DONALBAIN: Where we are,

There's daggers in men's smiles: the nea'er in blood,

The nearer bloody.

— Macbeth, II, iii

#monkeys #Shakespeare

'Monkeys.zip, aka The Monkey Project, is a live, crowdsourced experiment based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem. ...

It’s a thought experiment that’s been around for over a century, and is a fun way to ponder how an unstoppable force like Infinity collides with an immovable object like Impossible Odds.'

https://monkeys.zip/

Source: https://flip.it/hN.-OL

Ophelia.
John Hayter, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ophelia/

Katherine.
John William Wright, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/katherine/

Imogen.
John William Wright, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/imogen/

In case you need new ways to express your frustration with the current movers and shakers of world affairs, or just the assholes in your more immediate proximity...

#Shakespeare #Insults #Funny

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/articles/migrated-files-in-body/shakespeare_insult_kit.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwifz9K14beMAxXILEQIHWxfLE8QFnoECEYQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2JgrashK42kTtK5nkbJE4I

Now free for all to read... Sitting under stained glass windows representing Shakespeare's seven ages of man, I admired the decor and reflected on the 'cultural cringe':

Shakespeare in the library https://www.patreon.com/posts/shakespeare-in-122513420

**“You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, Explained**

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-society/shakespeare-insults/.

#Shakespeare #Insults #Literature #Culture @literature

New Book (free to download on Kindle Unlimited):
Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking #Shakespeare for a New Era
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZW4JN6H

Analysis of Hamlet's Soliloquy : Hamlet is indecisive because he becomes existentially stuck, "To glue, or not to glue/That is the question".

#GlueASongPoemOrLimerick
#HashTagGames #Shakespeare #Hamlet #DadaistExistentialism #Existentialism #Literature

Lady Macbeth: But glue your courage to the sticking place
And we'll not fail,

#GlueASongPoemOrLimerick
#HashTagGames #Shakespeare #Macbeth #LadyMacbeth #Literature

Charles Buchel, illustration for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, 1905
#art #shakespeare

19 Mar 1563: Arthur Brooke, the translator of 'The Tragical History of Romeus & Juliet' is drowned in a shipwreck off Rye #otd (BL) Another adaptation of that story has gone on to do quite well... #Shakespeare

#YouTube Apparently Unsure If #Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/19/youtube-apparently-unsure-if-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/ #pd #copyright

Act 2, scene 4.
Clown (sings). I am slain by a fair and cruel maid.
William Heath Robinson, from "Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night; or, What You Will" by William Shakespeare, New York: [1908?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/slain-maid/

CLAUDIUS: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

— Hamlet, III, i

Sonnet 010 - X
For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possessed with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O! change thy thought, that I may change my mind:
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.

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