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@sunderedstar movie night let’s watch!!!

Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! (via itsdlevy)

Shakespearean insults, with cats.

7 more here.

I did not realize how very perfect cats were at delivering Shakespeare’s insults until now.

in grade 12 we were reading romeo and juliet and we were at the romantic-ass balcony scene and this hot girl in the class volunteered to read juliet’s parts and i put up my hand to volunteer for another part and the teacher goes ‘oh do you want to be the nurse, amanda?’ and i was like ‘no i wanna be romeo’ and the hot girl swiveled around in her seat to give me a Look™

she and i later ended up making out at a bunch of parties in university lmfao

in retrospect this moment was absolutely pivotal to my butch awakening but it was also just a lesbian power move

Much Ado About Nothing is a play which ends with the line ‘for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion’. Which basically translates as ‘people are dumb, the end.’

If it’s good enough for Shakespeare it’s good enough for me.

hamlet’s dad: son you need to avenge me

hamlet: oh ABSOLUTELY

hamlet for the next four and a half acts:

Maxine Peake as Hamlet [x]

ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!

people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs

it’s what he would have wanted 

Gosh, that part in Much Ado About Nothing when Beatrice and Benedick read each other’s secret love letters and admit their love is always so cute. But, like, too cute. 

… That’s more like it. That’s the response I’d expect of two hyper-critical sarcastic dorks in love.

the Tatenant version is truly the most perfect version of Much Ado

Colin Morgan as Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Globe Theatre in London

Hamlet as a teenage girl, and the ghost. KDC, Lion and Unicorn Theatre 2013

Photo: Andy Marchant / Stephen Russell

The cast seems all around perfect, I mean, female R&G who also play the gravediggers? And damn, the Hamlet/Ophelia dynamic sounds amazing:

“They approach each other as giggly best friends who are exploring crossing that line between friendship and sexual attraction. Their relationship is not just about how they relate to each other and becoming more sexually aware as part of their coming of age, it’s also about dealing with a certain amount of teenage experimentation in the most innocent of ways. There’s no doubt they love each other; but the nature of this love is changeable. Is it the love of a deep close friendship, or is it a romantic love?

— The acting is very well done across the board, but the strength is in the lead roles. Hamlet handles her role impeccably well; her tears are moving, her social interactions sulky yet brilliant. Ophelia is equally delightful. Stunningly beautiful with clever comedic timing. She is also a wise teenager, who like Hamlet, delights in out-smarting the adults around her, until her madness – also flawlessly handled- drives her to her watery grave.” (x)

Maxine Peake as Hamlet

Manchester’s Exchange Theatre

Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald in Twelfth Night. I am HUGELY annoyed that this was never brought to my attention. 

UM.

Andrew Scott in the Hamlet West End trailer

hell? empty. all the devils? here.

omg this wasn’t a “dick? out” joke this was a shakespeare quote don’t be crass

Hell: empty Devils: here Dick: out