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hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

Duncan is such a nothingburger of a man I'm sorry

Lady Macbeth trying to persuade her husband to commit regicide

another thing about setting hamlet at christmas is that it reflects the beautiful human experience of having a long holiday stay at your parents’ house that makes you feel like you are going insane

beatrice from much ado would make such a good medieval damsel one meets on a quest. beautiful and lovely. quite witty. the only thing she asks of you is you immediately commit for her an act of extreme violence

Ah, the simple joys of maidenhood!

twelfth night is an insane play like oh I fell in love with this girl because I thought she was a guy and obviously I can't marry her so I'll marry her practically identical twin brother I've only just met instead. because I'm straight. I'm straight. It's because I'm straight

i think i identify so much with hamlet that i kind of forget what a horror show it is from laertes’ perspective. but like you’re this ambitious young man whose dad is kind of a bumbling idiot that everyone laughs at but at least people trust him in the court. or they did under the last king. you don’t know exactly what’s going on and who’s safe and who isn’t. you’re just trying to find your footing and now everyone is talking about a ghost wandering the grounds and it’s like. ok time to skip town for a bit and go to france!! obviously you feel a little bad about leaving your little sister behind and also you’re begging her please please please don’t do anything dumb. i love you i know i’m overbearing i know dad is overbearing too but please just don’t be stupid. ok? i know you have your stupid boyfriend but sometimes guys are mean so just don’t do anything dumb. ok? ok? it’s your little sister. you have to say that. and you leave and go to france and the next thing you hear is that your dad is dead. you go back and you’re so mad that you’re ready to kill the king, you don’t care what happens to you, you break in and threaten to kill him. but it’s not his fault and it’s his asshole nephew who had some kind of thing with your sister and you literally warned her about this and you told her not to be stupid and she PROMISED she would be careful and now she’s sobbing and crying and not making any sense and everyone’s saying she’s crazy. she went to dad’s funeral without you. he was buried without you. you didn’t come. then your sister’s dead too. and no one wants to say suicide but what else would it have been and you were supposed to protect her and you went to stupid france even though you KNEW something was going to happen which was why you were so annoying about it. but maybe that made everything worse. you’re at her funeral and her ex boyfriend shows up and starts fighting you IN HER GRAVE and you decide you’re going to kill him. really. really. what else could you even think to do. your family is dead and it’s all his fault. and maybe if you stayed you could have saved them. and you have to kill him. you have to. because if you can pretend it’s all his fault maybe you can forget that you think it’s yours