iago in act 5 scene ii of Othello moodboard

Hamlet review – Riz Ahmed’s tortured prince drives chilling modern take through London’s streets

i hate telling people I like Shakespeare plays I feel like such a pretentious loser

Oh this is going to be flipping brilliant.

First rehearsal done.

well, my favorite comedy is the comedy of errors!!! i played dromio of syracuse when i was in it and he’s just a goofy lil guy lmao. it was so me and i had a great time!

my favorite tragedy is king lear. the 2018 version with anthony hopkins and florence pugh is amazing

Imagine if Hamlet finds Yorick’s skull earlier in the play and then for the rest of the play he carries it around and throws it at whoever he doesn’t like (probably fails multiple times)

And then when he kills Claudius he doesn’t throw the skull at him, but instead hits him in the face with it and then stabs him.

And somehow he never loses the skull meaning when he’s sent for England he either keeps it with him the entire time, or Horatio keeps it for him.

Instead of just throwing it at people constantly he might sometimes nudge people with it to mock or humiliate them (specifically applying to Polonius I guess)

Adding to that, he’d move the skull’s jaw while saying offensive or humiliating things in a weird tone.

So that would apply to him saying “Words, words, words.” and “Polonius is at supper” etc.

Claudius would get pissed by the skull and try to convince Horatio to take it from him or make Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do it but none of them succeed

First rehearsal = done.

This is going to be a heck of a lot of fun

i found out my computer has been saving my screenshots against my will….and i have found so, so many things from throughout the years

we begin our journey with this screencap of me performing hamlet 2 years ago and going to add subtitles rather than what was autogenerated and the program thought i had said “i’m pregnant” instead of “i am pigeon-liver’d”

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Did you beware the Ides of March yesterday? Spoiler: looks like Caesar - or in this case, Caeshare - did not. 🗡️ Celebrate (?) the ides of March every year with this oddly specific Shakespeare in the Park-esque postcard print and sticker sheet set, and let him perish again and again…🌳🩸

iago and othello lowkey cracked. shakespeare agrees i asked him from beyond the aether

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown…..

Othello is the golden standard for rope bait stories. I didn’t think it was possible to love something this much when it makes me wanna eat 3 pounds of bitter almonds but here we are.

my dog is an intellectual. he, too, loves hamlet (he takes after me)

it’s possible we like it for different reasons

hello?

Brutus said Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man…

That line alone

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s work here reads like a distilled drama of human contradiction: love and violence, chance and design, speech that soars and action that wounds. This play—set in Verona—remains instructive not because it tells us something entirely new about passion, but because it shows, with rare intensity and compression, how quickly language can conjure a world and how quickly that world can…

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

i hate caesar as much as the next guy but he kinda ate when he said “i don’t trust skinny bitches”

A long-running theory proposes that William Shakespeare experimented with mind-altering substances. The speculation began in 1999 when South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray suggested that phrases in the sonnets, including Sonnet 76’s “invention in a noted weed”, might allude to cannabis-inspired creativity.

Thackeray turned from literary clues to physical evidence: two dozen clay pipe fragments excavated from the grounds of Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon homes, including New Place, where he lived until his death in 1616. Using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, researchers detected trace compounds associated with cannabis in eight pipes, alongside nicotine and other residues. Four cannabis-positive pipes were found in the garden of New Place.

The findings proved little about Shakespeare himself. The pipes date to the early 17th century, but they could have belonged to household occupants, visitors, or later patrons; part of the property became an inn by mid-century. Even Thackeray stressed there was no guarantee the playwright used them.

Still, the results offer a glimpse into early modern England. Hemp cultivation was widespread, cannabis had medicinal uses, and imported plants and tobacco were circulating through elite and maritime networks. If cannabis resin reached Stratford, Shakespeare likely knew of it, whether as remedy, curiosity, or rumor.

Scholars remain skeptical. Critics note that “weed” commonly referred to clothing, not drugs, and warn against projecting modern habits onto the past. The pipes may reveal a social history of smoking in Shakespeare’s milieu, but they stop short of proving the Bard ever packed a bowl.

The endurance of the theory says as much about contemporary fascination with intoxicated creativity as it does about the playwright. For now, the evidence lingers like smoke: suggestive, atmospheric, and ultimately inconclusive.

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“I knew a wrench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit, and so may you, sir.”

— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew