so our class is reading romeo and juliet
and i stumble across this gem
did shakespeare really just make a dick joke
Um, I hate to break it to you, sweetheart, but all Shakespeare does is make dick jokes.
Shakespeare is pretty much all dick jokes, all the time.
The other day I had a really good idea for a story:
A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. One group thinks it’s a cautionary tale about the stupidity of youth and shallow lust; the other group think it’s a beautiful tragedy about poisonous hatred conquered by love. Reconciliation seems impossible-
–then a person from one group falls in love with a person from the other
Anyone who thinks Shakespeare is boring apparently missed the greatest stage direction ever written:
I want that to be the final line of my biography.
let’s not forget about this gem from macbeth
and, of course, from henry v
ah, the leeks.
Guys are we forgetting Titus Andronicus or
I’m writing a modern version of Romeo and Juliet for english class and I’m making them dumb teenagers like they should be and I thought tumblr might appreciate some excerpts from my planning document
Oh yeah and romeo’s going to be sulking about rosaline friendzoning him at the start
I’m really trying to emphasise the ‘stupid kids’ thing here
Six people are dead
Shakespearean Analysis by @Horse_ebooks: Tragedies
William Shakespeare wrote a great deal of
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Most of us have seen or read at least one Shakespearean tragedy, because
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Sometimes in Shakespearean tragedy,
and
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Deception abounds and
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In the end, the protagonists are often felled by a combination of deception
and their own tragic flaws.
Tune in next time, when @Horse_ebooks examines Shakespeare in its stage context:
