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My copy of Richard III does not have a [*Clarence dies*] stage direction so I’m going to assume that he’s absolutely fine in that wine barrel

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unlovable creatures quotes from: the tempest, shakespeare // henry vi part 3, shakespeare // frankenstein, mary shelley // frankenstein (play), nick dear

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thinking about shakespeare's margaret. rereading 2h6 i was struck by how uninterested he seems in demonizing her for having an affair--like, of course there's a certain level of in-text and cultural misogyny inherent in her depiction (particularly because she's not just the power-hungry queen but the FRENCH power-hungry queen), but also, margaret and suffolk have some of the most beautiful exchanges in the tetralogy. in 1h6 they match each other's asides, and what is stichomythia in shakespeare if not chemistry. unless i'm missing something, there's no indication that any of the misfortunes that befall margaret are because of her adultery, or even really because of her crimes--she's just on the wrong side of the war. maybe i'm just underestimating how much elizabethan audiences would have hated a french woman, but shakespeare gives her so much time to speak and spends so few lines on "ooooooooh woman having affair... like a WHORE"

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girlboss x guy who is utterly useless

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this is how shakespeare wrote two gentlemen of verona

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Bard Poll Qualifiers Round 1, Match 2

Propaganda:

King John

king john has a bastard (as all the best plays do). i’d argue he’s one of the very best. also someone jumps to their death? don’t see that every day in a shakespeare play

Henry VI, Part 2

henry 6 my bapy boy. my sad little son

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❗ (1) New Move added to the Wicked Uncle type: Betray Nephew

Wicked Uncle may now lie to and scheme against any Brother's Son type character

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went to an elementaryschool musical production and they started the show with the director saying: "Now there's some very small viewers here today, so just so you know. There will be a scary character later in the show. This is her," and a girl in a kinda scary ghost outfit did a creepy walk across the stage, then stood up straight and did a cheery wave, "but remember, it's just Nina. She's pretending to be scary."

Aaaand i would very much like for horror movies to have that as a little bonus feature you can chose. Let me start a movie with Guillermo del Toro showing me a scary ghost that might jump at me, but don't worry, thats just Doug!

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Hey all! I'm running a fun poll blog! Go over there and yap about your favorite plays!

Welcome to Bard Poll!

Current status: propaganda submissions open!

This is Bard Poll, run by @fweet-prince, a double-elimination tournament bracket to determine tumblr's favorite Shakespeare play! All 38 plays will be included! The bracket placements are seeded by number of reviews on Goodreads, so hopefully the polls will become more and more contentious as the tournament goes on.

This blog will launch with a week-long propaganda submission period (length subject to change based on The Vibes) to collect early propaganda/anti-propaganda. Any propaganda submitted before a poll goes live will be included with that poll! Please submit propaganda via this blog's ask box :)

Following the submission period will be a preliminary bracket of the eight least-popular (by Goodreads reviews) plays, the top two of which will progress to the tournament proper. This is so that the main bracket will have 32 plays, because I can't work out how to do double elimination with a non-power-of-two number of contestants.

Have fun, fight hard, and may the best play win!

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Why don’t we let the guy whose every plan could be reasonably construed as an abstract suicide attempt take a crack it

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first youtube analysis i've wanted to watch voluntarily

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Tomfoolery actually transitioned and only does she-nanigans now

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i've seen people talk about aro much ado in the context of arospec benedick and beatrice but who's ready to open their eyes to don pedro and don john: the aromanticism brothers

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WOKE Shakespeare

Julius SHE/HER

CorioGAYNESS

THEY/THEMpest

The Merry WIVES of Windsor (LESBIANS??)

ACE You Like It

Titus ANDROGYNOUS

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I'll do the female characters when this is done!

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Shakespeare’s fairies my beloveds

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henry v is the only play in the world where you get a detailed description of a man kissing his dying cousin on the mouth IMMEDIATELY followed by the main character committing a war crime. who is doing it like william shakespeare