It would be marvellous of you to drop something in the submit box.
Regards,
The Management
p.s. I fixed the link. It’ll actually go to the submit box now.
p.p.s. I am clearly the best at life.
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A fan video of the Macbeth episode of Great Performances, featuring Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth. The video is set to Mulan’s I’ll Make a Man Out of You and focuses on Lady Macbeth encouraging Macbeth to carry out their plots. It was submitted by quantumspork, who says,
Not explicitly “queer,” but a silly riff on the themes of masculinity in Macbeth. Besides, I’ll Make a Man Out of You videos are always necessary.
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![[Two male actors, one in Elizabethan-era men’s costume, the other in a corseted blue dress, from a production of The Tempest. They both have short hair, and neither is wearing make-up. The man playing the male character is standing and the man playing the female character is sitting, on the other side of a painted column. They are gazing lovingly at each other.]
The theatre company is The Lord Chamberlain’s Men—an English, all-male touring group named after the playing company for which Shakespeare worked for most of his career. Their productions of cross-dressing plays are made infinitely queerer by having male actors playing female characters who pretend to be men—a dramatic conceit that the plays were written for in the first place.
(Submitted by epicenenineteen.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx4ik1DyNA1qgb8u8o1_400.jpg "[Two male actors, one in Elizabethan-era men’s costume, the other in a corseted blue dress, from a production of The Tempest. They both have short hair, and neither is wearing make-up. The man playing the male character is standing and the man playing the female character is sitting, on the other side of a painted column. They are gazing lovingly at each other.]
The theatre company is The Lord Chamberlain’s Men—an English, all-male touring group named after the playing company for which Shakespeare worked for most of his career. Their productions of cross-dressing plays are made infinitely queerer by having male actors playing female characters who pretend to be men—a dramatic conceit that the plays were written for in the first place.
(Submitted by epicenenineteen.)")
[Two male actors, one in Elizabethan-era men’s costume, the other in a corseted blue dress, from a production of The Tempest. They both have short hair, and neither is wearing make-up. The man playing the male character is standing and the man playing the female character is sitting, on the other side of a painted column. They are gazing lovingly at each other.]
The theatre company is The Lord Chamberlain’s Men—an English, all-male touring group named after the playing company for which Shakespeare worked for most of his career. Their productions of cross-dressing plays are made infinitely queerer by having male actors playing female characters who pretend to be men—a dramatic conceit that the plays were written for in the first place.
(Submitted by epicenenineteen.)
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» Queering Shakespeare at the RSC
So what was Bartlett doing and why did he do it? In two words, he was queering Shakespeare. Queer theory began as a challenge to a cultural hegemony which validates a heterosexual norm and marginalises other sexual identities. From there it widened to challenge the concept of divisive social norms altogether, as Michael Warner said in the introduction to his book, Fear of a Queer Planet, ‘Queer gets a critical edge by defining itself against the normal rather than the heterosexual… We might even say that queer politics opposes society itself.’
Submitted by Andrew Cowie.
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[Middle Top: title in red reads “Ramona and Juliet.” Middle: paragraph on project. Top Left: girl in blue victorian dress and pulled back hair labelled “day,” the same woman with a long braid and red ball gown labelled “night.” The name “Ramona” is below. Top Right: girl in light pink dress with blue trimming labelled “day,” the same girl in a brighter pink gown labelled “night.” Below is the name “Juliet.” Bottom Left: two pictures of the same man in suits. The name below says “Mercutio.” Bottom Right: man in a top hat and foppish attire with a cane labelled “day,” the same man in a ruffled suit labelled “night.” Below the name reads “Nurse.”]
My drama class did a project on Romeo and Juliet where we had to design costumes for a specific era and we could “add our own elements”. We chose to do a Victorian time period… with lesbians and a male nurse because we wished Romeo and Juliet contained a foppish male nurse. There was dissent among our group over the name, though. A member of our group wanted to do “Julia and Juliet”. I’m glad I fought for “Ramona and Juliet”, though.
