#antony and cleopatra

[ofhouseusher]

Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra‘ (2014)

[bard-poll]

Bard Poll Round 1, Match 2

Propaganda

The Winter's Tale

Easily the best of the late romances, and truly great play. Have you ever wanted a version of Othello that ends happily? Do you like fantastic, impassioned speeches refuting unjust charges and correctly shaming the people making those charages? Do you have feelings about best friends? And parent-child relationships? And reunions??? AND it still makes time for pastoral comedy frolicking. Truly a wonderful play.

[shakespearesinsults]

Y’ have strange serpents there?

(Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 7)

this machine turns mice into escape attempts

[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.

[metamorphesque]

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

[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

[ganymede-time]

she was pegging him at 9 am in the fucking morning... think about that

[butchhamlet]

everyone in the world should read L.T. Fitz's article about misogynist shakespearean scholarship on cleopatra. partially because it's full of excellent analysis of cleopatra as a character and protagonist, but mostly because it's really fucking funny

[mrs-starkgaryen]

Favourite Shakespeare's Tragedies

After my other poll, I am going to be specific.

There shall be a battle of the favourites!!

For the love of Shakespeare, please reblog for a better analysis

[lipstickhamlet]

sparknotes blog you are so dear to me

[two-bees-poetry]

vignettes before the poison, parts 1 and 2

[ofhouseusher]

Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra‘ (2014)

[moxyphinx]

SOPHIE OKONEDO as CLEOPATRA in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x06 Ruddy Gore

[cinemaastimegoesby]

Katharine Hepburn in a stage production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at the Shakespeare American Theater in Stratford, Connecticut in 1960. Costume designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian.

[backjustforberena]

Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra‘ (2014)