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Cleopatra: Antony, would you still love me if I was a worm?

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The Woman's Part

Sooo hey. I finally did something with my Shakespeare MA...

The Woman's Part is a collection of original prose and erasure poetry inspired by Shakespeare's women — their unlived lives, unspoken desires, and unwritten stories — using speeches and characters from thirteen plays.

It's been described as:

"A small piece of genius [showing] not only a profound understanding of Shakespeare, but of humankind in general." — Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You

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"[The Woman's Part] has reimagined Ophelia and Juliet and more into striking freedom through speaking up, sailing away, and eating hearts." — Gwen Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw

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"To read it is to join the rebellion. An affecting and finely-crafted masterpiece which invites us to unlearn our deepest Bard-based archetypes. Stunning, incisive and fearless writing from one of the most exciting new voices on the literary scene." — Dr Chris Laoutaris, The Shakespeare Institute

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I put my heart, my rage, and all my obsession with Shakespeare into this, and I would love for you to read it.

Available from most places you get books — a list of easy links at Stanchion Books

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A. Burr: Dear Alexander, why were you such a dick to me?

A. Ham:

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one hip always lies

one hip always tells the truth

(shakira plummets into the oubliette)

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“I never let him forget the time we were in a very intimate, in-the-round production of Macbeth. I was kneeling at his feet and he said: “Light thickens and the crow makes wing to the wooky-nook.” Wooky-nook instead of wood, said purely by accident. I thought: “Well, I suppose it’d be all right if Lady Macbeth had hysterics at this point because she’s rather tense.” I’ve said that line to him, in so many ways, throughout our careers.”

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Judi Dench on Ian McKellen 

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Shakespeare dramatists have zero chill:

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Hamlet: Life always surprises you because at every stage of it you’re like, “There’s nothing worse that this,” but then surprise, there is.

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TIL that my 7-year-old got in trouble for writing a simile in which he compared a tiger lounging majestically on a log with Cleopatra dying on her throne, declaring “Oh! Oh! Oh! My bloody one!” (a direct quote from his writing y’all) and I have never been more proud to be THAT fucking parent.

Not only was it a brilliant bit of imagery, it also means he remembers me speed reading the entire play to him and his brother while they were in the bath and I was frantically revising for an exam SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

Yes, baby Shakespeare nerd, you go and be needlessly morbid in your English class!

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may we all take a moment to appreciate these letterboxd reviews for the hollow crown’s richard ii?

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Shakespeare plays as screencaps from The Good Place

As You Like It

Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

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when i was a senior in college I took an early modern English class and our final project was to write a Shakespearean sonnet about one of the characters in Hamlet. I named mine “Polonius, Thou Art Full of Bolonius” and the fact that I got away with it remains one of my proudest accomplishments

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*Something bad happens*

Priest from a Shakespeare Play: Have you considered faking your death as a way to solve this?

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Six Shakespeare adaptations

1. Titus and Ronicus. Somewhat like Titus Andronicus, but with the addition of Titus’s wisecracking brother, Ronicus Andronicus. Known for that one wild slapstick scene with the pie at the end.

2. The Complete The’s of Shakespeare. Consists of every ‘the’ that Shakespeare wrote, delivered in an appropriate manner for each instance. Has the advantage of being much easier for a million monkeys to type. Is therefore much kinder to monkeys than the alternative. Please consider the monkeys. 

3. Henry V in space. We begin the play awaiting the arrival of the French Ambassadors. They are coming from France, which is seven light-years away and several hundred metres under the newly-risen Atlantic. It may be a long wait.

4. A Twelfth Night’s Hamlet. In which Hamlet is shipwrecked on the way to England and has to dress up as a woman dressing up as a man to in order to evade detection whilst avenging his father’s murder, but comedy strikes when he vacillates a little too long in an oddly-mislocated enchanted forest. Everyone ends up both completely heterosexually married and also dead.

5. The Scottish Play, a theatre-safe version of Macbeth which avoids bad luck by never mentioning the title character’s name or indeed anyone else’s name either. Explores issues of identity and confusion. Usually there is at least one murder, but nobody is quite sure of who by who. In fact, because nobody is sure who is king, or indeed what the succession actually is, it naturally follows that the only way to ensure kingship is to kill everyone.

6. Juliet and Cressida. It may have been that Cressida found some way to take advantage of Shakespeare’s not-always-consistent time periods to perform an audacious act of time travel. We are still not entirely sure. In any case we tracked down Juliet and Cressida to ask them what the plot had been, since they were both notably still alive in the present day. But Juliet made a rude gesture at us and slammed the door. It may be that only the protagonists know the plot.

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Edgar Allen poe is like ur sad alcoholic aunt whilst William Shakespeare is like ur uncle who thinks he’s cool & “down with the kids”

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Hello! We're reading Macbeth in class and have to write a 5-7 page essay on any aspect of the book! However, I can't really think of anything.... Do you have any suggestions? I don't want to do something boring like the history of royalty in Scotland. Please help!!

That’s… a really broad choice they’ve given you. What are YOU interested in? What do you find exciting/irritating about it? Is there a specific character you’re drawn to? Is there a particular scene you love (or think is pointless/stupid/inconsistent)? You don’t have to talk about how much you love the play if you don’t. You could pick apart the fate/free will theme, or take an adaptation and talk about how different it is from the text, or consider what Macbeth would have done if Lady Macbeth hadn’t egged him on… Start with what you love/hate. My best essays are always the ones where I could talk forever on a subject OR tear it to pieces.