Helen Mirren as Imogen in Shakespeare’s...
Helen Mirren as Imogen in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, 1982.“It is no act of common passage, butA strain of rareness.”
View Article"Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy...
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to...
View ArticleEllen Terry as Imogen in a 1896 production of...
Ellen Terry as Imogen in a 1896 production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. It was one of Dame Terry’s last performances.
View Article"I cannot sing: I’ll weep, and word it with thee; For notes of sorrow out of...
“I cannot sing: I’ll weep, and word it with thee; For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse Than priests and fanes that lie.” - Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (4.2.300-302)
View Articleshredsandpatches: I’m not sure what is more glorious about the...
shredsandpatches:I’m not sure what is more glorious about the bottom picture: Carlisle watching the sand as it flies past his head, like he’s all “yes, the king is throwing sand in the general vicinity...
View Articlebitchfaceart: John William Waterhouse, Cleopatra (1888)
bitchfaceart:John William Waterhouse, Cleopatra (1888)
View Articlemarlonbrando: Marlon Brando’s Academy Award Nominated/Winning...
marlonbrando:Marlon Brando’s Academy Award Nominated/Winning Performances:Nominated for Best Actor for his role as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar at the 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954).
View Articlethegeekyblonde: renkris: The announcement of Benvolio’s death,...
thegeekyblonde:renkris:The announcement of Benvolio’s death, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Act V.3 (Q1)#couldn’t live without his boyfriend #for never was a story of more woe #than that of...
View ArticleBen Whishaw, the dungeon soliloquy (Richard II, Act 5, scene 5,...
Ben Whishaw, the dungeon soliloquy (Richard II, Act 5, scene 5, lines 1-66).From the BBC series The Hollow Crown.(You might want to have some tissues handy.)I have been studying how I may compareThis...
View Articleprofessorfangirl: Ben Whishaw, the “Death of Kings” speech...
professorfangirl:Ben Whishaw, the “Death of Kings” speech (Richard II, Act 3, scene 2, lines 140-173).From the BBC series The Hollow Crown.***…of comfort no man speak:Let’s talk of graves, of worms,...
View Articleprofessorfangirl: Richards the Second: Gay Satan v. Gay...
professorfangirl:Richards the Second: Gay Satan v. Gay Jesus.slow claps
View Articleshakespeareishq: betzine: 221cbakerstreet: kei1356: First...
shakespeareishq:betzine:221cbakerstreet:kei1356:First Look at MACBETH with James McAvoy and Claire Foythis looks...
View ArticleTalking to my mom about getting a dog...
renkris:paintedspectres:Me: I want a Great Dane. I could name him Hamlet. Mom: What about a not-so-great-Dane? You could name him Laertes. Me: Mom: Me: Mom: Me: You had to go there.
View ArticleMichelle Dockery as Lady Percy in The Hollow Crown: Henry IV...
Michelle Dockery as Lady Percy in The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1, 2012.
View Articleshredsandpatches: WHY DO I NOT OWN THIS BOOK From the...
shredsandpatches:WHY DO I NOT OWN THIS BOOKFrom the blurb:The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully...
View ArticleCharles Spencer weighs up every Hamlet he has seen
Charles Spencer weighs up every Hamlet he has seen: heyho-srb:Russell Beale’s plump prince was the finest I have seenAlso featured Branagh, Rylance, Whishaw, Cumming, Dillane, Stephens, Jennings,...
View ArticleSonnet Sunday!
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart,Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art and therefore...
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