#c: hamlet

[nahokura]

I feel so valid right now

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about lucanis awkwardly and fumblingly managing to get out "Rook, if I could... I — want..." like someone trying to speak a foreign language they've only half heard once, in passing, as a distant echo on the wind, for my allotted five daily minutes because if I go a millisecond over that I will go insane

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

In contrast to the sustained bullying of Ophelia that characterized the performances of Garrick and John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean was careful to show Hamlet’s true feelings later in the scene. Having delivered his final “To a nunnery,” he quickly moved off, only to stop at the edge of the stage. He then returned to Ophelia and with a deep sigh tenderly kissed her hand. This was a moment that deeply affected the Romantic critic Hazlitt, who in a review in The Morning Chronicle (14 March 1814) said that he thought the revelation “the finest commentary that was ever made on Shakespeare. It explained the character at once (as he meant it), as one of disappointed hope, of bitter regret, of affection suspended, not obliterated, by the distractions of the scene around him!” As Hazlitt also noted, Kean’s innovation “had an electrical effect on the house” (Farley-Hills 1996, 112). —Alan Young, Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900

okay but watching this dynamic between hamlet and ophelia would have had “an electrical effect” on me, too

[rbarrysncream]

"Who's your gender inspiration?"

Oh, y'know....the usual.

Sarah Bernhardt and David Tennant :)

[aq2003]

there's a quick secondhand account from part 2 of david tennant filmography video essay from OP's boyfriend saying david's performance as macbeth blows his hamlet out of the water and i don't know what kind of drugs his macbeth is on for that to even be possible because how is that possible. How . oh my god?

[butchhamlet]

ghost of queen cleopatra vii philopater standing over my shoulder watching me write this thesis and she's thinking "why wasn't my antony a lesbian and who the hell is darko suvin"

[denimbex1986]

'In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is King and honey, you should see me in a crown.'

"...I loved, loved, loved working with Benedict on that, and you know, the, the first series of that show went down so well - I only had a little bit to do in the first, first series, so I was excited to be focused on Moriarty in one of the episodes particularly because people loved the show almost immediately, and that line is an amazing line that - for an actor to say..."

'I'm in Wales, and I don't have to pretend to be something that I'm not.'

"...I always recommend Pride because I think it's just a beautiful film about how we're just so much more similar to each other than we think we are. And what was brilliant about that character, the character, was that he was one of I think 15 gay characters who are the lead characters, and it so it means you weren't just playing like a token gay because everybody was completely distinct from each other, even though they were all sort of relatively similar sexualities. He just shows that, you know, there's as much diversity within, within a sex - sexuality as there is for straight people too."

'I can't get used to calling myself queer, it was always such an insult.'

"...So much of it was, was personal, even though it was very different to me. I suppose it explored the idea of losing your parents, which at the time I hadn't - I lost my mother since - but I think that's the, the power of the sort of empathetic nature of art; that it allows us to explore things that otherwise we might be too frightened to explore. That film has helped me in a way because, since the film ended, I, I feel like there's stuff in it that I feel like I was able to exorcise in some ways..."

'Yeah, that's right, Dickie Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you too.'

"...He's a really solitary figure, and to be able to just work out what's going on inside his head, and whether he's sort of capable of love or whether, whether he isn't - I kind of believe that all human beings are in need of love in some way, but it was quite difficult in that sense to sort of access within, within him, because he was so solitary. So yeah, that's why I think he continues to fascinate people, Tom Ripley."

'You've always been against going to America.'

"Korea? Is it? That's my first film...I was 17 - first ever job; first ever film. It was lovely and there was a - an actor in it who played my father called Donald Donnelly, and he was an enormous influence on me. He was very well-known, but he was incredibly kind to everybody on the set, and I've always just - you know, you learn how to be by looking at your, you know, elders, and he was just lovely to everybody.

I remember very clearly on a Saturday afternoon watching like old MGM movies. You know, like those big things where there's, you know, lots of people doing synchronised swimming in a big pool from like, I mean like, old school, like, you know, choreography of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. And there's something about that that I just absolutely adored, and I knew immediately - I knew, I really; I remember when I was about seven saying that I want - that's something that I wanted to do, which is weird when I think about it. I was very shy, and so that helped me kind of come out of my shell so - I was very nurtured by, by, uh, my mum in that sense; she, she pushed me in the right direction. That's what I remember um, uh, inspiring me, yeah."

[yourfavouritetragedy]

DSMP!Wilbur Soot is more Hamlet as Hamlet's culturally perceived than the real Hamlet. He's what people like to think Hamlet is. He's like Hamlet if Hamlet went the full mile. Hamlet walked so c!Wilbur could run. etc.

[servuscallidus]

I think my favourite is Lear, but I can understand why Hamlet has become so famous and beloved, because there is so much to explore in this play

[ilredeiladri]

I wish I could split some plays in two, because I love parts of them and dislike others, but here we go...

If you want to do your own ranking:

https://tiermaker.com/categories/books/39-shakespeare-plays-16070420

[hjemne]

I love Ubu roi so much like babygirl ü-boo-wah is just a bunch of sounds. The plot is just puppets swearing their way through Shakespeare sparknotes. And it revolutionised theatre.

[businesstiramisu]

Oh since this post is back: I like the gist of this post but I think fanfic specifically is a bad medium for this. Note that the example getting reblogged by everyone is a play. That Star Trek Five Guys post is a gifset with edited subtitles

With fanfic, I think it's hard to establish "everything is the same" without boring readers with canon retread.

i want there to be more fanfic aus where everything is the same but for one minor detail. everything is the same but there’s sentient animals wandering around. everything is the same but everyone is called gerry. everything is the same but two characters are siblings for no reason

[onasnowynight]

not tzk but did you guys know they were 11! is good. i would die for tada. and that dr. kiriko-haired guy with the headband

[aq2003]

bro does anyone know where i can watch rory kinnear's hamlet ;__; i've been looking everywhere but i think the production is too obscure for ppl to pirate it and put it online

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

y'all i am sooooooo back on my hamlet bullshit