"Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for...
“Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.” - Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (4.2.240-241) Guiderius
View Articlesmokeandsong: Watching these two short clips from Chimes At...
smokeandsong: Watching these two short clips from Chimes At Midnight underlines just how much of a complete sociopath The Hollow Crown’s Hal really is. #if Hal is emotionally transparent and a little...
View ArticleKen’s message to the Shakespeare Film Festival, talking about...
Ken’s message to the Shakespeare Film Festival, talking about Henry V, from the set of Jack Ryan.
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aspookydragon: Those frickin’ Plantagenets.
aspookydragon: Those frickin’ Plantagenets.
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fuckyeahvintageillustration: ‘Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of...
fuckyeahvintageillustration: ‘Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’ decorated by John Austen. Published 1922 by Selwin & Blount Ltd. Source
View ArticleSonnet Sunday!
Alas, ‘tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have...
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Peter O’Toole as the title character in a 1963 theatre...
Peter O’Toole as the title character in a 1963 theatre production of Hamlet. “If he gave me a wink, and he usually did, this wild Irishman, it meant a very hard fight. It was even dangerous to be...
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Judi Dench as Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, 1969,...
Judi Dench as Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, 1969, performed by the RSC
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fuckyeahdench: Judi Dench as Regan in King Lear
fuckyeahdench: Judi Dench as Regan in King Lear
View ArticleHalloween Shakespeare Challenge
alwaysiambic: alwaysiambic: Here’s the challenge: Halloween is in a week! So tell me, are you dressing up as a character from Shakespeare’s plays? Who are you going as? Maybe Titania or Oberon from ‘A...
View Articlealwaysiambic: Judi Dench in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (the...
alwaysiambic: Judi Dench in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (the sleepwalking scene), 1979. Out, damn spot, out I say! Pre-Halloween reblog!
View ArticleShakespeare's Insult of the Week
“Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.” - Macbeth
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Halloween Shakespeare Challenge
alwaysiambic: alwaysiambic: Here’s the challenge: Halloween is in a week! So tell me, are you dressing up as a character from Shakespeare’s plays? Who are you going as? Maybe Titania or Oberon from ‘A...
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The witch from Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, a 1957...
The witch from Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, a 1957 Japanese retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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AlwaysIambic's Halloween Costume Request
Every year, my friend and I do something called Thirty-One Days of Halloween in which we dress as different character for every day of October instead of just October 31st. These are my Titania and...
View ArticleFirst Witch When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?...
First Witch When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. First...
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This is my (late night, 3/4-assed) attempt at a Lady MacBeth...
This is my (late night, 3/4-assed) attempt at a Lady MacBeth Halloween costume self portrait session. Enjoy. And possibly be very frightened… ;) -Rachel (Submit your awesome Shakespeare costume as...
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