(Submitted by wutevrrr)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmkb7n34Je1qak0qdo1_500.jpg "lgbtlaughs:
[Middle Top: title in red reads “Ramona and Juliet.” Middle: paragraph on project. Top Left: girl in blue victorian dress and pulled back hair labelled “day,” the same woman with a long braid and red ball gown labelled “night.” The name “Ramona” is below. Top Right: girl in light pink dress with blue trimming labelled “day,” the same girl in a brighter pink gown labelled “night.” Below is the name “Juliet.” Bottom Left: two pictures of the same man in suits. The name below says “Mercutio.” Bottom Right: man in a top hat and foppish attire with a cane labelled “day,” the same man in a ruffled suit labelled “night.” Below the name reads “Nurse.”]
My drama class did a project on Romeo and Juliet where we had to design costumes for a specific era and we could “add our own elements”. We chose to do a Victorian time period… with lesbians and a male nurse because we wished Romeo and Juliet contained a foppish male nurse. There was dissent among our group over the name, though. A member of our group wanted to do “Julia and Juliet”. I’m glad I fought for “Ramona and Juliet”, though.
(Submitted by wutevrrr)")
[Middle Top: title in red reads “Ramona and Juliet.” Middle: paragraph on project. Top Left: girl in blue victorian dress and pulled back hair labelled “day,” the same woman with a long braid and red ball gown labelled “night.” The name “Ramona” is below. Top Right: girl in light pink dress with blue trimming labelled “day,” the same girl in a brighter pink gown labelled “night.” Below is the name “Juliet.” Bottom Left: two pictures of the same man in suits. The name below says “Mercutio.” Bottom Right: man in a top hat and foppish attire with a cane labelled “day,” the same man in a ruffled suit labelled “night.” Below the name reads “Nurse.”]
My drama class did a project on Romeo and Juliet where we had to design costumes for a specific era and we could “add our own elements”. We chose to do a Victorian time period… with lesbians and a male nurse because we wished Romeo and Juliet contained a foppish male nurse. There was dissent among our group over the name, though. A member of our group wanted to do “Julia and Juliet”. I’m glad I fought for “Ramona and Juliet”, though.
(Submitted by wutevrrr)
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A Review Of Tony Howard’s “Women As Hamlet”
Submitted by singfurimmer.
I found Susan Bennett’s review of Tony Howard’s book Women As Hamlet: Performance And Interpretation In Theatre, Film, And Fiction. I’m curious about this book myself, and this review was very helpful. I would link to it, but it’s a PDF. So here is the whole text:
“Tony Howard’s lively and informative study draws our attention to the fact that the extensive history of Shakespeare’s most famous character includes an extraordinary and rather unexpected presence of women including, remarkably, the first Hamlet on film and, in all likelihood, the first Hamlet on the radio (1). Howard tells us that since the mid-nineteenth century more than two hundred professional actresses across the globe have played the role of the procrastinating protagonist and his Women as Hamlet impressively examines a wide selection of those performances in the theatre and on film as well as looking to representations in other media including the visual arts and fiction.
The project starts by situating some of the most famous female Hamlets among the number of travesti roles on the professional stage. This includes, of course, Sarah Siddons in the eighteenth century along with Charlotte Cushman and Sarah Bernhardt in the nineteenth. Detailed and carefully nuanced accounts of their performances—for example, Howard creates a vivid picture of Cushman’s Hamlet, drawn from the actress’s own prompt book—provide a fine sense of how their presentations were realized and received. Howard also looks specifically at this historical trajectory in the context of emerging discourse and activism around women’s rights: for example, he notes of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s popular “sensation” novel, Eleanor’s Victory, that it was a rewriting of Hamlet “as a feminist social critique” (73).
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Good Night, Sweet Prince (A Hamlet/Horatio Fic)
By Meltha.
Hamlet’s eyes had been startlingly blue, as blue as fresh spring violets. As they stared up at him, sightless, from the face of the dead prince lying on the floor of Elsinore’s main hall, Horatio wished he could tear his sight away from those perfect eyes that had, moments before, urged him to live and tell the tale of what had transpired to bring Denmark under the heel of young Fortinbras, the almost unbelievable twists and turns of brother against brother, ghosts appearing with commands of vengeance, madness and self-slaughter and poisoned foils, the ending of a dynasty and the death of so many that the dead outnumbered the living.
That was the tale Hamlet wished him to tell, and he would, as far and as wide as it might be told. If it took him all his life and that life was as long as Methuselah’s, he would tell and retell the story until the whole of Denmark, of Europe, of the world knew of the tragedy that had befallen the royal house. But it was not the tale that Horatio remembered with greatest clarity. That tale was one that would live quietly within his memory, always closest to the foreground of his mind, yet it would never pass the portals of speech, save perhaps in the murmurings of sleep. It was Hamlet who had told him he sometimes spoke as he slumbered, after all.
