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Do you happen to know if there's a recording of the 2019 NT midsummer nights dream online somewhere??? It looks so good but I can't find it anywhere😭

I do not, unfortunately, but crowd source perhaps??

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Whore (affectionate)

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I have not!! Good pick?

Anybody have any favorite filmed productions of Marlowe’s Faustus?

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Bonus points if it’s gay, by the way.

Anybody have any favorite filmed productions of Marlowe’s Faustus?

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Anybody have any favorite filmed productions of Marlowe’s Faustus?

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Happy death/birth(?)day, William Shakespeare!

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idk how much textual backing there is for this but given how iffy Lennox's loyalties seem to be... imagine a production where Lennox was ALSO working with the rebels/Norwegians, but just managed not to get caught

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@heartofstanding and I are trying to gauge interest in the running the Shakespeare Histories yearly fic exchange.

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Look, I love Much Ado. Absolutely my favorite Shakespeare play, hands down.

But there's always that moment when you have to accept that Hero isn't going to tell Claudio to shove off this time either.

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Concept I've been brainstorming with various friends: Wrestler Macbeth

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HELL YEAH, OP!

i don’t support the british empire/monarchy but i do support DAME judi dench

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King Lear Masterpost

"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)

Costume Design and Execution of King Lear by William Shakespeare (2010)

Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature (2019)

"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)

Edmund's Redemption in King Lear (1975)

Elements in the Composition of "King Lear" (1933)

Humans And Animals In King Lear (2018)

In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)

"King Lear" and Chaos (1991)

"King Lear" and Negation (1990)

Performing Australian Identity: Gendering "King Lear" (2005)

"Service" in King Lear (1958)

See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)

“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)

"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)

The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)

The Emotive use of Animal Imagery in "King Lear" (1962)

The Mirror and the Feather: Tragedy and Animal Voice in "King Lear" (2013)

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Damn right! We did this in my production (I played Hotspur). Hotspur was in denial but literally everyone around him Knew. Hal had no doubts that he was bisexual from the get-go. Our fight scene was quite homoerotic.

My favorite line was at the end of Hotspur’s incredibly homoerotic speech to his forces (immediately following Vernon’s equally gay speech about Hal’s hot thighs):

“Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,

Meet and ne’er part till one drop down… a corse.”

With a nice, lengthy pause between “drop down” and “a corse.” Oh yeah, right, I’m supposed to kill this guy.

Everyone talks about gaying Richard II and Aumerle but no one talks about gaying Prince Hal and Hotspur

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Tell me why in the tags!!

(p.s. I really wanted to put Claudius, Don John, and Regan and Goneril on here, but no space. So if you vote for one of them put it in the tags and please know they were in my heart.)

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Woah no way?? People (completely unprompted /s) want to hear my trans Shakespeare headcanons?? You bet I can do that.

I’ve done this once before:

But I have even more thoughts now!!

In no particular order:

Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream): Every single pronoun possible. He/she/they/it + all of the neopronouns and xenopronouns that exist currently or will ever exist. Fairy gender is always weird but Puck’s is extra weird.

Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream): Fairy gender. Probably he/they/it?

Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream): More fairy gender. She/they/it?

Titania’s fairy attendants (Midsummer): Get a hat and fill it with various pronouns and draw them out at random for the fairies.

Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing): Could go either way, but I really like the idea of transfemme Benedick. Or he/him lesbian Benedick.

Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing): The she/they to end all she/theys

Viola/Cesario (Twelfth Night): Could be trans in literally any direction. I made a post about this too at some point. My suggestion is all of the directions: they/she/he

Sebastian (Twelfth Night): He/him, transmasc. I also made a post about this at some point.

Feste (Twelfth Night): I saw a great she/her Feste last summer.

Orsino (Twelfth Night): Specifically the himbo variety of he/they

Margaret of Anjou (Henry VI trilogy and Richard III): If I ever play Margaret, I will use she/they pronouns.

Catesby (Richard III): Just played Catesby with she/her pronouns and it worked!

Richard II (Richard II): Tell me Richard isn’t the most they/he or he/they guy alive (or… dead).

Hal (1 Henry IV-Henry V): Saw Hal played with she/they pronouns last summer and it was great. Could also see he/they Hal. Very nonbinary vibe overall. I personally believe that going by Hal rather than Henry for two whole plays is their way of pulling the “going by the first letter of what my name used to be instead of picking a name from scratch” nonbinary trick. He probably pretends to be cis after his dad dies and he becomes king—one more element of Hal’s lifelong identity crisis.

Hotspur/Harry Percy Jr. (Richard II & 1 Henry IV): He/they in denial.

Kate Percy (1 & 2 Henry IV): She/they, not in denial. (Also Katespur should be bi4bi)

Ned Poins (1 & 2 Henry IV): Transmasc Ned Poins?? Maybe he doesn’t actually have a sister and Nell is just his deadname. Ned Poins’ failed scheme to flirt with Hal.

Romeo (Romeo & Juliet): he/they (t4t R&J!!!)

Juliet (Romeo & Juliet): she/they (t4t R&J!!!)

Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet): they/he(/it?). Vibes alone. Look at them. Just look.

Nurse (Romeo & Juliet): she/her, transfemme!

Cassius (Julius Caesar): Would love to see a they/them Cassius

Hamlet (Hamlet): he/they. I’ve made multiple posts about this theory and I still love it.

Ophelia (Hamlet): she/they. As she should.

Laertes (Hamlet): she/him and NOT just because Laertes used she/her pronouns the first time I saw this play.

Rosencrantz (Hamlet): he/they/she. Vibes. Sometimes goes by Ros/Rose. Probably genderfluid.

Malcolm (Macbeth): they/he or they/them. Also vibes.

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth): stolen straight from my last post because this is still my HC: she/they; would insult you for “having pronouns in your bio” and then turn around and punch you in the face for using their pronouns incorrectly.

Angus (Macbeth): she/her, transfemme. (t4t Ross/Angus. I will die on this hill… Dunsinane Hill.)

Ross (Macbeth): he/him, transmasc

Caithness (Macbeth): she/they lesbian

Mark Antony (Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra): I would not bat an eye at he/they Mark Antony

Edmund (King Lear): they/he, nonbinary, sexiest man (/gn) alive.

Edgar (King Lear): he/him. Transmasc Edgar is slowly becoming canon To Me.

Cordelia (King Lear): she/her, transfemme.

Goneril (King Lear): she/they. I would let them kill me.

Coriolanus (Coriolanus): transmasc OR transfemme Coriolanus is!!!! The butterfly/metamorphosis motif! Name changes during canon! Discomfort with scars/body! Lack of autonomy granted by society! This is THE transgender play. (Other than Twelfth Night)

Imogen (Cymbeline): Tell me she doesn’t want to be a she/they so bad.

Florizel (The Winter’s Tale): he/they(/she?). Literally just a vibe. I have a pet rock named Florizel.

Perdita (The Winter’s Tale): she/they. I also have a pet rock named Perdita.

Ariel (The Tempest): Similar to Puck, probably they/she/he? Even my conservative English prof consistently rotates between she/her and he/him for Ariel (possibly not intentionally? I’m not convinced he knows what her canon pronouns are.)

Ferdinand (The Tempest): she/they. PLEASE give me transfemme Ferdinand. PLEASE let Miranda realize she’s a lesbian during canon.

Miranda (The Tempest): she/they. Ariel taught them about the existence of she/they pronouns and she immediately started using them.

So in other words… every Shakespeare character should be trans, actually.

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