#Judith Shakespeare

[thetisming]

the gang would be useless at love advice for Judith and Susanna. Romeo'd get asked and then say 'okay so heres my speech-' and then they'd go to Frankie and he'd just be like 'just because i'm dating May does not mean i know how' and then theyd ask Juliet and she'd be like 'okay so how it works is you marry them and then they kill themself' and May would be the only one to give actual advice

[shakespearenews]

To this legacy already settled in law, Shakespeare added a bed. In the wills of his time, beds and their accoutrements appeared frequently and were often pictured in loving detail. Since Shakespeare does not describe the bedframe, mattress, sheets, pillows, or coverlet, his family undoubtedly already knew which bed he meant. A best bed might have a full headboard and a mattress stuffed with feathers, while the second bed would have a half-headboard and a mattress stuffed with flocks. “Best” and “second best” were common ways of identifying beds; one man dictated that “I bequeath to John my said son the best featherbed and to Joan my wife the second, to Robert my son the third, and to Joan my daughter the fourth featherbed.” With “second-best” a testator did not insult his legatee; not even “worst” could do that. A principal heir might receive a valuable horse, a best cloak, a whole house, and a worst bed. Nor was the best bed always bestowed in affection. Some men who gave their best beds to their widows did so only if the women agreed “not to meddle nor make with no part of my goods.” Or the best bed might be conferred on condition that the widow vacated the family home within weeks of the testator’s death.

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Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, died at age 11. Once, Shakespeare would have expected the boy to grow into his apparel. He gave the clothing to his nephews instead. He had achieved gentle status, and, since only gentlemen were entitled to wear swords, he would have anticipated passing both the status and its symbol to Hamnet. He gave the sword to the son of a gentleman friend. Pieces of plate were baptismal gifts for people of substance. Shakespeare gave the silver-gilt bowl to the twin who was baptized with Hamnet, Judith. Was the second-best bed the bed in which Hamnet was born, even the bed from which he was taken to his grave? If so, the “random” bequests were all about the lost Hamnet, as every member of Shakespeare’s family—including Anne—would have known.

[sunlilys]

edwin austen abbey. illustration to “judith shakespeare”, 1883.

[queerographies]

[La sorella di Shakespeare e altri ritratti di scrittrici][Virginia Woolf]

Dalle scrittrici del Seicento, reali o immaginarie, fino alle "consorelle" sue contemporanee Katherine Mansfield e Vita Sackville-West, Woolf va componendo una vera e propria storia della letteratura inglese scritta da donne

«Come possiamo combinare le parole vecchie in nuove sequenze, così che esse sopravvivano, che creino bellezza, che dicano la verità?» Era questo, per Virginia Woolf, «il problema» del linguaggio letterario. Problema alla cui soluzione si dedicò con la sua riflessione teorica e con la pratica narrativa, alla ricerca di una frase elastica e flessibile, una frase femminile . E allo studio…

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lillian Gish and John Gielgud in Hamlet, which opened at the Empire Theater on October 8, 1936, and ran until January 30, 1937.

Lillian was superb in that role [Ophelia]. Lillian was, in that instance, very much like a dollop of mercury: you could bend or caress or throw her anything, toward anything, and she would automatically conform to that situation or mood. Her understanding of the mental instability of Ophelia was acute: her body language; her tremulous speech—one was aware of the tightrope on which she was walking. Judith [Anderson] was far more experienced in classical theatre. Her mind was a repository of scholarly research. She really knew her Shakespeare. However, she realized that there was nothing quite like Lillian. Call it star power; call it an intuitive understanding of a role; call it alchemy. I don't know. I really don't. But it was magical.

     —John Gielgud

Photo: Florence Vandamm via MCNY

[ccynefinn]

Judith ben seni seviyorum, sense beni sevmiyorsun. Bir türlüsünü sen, başka türlüsünü de ben yapamıyorum. Ama severken aşağılanmak ne demektir bilir misin? Diğer acılara benzemez. Bugün benden bir şey alınırsa, yarın onsuz yaşamayı öğrenebilirim. Bıçak yarası olsa iyileştirmeye çalışmak için imkânım olurdu. Ama aşkımın aptallık sayılması kalbimdeki en kutsal şeyi de yalan saymaktır. Zira beni sana çeken hislerim beni yanıltıyorsa, beni Tanrı'ya boyun eğdiren hissin hakiki olduğunu nasıl garanti edebilirim?

✮ ୭ friedrich hebbel - judith

[incorrectandjuliet]

Anne: William just insisted Romeo, Judith, Susanna and I remember a code word in case we’re ever confronted by their clone or a cyborg doppelgänger and we’re not sure which is the real them and which is the imposter. Anne: Some families have a fire escape plan, but not us.

[kitkatabasis]

connection between Hamlet’s themes of performance and Hamlet’s themes of gender.

[cto10121]

Me @ Judith Shakespeare

[darkcrowprincess]

[thetisming]

& Juliet tumblr simulator

💓 queen-judith Follow

tumblr users will see the name 'Romeo', black out and hit reblog

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🪶 the-bard Follow

By the way my play Romeo & Juliet is really good and my wife and all my players are wrong the ending is amazing and I'm a genius

🟦 croptopman Follow

yeah! i agree! i hate it, so it's probably great!

