[fredgolds]

potentially the most important bit of the globe’s much ado that i never talked about is when beatrice is screaming and raging against claudio after the wedding and benedick pulls her up with a devastating forehead touch/face touch combo and everything just goes very still and quiet. and you could take the Tensión and snap it over your leg like so many twigs. and they’re both exhausted and angry and in love and THAT’S when he says ‘tarry, good beatrice. by this hand i love thee’ and the globe was built without a roof specifically so that my fragile soul could ascend directly to heaven in that exact moment

[tinsnip]

…link??

BENE.  Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
BEAT.  Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.

(Much Ado About Nothing)

ffs reading the script of ‘much ado’ on sparknotes and the fucking ads on the side are like

could you not call me out while i’m being fucking scholarly

[nicolauda]

[benedick of padua voice] beatrice??? nah what a harpy what a— [trips] [hundreds of thousands of sonnets about beatrice spill out of jacket] w-what  an unbearable lady tongue i these arent mine im just [gathering them up frantically sweating] listen i just listen fuck [thousands of sonnets scatter across the floor] shit fcuk im holding them for don pedro just listen

[annasassiart]

i don’t know…i just wanted to draw Catherine Tate very much

Best Friends in Shakespeare

[thersc]

Hamlet and Horatio

Hamlet: “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.” Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 2

In Hamlet’s world of madness and paranoia, Horatio is the only person he really trusts. When Hamlet is dying, Horatio even tries to die with him, but Hamlet stops him and entrusts him with telling his tragic story.

(Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC)

Rosalind and Celia

Celia: “Shall we part, sweet girl? No: let my father seek another heir.” As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 3

When Celia’s father banishes Rosalind, Celia decides to give up her rich and comfortable life and run away with Rosalind to live in the Forest of Arden together. 

(Photo by Keith Pattison © RSC)

Antonio and Sebastian 

Antonio: “If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.” Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 1

Antonio rescues Sebastian, who comes ashore after he’s shipwrecked. When Sebastian leaves him to go to Orsino’s court, Antonio decides to follow despite having many enemies in the court.

(Photo by Ellie Kurttz © RSC)

Beatrice and Hero 

Beatrice: “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.” Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 1

Beatrice is indignant when Hero is falsely accused of adultery at her own wedding. Beatrice stands beside her cousin when no one else believes her, and defies anyone who doubts Hero’s innocence.

(Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC)

Emilia and Desdemona

Emilia: “Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.” Othello, Act 5 Scene 2

Emilia makes the mistake of giving Iago Desdemona’s handkerchief, which leads to her mistress’s death. Risking her own life, Emilia tells everyone the truth about Iago, and dies by Desdemona’s side.

(Photo by Keith Pattison © RSC)

• Benedick: Beatrice, can we talk, one ten to another?
• Beatrice: I'm an eleven but continue.

• Benedick: Babe, I'm going out, you want anything?
• Beatrice: I want Claudio dead.
• Benedick: okay well I have like $12.57 but I'll see what I can do

[myshipperheart]

Endless list of favourite movies → Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

↳ Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever. One foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never. Then sigh not so but let them go and be you blithe and bonny, converting all your sounds of woe into hey nonny nonny.

[tophats-sequinsuits]

so my class recently did a production and I’ve been yearning to do this since day one