https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/04/03/how-to-watch-our-free-globe-player-films/
Hamlet first!
I nearly peed watching this
I just took this quiz to find out what Shakespeare archetype i am
I got “The girl who’s always disguising herself as a boy for some reason” and im LAUGHING so hard it’s so real
Tag your results and your MBTI type because they are totally scientifically related to each other.
the bastard prince
I’m the bastard prince
I got “The heroine who’s too clever by half.” Apt, considering that just yesterday my mother told me I was too smart for my own good…
- Lady Macbeth: is that a dagger in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- Macbeth: i'm just happy to see you ;)
- Lady Macbeth: pathetic
Based on genital structure men should really be the ones wearing skirts and women should be wearing pants.
The Scots were right all along
The Scots did it to hide more knives on their bodies.
the Scots were right all along
All hail Macbeth and Banquo
okay but if you’re ever in london and you have the chance to see a shakespeare play performed at the globe theatre itself DO IT even if you don’t think you’d dig shakespeare
if you need convincing here are a few highlights from when my family and i went to see the official globe theatre production of a midsummer night’s dream:
- they cast helena as a guy (helenus), first of all. they took a straight love square between two girls and two guys and made it a love square between a girl and three guys, only one of which was white. both sets of couples get happy endings and it’s fuckin adorable
- it was reimagined with an indian setting
- puck had a water pistol and kept shooting at the audience
- historical accuracy?? who cares everyone’s gonna dress like a modern hipster teenager
- bottom and his acting troupe sung bon jovi
- oh yeah also the acting troupe were reimagined as globe theatre employees with delusions of acting skills
- hermia and helenus sung single ladies by beyonce
- innuendos. innuendoes everywhere
- oberon walked onstage for the fight between oberon and titania drunk with a half-empty bottle of schweppes
- lysander spent a significant length of time in the play wandering around in just boxers and a leather jacket
- oberon made out with puck
- demetrius dabbed
at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
whAT THE FUCK
I’m too tired for this
Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.
T’ be or not t’be, y’all.
Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.
Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.
I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.
The early colonists would probably have sounded a lot like Shakespearian Original Pronunciation. Watch this… (and listen).
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