’s smile fell and i can’t describe how horrified he looked. it actually broke my heart. and tybalt fell to his knees and just Stared at mercutio dying, even while gregory tried to get him to run, he just wouldn’t move.

- and then mercutio was dead and Hell if it didn’t kill me too. the actor had this aura about him the whole play that made mercutio just feel untouchable. even when he was fighting he made it look like a game, like he just Couldn’t Get Hurt. and when in the end he does get hurt, for me it was just like reading the play for the first time. it was like a new death and it wrenched my heart and i fucking loved it

- tybalt still on his knees in shock and grief while romeo ran at him and grabbed him and started screaming at him oh my God. i know I’ve said about 18 things broke my heart already but this broke my Heart.

i just wanted to share this with you all im sure ill talk about this phenomenal show more but for now this is all my heart can take.

[witchjock-deactivated20221208]

Yeah our house is on fire but have we considered giving the fire a chance and seeing what it does first before we put it out?

[pleasedontsqueezetheshhh]

Before we call 911 I want the wood floor to apologize for being so flammable and let the healing begin because it really hurts the arsonist when you call him an arsonist.

[i-think-ive-killed-a-man]

Look, I know none of us wanted this fire in the first place, but it’s here now, so can we please just try and make the best of it and be respectful?

[ithotyouknew2-deactivated201710]

Honestly, if you say we should hate the fire and put it out you’re just as bad as the fire.

[pipistrellus]

#stop calling me a ‘fire apologist’ for refusing to extinguish the fire!!!! it’s an act of violence to smother this fire’s free speech!!!!!!!

[karnythia]

What do you mean you want to put the fire out before it spreads? Water is aggression and will stop us from being able to convince fire it is wrong to burn. 

[shakesnerd]

The Tempest Actual Text

Everyone (except Prospero): *Exits*

Prospero: Yeah so don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe, I really just wanted to make you guys smile so if you did please share it. Yeah, hit like. Like this. Click the like button.

[angelicgif]

tag yourself: the tempest edition (ft. my quality illustrations)

[ao3tagoftheday]

The Ao3 Tag of the Day is: To be fair, Billy Shakes probably wrote that line in at least one play

[asia1ei]

past tense of william shakespeare? william shookspeare

[the-cloud-road]

Wouldiwas Shookspeared

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

delete this