#daily snack

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Iago: “I lay with Cassio lately”- *Proceeds to describe a totally fake but DETAILED fantasy of Cassio. dry-humping and making out with him

Othello: *never questions any of this* “This is clear proof they have done the deed! Cassio must die!”

Audience: “Hold on, Iago, do you desperately want to screw Cassio? Seems like you put a lot of time and detail into that little erotic fantasy. Can we talk about that before we get into the wife-beating?

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Talk to me about how Edmund of Gloucester actually loved his brother Edgar.

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Not my meme, but the person who made it is not weird at all! I love it.

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I wish I had a Shakespeare production company so I could stage that BDSM performance of TAMING OF THE SHREW I want so badly

It would be the absolute BEST way to stage TAMING. Maybe the only way that really works in this day and age?

BDSM is all about theater for 2. Even when nobody's watching you, which is often, you're playing a role that doesn't look the same as normal life.

And TAMING is all about performance! You could keep it at the outermost layer, the framing story of TAMING. Have the whole thing take place inside a BDSM club or something. Heighten the unreality - remind the audience of a show within a show.

Or get more thematic - Kate and Petruchio are both performing all the time. Performing as jerks, trying to be unlovable and scare people away. It would be really powerful to show them both as understanding the performance of the other, and then them joining to make it a performance of 2 against everyone else.

You could use a wide range of BDSM activities, too - everything from light spanking, to a fetish club, to lifestyle BDSM would work!

If you want something done right, do it yourself - but I don't have a theater company, so I can't!

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two dumb questions: 1) how many characters in the tragedies kill their partners (homoerotic nemeses do count in this case) and 2 (the more important one)) are there enough to write a parody of the cell block tango

I don't know how long ago I got this, and I feel like the asker probably needed an answer fast! But I still like the question!

But I don't think there are many!

Othello killing Desdemona in OTHELLO. She's dead for real and I hate it.

2. Richard III killing Anne in RICHARD III. Bastard.

3. Aufidius killing Martius in CORIOLANUS

4.) Claudius accidentally poisoning Gertrude in HAMLET (while trying to poison someone else).

5). Iago killing Emilia in OTHELLO. Emilia's fantastic!!! I hate it!!!!

6). Posthuman sends a literal assassin after innocent Imogen in CYMBELINE. He's lucky the assassin changes his mind and warns her!! He went a step even further than Leontes, but like Leontes, he his romantic partner lived. Speaking of....

THE UN-SPECIAL MURDEROUS MENTIONS :

Leontes comes awfully close in THE WINTER'S TALE to killing Hermione! Fortunately, he's able to hold himself back, putting her on trial instead of an actual assassin. She lives!!! It's OK!!!! I actually like Leontes, in the end!

In many RICHARD II productions, Aumerle kills Richard. The murderer in the play, Exton, comes out of nowhere at the final second, and it's kind of a letdown. Whereas Aumerle disappears after trying to put teh King (with whom he also has a homoerotic connection), and then being forced to swear loyalty to Henry IV. So it's much more compelling if he does it!

Lucrece Killing Tarquin IN the THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (one of the narrative poems). He saw her as a romantic interest. He's her rapist, and she does not see him that way. She kills him!!. It's a well-deserved, satisfying moment. That could do interesting things in a CELL BLOCK TANGO parody!

More than I thought, actually! Enough to do a CELL BLOCK TANGO parody even without the Un-Special Mentions, if you include Posthumus on "attempted". Oh, damn, now I hope someone does it....

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After five years, I’m trying to get better at resuming regular “daily snack“ posts, even if they’re not daily.

I’m totally fried and can’t think of anything, so…

Yeah Martius and Aufidius fucked. They for sure had either a genuine relationship involving homosocial/homoerotic army training before their cities were at war, OR they’ve had several clandestine rounds of hate sex.

Virgillia is well aware of this, and not wild about it. Her relationship with her husband is complicated! She has, however, kept this from volume, because she would never stop shaming Martius for it, and might even stop loving him since she ties her love to being the perfect soldier for Rome. And Virgilia loves her husband and won’t do that to him.

But yeah, they’re in love, and also they fucked.

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My parents got to visit Kronberg Castle at Elsinore and I. AM. JEALOUSY.

God I’d love to see that castle. I want to see a show there! Among with other things I want in my life and am not getting!

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Edmund Protection Squad: who were you fave Edmunds?

Obviously anyone can chime in here!! Please do!! I titled it this way b/c be "fave" I mean not just well-acted Edmunds, but ones that emphasize Edmund's better qualities, his tragedy, and/or his last-minute redemption.

Extra awesome if those performances have been recorded so that I can watch them, but if they haven't, tell me about them!