YOUR GUIDE TO “”“”“”“”OLD”“”“”“”” ENGLISH*
- the word “thou” is a subject pronoun; you only use it when representing the subject of a sentence (the subject of a sentence is the noun that is doing the verbing; for example, in “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, “the quick brown fox” is doing the jumping, and is the subject)
- the word “thee” is an object pronoun; you only use it when representing the object of a sentence (the object of a sentence is a noun that is not doing the verbing; for example, in “the space squid slithered through the inky darkness”, “the inky darkness” is not doing the slithering, and would therefore receive an object pronoun)
- so, saying “i like thou a lot” would be wrong, because “thou” is a subject pronoun; saying “i like thee” would be right, because “thee” is an object pronoun
- if you ever get confused, think about the words “he” and “him”; “he” is subject, “him” is object
- if you don’t know whether to say “thou” or “thee”, replace it in your mind with “he” or “him”. if the word “he” sounds better, go with “thou”; if the word “thee” sounds better, go with “him”.
- for example: say you want to say “i want to give you a gift” in “old” english, but don’t know whether to say “i want to give thou a gift” or “i want to give thee a gift”. would you say “i want to give he a gift”, or “i want to give him a gift”? “him”, of course! so say “i want to give thee a gift.”
- additionally! if the word “thou” is the subject of your sentence, you need a whole new set of ways to say your verbs! it’s not “thou has”, but “thou hast”; not “thou can”, but “thou canst”; not “thou do not know thou is beautiful” but “thou dost not know thou art beautiful”.
- (baby, thou light’st up my world like nobody else. the way that thou flipp’st thy hair has me overwhelmed. but when thou smil’st at the ground it ain’t hard to tell; thou dost not know-oh-oh, thou knowest not thy beau-uty. but that’s what makes thee beautiful. if we’re going for the right rhythm & cadence.)
- the word “thy” is possessive. it’s like “his” or “my” or “their”. i never really see anyone have trouble with the word “thy” so, y’know, carry on.
*shakespearean english is not old english. it’s not even close, really. you want to see old english? take a look at beowulf in its original language, i’ll wait.**
**no, shakespearean english is not “middle” english, either. you want to see middle english, go take a look at the canterbury tales in their original language, with original spelling.***
***yes, i realize that back in chaucer’s day the spelling of any given word basically came down to “what if i threw a dart at a poster full of letters and picked one.” the point remains that middle english was germanic as fuck, with some french sort of stuffed in with a crowbar. that shit ain’t shakespeare.
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“What’s going on? I’m sensing something…” (x)
IM BROKEN. IM DEAD.
THIS IS IT.. THIS IS THE REASON HE PULLED FACES… He was probably like “YOU’RE NOT GONNA GIVE ME LINES?? I DON’T NEED LINES TO BE THE MOST FABULOUS CHARACTER ANYWAY.”
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Josie Rourke live Q&A – as it happened | guardian.co.uk
Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse answers questions, including some about the recent all-female version of Julius Caesar, and upcoming production of Coriolanus.
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a quick psa because this is driving me up the wall
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If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
—Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\
I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said
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I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.
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Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe?
Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity.
Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens.
Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL
OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A :( AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY
Poe kept interrupting my sentences, so I wrote, “Edgar are you fucking kidding me?” and Shakespeare replaced “fucking” with “hay rolling”
Emily Dickinson and Charles Dickens will fight if you put the word “Dickens” in the doc.
I am done.
Poe kept changing words so the sentences no longer made sense so I wrote “bitch please” and Shakespeare corrected it to, “qualling harpy please”
i started with the Bohemian Rhapsody and let me tell you i was not disappointed
I WROTE “SHUT UP SHAKESPEARE” AND HE WROTE “THE HANDSOME AND MARVELLOUS” AND POE CORRECTED IT TO “DREADFUL AND LONELY”
poe wrote “I wish I could write as mysteriously as a cat.”
Oh. My fucking. GOD. Poe needs to shut up and Dickens and Dickenson were having a literally deletion war with one another at one point while I was continuing to type down below. This is amusing.
If you write Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens changes it to “Edgar the ever tormented and woeful soul; Edgar Allan Poe”.
Ffffffffffff and then I wrote “I love you all” and Poe changed it to “loathe”.
EDIT: And THEN: I wrote “said Dostoyevsky” and he wrote “I do not wish to make myself a laughingstock before these idle listeners.”
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If in America we lowered our ticket prices on Broadway, audiences could make up their own minds and wouldn’t have to rely on the New York Times as the critic to tell us what we think.
I think we have a big problem on Broadway right now where Wall Street has hijacked Broadway. They’re not in it for the love of the theater. I don’t know anybody that goes to Broadway or goes in to theater period to make money. It isn’t a money-making proposition.
There can only be one ‘Wicked’ a decade really but we have a lot of Wall St. fat cats who are money-laundering on Broadway and when they don’t get the reviews they want, they shut the play down. They’re not showmen so they don’t know how to run it or how to bring an audience in.
You have to have the ingenuity to get beyond the reviews if they’re bad. In the old days they would never let a critic tell them their show was a flop. They would find a way to outwit them.
—Patti LuPone on BBC Radio 2 (via pickleofadilley)
THIS. I actually go to theater much less because of COST, not so much because of lack of interest. I no longer have time to go and rush shows, and paying full price is never worth it. And when I was in high school, paying full price was something my family and I splurged on once a year. Now, we see how much it costs and think, forget it. For this amount of money, we can do an overnight in a totally different city.
Ironically, going to the opera is almost always less expensive.
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Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
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one-more-day-to-a-new-beginning:
My edition of the Brick is the best : see how great the notes are.
The first picture is about Montparnasse. They say that he is the opposite of Enjolras (so he’s just as queer as Enjolras, but he is the angel of death and Enjolras is the angel of liberty etc…), he’s also the representation of Gavroche’s possible future : he’s a kid who grew up in the streets. I really like that idea of a link between the two, like Gavroche having two possible fates : dying at the barricade or becoming a new Montparnasse. And they also say that he is a victim (like pretty much everyone in the book) because of the bourgeoisie which exposed the fake world in which they lived (etc), he tried to become a bourgeois and that’s what turned him into what he has become.
The second thing is from Grantaire’s description. It’s about the Orestes and Pylades thing and what Hugo wrote about the letters O and P. The note says that between Enjolras and Grantaire (E and G), the letter F is missing. The F of “femme” which means “woman”. So basically there’s no woman to separate Enjolras and Grantaire. Which means that they are meant to be together. And the fact that this femme is missing is one more clue to say that Enjolras is not interested in women. They don’t even exist in his world and where the woman should be, there’s no one : just Grantaire. Like, the place of the romantic interest is occupated by no one, except Gantaire.
(it’s really hard to write something clever in my non-native language and I can’t express what I feel about this but whatever)
this is…i can’t
oh god
This is genius.
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Hamlet - National Theatre Live Encore Screening
As part of their 50 Years on Stage celebrations, The National Theatre will present some very special encore screenings in cinemas this autumn, including the marvellous Hamlet, staring Rory Kinnear.
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*screeching*
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