Running a Shakespeare workshop today:
Me: so who knows the story of Julius Caesar?
Student: he got.. a bit stabbed?
Me: he got, like, super stabbed, by a lot of people at once. It was a democratic stabbing.
The Woman's Part
Sooo hey. I finally did something with my Shakespeare MA...
The Woman's Part is a collection of original prose and erasure poetry inspired by Shakespeare's women — their unlived lives, unspoken desires, and unwritten stories — using speeches and characters from thirteen plays.
It's been described as:
"A small piece of genius [showing] not only a profound understanding of Shakespeare, but of humankind in general." — Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You
and
"[The Woman's Part] has reimagined Ophelia and Juliet and more into striking freedom through speaking up, sailing away, and eating hearts." — Gwen Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw
and
"To read it is to join the rebellion. An affecting and finely-crafted masterpiece which invites us to unlearn our deepest Bard-based archetypes. Stunning, incisive and fearless writing from one of the most exciting new voices on the literary scene." — Dr Chris Laoutaris, The Shakespeare Institute
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I put my heart, my rage, and all my obsession with Shakespeare into this, and I would love for you to read it.
Available from most places you get books — a list of easy links at Stanchion Books
#shakespeare#Portia#The Merchant of Venice#Ophelia#Hamlet#Juliet#Romeo & Juliet#Lady Macbeth#Macbeth#Emilia#Othello#Beatrice#Much Ado About Nothing#Hermione#The Winter's Tale#Lavinia#Titus Andronicus#Volumnia#Coriolanus#Cordelia#King Lear#Isabella#Measure for Measure#Cleopatra#Antony & Cleopatra#Imogen#Cymbeline#feminism#feminist literature#feminist poetry
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“I never let him forget the time we were in a very intimate, in-the-round production of Macbeth. I was kneeling at his feet and he said: “Light thickens and the crow makes wing to the wooky-nook.” Wooky-nook instead of wood, said purely by accident. I thought: “Well, I suppose it’d be all right if Lady Macbeth had hysterics at this point because she’s rather tense.” I’ve said that line to him, in so many ways, throughout our careers.”
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TIL that my 7-year-old got in trouble for writing a simile in which he compared a tiger lounging majestically on a log with Cleopatra dying on her throne, declaring “Oh! Oh! Oh! My bloody one!” (a direct quote from his writing y’all) and I have never been more proud to be THAT fucking parent.
Not only was it a brilliant bit of imagery, it also means he remembers me speed reading the entire play to him and his brother while they were in the bath and I was frantically revising for an exam SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
Yes, baby Shakespeare nerd, you go and be needlessly morbid in your English class!
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Shakespeare plays as screencaps from The Good Place
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Winter’s Tale
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when i was a senior in college I took an early modern English class and our final project was to write a Shakespearean sonnet about one of the characters in Hamlet. I named mine “Polonius, Thou Art Full of Bolonius” and the fact that I got away with it remains one of my proudest accomplishments
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*Something bad happens*
Priest from a Shakespeare Play: Have you considered faking your death as a way to solve this?