mercutio and romeo are in gay love

if ur name is tybalt and ur a capulet go to hell challenge. tybalt x mercutio shippers do NOT interact this blog is not for you. shakespeare scholar, romeo defender, man kisser

[tybaltcapulethateblog]

hark! i hath an important message for all thee around: tybalt capulet doth be a bitch ass motherfucker. he hath attempted on my dear friend romeo's life! that is correct, he hath taken out his king of cats fucking sword and he hath pointed the blade at romeo, proclaiming "turn and draw!" and so i hath retorted; "tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?" and so now i shall declare right here on tumblr dot com: tybalt capulet, thou hast a small sword. it doth compare in size to a walnut, yet more minuscule! shall i compare thee's sword to mine? here is what mine loyal rapier looks like. all point, naught crooked nor dull - look upon it! it doth look like a handle and a blade! tybalt hath challenged my romeo, so i tell yee to presume my next action. that is right, tybalt, you shall receive my SUPER LASER SWORD. except i shall not challenge just thee, i shall go further; I SHALL CAST A PLAGUE UPON BOTH YOUR HOUSES! how doth thou like that, prince escalus? I CURSED THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES, THOU VILLAIN! thou hath until the sun sits center in the sky before the worms eating mine body hit the fucking earth, now i bid thee leave mine fucking sight, before i curse thou too!

[nedlittle]

i was tasked with creating a shakespeare scene/monologue using only lines from other plays ended up getting a perfect 100 for this lmao

@jeynegrey told me to post this so i had to comply

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[nymphoutofwater]

Here's remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I'd make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)

Anthony and Cleopatra: ~ Josette Simon, Antony Byrne & Ben Allen - 2017

As You Like It: ~ At Wolfe Park - 2013 ~ Kenneth Brannagh's - 2006

Coriolanus: ~ NYET Alumni - 2016 ~ Tom Hiddleston - 2014 ~ Ralph Fiennes - 2011

Cymbelline: ~ Michael Almereyda's - 2014

Hamlet: ~ David Tennant - 2009 ~ Ethan Hawke & Diane Venora - 2000 ~ Kenneth Branagh's - 1989 ~ BCC's Part One & Two - 1990 ~ Broadway - 1964 ~ Christopher Plummer - 1964 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1948

Henry IV: ~ BBC's Part One & Two - 1989 ~ The Brussel's Shakespeare Society's - 2017

Henry V: ~ The BBC's - 1990 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1944

Julius Caesar: ~ Phyllida Lloyd's - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1979 ~ John Gielgud - 1970

King Lear: ~ The RSC's - 2008 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1983 ~ The BBC's - 1975 ~ James Earl Jones - 1974 ~ Orson Wells - 1953

Love's Labour's Lost: ~ Calvin University - 2016

Macbeth: ~ Antoni Cimolino & Shelagh O'Brien's - 2017 ~ Ian McKellen & Judi Dench - 1969 ~ Sean Connery - 1961

Measure for Measure: ~ Hugo Weaving - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1990

The Merchant of Venice: ~ Al Pacino - 2004 ~ Trevor Nunn & Chris Hunt - 2001 ~ The BBC's - 1980 ~ Lawrence Olivier - 1973

The Merry Wives of Windsor: ~ The Royal Shakespeare Company's - 1982

A Midsummer Night's Dream: ~ Oliver Chris & Gwendoline Christie - 2019 ~ City of Columbus's - 2018 ~ The Globe's - 2013 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Lindsay Duncan & Alex Jennings - 1986

Much Ado About Nothing: ~ Shakespeare in the Park - 2019 ~ Kenneth Branagh - 1993 ~ The BBC's - 1984

Othello: ~ The BBC's Part One & Two - 1990

Richard II: ~ David Tennant - 2013 ~ Deborah Warner's - 1997 ~ The BBC's - 1978

Richard III: ~ Ian McKellen - 1995 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1955

Romeo and Juliet: ~ Simon Godwin's - 2021 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Laurence Harvey & Susan Shentall - 1954

The Taming of the Shrew: ~ Ontario production? ~ American Conservatory Theater - 1976 ~ Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor - 1967 ~ Mary Pickford & Samuel Taylor - 1929

The Tempest: ~ Gregory Doran's - 2017 ~ The BBC's - 1988

Timon of Athens: ~ Barry Avrich's - 2024

Troilus and Cressida: ~ Audio Production ~ This one I found on youtube? - 2016

Titus Andronicus: ~ Anthony Hopkins - 1999

Twelfth night: ~ Texas Shakespeare Festival's - 2015 ~ Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright & Ralph Richardson - 1970

Two Gentlemen of Verona: ~ Katherine Steweart's - 2018 ~ The BBC's

The Winter's Tale: ~ Antony Sher - 1999 (Warning: they don't have a bear...)

