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dabbe

Macbeth | William Shakespeare

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@wanderinglynn

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#macbeth

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wanderinglynn Fantastic! 4d

dabbe @wanderinglynn TY! 🖤♥️🖤 4d

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dabbe

Hamlet | William Shakespeare

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@wanderinglynn

#mostly 😏👀🤣

TheKidUpstairs 🤣🤣🤣 I love this! 2w

TheBookHippie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2w

dabbe @TheKidUpstairs TY! 🩵🤣💙 2w

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dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤣😍🤣 2w

TheBookHippie @dabbe STILL LAUGHING 😂 WE ARE READING HAMLET in senior English right now!! 2w

dabbe @TheBookHippie I don't know why, but I always thought of Gertrude in that way. Maybe because even her son lusts after her and basically calls her a whore? 🤣 2w

TheBookHippie @dabbe oh I agree! Bringing it to school Monday 😂😂😂😂 IB ENGLISH teacher is going to LOL 2w

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😍🤣😍 2w

wanderinglynn 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant! 2w

dabbe @wanderinglynn TY! 🤣😍🤣 2w

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dabbe

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

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#idefyyoustars
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wanderinglynn 😢💔❤️ 3w

dabbe @wanderinglynn 💔😭💔 3w

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dabbe

Macbeth | William Shakespeare

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@TheSpineView
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TheSpineView Perfect!❤️❤️❤️ 3w

dabbe @TheSpineView My fave Shakespearean play. ♥️🖤♥️ 3w

TheSpineView @dabbe Not Romeo and Juliette?!? 3w

dabbe @TheSpineView No way! Those sappy teenagers made we want to slap them and tell them to “Slow down!“ 🤣 Hmm. Maybe I'm more like Lady Macbeth than I thought. 🤔🤣🤩 3w

TheSpineView @dabbe It's hard to relate to teenagers. 3w

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GingerAntics

Hamlet | William Shakespeare

I feel like our entire society would be SO much better if everyone did A LOT more of this. Just putting that out there.
#WilliamShakespeare #Hamlet

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Robotswithpersonality

Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman: 8 Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations Accompanied by Critical Essays | Robert Willoughby Corrigan

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It is done! Or at least as done as it's going to be from me. I picked up this collection for Euripedes' Medea, was happy to get Sophocles' Antigone in the bargain, and a bonus second Medea by Seneca. Euripides' Bakkhai is a wild time, The Oresteia is pretty familiar ground given the link up to Illiad characters. I wish there was more of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, but what there is extant of it is good. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I did Sophocles ' Oedipus the King, and didn't feel in the mood to do Seneca's Oedipus later. I did give the associated essays a try, but they focused more on the plays/play mechanics/playwrights than the stories/myths behind the plays, which are more my interest. Will definitely be seeking more scholarship on Greek myth, (only took 17 years after the Greek and Roman studies degree for me to recover my desire to do research on that topic) 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? especially through a modern feminist lens. Antigone and Medea's stories stand out because they exhibit female agency (Clytaemnestra's in The Oresteia is pretty short-lived 😬), and Medea in particular because she 'gets away with it'. Major themes (don't fuck with the gods, expect your family lineage's curse to haunt you in some way, nothing could be more heinous than killing family - except perhaps sleeping with them 🤢) exist throughout. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Medea makes for an interesting case because one seems to trump the other - her divine lineage is part of what makes it possible for her to kill and survive - for once no mention of the Furies...will definitely be looking up further modern retellings of her story. Don't get me started on Jason. 🙄
⚠️mentions of SA, suicide, gore, child death 1mo

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