#shakespeare feels

[iamodyseus]

CASIO: - No me amas... BRUTO: - ¡No me agradan tus defectos!  CASIO: - Un amigo jamás vería tales defectos.

Julio César - William Shakespeare

[iamodyseus]

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare: King Lear; Act III, Scene 2

[iamodyseus]

For the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.

Hamlet; Act II, Scene 1 - William Shakespeare

[iamodyseus]

Pues bien. . . miradme y que me diga quien lo sepa ¿Por que con guardias tan estrictas y extremosas fatigan a los subditos de este pais? ¿Y por que tanta fundicion de cañones y este acopio de pertrechos de guerra? ¿Por que esa leva de calafates cuya labor no distingue el domingo de otros dias? ¿Que peligros se avecinan para que esa actividad convierta a la noche en compañera del dia? ¡Quién podria explicarmelo!

Hamlet: Acto I, Escena 1a.

[strangee-enough]

So I watched all of Nothing Much To Do today...

And I'm obsessed. I love web series based on fiction (I've been a LBD fan since day one) but especially adaptations of Shakespeare. I've never read Much Ado About Nothing but now I need to.

Also, Hero may or may not be the coolest name I've ever heard.

[honeytangerine]

rereading and annotating Henry V for upcoming directing project

I'm literally halfway through "O for a muse of fire" and I'm trying not to cry at work because this speech is so goddamn brilliant

is it normal to get teary over literary devices?

[pasiphile]

(i don't want benedict cumberbatch as richard iii

I don't want a cackling evil villain, I don't want people to cheer at how awesomely evil he is. I want a confused furious conflicted lashing-out more-clever-than-thou hurting self-hating mess who murders his way to the top just to give the world the finger for condemning him since birth, I want I rather hate myself /For hateful deeds committed by myself, I want to faint from sheer hotness at Anne's seduction, I want to be torn between pity and contempt and admiration. I want someone vulnerable and terrifying and fragile and human.)

[filthysweetie]

cleopatra is the best goddamn character in this whole play. yet critics are so caught up in their sexist bullshit that they have the gale to say the play would better be called the rise and fall of Antony REALLY. WHO is the fifth act about, might I ask? WHO carried this whole goddamn play??