Y’all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other
The ale-pushing hand of Kit Marlowe’s ghost; metaqueen Elizabeth the zeroth; Prospero, of whom Shakespeare is the lightly fictionalised equivalent; a passing bear; they are a group effort and ongoing in-joke of the time travelling community; they are the work of trees trying to decipher human behaviour, each peer-reviewed by more than a dozen larches; Bacon (two slices of); Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas More than that; Sir Thomas Most; Stonehenge but with fingers; Don Quixote; you (having the advantage that you may have read them first); the dark lady; a vague but pen-having sense of patriotism; in a stunning twist, it was the anthropomorphic personification of the authorship question itself; Shakespeare.
I personally like the time-travel community theory the best because it means every once in a while they can go back and add more, and we all just think “Holy shit, it’s impressive one man with a quill and parchment wrote 232931333745 52 plays of such quality! “ because it keeps happening before any of us have been born.
Like “Yeah Much Ado About Nothing is a classic of course but I personally think his version of Medusa is a more feminist play.” “Oh, like how I appreciate Midsummer Night’s Dream but The Comedie Of Many Friends is just plain funnier.”
(The Comedie Of Many Friends is really just four episodes of Friends rewritten to contain more dick jokes and is 100% not as funny as Midsummer but there’s no accounting for some peoples’ tastes.)
The ale-pushing hand of Kit Marlowe’s ghost; metaqueen Elizabeth the zeroth; Prospero, of whom Shakespeare is the lightly fictionalised equivalent; a passing bear; they are a group effort and ongoing in-joke of the time travelling community; they are the work of trees trying to decipher human behaviour, each peer-reviewed by more than a dozen larches; Bacon (two slices of); Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas More than that; Sir Thomas Most; Stonehenge but with fingers; Don Quixote; you (having the advantage that you may have read them first); the dark lady; a vague but pen-having sense of patriotism; in a stunning twist, it was the anthropomorphic personification of the authorship question itself; Shakespeare.
I personally like the time-travel community theory the best because it means every once in a while they can go back and add more, and we all just think “Holy shit, it’s impressive one man with a quill and parchment wrote 232931333745 52 plays of such quality! “ because it keeps happening before any of us have been born.
Like “Yeah Much Ado About Nothing is a classic of course but I personally think his version of Medusa is a more feminist play.” “Oh, like how I appreciate Midsummer Night’s Dream but The Comedie Of Many Friends is just plain funnier.”
(The Comedie Of Many Friends is really just four episodes of Friends rewritten to contain more dick jokes and is 100% not as funny as Midsummer but there’s no accounting for some peoples’ tastes.)
deaf actor nadia nadarajah as celia and guildenstern in the globe’s current productions of as you like it and hamlet
There are frequent discussions about the shape of both plays, with two British Sign Language interpreters enabling deaf actor Nadia Nadarajah to be fully involved in the room and, later, on the stage. “For my characters, Celia and Guildenstern, we had to work out what kind of language those characters would use,” Nadarajah says. “In As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia have grown up together. They would have a specific way of communicating with each other, a style that would only be recognisable to those two.”
Over time, the rapport among the ensemble has meant “the interpreters have become, in a way, brilliantly obsolete because I’m able to get by without them,” Nadarajah adds. She says the ensemble has been working with three languages – Shakespeare’s English, modern English and BSL, which the hearing actors integrate into their performances.
some highlights from my students’ romeo and juliet modern interpretation projects:
– someone made a username for friar laurence with 420 at the end – the same kid who put 69 in romeo’s username like i wouldn’t know what either of those things mean – the girl who added ‘clean’ at the end of all the songs on her juliet playlist like lmao girl i know spotify doesn’t have the clean version – the kid who said romeo and juliet killed each other – the weird dichotomy of kids who put love story on their playlist vs the kids who choose bad blood – the kid who wrote ‘get a room’ as tybalt’s comment on romeo’s couple pic – the kid who said ‘romeo is probably one of those douches who follows a ton of people so they follow him back and then he unfollows all of them’ – the one who legitimately used the word ‘alrighty’ do kids say this in their text messages???? i thought i was the one talking like an elderly person but okay – the one who made romeo’s username ‘montagoose’ – the only kid who acknowledged that posting about your secret relationship on instagram was a bad idea – the girl who wrote that romeo would unironically say ‘#blessed’. she’s right. – the one single solitary girl who wrote mercutio as gay as shakespeare did (she’s also the only one who used mercutio at all which is a tragedy but whatever) – the one who wrote romeo’s insta bio as ‘thus with a kiss i die… LOL RIP ME 😂💀’ – the one who made benvolio’s username benvoliYO
Play idea: perform MacBeth, but when the witches are doing their prophecy thing, they segue into telling the story of Hamlet. Hamlet is chatting with the ghost when it starts telling a Midsummer Night’s Dream. The audience becomes slowly aware that the programs and advertisements did not publish a runtime for the performance. Ushers start handing out new programs, with new actors’ names on them in previously unmentioned roles. Every single known Shakespeare play is nested inside the performance. The theatre doors are locked.
At intermission they play one (1) It’s Not Unusual
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