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Dancing at The Globe

So, I have been lucky enough to see Comedy of Errors and Macbeth at the Globe recently. After Comedy of Errors, they did a dance - a jig, which would have been what happened after plays during Shakespeare's time.

After Macbeth, they did not do a dance because to a modern audience, that would have felt out of sync with the mood of the play (for obvious reasons).

But (if my understanding is correct) historically, during Shakespeare's time, the cast would have danced after tragedies, as well as comedies.

And whilst I wouldn't suggest doing that for Hamlet...something you could do would be a slow dance. You could do it with really any combination of characters, but the way I've been imagining it is with Horatio, Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (good luck to any cast getting Hamlet and Laertes off staged and changed in time but these things are doable). All the dead characters would be in white, so only Horatio would wear the clothes he wore throughout the play.

Hamlet dances with Horatio, Rosencrantz with Guildenstern and Ophelia with Laertes, giving us three types of love; romantic, friendship (sorry to R&G shippers, please don't come for me, I love you all and this works equally well if you see them as romantic) and familial. About half way through the music, they move into a sort of "Elizabethan style" slow dance, moving between pairs and allowing everyone to at some point briefly dance with everyone, but everyone ends up with their original pairing at the end.

Perhaps at some point Ophelia breaks down and is just held by Laertes, perhaps at some point Rosencrantz and Guildenstern just stop dancing and stand arm in arm watching Horatio and Hamlet dance...the boys dance, foreheads pressed against each other, not wanting to let each other go to the very end...Horatio's crying, or they are both crying, and Horatio is shaking his head and holding Hamlet as if to say "please don't go".

But towards the end of the music, the five actors playing the dead characters go to the back of the stage area, leaving Horatio alone downstage. One by one, they exit through the door at the back of the stage, Hamlet being the last to go, leaving Horatio standing alone as the music fades.

This could be performed with any number of pieces of music, but when I was imagining this, these were the pieces that I listened to. With that last one, particularly, I imagined Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Laertes and Ophelia emerging first and dancing around Horatio before Hamlet enters upstage and walks towards Horatio, pulling him into a dance.

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can we just talk about female Hamlet?? please??

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lady and gentlemen, she..

asta nielsen ♡

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Shakespeare and MCR??

fuck yES

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hamlet as klaus (netflix & comic versions), because not everyone gets to talk to the dead.

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That's what we will see in half a year

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YES I UNDERSTAND YOU SO MUCH!!!

i got into bsd last week after my winter exams at university and it's takes three days to watch anime and NOW I KEEP READING 54 CHAPTER YET WHILE 105 DRIVING CRASY ALL TUMBLR

Do you people even know that because I got into this series so late, by the time I was caught up on everything, the first chapter I eagerly waited for the release of and read when it came out... was chapter 101?

I had no blog at the time, I did not know anyone who followed the series. I spent an hour pacing up and down the sidewalks outside, unable to speak to anyone about my thoughts on it and literally vibrating.

Anyways, the point is, I'm still very much vibrating in place but it's nice to freak out together. :)

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BUNGO STRAY DOGS VS LITERATURE: THE DECAY OF ANGELS

This is going to be the first in a long (long) running series where the goal is to read every single book mentioned by name in Bungo Stray Dogs, and try to connect the themes of that book to the characters who are referencing that book. In light of the recent arc I am starting out with “The Decay of Angels” the villainous organization consisting of Bram Stoker, Nikolai Goggol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ochi Fukuchi and Sigma.

The name Decay of Angels comes from Yukio Mishima’s novel, the Decay of the Angel. The fourth and last book in his Sea of Fertility tetraology which is widely considered to be his masterpiece. I read all four books, so underneath the cut I’ll elaborate on the connections between Yukio Mishima’s work and Bungo Stray Dogs.

Keep reading

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One thing I find funny about Sigma joining the Agency is that they (Sigma) probably think the agency members are normal (excluding Dazai). They know Fyodor, Mykola and Dazai, and for sure people can't be any more strange that them... right?

But then they meet the rest of the ADA and find out people can, in fact, be just as twisted. There's Yosano, whose idea of a good entrance exam is filing down one's crotch. Ranpo, who'd rather eat candies than help save a very important case, just bc its boring. Two siblings who do stuff family shouldn't do. A young boy who talks about cows with the criminals he's supposed to catch and then brings the cows to the office.

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sorry not sorry but

the bungou stray dogs in one picture:

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these lyrics belong to them:

Touch me, yeah

I want you to touch me there

Make me feel like I am breathing

Feel like I am human, again

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