#The tempest

[lauravian]

Colin Morgan as Ariel in The Tempest | Shakespeare's Globe | 2013

[angstandhappiness]

NEAT

Quotes from The Tempest + Screenshots from G-Witch pt. 5

[attic-bird]

The Tempest

[britneyshakespeare]

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[omnidespot]

if you read Merchant of Venice (peak) Twelfth Night (mid but alr) and The Tempest (peak) as a trilogy in this exact order it gets 99999999% funnier

[aq2003]

grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested

[thefugitivesaint]

Joseph Severn (1793-1879), 'Ariel on the Bat's Back', ''Scribner's Magazine'', Vol. 3, #3, March 1888

[zanephillips]

The Tempest (1979) dir. Derek Jarman

[purplewillowchicken]

Mason Alexander Park absolutely knocked it out of the park as Ariel in The Tempest. Flying and singing. What a beautiful voice.

[sunaddicted]

My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

[gloriousmonsters]

the way caliban and ariel are described in some of the shit I'm running into trying to find a production of the Tempest to watch is kind of sickening tbh. about a 1993 production's Ariel

He spoke and moved slowly and deliberately, maintaining a cold hauteur in all his dealings. There was still an audible gasp from the audience when, in response to Prospero's affectionate words of farewell, he spat in his face. He then stalked away to the back wall of the set and opened a hitherto undetectable door through which he passed to freedom.

omg the guy who was enslaved spat in his former enslaver's face!!!! so cold and mean

Alec McCowen's gentle, school-teacherly Prospero was threatened not only by this unyielding spirit but also by an unusually rebellious Miranda and a terrifyingly muscular and sharp-taloned Caliban

prospero is so gentle and nice you guys i can't believe he was menaced by his mean scary slaves :(((

you know the scene where Prospero tells Caliban he's going to torture him, in detail, for cursing him out. what choice does he have his slave is being SO insubordinate >:(

[bethanydelleman]

There is something very Miranda & Caliban about Catherine Linton & Hareton Earnshaw meeting for the first time.

Miranda & Catherine: women who have been raised and educated in isolation by their father, seeing a new person for the first time

Caliban & Hareton: orphans who at one time were educated and cherished, only to be reduced to servitude and savagery (one for just cause, the other by no fault of his own)

And yet the endings could not be more opposite.

[ganymede-time]

WOKE Shakespeare

Julius SHE/HER

CorioGAYNESS

THEY/THEMpest

The Merry WIVES of Windsor (LESBIANS??)

ACE You Like It

Titus ANDROGYNOUS

[mementomoriwithacherryontop]

Listen. I love The Sandman and Dead Boy Detective cast with my whole damn heart, and one of the reasons is right here.

They showed up at the West End to support Mason Alexander Park (Desire), who is staring in The Tempest.

The cast (and several of the crew/creatives) are found family. And if one of their own is performing in a show on West End? They show up. They support that person.

And that's a lovely thing, indeed.

[lipstickhamlet]

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