#shakespeare fandom

“Let’s be weirdos together” is true couple goals and the objective fact is that Romeo and Juliet are the ones who invented it, like in modern times we hear “it wasn’t a love story” this, “they would never have actually lasted” that, “it was just lust” here, “they only loved an idea” there, BUT if you actually read the text, Romeo starts spewing nonsense about pilgrims and saints at the moment they first meet (rather than, you know, introducing himself) and Juliet not only takes his little speech and immediately runs with it, buying into it and continuing it with total ease, but also completes it to form a perfect sonnet, and if that isn’t soulmates who match each other’s freak stuff, idk what is.

outsourcing to shakespeare tumblr i know ur out there.... does anyone know of any adaptations (film, stage, novel, anything; of ANY play) that are set in/around the 1960s? i'm talking adaptations made recently (like, 1990-now) that are SET in the 60s, not adaptations made in the 60s.

I love how the idea of Mercutio being gay is practically almost fanon in the Shakespeare fandom by now