Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
i do bite my thumb, sir
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
is the law on our side if i say ay?
No
no, sir, i do not bite my thumb at you sir; but I bite my thumb, sir
Do you quarrel, sir?
quarrel, sir? no sir
if you do, sir, i am for you: i serve as good a man as you
No better
well, sir
DOST THOU WANT TO FUCKING GO, SIR?
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“you make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.”
no you don’t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart
- that’s why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings
- that’s why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character’s emotional state - any irregularities in the scansion are like the character’s heart stuttering or jumping or skipping a beat
- that’s why when characters share the rhythm - switching off in the middle of a foot - those characters inevitably have an extraordinarily intimate connection
shakespeare fucking writes viscerally, he is literally in your body, and that, my friend, that is why the best shakespearean actors don’t posture and emote
you have to be fucking alive and passionate and electric - it can’t be intellectual, in the end, it has to be about connection and the sweating, cheering, jeering, bleeding masses you’re performing to, because make no mistake, shakespeare may go to lofty heights, but he only works if you’re just as grounded in the earth. he has to be in your body. he has to be in your body.
holy motherfucking shit i love shakespeare so much, get him in your bones, breathe him in, stomp and rage and pine, dadum dadum dadum dadum dadum, it is literally to the beat of your heart
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*whispers* if Shakespeare could pass the bechdel test despite writing in an inherently patriarchal and routinely misogynistic society then you, modern day writers, have literally no excuse
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Are you fucking kidding me? Like, no, Shakespeare wouldn’t tweet a sonnet cause 140 characters is a bit short for that. Wrong medium. But you know what he would have? A very active twitter FULL OF DICK PUNS AND YOUR MOM JOKES okay. (And probably also a blog for the sonnets and longer works, that cross-posts links to twitter anyway.)
Get out of here with that pretentious anti-technology bullshit.
He’d rock the fuck out of memes. Don’t deny it.
Exit, pursued by a doge.
much run wowI don’t understand people who try to make Shakespeare into a pretentious thing cause he was basically an uneducated dick-joke making dude for the common masses. His historical plays are straight up fanfiction. There’s a scene in Macbeth where two guards are having a conversation as a dude pees on a wall. Get out of here with your Shakespeare snobbery.
ALL OF THIS
Also, the comment ‘Exit, pursued by a doge’ alone makes this worth reblogging :D
Heck, the line that’s based on, “Exit, pursued by bear”, only exists because Shakespeare couldn’t think of any other way to get rid of the character, so opted to have him attacked by a bear, which did not exist in the play before that moment.
He literally made a bear appear out of thin air, just to kill off a character, purely due to writer’s block.
“And then the bear gets him”
“…
…
The
The bear?”
"Yes the bear”
“Will
Will there isn’t a bear in this play
Where did the bear come from”
"A PLACE
And he exits the play pursued by it
It’s happening make me a bear costume”
Reblogging for Exit, pursued by a doge much run wow
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The best part about shipping Shakespeare characters is that, somewhere out there, there is a published scholar who agrees with you.
What about across plays
Can I ship Oberon with Hamlet
Shylock with Othello
Titania with Violet
Rosalind with Benedick
Romeo and Hamlet ft. Juliet and Ophelia facepalming in the distance
I just realized that Romeo/Hamlet’s ship name is Homeo and I’m behind that 100%
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Anonymous asked: Someone needs to remind that Hilton twatface that some of Shakespeare's plays were basically greek myth fanfiction and would probably have an ao3 account if his crusty ass wasn't in the ground
oh my god
Praise
Whoever this nonny is, I love you, I love you, I love you, from the bottom of my Shakespeare-worshiping heart.
If Popular Songs Were Shakespearean Sonnets
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