what offence, sweet beatrice?

the name's staples. shouting about shakespeare + lockwood & co., with smatterings of percy jackson, austen, anne with an e... the list goes on. visit @portland-row-postbox. pop in to my ao3.

[so-true-jestie]

what a great day to be normal about the fact that my favourite Beatrice insult ("a fine little wit", "it hurts no one") may not even be attributable to her, but made up by Don Pedro just to unnerve Benedick

[william-shakespeare-official]

I’ve asked her, she says she totally said that.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Evgeniy Erohin

[macrolit]

Personal library of Richard A. Macksey, retired professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

[notdeannatroi]

So today I watched this interview with the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and they demonstrate the phenomenon "space ship acting"

and they all go

and it just cracks me up, ESPECIALLY Sir Patrick Stewart

[thequeenofspace]

I love when they just throw themselves across the room

[captaine-carter]

Jonathon Frakes said that once during one of these scenes Patrick Stewart leaned over to him and said “I’m a Shakespearean trained actor you know”

[d-cay-d]

[george-karim]

Lockwood & Co incorrect quotes !

[syn4k]

im going to be real rn i completely understand where hamlet is coming from because if my dad died and then my mom married his brother a MONTH AFTER HIS FUNERAL and THEN everyone told me to just get over it already because everybody dies and THEN i talked to my dad's ghost and tried to get some semblance of closure after his death and he told me "cut the bullshit im burning my sins off in hell rn but its not a big deal listen up your uncle murdered me you gotta get revenge for me" i would also do an acrobatic fucking pirouette backwards off the handle

[syrenki]

your daughter is a pleasure to have on the dashboard

[nessa007]

the only way i’d watch those biopics lmao

[sharpie-arpi]

I’d rather watch this version mhm lmaooo

[chels]

[honey-lys]

has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet

[chirasul]

just me. and i'm NOT telling

[gutmunchies]

what the fuck. come on

[theunquietworld]

i’m reading emma thompson’s diaries from the filming of sense and sensibility and there are some really great bits

danny de vito sent good-luck flowers on their first day of shooting

in the published draft of the script, colonel brandon and willoughby fight a duel offscreen after brandon confronts him about impregnating beth, brandon’s ward

“kissing hugh [grant] was very lovely. glad i invented it. can’t rely on austen for a snog, that’s for sure. we shoot the scene on a hump-backed bridge. two swans float into shot as if on cue. everyone coos. ‘get rid of them,’ says ang [lee]. ‘too romantic.’

for a number of outdoor scenes, they would fire a shotgun in the air just before the cameras started rolling to get the local crow population to shut the fuck up for a few minutes

there was a dedicated line item in the budget for hiring flocks of sheep for exterior shots, ang lee was determined to use them as often as he could

“later found ang looking at the estuary with a mournful expression. i went and stood beside him. after a moment he said, waving towards the water, ‘tide goes in, tide goes out, tide goes in, tide goes out — and still no sex.’ ‘do you miss it?’ i enquired, after i’d stopped laughing. he nodded sadly. his family won’t be back for weeks.”

while filming the scenes at the palmers’ house with the screaming baby, it turns out that “we’ve hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical thomas. one did finally start to cry but stopped every time chris yelled ‘action’. later: babies smiled all afternoon. buddhist babies. they didn’t cry once. we, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.”

“very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. we all crooned at it. alan [rickman] to cat (very low and meaning it): ‘fuck off’. the nice lady didn’t turn a hair. the cat looked slightly embarrassed but stayed.”

during the london ballroom scene hugh laurie kept treading on the train of imelda staunton’s gown, “which pulled it down so far it exposed her boobs. keep it in, i said, but she wouldn’t.”

“sunday, 11 june: drank far too much last night and woke at 5:30 a.m. could’ve gone on drinking all night. quite grateful for a hangover, it provides a bit of peace. walked on to my balcony completely naked last night and took the couple that have moved into the suite next door slightly by surprise. walked back in calmly affecting insouciance and then bit all my pillows, one after the other.”

while resetting a scene involving a carriage, “ang rode off on a bicycle and didn’t return. found him locked in the loo at trafalgar, having broken the key. he’s being rescued at present.”

“noon. finish scene with alan. me: ‘oh! i’ve just ovulated.’ alan (long pause): ‘thank you for that.’”

“hugh g. in a spot of bother up la, apparently. something to do with a blow job. it’s all right for some, i thought.”

[lucybellwood]

Reblog if you, too have calmly affected insouciance and then bit all your pillows, one after the other

[butchhamlet]

much ado about nothing is so great because benedick and beatrice spend the whole first half bringing the other one up out of nowhere when nobody asked and then immediately going

[konoko]

[vodka-is-gay-and-so-am-i]

[derrygirlsgifs]

"It's okay. I can wait." Erin Quinn and James Maguire DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022)

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

[rehearsing]

happy too tired July everyone

[shredsandpatches]

Yesterday @skeleton-richard and I watched a deeply mediocre production of Doctor Faustus which nevertheless made the galaxy-brain decision to let Mephistopheles say a single non-scripted fuck

[skeleton-richard]

It was worth it just to hear Mephistopheles say fuck.

[themalhambird]

Eyyyyyyyy!!