#shakespeare explain

[m4nym03]

“Villain, I have done thy mother”

Titus Andronicus (Act 4, Scene 2)

Shakespeare? Buddy? You want to tell me what's going on right here, hm? Because that sounds like a medieval "your mom" and not comfortable feeling what I am right now.

Explain???

[holografrick]

they started reading shakespeare in class and nobody told him abt old english 

[i-was-bored-so-this-happened]

Gale Dekarios quotes Shakespeare in battle.

[blorbocedes]

king lear, act I scene I // max verstappen signs longest f1 extension with redbull

[lilacthebooklover]

heyy crk fandom, are we ever going to, y'know,,, address a midsummer night's tragicomedy? purelily but they're fairy royalty? purelily but pv's highkey been drugged to fall in love with her? purelily but they're still doomed by the narrative? purelily but it was all a dream(????)? they genuinely made the ship canon then blamed it on a love potion. i have so many questions about these new costumes

[finelythreadedsky]

i love the little web weaving charles martindale does with epigraphs for each chapter of redeeming the text

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall. I'm not sure what the emotion is when you finish writing a very long and detailed post to try to just fundamentally correct someone's absolutely wild misinterpretation of your post, only to find that they have blocked you in the interim but.....damn. like.

[ledzeppelinhater]

i adore this film and the way in which it never fails to persuade me to never ever cut my hair xx

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[darkacademiaarchivist]

explaining the plot of hamlet to my parents because of a star trek episode

[swampthingking]

the thought of cracking the spine of a book makes kevin nauseous. he like opens it just enough to see the words and holds the book at such uncomfortable angles to read— anything to keep the book pristine and intact. he does not let people borrow his books because he is a control freak (as a term of endearment) and does not trust them to take care of them the way he does.

and andrew is the complete opposite, cracking the spine as soon as he opens it. he annotates in pen. he dog ears the pages because who the fuck has time to find a bookmark. he throws books out of anger. he throws them at aaron for fun. he lets them get smashed and torn in his bag. he always keeps them, he just prefers them to look like they’ve been read.

[certified-scoundrel]

mean girls is kinda like macbeth and no i won't explain

[mistressaccost]

i know that hamlet is a four hundred year old play and has been studied by countless brilliant scholars.. but truly no one understands him like me and the tumblr girlies

[macbooth]

Of course we could fix plays by swapping leads but then what’s the point. We could swap Romeo and Hamlet to save everyone, but then we wouldn’t have R&J and Hamlet. They’re tragedies, they cannot be fixed without be stripped of their point. Even the comedies, like the proper comedy comedies, they need a conflict. That’s how stories work. You can’t make a play when everything is fixed. It’s not fixing, it’s breaking, because it makes the plays nothing. Gertrude has to die, Ophelia has to die, Polonius has to die, Hamlet has to die. They cannot live, it cannot be fixed. Mercutio has to die, Tybalt has to die, Paris has to die, Romeo and Juliet have to die. Othello has to die, Desdemona has to die, Emilia has to die. Portia has to die, Cassius has to die, Brutus has to die. Banquo, Lavinia, Lear, Cordelia, Coriolanus, Patroclus, Gloucester, they all have to die, I’m sorry. To “fix” a story is to break it.

[bookholichany]

Had the strangest dream ( nightmare?) last night. It was Hamlet and he got back from that journey to England where he was kidnapped by the pirates but...he was not unharmed. He was there standing with Lavinia's faith thrusted upon him. He kept wandering the graveyard and the gravediggers ran away as they saw him. He stood frozen, staring inside a grave at the skull that was once his dear Yorick, shaking like a leaf and he started to trash around in a sorta agonizing frustrated dance. That was how Horatio found him. He looked upon him as he moved like a tree in the wind and asked

"Who is this? My sweet prince, that flies away so fast?"

And he approached him in the most gentle manner almost sobbing as he continued

"Speak, gentle prince. What stern ungentle hands hath lopped and hewed and made thy body bare?

Of his two branches, those sweet ornaments

Whose circling shadows I have sought to sleep in? "

He tried to reach for Hamlet but he shied away. " Why dost not speak to me?" Horatio almost screamed frustrated and crying. Hamlet stilled and tensed as if wanting to unleash a scream of his own but when his lips parted in his silent scream it was blood that poured out.

Some of it flying in the wind and staining his once dear friend's bones and then he finally fell to his knees.

Yip that was the dream. I'll go die now...

[ardenrosegarden]

[bedcorpse]

but yeah to piggyback off that post y'all have to understand that if you're not usamerican or got lucky in regards to english teachers, even writers like myself got so sick of being handed boring, surface-level interactions with media and being discouraged from anything else that ofc we hated having to explain why the curtains are blue. because it wasn't a discussion of "okay is this meant to set a tone? tell us something about the character, like is blue their favorite color? or is it meant to symbolize something deeper? what are the different ways we could interpret this?" it was "the curtains are blue because the main character is sad. we don't have time for anything else bc public schools are wildly underfunded and overcrowded depending on the district and i make like 40k a year so any differing opinions will be shrugged off at best and punished at worst."