The Four Disgracers - Tantalus, Phaeton, Icarus, and Ixion (1588) by Hendrick Goltzius
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Hiii it's costume design ideas for stephen tennant as percy shelley by rex whistler! They're absolutely gorgeous. Here are the two designs rex made:
The Young King of the Black Isles // Maxfield Parrish 1906.
American artist Paul Swan, once hailed as "the most beautiful man in the world", for Shadowland magazine (1922)
The Art Nouveau style revisited with laser-cut marble, mosaic columns, and ceiling frescoes imagined by Jessica Mille, architect in her project for the Central Hotel in Annecy., France
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Diana Holding a Spear by Cherubiono Alberti (after 1580)
I keep seeing that “people who died due to hamlet’s tomfoolery” post going around and I know it’s not that deep but I am getting Annoyed
Hamlet spends the entire play being reprimanded for mourning his father, stalked, spied on, and then subjected to repeated assassination attempts. More than one of the deaths he “causes” occur as an act of self-defense. And yes part of the point of the post is that there is collateral damage to revenge that one doesn’t intend but it is so so so important to the play that Hamlet’s revenge is driven by fundamentally different forces than, say, Iago, or Edmund from Lear, or even someone like Prospero. Those characters could just stop. At any moment they could just make the choice to stop and they could come out better for it (Prospero does). Hamlet could stop, but the price is the genuine danger that his uncle will have him killed. His uncle does have him killed. The poisoned sword is on Claudius and Laertes’ hands. It depends on your staging and acting choices, but Hamlet does not have to go into the duel with intent to either die or be killed.
Even before assassination becomes a serious consideration—before Polonius’ death—Hamlet has still been backed into a corner where he is being constantly harassed by his uncle, his mother, Polonius, two school friends his uncle and his mother recruited to spy on him, and the girl he likes, who may or may not be doing it willingly but is still engaged in spying on him nonetheless. Like. Do you get what kind of hyper-defensive, paranoid mental state that would put you into? Is it really a surprise he overreacts to Polonius’s presence behind the curtain?
I don’t know man, I’m just ranting, I just think people are way too ready to drag Hamlet for failing to fix the rotten thing in the state of Denmark when he spends most of the play just trying to fucking survive
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson (American, 1948-2017)
Illustration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Sensitive Plant by Charles Robinson (1911)
The story of the sun, moon, and stars. 1898. Book cover.
Dario Viterbo (1890-1961) - Il Sogno
Simon Alexandre-Clement Denis - Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome
There’s this vibe in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Revolt of Islam / The Clash’s Rock the Casbah / Montesquieu’s Persian Letters where the message is “Our main concern is the oppressiveness and hypocrisy of our own Western society, and we’re mainly talking about exotic eastern Islamic society as a way of critiquing our own society’s flaws, buuuut let’s be real, we do in fact think Muslim societies are pretty much oppressive hellholes.”
