#queering shakespeare
the most insane double casting i’ve heard of is ophelia and horatio being played by the same actress. the implications of that drive me crazy
you guys are doing things in the tags of this post
#to this day my favorite performance of hamlet i’ve seen is one where there were two hamlets#one was the dutiful son and the other was his vengeful id#and they split all the lines in the play depending on which hamlet was speaking#all the soliloquies became arguments between the two and it was SO good#the second hamlet doesn’t appear until hamlet’s father appears and tells him Claudius is to blame for his death#he opens to curtains and his first line is ‘Murder?’#and the other characters can’t see that second hamlet at first - just the initial one#until slowly throughout the play the second hamlet is the one they look at and interact with#until finally the first hamlet - the dutiful prince - is the one who’s ignored#anyway it was metal as fuck holy shit#i wish i could watch it again but i have no idea if it was recorded (viarythyme)
yet Brutus says he was problematic, and Brutus is an honorable man…
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this problematic?
Yet Brutus says he was problematic;
And, sure, he is an honourable man
I come to cancel Caesar, not to stan him
He was my mutual, faithful and just to me
But Brutus says he was problematic;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many hot takes to my dash
Whose notifs did the general discourse fill:
Did this in Caesar seem problematic?
Friends, mutuals, countrymen, do not scroll past
Friends, mutuals, countrymen, do not scroll past;
I come to cancel Caesar, not to stan him.
The cringe posts that men make live after them;
The nuance oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was problematic:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to comment on Caesar’s call-out post.
He was my mutual, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was problematic;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many hot takes to my dash
Whose notifs did the general discourse fill:
Did this in Caesar seem problematic?
When that anons have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Toxicity should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was problematic;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Tumblr Blaze
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this problematic?
Yet Brutus says he was problematic;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to start discourse with Brutus,
But just to provide some context on his call-out post.
You all did stan him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to follow him?
I NEED MY GAY ROMCOM OUT OF THIS, STAT.