"i'd Date You If You Were A Guy" But It's Olivia And Viola From Twelfth Night

"i'd date you if you were a guy" but it's olivia and viola from twelfth night

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

Cecily: Bloody thou art, bloody shall be thy end. Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend

Richard: mother this is a dairy queen

DO YE WORK UP AN APPETITE

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!

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