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 

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
  

the DELIVERY

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