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Literally everybody does have that friend named Polonius that hides behind their tapestries
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cannot stop saying “call me richard the way I’m the third”. I’m not even a third anything. can someone more appropriate take this curse from me
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im going to be real rn i completely understand where hamlet is coming from because if my dad died and then my mom married his brother a MONTH AFTER HIS FUNERAL and THEN everyone told me to just get over it already because everybody dies and THEN i talked to my dad's ghost and tried to get some semblance of closure after his death and he told me "cut the bullshit im burning my sins off in hell rn but its not a big deal listen up your uncle murdered me you gotta get revenge for me" i would also do an acrobatic fucking pirouette backwards off the handle
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Thinking about Romeo killing himself through poison (more passive, "woman's weapon) Vs Juliet having to kill herself with a knife (more active, images of falling on your sword, typically masculine concepts)
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my latest litmus test for productions and adaptations of hamlet is whether the creator(s) make any thoughtful choices about gertrude at all. they don’t have to do a completely radical against-the-grain gertrude; they just have to do Something. everybody has thoughts and feelings about ophelia, but do you have thoughts and feelings about a woman who’s older and more opaque and ambiguous, who has more power in the play and who doesn’t necessarily look virginal and beautiful, a woman who isn’t so innocent? have you thought at all about what she knows, when she knows it, how she feels about it? when did she know about king hamlet’s murder? does she love claudius? does she drink the poisoned wine on purpose? or does she simply stand there, woman-shaped, and say words
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girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer night’s dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what
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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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sorry I’m interpreting your cool male character as a butch dyke who sucks. she’s better now
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sorry for never posting here btw. i forgor
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we’re all hamlet but i’m hamlet in an interesting and frightening way
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i don't believe in astrology so no one take this too seriously but i'd like to hear everybody's shakespeare character sun/moon/rising (overall/inner self/how people see you) because the other day trying to describe myself i said "i'm like if hotspur and jaques were one guy" and then felt horrified. excepting hamlet, because obviously we're all hamlet: mine is hotspur/cordelia/jaques
#this is hard 😭#i know you said no hamlet but i have to because it’s true. viola/hamlet/malvolio#sorry for putting two twelfth night characters that wasn’t intentional
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how come you'll say tragedy is your favorite genre and then 100 thousand million people will be like "you should check out this adaptation of this famous tragedy but the twist is there's a happy ending this time." GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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