you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?
— Benedick at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick in Act 4 of Much Ado About Nothing: You want Hero to pretend to be dead? The thing that killed Romeo and Juliet?
The Friar: *nods enthusiastically*
Suzie as Lady Macbeth: Tragic, conflicted, doomed by their obsession
Esther as Juliet: Innocent, brave, kind, tragic death
Toshiko as Rosalind (As You Like It): Intelligent, escapes persecution, loving and devoted
Gwen Cooper as Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing): Loyal, protective, witty, fierce
The thing I love about Shakespeare is that (most of the time) he actually seems to like women.
And not in a “women are divine beings who belong on a pedestal” way, but as human beings. He writes women as friends, as schemers, as tricksters, as heroes, as martyrs, as villains, as fools, as lovers and family. He recognises their full humanity, and his heroic women are heroic in diverse ways. They can be heroic by being clever, by being bold, by being gentle, by being sharp, by being loving, by being vengeful.
And the women get stuff done. They make plans and follow them through, for better or worse.
Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed
Be Not Inhospitable To Stranger Lest They Be Angles In Disguise
Shakespeare & Company Paris
Photo: Dieter Krehbiel
Would that be an obtuse or an acute
nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au
give a historical figure a modern object
Vivaldi - electric guitar
Benjamin Franklin - neon light
Nikola Tesla - Tesla car
Jesus - King James Bible
Alexander Graham Bell - iPhone 17ProMax
Shakespeare - Scrivener
Marie Antoinette - Amazon Prime membership
Jane Austen - viewing of Legally Blonde
Alexander the Great - Twitter account
Guglielimo Marconi (inventor of radio) - true crime podcasts
Ancient Mayan gamblers - a D&D session
Nanni - Yelp reviews
See ResultsHéra being so aroace coded made my heart unbelievably happy, especially as a female character
Her being unflinching in her position that she's happy without a love interest in her life and the plot letting her stay that way without making her "change her mind" for her "true love" by the end is unbelievably refreshing
Lee Yeon Hee as the Fool and Cordelia. Photo Credit: Yang Hae-sung.
South Korean actor Lee Soon-jae has appeared on the small and big screen for over 60 years. In Fall 2021, Lee accepted the role of King Lear in a new production directed by Lee Hyon-u, English professor at Soon Chun Hyang University, vice president of the Shakespeare Association of Korea, and a longtime collaborator of the MIT Global Shakespeare Project. The script which was translated by Professor Lee remains faithful to William Shakespeare’s original play. However, actress Lee Yeon Hee played both Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter, and the Fool. In this play, Cordelia disguises herself as the Fool, traveling with Lear until she is able to bring the French army to her father’s aid.
“I know it'll never happen because it's a romance show, but AroAce Eloise would've been so cool. Imagine a season of a romance show where the female lead, stuck between suitors as per usual, goes "fuck this, actually, there's more to life than marriage and I don't feel anything for either of you". It would be absolutely groundbreaking.
Ah well, a girl can dream…”
—Anonymous
weirdloverwilde
it sure it… a choice.. to have eloise and philip (a ship that have never spoken to each other and so never expressed any romantic intentions to each other) and also have john and francesca instead of francesca and michaela!
like you cant argue its endgame couples because then frannyjohn shouldnt be there and you cant argue its all the current coupls because then “philoise” shouldnt be there
