I Havent Forgotten How I Used To Remember My Own Name And Yours, Oh Yes! There Were Answers Everywhere

“I haven’t forgotten — how I used to remember my own name — and yours, oh yes! There were answers everywhere you looked. There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they didn’t they asked and I told them.”

— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Hamlet in 2d coward

pre-play hamlet = hopeless romantic 

So.

Originally I said I was going to live read Jesus Christ Boy Detective. And I’m still going to do that, I promise. But a few nights ago while me and my lovely girlfriend @thinkofaugust were looking at terrible Hamlet spin offs on kindle, she found this-

And my lovely amazing girlfriend who is very, very good to was kind enough to let me take this one, because she is a sweetheart and I love her.

Y’all it’s been a minute since I did a live read of anything Hamlet related. This is going to be interesting. But yeah, I promise I’ll do Jesus Christ Boy Detective at a later date. For now, I’ll be tagging all posts and reblogs of this as ‘amh live read’, and you can read it chronologically, sans reblogs, in my ‘live read tag’ .

Interesting is that dramatist W.S. Gilbert who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" (1874) and shipped Rosencrantz and Ophelia died while attempting to rescue a young woman from drowning.

obligatory 3/4 angle, resting pensive face, bust shot