“Witness that here Iago doth give up/ The execution of his wit, hands, heart/ to wrong’d Othello’s service!” from Othello.
Featuring Hugh Quarshie as Othello and Anton Lesser as Iago.
Oh man, the laugh on “all my fond love do I blow to Heaven”. Ouch.
ANTON LESSER YOU DEFT, TWISTY FUCKER. You can practically hear him gauging each of Othello’s reactions and adjusting his tone accordingly. And the way he mirrors Othello’s bombast just a little on the oath, trusting both that he’ll take it for sincerity and that the audience will hear the mocking.
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goodshipophelia: spookyishq: “Witness that here Iago doth give...
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Sonnet Sunday!
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within,Applying...
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smokeandsong: dipthatpen: Today (well, it’s still October 13...
Today (well, it’s still October 13 where I am, anyway) is when Henry V’s campaign in France started to turn south for the English. I mean, literally, turned south (or like, southeast-ish).
What happened was, the English had conquered Harfleur and were heading back to Calais. They were in pretty good shape—there was a bit of lingering dysentery, but it wasn’t too bad, and the food supplies were sufficient. They just had to cross the Somme River and head up north. Everything was looking good until today, when the advance guard caught a random Frenchman, who told them that there was a French force of several thousand waiting across the Somme where the English had planned to cross it. This forced the English to turn away from Calais and march along the river hoping to find a suitable place to cross while trying to evade the French, their supplies dwindling all the way.
Godammit, Hal.
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“Beatrice” painted by Frank Dicksee for the weekly...
“Beatrice” painted by Frank Dicksee for the weekly newspaper, Graphic, which commissioned twenty-one studies of Shakespeare’s heroines, 1888.
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Alwaysiambic got a face lift! Go check it out and tell me what you think?
Alwaysiambic got a face lift! Go check it out and tell me what you think?
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"O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou..."
“O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If...
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Anne Hathaway (Viola), Audra McDonald (Olivia) and Raul...
Anne Hathaway (Viola), Audra McDonald (Olivia) and Raul Esparza (Orsino) in the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night
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run-you-hipster-run: Five Autographs of William Shakespeare
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dontcross2thecrossening: thegeekyblonde: fireflies-and-polkadot...
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Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
“You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.”
- Coriolanus
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Matthew McFadyen (Prince Hal), David Bradley (Henry IV) and...
Matthew McFadyen (Prince Hal), David Bradley (Henry IV) and Michael Gambon (Falstaff) in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2.
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"I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I..."
“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my...
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Cleopatra by Frank Dicksee (1853-1928) Peace, peace!Dost thou...
Cleopatra by Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?
- Antony and Cleopatra (5.2.360-62)
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"Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her..."
“Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden...
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spookyishq: “But soft! What light through yonder window...
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?” from Romeo and Juliet.
Featuring Kenneth Branagh as Romeo, Samantha Bond as Juliet, and Judi Dench as the Nurse.
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Patrick Stewart (Antony) and Harriet Walter (Cleopatra) in the...
Patrick Stewart (Antony) and Harriet Walter (Cleopatra) in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, 2006.
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"All impediments in fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy."
“All impediments in fancy’s course
Are motives of more fancy.” - Shakespeare’s...
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The statue of Prince Hal with Shakespeare overlooking, Bancroft...
The statue of Prince Hal with Shakespeare overlooking, Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
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