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Shakespeare has like a character named Antonio in about four or five of his plays, and the dude is usually somewhat minor, involved with the sea and possibly other men. So I have this theory that Shakespeare had a buddy named Antonio who was basically the Yoko Ono of the King’s Men.

Antonio would be this gruff, sexually-ambiguous, partially-literate Italian merchant/sailor dude who would occasionally show up in London and end up hangin’ out and drinking with the actors. Shakespeare would be like “EEEEYYY, come join in, brah!” and invariably write him a role in the show. The actors HATED it because he was terrible at acting, so terrible that he could never even remember his character’s name and Shakespeare would usually have to switch it to Antonio. Eventually, everyone just got so fed up with Antonio mucking up their shows that they burned down the Globe.

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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I know some of you will love this

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okay i know i’m Back On My Bullshit but hear me out: found footage macbeth

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"wow hamlet is so negative it's so annoying"

kill yourself

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"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

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Women in Shakespeare

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In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio called Tybalt "Prince of Cats" because there was a book, popular at the time, with a cat prince named Tybalt in it. He was making a pop culture reference. Therefore, I move, that in a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling, Tybalt should be named Garfield.

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I did the thing

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so i clicked on a wizard101 crowns trivia i hadn't done before

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Let's all enjoy this picture of Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in Born With Teeth

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King Lear performed in the fire-damaged ruins of Teatro Municipal de Lima (c. 1999), conceived by architect Luis de Longhi

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My review of DT Richard II for the first act is that he is literally playing Richard like he is my cat who walks around the house with her tail held up so high and nose in the air like she owns the place and we all have to be like…yes baby girl you are so impressive. yeasss you definitely own this place and we live here at your pleasure. But in reality she does not pay rent and she cannot even open chicken pate cans. That’s DT Richard II in a nutshell

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The way that tumblr celebrates the Ides of March every year is so strange to me, because like.

The assassination of Julius Cesar is maybe one of the MOST controversial moments in western history. A thousand years later, Dante Alegari (who was Italian) when writing the Divine Comedy, reserves the deepest foulest pit of hell for Brutus, Casius and Judas, condemning them to be Satan’s eternal chew toys. Shakespeare devotes an entire play to how Julius Cesar is a complicated figure neither saint nor monster, and to how the assassin’s motives ranged from virtuous to petty and spiteful. To this DAY scholars and historians still argue about the actions of the assassins, spilling oceans of ink.

And yet all of tumblr seems to accept three things as undisputed fact:

That Julius Caesar was a dictator (true) and tyrant (debatable).

That the assassins, and Brutus in particular where righteous in the stabbing of him (A statement that would spark riots in any classical history department in any western country)

That the stabbing turned out great for everyone involved who was NOT Caesar (super super not true- it sparked off riots that nearly destroyed the city of Rome, and a Civil War that killed tens of thousands and nearly destroyed the country of Rome).

Every March 15th, this site throws a party and stubbornly insists that an event, a real historical event that unleashed untold chaos and death on the world, was actually just really cool and funny you guys: Caesar was a bad guy and his assassins where super cool, and that’s that.

And I get the memes are choice. But I think, we may collectively, be missing the point of this particular lesson of history.

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my name is Casc and wen the day is ides of march the king must pay with all my frends (but firstly me) i do the stab i set us free