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sar-kalu:

it really fucking is

yarnlegend:

This is 100% what Shakespeare would have wanted

henrydefencesquad:

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

henrydefencesquad:

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

henrydefencesquad:

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

At all my fellow literature/literary history nerds: Your opinion? I ask in genuine curiosity. 
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bisexual-evanhansen:

I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet has no idea he’s being spied on and just goes off on ophelia because he’s hangry. I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet knows he’s being watched from the start and the whole thing’s an act. I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet figures out he’s being watched half way through and gets super mad at ophelia for betraying him. now I want to see the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where ophelia covertly nods at where polonius and claudius are hiding, hamlet gets the idea, and they’re both in on the performance the whole time. I want classically trained shakespearean actors to give us their best best show of bad acting. I want ophelia to mouth some of the most cutting lines to hamlet before he says them. I want hamlet to frown exaggeratedly at her and for her to take this as a cue to start crying. I want hamlet to go grab her by the wrist, her to wince, and him to automatically loosen his grip. I want them to stage hamlet dragging her around by the ear using classic stage-fight techniques. I want them to be aggressively in cahoots with one another because they know each of their bastard father-figures are watching. 

I want this for the lols of seeing them trying to fake-fight on the spot, to give ophelia more to do than just be the victim, and so it never crosses ophelia’s mind that hamlet’s actually losing it a little bit.

that is, until she hears how her father died.

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favorite lit quotes ➤ shakespeare edition
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harmonicakind:

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

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I read both of these stories for lit classes and no one ever brought up this possibility, and it never crossed my mind either. But now that I’m reading about it, it makes sense. Hamlet actually thinks, but it’s all for naught because in the heat of the moment he gets the wrong guy. Othello is quick to action, but it’s based on lies.

…and now I’m wondering about this vein of role-swapping for other stories.

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spaceaceshiro:

okay but if you’re ever in london and you have the chance to see a shakespeare play performed at the globe theatre itself DO IT even if you don’t think you’d dig shakespeare

if you need convincing here are a few highlights from when my family and i went to see the official globe theatre production of a midsummer night’s dream:

they cast helena as a guy (helenus), first of all. they took a straight love square between two girls and two guys and made it a love square between a girl and three guys, only one of which was white. both sets of couples get happy endings and it’s fuckin adorable

it was reimagined with an indian setting

puck had a water pistol and kept shooting at the audience

historical accuracy?? who cares everyone’s gonna dress like a modern hipster teenager

bottom and his acting troupe sung bon jovi

oh yeah also the acting troupe were reimagined as globe theatre employees with delusions of acting skills

hermia and helenus sung single ladies by beyonce

innuendos. innuendoes everywhere

oberon walked onstage for the fight between oberon and titania drunk with a half-empty bottle of schweppes

lysander spent a significant length of time in the play wandering around in just boxers and a leather jacket

oberon made out with puck

demetrius dabbed

its what shakespeare would have wanted