Bonuses:

Time Loop Hamlet! (A personal fav of mine)

Rock Opera Hamlet???

Shakespeare animated tales

The Complete Works Of Shakespeare Abridged comedy

From the original post:

A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.

Russian Hamlet here

Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern Hamlet retelling.

Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here.

This one is the Taming of the Shrew modern retelling.

The french Romeo & Juliet musical with English subtitles is here!

Here's the 1948 one,

the Orson Wells Othello movie with Portuguese subtitles there

A Lego adaptation of Othello here.

Here's commentary on David Tennant's Richard II

[wordswithkittywitch]

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio called Tybalt "Prince of Cats" because there was a book, popular at the time, with a cat prince named Tybalt in it. He was making a pop culture reference. Therefore, I move, that in a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling, Tybalt should be named Garfield.

[jackiesmithsuniverse-deactivate]

Favorite Romeo and Juliet character

Tybalt

Mercurio

Friar Lawrence

The Nurse

Voting ended onSep 29, 2025

[wordfather]

*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke

[queensparklekitten]

“oh no we’re all doomed by the narrative” maybe you are. i’m the narrative’s favourite.

[queensparklekitten]

update: turns out this is not a good thing for me

[tybaltcapulethateblog]

explain this liberals

[tybaltcapulethateblog]

Ok pack it up mercuito

[tybaltcapulethateblog]

rest in peace mercutio you would've loved good luck babe by chappell roan

[ohfallingdisco]

from now on your personality is defined by the shakespeare characters you shipped the most. mine is hamratio go

[tybaltcapulethateblog]

is this too niche

[writing-prompt-s]

Two lovers have reincarnated throughout history, destined to find each other and fall in love all over again. There’s also this third guy that reincarnates alongside them… we don’t really know what he does.

[anexperimentallife]

[ginormouscobe]

Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.

[problemnyatic]

kill me three times, this time loop fucking sucks

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the funniest part of much ado is after claudio and hero get engaged and beatrice is like “meanwhile I’m over here!!! forever alone!!! I wish someone like don pedro would ask me to marry him haha!!” and don pedro is like “would you like me to marry you?” and beatrice says no.

[english-history-trip]

[ghostresidues]

did i ever tell u all that when i was 15 i went on a school trip to see romeo and juliet at the globe but my teacher didn’t realise until after he’d booked it that it was a ~sexy~ version with bdsm in it

[ghostresidues]

ok people wanted the whole story here are the most Memorable Moments™️

•the production made a lot of people very very angry and the reviews were calling it ‘a desecration of shakespeare’ , other people said it was akin to vandalism

•a warning letter had to be sent home to parents because it was too late to cancel the booking

•all the teachers there looked like they wanted to die cause we were 13-15 years old lmaoo

•the play opened with really aggressive confetti cannons and in the centre of the stage there was this really muscled guy wearing almost nothing and there were four women in essentially lingerie just.. gyrating over him

•this had nothing to do with the plot by the way it was just there

•we’re only five minutes in and i think the teachers were considering evacuating us

•romeo’s dad is in an inflatable dinosaur costume for an entire scene.. no context was given

•i’ve blocked the actual sex scene out of my memory

•i might have imagined this but in the masked ball scene i swear someone was in full bdsm gear i SWEAR

•mercutio was played by a woman and just started stripping during a monologue which was an Experience

•lots and lots of twerking from background actors

•romeo was just dressed like an emo the whole time

[ghostresidues]

for any doubters here’s an excerpt from an article on it ! by the financial times for some reason

[yarnlegend]

This is 100% what Shakespeare would have wanted

[anyroads]

Shakespeare would have been like, “if we had fired confetti from our cannon instead of that cannonball, the play would have gone better* and the theatre wouldn’t have burnt down.”

*This happened during a performance of Henry VIII technically but tell me that also wouldn’t be improved with a confetti canon