Had A Normal One This Weekend (watched A Recorded Production Of A Midsummer Night's Dream And Two Of

had a normal one this weekend (watched a recorded production of a midsummer night's dream and two of much ado about nothing)

Pt 2 of Would This David Tennant Character Respect Your Pronouns, And What Would They Do If Someone Else Messed Them Up? (bc @nastasya--filippovna asked for theses ones)

Campbell- Of course! He's enthusiastic and quickly apologises if he or someone else gets it wrong

Hamlet- Gives it his best go, but is too wrapped up in his own issues to correct other people on someone else's pronouns

Richard ||- Probably? He tries, and normally catches when someone misgenders you, and is only a little bit endearingly smug about it

Benedick- if you challenged him to be the biggest trans ally on the planet, he would respect your gender identity so hard. He would dramatically correct everyone, even if they'd already corrected themselves

Arthur Eddington- Pretty normal about trans people, probably. He'd just be glad to find another queer person. He'd only correct someone if he knew it was safe to let them know that you're not cishet

Simon Yates- He'd be a bit awkward and quiet about it at first, but yeah. Eventually, it would become more natural for him to automatically correct people and gender you right himself.

Casanova- Heck yeah. He'd still think you're hot, just hot as a different gender. Definitely corrects people

day 48: drawing with @dailymercutio ...for some reason

Fellow Bard enthusiasts!

I have a question: Is it common to portray Edmund and the Duke of Cornwall as having an affair, in productions of "King Lear"?

(This is in addition to Edmund's other canon affairs, of course.)

I just watched a version from the mid-80s and its version of Act III, Scene V left NO ambiguity about it.

I mean...

Cornwall on the left, Edmund in the water, on the right.

(Yes, I had to blur, um, certain 'parts of Cornwall', shall we say? Because it was all out in the open...)

I'm not sure how legit the claim is that where Shakespeare deviates from iambic pentameter it's meant to indicate how long to pause for. However:

"Is the law on our side if I say 'aye'?" (In Original Pronunciation, this probably fit iambic pentameter exactly)

*spends 4.5 iambs looking around as if to say 'can you believe this guy?' "No!"

is pretty funny and exactly how i'd play that if i was an actrum

DO YE WORK UP AN APPETITE