Horatio remembered a day in Copenhagen under a brilliantly blue sky in the pleasant warmth of June. There had been a festival, one that had involved dancing with charmingly pretty country girls to riotous music and the drinking of a good deal of ale. The day had worn on in a dreamy, perfect light that is possible only when one is eighteen and full of assurance that life will become better and better with each passing year, utterly forgetting any troubles or misgivings. When night had fallen at last, the two friends had found themselves in a drinking house of moderate repute, savoring something that was at least pretending to be ale but seemed to be less strong than the rather questionable-looking pitcher of water on the table.
“I tell you, Horatio,” Hamlet had said, leaning so far back in his chair he was in danger of toppling to the floor, “tis a lovely thing to be the likes of us, is’t not?”
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![[A digital drawing of two light-skinned women with brown hair, both in elaborate gowns with veils pinned to their hair. One wears a red gown with long sleeves; the other is in a short-sleeved blue gown with long gloves. They are standing together, looking into each other’s eyes and smiling; the lady in red has her hand over the hand of the lady in blue.]
mintfrosting:
so I drew this
Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhj3vsjM7q1qduvu8o1_500.png "[A digital drawing of two light-skinned women with brown hair, both in elaborate gowns with veils pinned to their hair. One wears a red gown with long sleeves; the other is in a short-sleeved blue gown with long gloves. They are standing together, looking into each other’s eyes and smiling; the lady in red has her hand over the hand of the lady in blue.]
mintfrosting:
so I drew this
Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.")
[A digital drawing of two light-skinned women with brown hair, both in elaborate gowns with veils pinned to their hair. One wears a red gown with long sleeves; the other is in a short-sleeved blue gown with long gloves. They are standing together, looking into each other’s eyes and smiling; the lady in red has her hand over the hand of the lady in blue.]
so I drew this
Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.
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![[A line drawing of two men, both in courtly attire. The younger-looking man is mostly in black, with a feathered cap, dark hair, and a book; the other, who looks a bit older and has a five o’clock shadow, is in light colours, with light hair and a short cape on his shoulders. The darkly dressed one is sitting facing forwards, with his eyes closed; his companion is turned towards him, leaning in, with his hand on the younger man’s leg.]
ohhhvienna:
by ~CupSmou on DeviantArt.
Whenever I see these two together on screen I just want to smoosh them together.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llvxy0BRLk1qbcwdpo1_500.png "[A line drawing of two men, both in courtly attire. The younger-looking man is mostly in black, with a feathered cap, dark hair, and a book; the other, who looks a bit older and has a five o’clock shadow, is in light colours, with light hair and a short cape on his shoulders. The darkly dressed one is sitting facing forwards, with his eyes closed; his companion is turned towards him, leaning in, with his hand on the younger man’s leg.]
ohhhvienna:
by ~CupSmou on DeviantArt.
Whenever I see these two together on screen I just want to smoosh them together.")
[A line drawing of two men, both in courtly attire. The younger-looking man is mostly in black, with a feathered cap, dark hair, and a book; the other, who looks a bit older and has a five o’clock shadow, is in light colours, with light hair and a short cape on his shoulders. The darkly dressed one is sitting facing forwards, with his eyes closed; his companion is turned towards him, leaning in, with his hand on the younger man’s leg.]
by ~CupSmou on DeviantArt.
Whenever I see these two together on screen I just want to smoosh them together.
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![[A digital drawing of a light-skinned, busty woman in glam-rock style. Her red hair is hairsprayed and backcombed; she is wearing a glittery blue top, blue pants with patterned sections down the sides, and a purple jacket with metal studs. She has a few ear piercings and some silver jewellery. She carries two roses—one red, one white.]
mintfrosting:
apparently… a womanly Mercutio. the result of my wanting to draw two different concepts at the same time.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfb8o14RtY1qduvu8o1_r2_500.png "[A digital drawing of a light-skinned, busty woman in glam-rock style. Her red hair is hairsprayed and backcombed; she is wearing a glittery blue top, blue pants with patterned sections down the sides, and a purple jacket with metal studs. She has a few ear piercings and some silver jewellery. She carries two roses—one red, one white.]
mintfrosting:
apparently… a womanly Mercutio. the result of my wanting to draw two different concepts at the same time.")
