The Escapist

tangentqueenofdragons:

hollywoodcassiecage:

tangentqueenofdragons:

tangentqueenofdragons:

Ya know one day I should write a modern Macbeth where Macduff is a bamf lady born of her trans father and then she kills Macbeth and marries Lady Macbeth

Macdick: no man born of woman can harm Macbeth!

Macduff: uh well I’m not a man, and I was born of my trans father so. Eat your devastated argument on a bed of crispy lettuce. Wham

And then she stabs him

Fuck it, a whole book of queer feminist rewritings of Shakespeare

Modern Much Ado about Nothing where Hero tells Claudio to get fucked and dates Margaret instead

Modern The Tempest where Miranda refuses to be a pawn for all these trash men in her life and takes charge and gets her own ass off the damn island and becomes a badass lady pirate

Modern Merchant of Venice that isn’t horrifically antisemitic

Modern Twelfth Night where when Viola’s identity is revealed Olivia still loves her and they get married

👌👌👌

gentleherald:

smallsaddad:

if anyone is curious how I’m utilizing my English degree in the office

@leeks-is-good

foxhounders:

ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!

people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs

londoncallingsigh:

Hamlet sketch at Shakespeare Live! From the RSC on BBC Two

benedict-the-cumbercookie:

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

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motherfuckingshakespeare:

aleatoryw:

warriorprincebellamy:

shakespeare’s character descriptions/stage directions/contexts are so vague it makes me so happy. wanna make Laertes hamlet’s ex boyfriend? doesn’t say HE’S NOT. wanna make juliet a trans girl? WHERE IN THE SCIRPT DOES IT SAY SHE ISN’T??? fucking put King Lear in SPACE set that shit on the enterprise THERE ARE NO RULES IN SHAKESPEARE 

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but since Shakespeare’s work is hella old, it’s out of copyright. Meaning all the stories are now public domain. Meaning there are literally NO RULES. If you want to cross over two or more of his works and set them in a small college town but also include a character who’s an alien? Totally legal- to publish, even.

Originally posted by yell0w-diam0nd

larygo:

I’ve been thinking about doing Hamlet manip for months…

kriskenshin:

sherlock is not impressed, the case is not even a one. stabbed in front of all those witnesses…

I opted to go with 23 instead of Shakespearian 33 times ((its a lot of effort to draw 23 knives))

owlturdcomix:

Sup.

hiddlesy:

Would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.

(Coriolanus, Act 3, Scene 2)