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kill claudio 😘

been seeing this tag on ao3 called “mutually unrequited” and i dont mean to nitpick but like….thats not…..what it means…………..

Couldn't fit all the comedies in the 12 options, so made separate polls for Problem Plays and Late Romances.

(Also: Shakespeare poll tag, for all the different genres.)

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?’

DAVID TENNANT and CATHERINE TATE "Much Ado About Nothing" (2011)

robert sean leonard is the most slept on 90s heartthrob scream if u agree

I’ve started a series where I wanted to do modernized!Shakespeare. I don’t think its finished but these are some of my favorite characters so far. A few things:

The men in Midsummer Night’s Dream are so awful.. @willy shakes set the women free please…. set them free. also let the ladies date

[looks at my half-dozen drawing of Benvolio/Mercutio vs. my single drawing for Romeo/Juliet] What do you mean Bencutio isn’t the main couple in R&J?

#LetBenvolioSayFuck2k17

I kept the soccer thing for Viola & Duke… She’s the Man is flawed but it’s also my childhood just let me keep the soccer thing

I demand more genderqueer Viola

Shoutout to anyone who picks up on Hippolyta’s outfit i know its rly obvious but just. shoutout

Hero deserves so much better than Claudio. Hence, the obvious Hamilton…. In fact there’s a lot of designs clearly inspired by certain actors…..

One old Mercutio designs is inspired by @crystallizedtwilight which im like 90% sure their design is also inspired by certain R&J production’s character design but anyways credit to them

anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

been seeing this tag on ao3 called “mutually unrequited” and i dont mean to nitpick but like….thats not…..what it means…………..

i’m obsessed with benedick and beatrice and the fact that he trusts her. claudio refuses to believe that hero is innocent no matter what she says. no one believes her, even leonato immediately takes claudio’s word, a man who he has known for a few days, over his own daughter’s. and beatrice knows it’s a lie but no one believes her because the word of a woman means nothing. but benedick believes her. he doesn’t know hero that well, he has no evidence to prove that she is innocent, but he knows she is because beatrice says so, and he trusts her - more than he trusts even claudio, his “sworn brother”. the contrast between claudio’s “proof” destroying his trust in hero, and benedick trusting beatrice no matter what, even though he has no proof

underrated character type I actually relate to: hopeless romantic who loves to intellectually spar disguised as an unbearable clown

the day I stop thinking about Them™️ is the day I die

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Beatrice and Benedick, act IV, scene 1

honestly this is why i love both pride and prejudice and much ado about nothing: the male leads need to fix themselves before the happy ending of Marriage and All That occurs.

I love the absolute 180° Benedick does between his monologue before listening to Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato and his monologue after. "Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending," is the funniest reaction anyone can have to being told that they're not good enough for someone they were saying they would never marry like 5 minutes ago.

She wanted to be courted with mysterious language.

― Anaïs Nin

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Happy Birthday David Tennant!!!

Thank you for so much great content and brilliant acting

Happy Birthday once again!!!

I made this in under 2 hours so it is a little rough but improvement from last year!

Happy Birthday David Tennant!!!

Thank you for so much great content and brilliant acting

david tennant and catherine tate have the range

DAVID TENNANT and CATHERINE TATE "Much Ado About Nothing" (2011)

David Tennant, Catherine Tate, and Josie Rourke for Throwback Thursday Promotional Shoot for Much Ado About Nothing

Excerpts from the Telegraph interview with David, Catherine, and Josie by Dominic Cavendish (published May 10th, 2011) [X]

Josie Rourke: I got a call saying, “Would you be interested in doing a production of Much Ado About Nothing with Catherine Tate and David Tennant?” And it’s a dream job, really. Their chemistry is very profound but it’s directed outwards: this has been one of the happiest acting companies I’ve worked with. It’s also very helpful when you’re conceiving a production knowing some of the casting. If it had been a different Beatrice and Benedick, it would have been a different production. Dominic Cavendish: The phrase “sex war” does cut to the chase of the play, doesn’t it? What makes Benedick so antagonistic, outwardly at least, to the opposite sex, do you think?   David Tennant: I sense that all that misogyny comes out of self-loathing. There’s fear of commitment, fear of emotional attachment and vulnerability. It’s very recognisable. It strikes me how this play is really the template for every romantic comedy – the couple who can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other.   Catherine Tate: We meet them at a time when you get the sense that they’ve been the coolest people in the room, and they’re getting to an age when they’re going to get left on the shelf and start looking sad. They both very quickly cave in when they think the other loves them.   David Tennant: They cave in with enthusiasm! 

from Michael Coveney’s article/interview with Josie Rourke in The Independant (May 27, 2011)

“I have never laughed so much in a  rehearsal room. My memory of this will be of wandering into a room and  finding one of them making the other laugh. "They are incredibly quick and intuitive in their response to each other, and that carries over directly into the play. They are such great company, and they set the tone for everyone else, charging us all up with the effervescent quality of their friendship.”

David Tennant Appreciation 2015:  Favorite Friendship