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very very poorly made brocedes edit this is literally my first one ever super normal about them

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when is it my turn make the "straight" boy realize he likes boys, WHEN IS IT MY TURN

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just watched alex strangelove

I NEED A BOYFRIEND

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i will never get over ros and guil not even getting to end their own play. at the end of the day they are simply side characters in the story of hamlet. it was never about them. they're simply dead. there was a point where they thought they could change it...say no. but it's too late now, they need to die for hamlet to continue.

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Possible settings for rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead:

An empty theatre/stage (classic)

A set previously used for or evocative of Hamlet

Backstage of a theatre

An elevator

Any “liminal” space (airport, train station, hallway)

A dennys parking lot (ros & guil must be stoners)

Tom stoppard’s actual house

Random warehouse

A dive bar (bartender is either ros and guil themselves OR Shakespeare OR Tom Stoppard)

House of mirrors

The set of waiting for Godot

A graveyard

IKEA

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i need to play rosencrantz in rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead because i would bring an insane amount of gay t-boy swag to him that no other actor who's played him has yet to bring (same case for hamlet)

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hey...weird question....do any of y'all ever think of yourself as like actually dead???

like lying in a box with a lid on top???

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rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is such a punch to the gut, they're so orpheus and eurydice coded. they don't know who they are without each other, and while gulidenstern desperately attempts to grasp for reality and understand, all rosencrantz can do is grab hold to guildenstern's hand as hard as he can and never let him go because guil is the only thing he knows. rosencrantz looks to guildenstern for answers, and guildenstern hunts for an answer because he can't fail rosencrantz he can't loose him, even if that means slipping into depression, at the same time rosencrantz will do anything to make guildenstern happy. beacuse all they have is each other, and they beg to change the ending, but they can't because at the end of the play rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

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if you like hamlet and see its very intense homoeroticism i HIGHLY recommend you read tom stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead you get all the silly and gay AS WELL as the heart wrenching destruction that comes from being one of the many victims of the disaster that is hamlet, prince of denmark. if you saw ros and guil in hamlet and thought "yeah those guys are def gay." then this is the play for you. it's such a wonderful play and tom really ate with it tbh

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all this praise for female actors who have been hamlet onstage. well. what about the praise for ME. who has been hamlet so many times. inside my head

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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

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i mean hey he called it “as you like it.” he said i get to choose, and the way i like it is rosalind is a trans boy and orlando is bi as hell

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cishet people will never understand hamlet the way i understand him

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tbh, when you interpret hamlet as being a trans boy, watching him spiral into despair over attempting to get his dead father’s validation all while spending the first bit of the play being belittled for being sad because “tis unmanly grief” connects and hits a lot harder

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you really wanna tell me that rosalind is a cis girl when she immediately goes "I'M GONNA PRETEND TO BE A BOY!!!" when celia is like "great for you i'm just gonna go as a different girl??" and also spends the entire play being like "dude being a women is so lame, love being a guy." you're fooling no one babes, only yourself

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you, straight people, read as you like it and twelfth night and go "ahah girl pretending to be boy lol nice."

i, trans guy, read as you like it and twelfth night and go "oh they're so me for real, they are trans."

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taking a shakespeare class with a teacher that you actually enjoy mean getting to ramble about your trans take of everyone’s favorite pathetic danish prince