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according to my good friend's calculations, I shall be in denmarke in about three to four moons. in the meantime, I am working on my poem dedicated to hamlet's mother, queen gertrude. it is titled "thy mum", and so far, it readeth:
"thy son is bi
and so am I
this is why I came to denmarke;
to rhyme"
-mercutio
how do you feel about gertrude? as a character, as a mom, as a living and breathing human being - however you want to answer it, it's up to you. i feel like she gets so little recognition even though she plays a biiig part in hamlet.
YEEEEEEEEES!! i agree with you 100% she's such an important character and she gets peanuts.
to answer your question simply: i love gertrude. i think she's such a wonderful character love or hate her.
she's a deeply flawed individual but so are the vast majority of the characters in the play! anything i say against her i think just enhances her as a character so don't think this is me "hating" her. i believe she truly loves hamlet but that she is a selfish person who becomes more concerned with her own happiness and how hamlet's mourning reflects on her which is amusingly hypocritical when you go by what hamlet says about his mother and uncle's partying, drinking, and blatant PDA.
the rest of this is headcanon but i think there was a time where she truly did love king hamlet and i believe she adores her son and does want him to be happy but that she got caught up in her own happiness and life when her son needed her the most. i think as time wore on king hamlet changed and became harsher towards her and young hamlet due in part to the strains of war. i think she fell out of love with him and there was claudius, ready to pick up the pieces.
i waffle on whether or not i think she conspired with claudius to kill king hamlet but it would be interesting if she did!! i absolutely believe she knew the cup was poisoned at the end of the play and drank it anyway to prove claudius' treachery and to save her son. her last act on earth is to warn hamlet and to try to protect him. imagine she did this not only to save him but to try and absolve herself for the crimes she committed against her first husband and, in hamlet's eyes, her son. idk it just makes me a bit feral.
gertrude makes me feral. i think she absolutely thinks she's doing her best and she's just not, at all. because she's human. and selfish and had the audacity to want to be happy and loved. i adore her. i adore a flawed, realistic character and gertrude is just that.
thank you so much for the ask!
Gets a handjob but parries it flawlessly, shattering their wrist
Gods I can only wish I could write a line half as simple and yet completely loaded as following up "I did love you, once" with "Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so."
“Mercutio and Benvolio were gay as fuck for each other,“ I say into the mic.
The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
“He’s right, you know.” I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: William Shakespeare himself.
A explicitly abusive version of [King Lear] robs us of our ability to feel for Lear. But an explicitly sympathetic Lear robs us of the ability to feel for his daughters. So I think the best version of Lear is exactly the one that Shakespeare wrote: ambiguous. It's the only version in which each character is frustratingly, but fascinatingly, complex. Cordelia loves her tyrannical and mercurial father, but she can't bring herself to say it. It's a paradox- and a question- so rich and sad that Shakespeare required a whole play to explore it.
Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
david tennant + shakespeare
Uh. I went to the Oregon Shakespeare festival last week and saw five shows. I decided to draw a scene from each one we saw, so here they are. :]
My favorites are Lizard Boy and Macbeezy (if you know, you know).
I ship Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ngl
I'd ship Hamlet to England before he ruins Ophelia's life ngl
Thinking about how Viola refers to herself as “poor monster” for having a crush and also gender problems. Like me too girl
dealing with a code-red RSD-meltdown anxiety attack by laying on your bedroom floor reciting all the Shakespeare you’ve ever memorized to yourself for nearly three hours straight is something that can be so personal, actually-
Today has been A Day so to cheer myself up, magic!Hamlet AU (and also a Faustus crossover because you can’t have magic Wittenberg without our favorite Master Doctor Faustus!)
-Wittenberg as a school of magic!!
-Hamlet and Horatio both study there (perhaps taught by a certain John Faustus…?)
-Ros & Guil also study magic but they’re not terribly committed (Ros would make an excellent bard if his parents would let him study that sort of thing)
-Powerful wizard Ham Sr uses the last of his life force to reconjure himself as a ghost
-Ophelia with healing magic who goes mad because she couldn’t get to Polonius in time to save him
-Horatio with healing magic and a history of using too much magic to the point that it’s dangerous for him so Hamlet, dying, realizing that to save his life, Horatio would put himself in danger and uses his last moments shutting him up with a kiss so he can’t say the words necessary for a spell.
-Hamlet and/or postcanon Horatio learning/attempting to learn necromancy (from Faustus??)
-(bonus: Mephistopheles being forced to drag Ham Sr out of purgatory so Hamlet can have a proper goodbye)
i don't really go there because i've never seen the play in full, but i hope people in the a midsummer night's dream fandom use nick bottom for the appropriate smutfic tag comedy potential of having Bottom Bottom and Top Bottom tags. it's what shakespeare would have wanted
🚨important context is missing!!! the argument hamlet is making is whether it’s better to live and suffer [the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune] or to take arms against these troubles and by opposing end them (for who would bear the whips and scorns of time… when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?) - a bodkin - a knife or a dagger - guys!!! no!!! noooooooooo!! you’ve voted for suicide!!!
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.” ― William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
Hello! Are you a theatre artist between the ages of 18-29? Do you want a place to connect with other early-career theatre artists and share professional resources? Well, me too!
I've made a young theatre professionals discord server with the intention of putting what resources I do have to good use and (hopefully) helping out some fellow artists. The idea is to create a community where passionate theatre-makers can support one another and spread the word about potential opportunities within the industry. I don't expect it to be very large, but I think it would be extremely useful for those of us who can benefit from it!
With all that said, come join!*
*note: I'm currently residing in the United States, and I personally am not currently very involved with or knowledgeable of the professional theatre scene outside the US, but international artists are still free to join!
