a month ago i picked up a book on stage directing in my school’s black box and opened to a random page and it was something about making shakespearean actors rehearse by adding the word fuck to their lines to turn the archaic language into something familiar for the emotional resonance (of course taking it out as rehearsals move along to fix rhythm/etc but just to start off) and the example it gave was the solid flesh speech. like. iirc it was specifically “but two fucking months dead”

Ok ok but when should Ophelia say fuck. "I pray you, fucking mark"? "Yes, my lord, you fucking made me believe so"? The possibilities are endless

thinking of ophelia saying 'i think fuckall, my lord'

i’ve already made this joke but i still stand by “doubt thou the stars are fire / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth to be a liar / but never doubt i fuck” because i peaked back then. it would be funny if polonius shouts fuck and just falls over when hamlet stabs him tho

for midsummer night's dream, all lines where a word is rhymed with "puck" are changed to the word fuck. no questions asked.

Personally I feel Emilia is most entitled to the token fuck in Othello and I'm proposing "Look you, Cassio! ...And my fucking husband."

i raise you: "if i were a man, i would eat his fucking heart in the marketplace"