I, your glass

friends.....romans.......cunty men

on a separate note i can’t stop thinking about evil therapy speak claudius

“honestly hamlet you’re violating a lot of boundaries by constantly trauma dumping on your mom about your dead father. it’s manipulative and toxic to refuse to hold space for her and her new marriage when she’s just trying to do what’s best for her peace. anyway get the fuck over it it’s been a month”

One of the puzzles of trying to write a modernized re-imagining of Much Ado About Nothing is that there's really nothing you can do about the name Dogberry. It's just kind of there.

Like, Leonato is Lee or Leigh, that's easy. Antonio, there's half a dozen possibilities. Pedro and John you don't even have to wrestle with. But Dogberry. Dogberry resists streamlining or reinterpretation. Dogberry is what it is, and refuses to be anything else. I am stymied by the enigma that is Dogberry.

"i am a man more sinned against than sinning" being such a popular king lear quote is crazy because that's literally not true. his ass is lying

at the club googling shakespeare antony and cleopatra act 2 scene 7

literally a plague on both your houses i’m not even kidding

i think one of the most interesting things about hamlet is how near the end, horatio, talking to fortinbras, says "give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view, and let me speak to th' yet unknowing world how these things came about" because it's like. we just saw the play. we know how these things came about because of how the bodies were placed on a stage. it's really meta. if you moved the entire last bit where fortinbras and horatio are talking at the end to the beginning, we would see horatio unraveling the carnal, bloody and unnatural acts he promises to relate but since we see it at the end? i can't put it into words exactly but it's got a metafictional edge to it and i love it

very fond of hamlet productions in which hamlet sr. is MUCH older than gertrude. their marriage is never what hamlet thought it was

hamlet coming of age + context of polonius being like “ophelia, no matter what he thinks, he can never marry you, he can only marry for denmark” + realizing your mom never loved your dad + realizing she was younger than you when she got married. one can do many things with this

I HAAAATE the "Was Shakespeare a woman" debate because instead of exploring the vast amounts of written work done by women since written language was created to work into current literary discussion, we have to create a smug "hmmm gotcha!" moment to absolutely own the misogynists. I think the women of the time period who went out of their way to create art despite societal standings should also get their flowers instead of the hypothetical woman who William Shakespeare may or may not have been.

i used to be of the “if i could time travel i’d see the first-ever showing of hamlet” ilk and i still respect that crowd. but i must be honest with myself: i’m not standing upright in a crowd for four fucking hours. what i actually want is to go back in time and see the first-ever showing of shakespeare’s king lear so i can experience the exact moment when the crowd started to realize this play was not going to end the same way as any fairy-tales or myths of king leir had led them to believe. i can only imagine the energy in the globe at that moment but i think if i could capture and bottle it i could synthesize the first ever Crack That Makes You Kill Yourself

Begging y'all to go watch Shakespeare plays because what do you mean a play written 450 years ago is about the government cracking down on sexuality to the detriment of many innocent people meanwhile the leader of that government is hypocritically performing quid-pro-quo harassment and doesn't even follow the rules he is sentencing people to death for breaking