#alls well

[sparklyshakespeare]

shakespeare plays as fashion shows

[beforeviolets]

gay paroles my beloved

[twiggybtch]

she was so intense the entire book only to leave me with an ambiguous ending. "A trick of the light."

[literatureaesthetic]

a little classics haul and my current read!!

[976disdain]

GOOOOOD MORNING AMERICA!🤗🔆

[shakespearenews]

To be or not to be cancelled: how directors deal with Shakespeare’s problematic side

Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works

Nonetheless, McIntyre explains, “intractable problems, both of situation and personality, make for juicy drama. You go to watch people going through things that you can’t imagine going through.” In All’s Well (“famously the play where you don’t like anyone”), the biggest stumbling block is a moral one – Helena, the heroine, beds her crush Bertram by convincing him he’s having sex with someone else. “The idea of a bed trick is ethically questionable,” McIntyre protests. “It’s essentially a sexual assault: Bertram can’t consent because he doesn’t know who he’s sleeping with. But the play has no problem with the bed trick. The play thinks it’s fine; it even cheers her on.”

She refuses to skate over this “appalling” moment. “When the world of the play contains this poisonous central act, I cannot excuse it to the audience. It’s a play about incredibly flawed people who do awful things to each other, and this is the worst of many.” 

[sideshrimp]

Reading & Annotating, snacks for days