#mine is shakespeare

[bloodybellycomb]

I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

[danceblr]

Young hearts run free.

[ravenclairee]

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) — dir. Franco Zeffirelli

[diioonysus]

women in art: titania

[moxyphinx]

SOPHIE OKONEDO as CLEOPATRA in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA

[deadpoets]

SIMONE’S 1K CELEBRATION 🤠 + little women or 10 things i hate about you for @delilahsbard

[mareestoermers]

CLAIRE DANES AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO "Romeo + Juliet" dir. Baz Luhrmann | Love in Film Series

[suits-of-woe]

the two gentlemen of verona is fun because it's (maybe) shakespeare's first play and there are a lot of elements in it (julia dressing up as a boy to serve the guy she's in love with, valentine's banishèd speech, etc) that you can tell he's sort of testing out and will refine later in better plays. but it's ALSO the only play in the canon with a dog in it. which leads me to conclude that dealing with crab was such an absolute nightmare in production that for the rest of his entire 36-play-long career shakespeare was like "holy fuck never again"

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

people keep making romeo and juliet adaptations but when is someone gonna buckle up and make one where romeo and juliet and their squad are the correct age. aka thirteen years old

[donjuaninsoho]

The company of Donmar Warehouse's Macbeth during curtain call

[beaulesbian]

“Note, by the way, that all the Shakespeare and Marlowe dialogue is in iambic pentameter.” - Neil Gaiman in The Sandman episode 6 watch party. (x)

he also mentions that again when Dream and Shakespeare were talking, at the end of the 1589 scene.

(and Ferdinand Kingsley’s response: “Do you know, Neil, it took me only 15 years to realize that, which is weird considering I’m from Stratford-upon-Avon and I only speak in iambic pentameter.” lol)

also found an ask where Neil said “It's easier to hear than it is to see on the page.”

I just love these details!

[fromedennn]

decay and feeding new life—

kathiann kowalski // hozier // kobayashi eitaku // cyrus martin // friedrich heyser // gail potocki // william shakespeare

[ravenclairee]

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

OLIVIA HUSSEY in ROMEO AND JULIET (1968), dir. Franco Zeffirelli

[relentlessenthusiasmforthebard]

Happy ides of march everyone

[billdecker]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MATHEW BAYNTON