"Therefore welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile...
“Therefore welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!” - William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost (1.1.289-291)Costard
View ArticleLeather jacket worn by David Tennant as Romeo, designed by Tom...
Leather jacket worn by David Tennant as Romeo, designed by Tom Piper.This Romeo and Juliet, directed by Michael Boyd was performed on the main stage at Stratford in 2000, and at the Barbican in 2001....
View Articleshakespearean: The Winter’s Tale trailer | 2013 | Royal...
shakespearean:The Winter’s Tale trailer | 2013 | Royal Shakespeare Company Interesting that they’ve gone with Leontes as narrator of the trailer this time. The trailer for 2010 production features...
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“Thou art the cap of all fools alive.” — Timon of Athens (4.3)
View ArticleIn which Kenneth Branagh plays a rather dandy Navarre in...
In which Kenneth Branagh plays a rather dandy Navarre in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1984.
View Article"Assist me some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter....
“Assist me some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.” - Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1.2.192-193)
View ArticleKenneth Branagh as Navarre in Shakespeare’s Love’s...
Kenneth Branagh as Navarre in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1984.
View Article"For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving...
“For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit’s expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his...
View Articlethefaeriefolk: Another part of the wood by Arthur Rackham (from...
thefaeriefolk:Anotherpart of the woodbyArthurRackham(from “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”)
View ArticleAnne Hathaway 'to appear in The Taming of the Shrew movie'
Anne Hathaway 'to appear in The Taming of the Shrew movie': Les Miserables actress Anne Hathaway is set to star in a movie adaptation of Shakespeare playThe Taming Of The Shrew, according to...
View Articleprofessorfangirl: “Whishaw, with his light, tremulous voice,...
professorfangirl:“Whishaw, with his light, tremulous voice, painfully thin body, and the kind of cheekbones that will have adolescent girls swooning in the stalls, presents the most raw and vulnerable...
View ArticleKenneth Branagh (Edgar) and Richard Briers (Lear) in...
Kenneth Branagh (Edgar) and Richard Briers (Lear) in Shakespeare’s King Lear with the Renaissance Theatre Company, 1990
View ArticleKenneth Branagh as Iago in the film adaptation of...
Kenneth Branagh as Iago in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, 1995.
View Article"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.” - William Shakespeare, King Lear (4.7.97)
View ArticleKenneth Branagh as Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado...
Kenneth Branagh as Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, 1993.
View Articlethegeekyblonde: i now present the twelfth night outtakes heaven...
thegeekyblonde:i now present the twelfth night outtakesheaven forgive me
View Articleprofessorfangirl: Trevor Nunn on casting a 23-year-old Ben...
professorfangirl:Trevor Nunn on casting a 23-year-old Ben Whishaw as Hamlet:“I suppose I did do something crazy,” Nunn says now, when I ask him about the casting. “But I’d grown intolerant of Hamlets...
View Article"Someday in the future, all inspirational quotes will be attributed to me....
“Someday in the future, all inspirational quotes will be attributed to me. Fuck yeah.” - William Shakespeare (via jilliansomething)This felt relevant.(via thatsnotshakespeare)
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