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

UM.

HANNIBAL & THEATER II. of XIII.

anne hathaway in drag

anne hathaway in drag

this is one of few things that I cannot look at without compulsively reblogging

I love this picture and I have no clue what the fuck is going on but oh my god

i don’t know what’s happening but it’s good

someday i’m gonna write a faux-historical queer drama and people will ask “what was ur inspiration” and i’ll be like that one picture of anne hathaway in drag kissing the pretty lady

For the record, this was Anne in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

she played Viola. Since a lot of people are like WHERE IS THIS FROM????

You might also know its adaption with Amanda Bynes: She’s the Man.

“Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead. Disguising herself as a young man under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino through the help of the sea captain who rescues her. Orsino has convinced himself that he is in love with Olivia, whose father and brother have recently died, and refuses to see any suitor until seven years have passed, the Duke included. Orsino then uses Cesario (Viola) as an intermediary to profess his passionate love before Olivia. Olivia however, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with Cesario (Viola), while Viola has fallen in love with the Duke.”

so pictured is Olivia, Viola, and the Duke Orsino. 

*faints*

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” (William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,  Act II, Scene V).