[A digital drawing of a light-skinned, busty woman in glam-rock style. Her red hair is hairsprayed and backcombed; she is wearing a glittery blue top, blue pants with patterned sections down the sides, and a purple jacket with metal studs. She has a few ear piercings and some silver jewellery. She carries two roses—one red, one white.]
apparently… a womanly Mercutio. the result of my wanting to draw two different concepts at the same time.
![lgbtlaughs:
[Middle Top: title in red reads “Ramona and Juliet.” Middle: paragraph on project. Top Left: girl in blue victorian dress and pulled back hair labelled “day,” the same woman with a long braid and red ball gown labelled “night.” The name “Ramona” is below. Top Right: girl in light pink dress with blue trimming labelled “day,” the same girl in a brighter pink gown labelled “night.” Below is the name “Juliet.” Bottom Left: two pictures of the same man in suits. The name below says “Mercutio.” Bottom Right: man in a top hat and foppish attire with a cane labelled “day,” the same man in a ruffled suit labelled “night.” Below the name reads “Nurse.”]
My drama class did a project on Romeo and Juliet where we had to design costumes for a specific era and we could “add our own elements”. We chose to do a Victorian time period… with lesbians and a male nurse because we wished Romeo and Juliet contained a foppish male nurse. There was dissent among our group over the name, though. A member of our group wanted to do “Julia and Juliet”. I’m glad I fought for “Ramona and Juliet”, though.
(Submitted by wutevrrr)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmkb7n34Je1qak0qdo1_1280.jpg "lgbtlaughs:
[Middle Top: title in red reads “Ramona and Juliet.” Middle: paragraph on project. Top Left: girl in blue victorian dress and pulled back hair labelled “day,” the same woman with a long braid and red ball gown labelled “night.” The name “Ramona” is below. Top Right: girl in light pink dress with blue trimming labelled “day,” the same girl in a brighter pink gown labelled “night.” Below is the name “Juliet.” Bottom Left: two pictures of the same man in suits. The name below says “Mercutio.” Bottom Right: man in a top hat and foppish attire with a cane labelled “day,” the same man in a ruffled suit labelled “night.” Below the name reads “Nurse.”]
My drama class did a project on Romeo and Juliet where we had to design costumes for a specific era and we could “add our own elements”. We chose to do a Victorian time period… with lesbians and a male nurse because we wished Romeo and Juliet contained a foppish male nurse. There was dissent among our group over the name, though. A member of our group wanted to do “Julia and Juliet”. I’m glad I fought for “Ramona and Juliet”, though.
(Submitted by wutevrrr)")
![[A digital drawing of two light-skinned women with brown hair, both in elaborate gowns with veils pinned to their hair. One wears a red gown with long sleeves; the other is in a short-sleeved blue gown with long gloves. They are standing together, looking into each other’s eyes and smiling; the lady in red has her hand over the hand of the lady in blue.]
mintfrosting:
so I drew this
Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhj3vsjM7q1qduvu8o1_1280.png "[A digital drawing of two light-skinned women with brown hair, both in elaborate gowns with veils pinned to their hair. One wears a red gown with long sleeves; the other is in a short-sleeved blue gown with long gloves. They are standing together, looking into each other’s eyes and smiling; the lady in red has her hand over the hand of the lady in blue.]
mintfrosting:
so I drew this
Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.")
![[A digital drawing of a light-skinned, busty woman in glam-rock style. Her red hair is hairsprayed and backcombed; she is wearing a glittery blue top, blue pants with patterned sections down the sides, and a purple jacket with metal studs. She has a few ear piercings and some silver jewellery. She carries two roses—one red, one white.]
mintfrosting:
apparently… a womanly Mercutio. the result of my wanting to draw two different concepts at the same time.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfb8o14RtY1qduvu8o1_r2_1280.png "[A digital drawing of a light-skinned, busty woman in glam-rock style. Her red hair is hairsprayed and backcombed; she is wearing a glittery blue top, blue pants with patterned sections down the sides, and a purple jacket with metal studs. She has a few ear piercings and some silver jewellery. She carries two roses—one red, one white.]
mintfrosting:
apparently… a womanly Mercutio. the result of my wanting to draw two different concepts at the same time.")
