#billy shakes

[checkoutmybookshelf]

*hysterical laughter*

Oh sweetie, you only cannae believe it because you weren't privy to the scene where Lady M bullied Maccers into doing it.

[i-daresay-i-have-too-many]

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[ladymacbeths]

this had to be real

[superconfusedcoryn]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are like the Numbers 12 and 13.

I won't elaborate. I don't think I can elaborate. It just makes sense.

[sotruefeste]

happy pride to literally every shakespeare character! they’re all gay because I said so

[finnl3t]

Willpower

[tybaltstan]

Horatio: Wow, great work on the Halloween decorations. Where did you get the fake skeletons? Hamlet: Fake?

[alfredo-zauce]

The Crane Wives could write a Shakespearean tragedy but Billy Shakes could never write Tongues and Teeth, nor Never Love an Anchor

[onesingulartheaterkid]

Don't you just love it when Shakespeare pulls out the ole feminine rage

[unicorndeathrace]

Survived the Megabus from hell (I told a guy to turn the music on his phone off and it ended with him getting escorted off by police after punching a guy) to get to Stratford upon Avon to see Love's Labours Lost with Trix. Got to say hi to Nathan afterwards! The show was so funny and he was great.

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Y'all, it has been literal months and I'm still not over how Born With Teeth was simultaneously a vicious takedown of the myth of William Shakespeare the man and one of the greatest entries to that mythos.

That is some A+ playwrighting right there...

Spoilers below the break!

"Do you hate me now? I’m not who you thought I was? Oh, Will would never be so treacherous. Oh, that’s not the Will we know. Well, no. You don’t know me. You know a fairy tale of a country boy made good, the genius earnestly scribbling his way to glory. Christ, are you really that naïve? Do you think anyone ever got rich, got famous and beloved and violently admired by staining his hands with nothing worse than ink? Do you think a career like mine just happens? I would have knocked Saint Paul into the fire if he’d got in my way. From the day my father took me to see the players I knew what I wanted. I wanted money, I wanted glory, I wanted a name. I did not want failure, still less the small room with the sharp instruments. They broke Tom’s hands. (Slight pause) Yeah, no thanks. I loved Kit, but I have worlds to write, and if only one of us could have the brilliant future, it’s not an agonizing decision. Trust me. The man who wrote Iago knows what it is to betray a friend."

...I had to lie down for a minute after this monologue. Just stunning, stunning work by Liz Duffy Adams.

[i-daresay-i-have-too-many]

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[lazywitchling]

I truly love this interpretation of the ‘Alas poor Yorick’ scene.

My kingdom for a way to view this whole play. I will pay money for it. Let me see it :(

[ladymacbeths]

macbeth + parallel lines of macbeth and lady macbeth