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OMG EVERYBODY LISTEN UP!!!

THEY'RE GOING TO BROADCAST THIS PRODUCTION ON PBC FOR FREE!! YOU CAN WATCH IT!! PLEASE DO!!!

Going to try to tag everybody who said they wanted to watch it in the notes:

@fangirlwithasweettooth @flintstill @hana-loves-bumblebees @relentlessenthusiasmforthebard @valiha @wishedforme @shy-fairy-levele3 @the-littlest-goblin @thatweirdguyinthebushes @fandom-smoothie @saltypringl-track @unwise-augur @heartofaspen @cronchy-dumbass @theyellowartist @largenerdthesizeofasmallnerd @thereweresunflowers @blossoms-and-petrichor @writingonthewalls1832 @littleearlgrayrat @a-model-of-propriety @yiqiuqiu @ghostampede @starfallsoup @frog-fraud @randomlettrrsqqssfxwcvhxnqbwriro @transsexualcoriolanus @idkchatie @yourlocalwhovian @bookholichany

Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and camo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

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Shakespeare: I will create two teenage characters who are explicitly proto-postmodern examinations of the nature of character and fate within fictional narrative. I am their creator and - like their parents within the narrative - I exercise complete control over their fates, no matter how much they struggle against it. They are born like Athena from my mind and doomed to die by my pen, by my complicity in the narrative negligence of them, by my own actions and wishes-

Actor: cool, what's their names?

Shakespeare, father of twins named Judith and Hamnet: uhh…. Juliet and Hamlet.

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tired of richard did cocaine in a parking lot this richard did cocaine in a burger king that. this was NOT richard's peak character moment. his peak moment was sleeping with some girl at some party then getting knocked out by her boyfriend the next day, waking up face down in the snow, limping back to his dorm, and then waking up late for class thinking 'why didn't my friends come get me?'. BECAUSE THEY'RE FAKE AS FUCK BOJO. this all happened within like one paragraph btw.

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what do you learn about copyright on the FIRST DAY of shakespeare class?

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whenever the Shakespeare play opens with a dude with a mustache and an acoustic guitar you know it’s gonna either be the worst thing you’ve ever seen or an incarnation of the spirit of Shakespeare himself

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Had the privilege of seeing this absolutely stellar lesbian Pericles in Union Square. 10/0. Loved it.

The thing about Pericles is that it’s kind of a wild hot mess, a fair percentage of which was probably written by some guy named George Wilkins (his delightful Wikipedia page describes him as an innkeeper who was “also apparently involved in criminal activities”). But as Avengers: Endgame has more recently demonstrated to the world, being a wild hot mess doesn’t stop you from being popular — and the story of the adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, despite being pretty scattershot, was and is popular. It’s early Jacobean England’s hottest club! It’s got everything. Incest, shipwrecks, jousting, marriage, comic relief from possibly libertarian fishermen, whorehouses, miracles, pirates.

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Nikolai Gogol, my beloved.

how i sleep knowing some old russian man in the 19th century mentioned all my angst in his books and i am not universally alone with these feelings

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somebody had probably done this before but

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Literary references in The Charioteer (by chapter). WIP

Chapter 1

St George and the Dragon (unspecific)

Chapter 2

Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

The Character of the Happy Warrior, William Wordsworth

Sir Galahad, Alfred Tennyson

David and Jonathan, Samuel 1 and 2, The Bible

The Phaedrus, Plato

Homer (unspecific)

Chapter 3

An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope (misquoted as Shakespeare)

The Hippopotamus, T. S. Eliot

Chapter 4

Paradise Lost, John Milton

The Phaedrus, Plato

Chapter 5

Robert Herrick (unspecific)

The Phaedrus, Plato

The Phaedo, Plato

The World, Henry Vaughan

Chapter 6

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Odyssey, Homer

William Shakespeare (unspecific)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Country of the Blind, H. G. Wells

Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (unspecific)

Plato (unspecific)

Sappho (unspecific)

Christopher Marlowe (unspecific)

William Shakespeare (unspecific)

Cain and Abel, Genesis, The Bible

Shakespeare's sonnets, William Shakespeare

David and Jonathan, Samuel 1 and 2, The Bible

Chapter 9

The Phaedrus, Plato

Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory

Chapter 10

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Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

The Phaedrus, Plato

Franz Kafka (unspecific)

Songs of Praise, hymnal

Hymns Ancient and Modern, hymnal

The Oxford Book of French Verse

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Child Maurice, ballad

Chapter 13

The Coral Island, R. M. Ballantyne

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

The Phaedrus, Plato

Chapter 14

"The chestnut casts his flambeaux", A. E. Housman

Chapter 15

East Africa Pilot

The Phaedrus, Plato

Chapter 16

The Phaedrus, Plato

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I’m not used to people having partners because my friends are whores (affectionate) so today we all got together for catchup dinner & my one friend mentioned that he had a girlfriend & my immediate impulse was to say “Oh, what kind!” like you do when someone gets a dog.

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me personally I like to imagine Claudius killed his brother in the first place because he came across a group of witches who told him that he’d be king someday and he took it from there. I also like to imagine that there’s just a coven of witches that hangs around Europe telling unstable and violent men in positions of power that they’re soon to be king just to see what happens. they’re pot stirrers

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Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing

My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

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Freddie as a guardian angel!

He’s playing his music from a magical recorder that reaches whoever needs it ❤️

For mrbadguymercury

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Okay this is a very valid take, thanks for engaging in conversation about it. I agree to a point. I am also very tired of finding bad playlists.

the secret history is NOT an aesthetic dark academia books that romanticizes whatever the fuck tiktok users think it's romanticizing it's a cautionary tale about the effects of ancient greek on the brain

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Yeah but you do realize that the entire central plot of the book revolves around aesthetic, right??? Without the aesthetic, the book doesn’t exist. Richard goes to Hamden because he likes the pictures on the brochure. His fatal flaw is a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. It is fundamentally ABOUT how romanticizing an aesthetic can have disastrous consequences. It very much does romanticize the Greek class’s lifestyle — it’s told through Richard’s eyes and he is so enthralled by them, he literally murders his friend to stay close to them. You all need to stop projecting a moral value & some kind of overarching message onto a book about immoral people. It’s a bad look.

the secret history is NOT an aesthetic dark academia books that romanticizes whatever the fuck tiktok users think it's romanticizing it's a cautionary tale about the effects of ancient greek on the brain

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do you think about this every day, or are you normal?