I'm Not Sure How Legit The Claim Is That Where Shakespeare Deviates From Iambic Pentameter It's Meant

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

re-reading hamlet and i literally cannot read "there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow" without wanting to sob over james farrow

DO YE WORK UP AN APPETITE

17th Century Theatre Actors RPF fic recs

Nameless by a_t_rain

➤ historical rpf about 17th century theatre actors associated with shakespeare

➤ I've never heard of these characters before or the play they're putting on that's central to the themes of the fic but the the fic does a good enough job introducing it all that it works nonetheless

➤ a really interesting and thoughtful work about life vs fiction, and acting, and finding a new life, and the realities and ramifications of abusive relationships

➤ I loved it, and I see the author has written other fics about this group of characters and I want to read them too!

➤ 5k words in length

Genesis by a_t_rain

➤ a prequel to Nameless, about 17th century theatre actors associated with Shakespeare (and Shakespeare himself)

➤ the viewpoint character begins as an an apprentice grocer in the grocer's guild, and his first taste of acting is in reviving the guild play

➤ like Nameless, a really thoughtful and interesting look at this period of history, with many excellent historical details

➤ the development of John's understanding of what it is to act, and what it is to be part of the world of actors (different things!) is so well done

➤ and I love the quiet, solid romance of trust between John and Rebecca

➤ 10k words in length

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...)

Hamlet quiz tomorrow so here's my synopsis (this is studying.)

Hamlet is depressed and he doesn't like his uncle marrying his mother. Hamlet's friends see a ghost, they send the intellectual to wax poetic with it. Hamlet's ghost has a message for him: I was murdered! Hamlet procrastinates. Hamlet acts insane. Hamlet gets rejected by Ophelia while his uncle and Polonius look on. Hamlet might actually be insane. Hamlet makes sex jokes at the function. Hamlet's mother is worried. Hamlet's uncle is guilty. Polonius has been shish kebabed. Hamlet is going to London with Roz and Gilly!