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Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company

"I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle’s."

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There's lots of ways to play this scene but we can't deny, that one's tempting.

Duke. My dude. Why.

Unlock your calendar, I beseech you

Endless list of things I love A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019)

A sheep in the role of Cordelia in “King Lear With Sheep.”Credit” Nick Morris.

Source: ‘King Lear With Sheep.’ Yes, Sheep.

tamora, queen of goths and making grown men (titus andronicus) cry

Pericles trailer 🎭

The show opens tonight and runs until September 21st

Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Florizel The Winter's Tale, 2021 | Royal Shakespeare Company

Emma D'Arcy as Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

MALVOLIO: I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you! (Act V, Scene I)

The idiots-to-lovers masterpiece

Made these after I saw Much Ado with David Tennant and Catherine Tate. Loved the show, but I thought the signage and programme did not reflect the colour, brightness and fun of the production. One very small complaint really!  

Don’t give me one-sided unrequited love, give me two-sided unwanted love. Both sides are deeply in love with the other and both sides are like ‘fuck, really?? them??? really?’

Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Marcelino Sambè in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet 2022)

i’d argue Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a far more cursed play than macbeth but you don’t see actors referring to it as “the spider play” now do you

Pedro Pascal as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, 2014 (Shakespeare in the Park)

rotating hamlet in your head when you're NOT mentally unwell is actually a wonderful experience. because now you can see outside the barbed walls of pain. beyond the balcony rails that look like prison bars. you can see the glimmers of gertrude's undeniable love for hamlet, even when she did it all wrong. you can see the defiance in ophelia's yes my lords, a sort of kindredness to the women you grew up with who knew how to pick battles and hide a smirk. you can see the banter between horatio and hamlet, like boys playing in a creek before one moves away for good. you can watch hamlet mouth the plays the thing, wherein ill catch the conscience of the king and have your heart break for the scared son who's clinging to a reason to live through narrative. and oh, how you notice the narrative. how it encircles. how it continues, despite laertes trying to fling himself to be with ophelia, despite horatio's lips almost kissing the cup. now, you can hold the characters gently, with the distance and closeness of a gravedigger. now, you can hold yourself gently: act five is over now. close the curtains, strike the props, hug the other ones who made it out covered in fake blood and real sweat. the play's the thing, and you might have to do it again. the story lives, on and on and on, in a hundred adaptations in a hundred formats. in a hundred broken peoples heads, and sometimes, those people heal long enough to say denmark was a prison, let me tell you about it.

Romeo and Juliet 1968 // “Love From The Other Side” by Fall Out Boy // Juliet’s Death 1901 // “Heaven, Iowa” by Fall Out Boy // Romeo and Juliet Dead 1968 // “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy // Romeo’s Death

"two people who already know and are both secretly pining for one another meet in disguise at a masquerade ball and share a tense but extremely revealing conversation that they would never have if they knew each another's true identities" scenes are always such an exhilarating ride from start to finish... the confusion and conflicting emotions, the undeniable attraction from both parties generating sexual tension so obvious it's physically painful, the sheer drama of it all... *chef's kiss* poetic cinema

Romeo and Juliet, Frank Dicksee, 1824 / Romeo and Juliet, Julius Kronberg, 1886.

god these violent delights are fucking AWESOME lol. having a great time. btw does anybody know what we're doing after this

making Hamlet fanart in 2023, slapping Juicy (Fat Ham, a modern play, Hamlet version, played by black fat queer person) on char design i saw in old b&w film while listening MCR playlist was an experience

highly recommend. also pls watch/read Fat Ham