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 wow
I 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 😀
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”
“it’s happening make me a bear costume” lmao
Shakespeare even wrote Yo Mama jokes, like this delight from Titus Andronicus.
CHIRON: Thou has undone our mother. AARON: Villain, I have done thy mother.
At the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, if you run over your presentation time limit, a bear comes out and very politely ushers you off the stage. It’s pretty much the best thing ever. My new life goal is to go to the Blackfriars conference, deliver a talk that is exactly one minute over my time limit, and get a hug from the Blackfriars bear.
It’s the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt! Let’s celebrate with some Crispin’s Day videos!
So many of you awesome people submitted videos that I had to really hack and chop to get them all to fit together. In recompense, here are three more videos, with everyone’s lines restored to their full glory:
Thanks so much to everyone who participated! I had a great time putting everything together. If people like this, maybe we can do some more crowd-sourced Shakespeare videos in the future. 🙂
I was trying to make sense of the different ways men and women related to Ophelia. Women seemed to invoke her like a patron saint; men seemed mostly interested in fetishizing her flowery, waterlogged corpse. I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. It would be depressingly close to admitting that a male writer would have to be as gifted as Shakespeare in order to come to a conclusion like that.
CAESAR: The thought, dear Antony that our countrymen Hath misconstrued but three things through the year Is an assessment most untrue for that Cassius Georg, who hath a lean and hungry look about him, and who hath misconstrued everything, is immeasurably off from our fellow countrymen and that it was not meet that he be counted among them.
Kimchi and Justice 