Shakespeare was a gay motherfucker

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

im losing my fucking mind

[incorrectshakespeare]

today in the class discussion section that i run we talked about gender and sexuality in twelfth night and by the end of section the conversation had basically been reduced to

[neonbo]

[edmundofgloucester]

[user0987654321876543]

Ghost hamlet: Yo how’s the murdering going?

Hamlet:

[halfsad-deactivated20180421]

romeo? romeo? wherefore art thou romeo? oh my fucking god he fucking dead

[silversteampunk]

Inktober Day 19: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[gael-garcia]

Eleanor Matsuura as Hippolyta & Maxine Peake as Titania in Russell T. Davies’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016) 

[tuu-likki]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)

[ladyannelister]

*Fisayo Akinade as Flute catching the eye of one of Theseus’s soldiers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC film, 2016)

[williamtheshakester]

Mercutio: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Benvolio?

Benvolio: No.

Romeo: I do.

Mercutio: I know, Romeo.

Romeo: I'm sad.

Mercutio: I know, Romeo.

[williamtheshakester]

Claudius: Fortinbras's armies are approaching, we're all going to die.

Hamlet: Oh, god, I hope so.

[macklesufficient]

here’s the mood

[earl-grey-tea-of-gloucester]

Shakespeare April: Macbeth

[williamtheshakester]

act I, scene II

Claudius: My dreams were shattered years ago.

Hamlet: How many years ago?

Claudius: How old are you again?

[binary-bird]

made some bookmarks for my sources and stuff.

(about ghost college)

[mercurien]

anyway remember how act 1 of hamlet is set “in that season wherein our saviour’s birth is celebrated”? we have textual proof that the first act takes place around christmas time and still no modern-day production will give me the meeting of the danish court reimagined as an awkward family christmas dinner. imagine claudius making his speech while carving a turkey and wearing an embarrassing paper crown. imagine hamlet glaring at everyone from across a plate of sprouts. imagine hamlet doing o that this too too solid flesh would melt (yeah hamlet i know that post-christmas lunch feel) in a black snowman jumper. in scene 4 when hamlet’s saying the king keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels claudius is dad-dancing to shakin’ stevens in the background.