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Sean Bean as Romeo and Niamh Cusack as Juliet in the Royal...
Sean Bean as Romeo and Niamh Cusack as Juliet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of Romeo and Juliet. Photo by Joe Cocks
View ArticleA Bit of Shakespeare Trivia
The first words of Romeo and Juliet are in the form of a sonnet. This prologue reveals the ending to...
View Article"Men’s judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw...
“Men’s judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality...
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Sir John Gielgud reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet...
Sir John Gielgud reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. “When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past…”
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dipthatpen: Some of the more famous...
dipthatpen: Some of the more famous mortal-coil-shuffling-offings from Shakespeare. I made some of these a while ago, but a couple are new. These are really cool
View Article"Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me...
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to...
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Bad Shakespeare Friday
Although I have the greatest respect for Daniel Day-Lewis as an actor, he had a very bad experience...
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Shakespeare Cats by Susan Herbert Possibly the funniest and...
Shakespeare Cats by Susan Herbert Possibly the funniest and weirdest thing I’ve seen all day.
View Article"Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane...
“Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes...
View Articlethegeekyblonde: renkris: pbab: Richard E. Grant, as Hamlet,...
thegeekyblonde: renkris: pbab: Richard E. Grant, as Hamlet, performs the famous Act III.1 soliloquy. …as a dance mix. Your reminder that this is a thing that happened. BRILLIANT
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O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven...
O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention; A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene…
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shakespearean: If Richard is Haddock, then is Aumerle Tintin?...
shakespearean: If Richard is Haddock, then is Aumerle Tintin? The possibilities! #ohtheaufanfic tealin: Richard II, King of Pop … thanks to my bizarrely associative brain and a certain familiar strain...
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jetgirl78: BENEDICK: A miracle! here’s our own hands against...
jetgirl78: BENEDICK: A miracle! here’s our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee for pity.BEATRICE: I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield...
View Article"He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she;...
“He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair...
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Emrys James (King John) and Ian McKellen (Philip the Bastard) in...
Emrys James (King John) and Ian McKellen (Philip the Bastard) in Shakespeare’s The Life and Death of King John. (1975)
View Article“Something’s Rotten in the state of Denmark, and...
“Something’s Rotten in the state of Denmark, and Schwarzenegger is taking out the trash.”
View Article"I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen Upon a parchment, and against this...
“I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen Upon a parchment, and against this fire Do I shrink...
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