🪶 the-bard

Richard I want you to stop speaking to me for a bit

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🪶 the-bard Follow

Hey guys! I'm recently unemployed (my wife took my job...) and here is my resume!

-I am a writer

-I have a background in acting

-I am a wizard

-I can drive carriages

#please hire me i need to get back at Anne

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🐯 hearmeroar Follow

MY HUSBAND ROMEO WHO KILLED HIMSELF TWO DAYS AGO JUST CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD?? HELP WHAT DO I DO

🐯 hearmeroar

BY THE WAY I'M ENGAGED

🐯 hearmeroar

cool! i will be ignoring all of your suggestions

#y'all are fucking gay

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⚜️ slur-de-lis Follow

signed, penis king of France

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💙 francois-dubois Follow

Hey guys! So, I kissed my fiance's best friend, and I really liked it! There are two things about this that aren't good.

THEY ARE MY FIANCE'S BEST FRIEND.

I am a prince. They are non binary. I'm in love with them. This confirms my suspicions that I am not straight.

The main issue is that they're my fiance's best friend, the not being straight is fine and I already kind of knew. My father probably won't accept me but hahaha. I will be fine.

Basically! I need to either call off this wedding or break up with the love of my life. I don't want to break their heart but I also promised Juliet... please help.

#please help me #french #prince #french prince #relationship #relationship problems #marriage #queer #lgbtqia+ #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #pan #pansexual #demisexual #asexual #arranged marriage #marriage of convenience #romance #love

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🏳️‍⚧️ its-super-dope Follow

HEY QUEERS WHATS UP I'M BACK FROM THE DEAD! TIME TO GO SEE MY WIFE!

🏳️‍⚧️ its-super-dope

um. what happened

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🌹 beautiful-rose Follow

I'M IN PARIS! it's beautiful here :)

🌹 beautiful-rose

omg i just saw the cutest boy EVER!

🌹 beautiful-rose

just got misgendered.

🌹 beautiful-rose

oh. okay

🌹 beautiful-rose

THE BOY KISSED ME

🌹 beautiful-rose

he is engaged to my best friend

🌹 beautiful-rose

oh well!

🌹 beautiful-rose

um. okay

🌹 beautiful-rose

yeah uh he just broke up with me

🌹 beautiful-rose

yay! my best friend's wedding to the love of my life!

🌹 beautiful-rose

WHAT THE FUCK

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[hamletthedane]

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.

[shakespearenews]

...It is not unlikely that some of the tobacco imported by and on behalf of Ralph and Judith Merefield found its way into the Globe and Blackfriars playhouses used by the King’s Men, creating a circuit in which the playhouse investments of men like Heminges fuelled colonial expansion and trade, the products of which were then sold in the playhouse.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

In defense of Shakespeare's Daughters

When students find out that:

Shakespeare has no living descendants (and that's why we don't have to ask "Which Shakespeare?" like we do with the Bach family),

That he did have a son, once, but that boy died when he was only ten years old, and

That son was named "Hamnet" (not a typo, BTW)

Those students who go on to become Shakespearean scholars can get a bit obsessed when it comes to themes of fathers, sons, and grief (particularly in that one play about a Prince of Denmark).

So I'd like to take this time to point out that Shakespeare was also the father to two daughters: his firstborn, Susanna, and Judith, Hamnet's twin sister.

And to help me make the point that the Father/Daughter relationship was important to him, and not just a consolation prize, here's a few of the plays that hinge on it (an incomplete list):

The Tempest: a father and daughter as the only humans on a tropical island.

Romeo and Juliet: The tragedy unfolds with exponential speed when Juliet's father decides that she must marry Tybolt immediately.

Much ado About Nothing: The comedy almost becomes a tragedy when Leonato rejects his daughter during the wedding ceremony.

The Winter's Tale: In the first half of the play, the jealous king rejects his infant daughter, wrongly thinking she is a bastard. In the second half of the play, we see the daughter as a teenager, and her relationship with her adoptive father, a shepherd; the play is resolved when she returns home, with her adoptive father, to her birth father.

Hamlet: Let's face it -- the whole play gets mired in schemes, secrets, and second guesses until Ophelia's response to her father's death unleashes a flood of action.

Merry Wives of Windsor: the "B Plot" is all about how the young adult daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Page successfully schemes to marry the young man she actually loves, instead of either of the arranged marriages her parents are hoping for.

[ccynefinn]

Ve eğer korkaklığın bütün erkek cinsinin korkaklığıysa, tehlike erkekler için sadece bir kaçma uyarısıysa, o zaman bu büyük görevi üstlenme şerefi bir kadının olmalıdır; mademki senden isteyebildim, mümkün olduğunu kendim kanıtlamalıyım!

✮୭ friedrich hebbel - judith

[incorrectandjuliet]

William: What if mayonnaise came in cans? Romeo: Well, that would suck because you can't microwave metal. Anne: Good morning to everyone except these two people.