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this shakespeare guy he was onto something

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I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

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sometimes a girl is really just a Shakespearean bastard

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older gentleman just gave me a lecture on how when I decide it’s time to find a wife I need to buy myself a pair of loud colorful socks and sit around with my legs crossed to show my ankles and women will flock to me

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Everybody does so much prophesying in the histories. Someone ought to do something with this. The Histories done as a series Hollow Crown-style but every time someone delivers a prophecy that will be relevant later, they stare directly into the camera as if possessed by the Spirit of the Narrative? They play the “it’s a surprise tool that will help us later” clip from Mickey Mouse over the film? They start glowing or something??? Someone please have fun with this.

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Evil Shakespeare be like: MacDeath

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Follow up to my last reblog…

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my latest litmus test for productions and adaptations of hamlet is whether the creator(s) make any thoughtful choices about gertrude at all. they don’t have to do a completely radical against-the-grain gertrude; they just have to do Something. everybody has thoughts and feelings about ophelia, but do you have thoughts and feelings about a woman who’s older and more opaque and ambiguous, who has more power in the play and who doesn’t necessarily look virginal and beautiful, a woman who isn’t so innocent? have you thought at all about what she knows, when she knows it, how she feels about it? when did she know about king hamlet’s murder? does she love claudius? does she drink the poisoned wine on purpose? or does she simply stand there, woman-shaped, and say words

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For the sake of expediency, I'm making the last qualifier losers bracket poll a three-way because otherwise it would take an entire extra week, so:

Bard Poll Qualifiers Loser's Bracket Finale

Propaganda:

Henry VI, Part 2:

henry 6 my bapy boy. my sad little son

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being doomed by the narrative is cool and all but i like when a character is doomed just by being a fucking idiot. sorry that happened to you but it is entirely your own fault and you could have just chosen to not do all that

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im going to be real rn i completely understand where hamlet is coming from because if my dad died and then my mom married his brother a MONTH AFTER HIS FUNERAL and THEN everyone told me to just get over it already because everybody dies and THEN i talked to my dad's ghost and tried to get some semblance of closure after his death and he told me "cut the bullshit im burning my sins off in hell rn but its not a big deal listen up your uncle murdered me you gotta get revenge for me" i would also do an acrobatic fucking pirouette backwards off the handle

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You cannot leave this in the tags

"i asked chatgpt" okay well i asked the weird gay court jester and he gave me a foreboding omen in the form of a riddle. we are not the same

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"i asked chatgpt" okay well i asked the weird gay court jester and he gave me a foreboding omen in the form of a riddle. we are not the same

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Tired of people comparing every forbidden love story to Romeo and Juliet, especially ones about class or racial divides. It’s important to how the story works that the Capulets and Montagues are alike in dignity and that the feud is baseless and petty on both sides. If the Capulets had spent centuries systematically disenfranchising the Montagues, it wouldn’t be Romeo and Juliet. The play relies on both families facing roughly equal losses and being able to make roughly equal apologies and roughly equal reparations. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two kids who weren’t allowed to love in a world full of senseless hatred, and if you give one side a valid reason to hate the other—if either the Capulets or the Montagues are right—it stops being that and starts implying that the opressed have as much to do with the environment of hatred as their opressors do

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I love that part in 2.6 of 3H6 where the Yorkists win the battle and are planning the coronation for Edward and Edward is like "ok George, you can be Duke of Clarence and Richard, you'll be Duke of Gloucester" and Richard is like "uhhhh Duke of Gloucester is kinda cursed, can George and I switch dukedoms?" And Warwick is like "oh that's silly, just be Duke of Gloucester" thus creating Richard, Duke of Gloucester who is most definitely the most accurst Duke of Gloucester of them all

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shout out to gloucester in 2h6. i’m playing him atm and the first scene really does just feel like “nephew just gave back massive amounts of land to france fucking fuming at the moment can’t find the angry face emoji 🏀🏀🏀”