Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one I'm not quite sure what it is or when it's from, it's a modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
“Ares caught sight of Halirrhothius, a son of Poseidon, pursuing his daughter, Alcippe. Pursuit turned to annoyance and subsequently harassment as Halirrhothius displayed the fierce lust for young women he inherited from his father. When harassment turned to rape, however, Ares didn’t hesitate for a moment to brutally murder Poseidon’s son.
Poseidon, disinterested in the plight of Alcippe, was furious at Ares and called a meeting of the gods the likes of which there had never been before. Rather than meet on Mount Olympus, Poseidon convened the immortals into a court of law (the first of its kind) in the city he had lost to Athena. It was on a low hill in Athens, then, that Poseidon made his case against the God of War, calling him by all the abominable names known to man and god. The gods listened and awaited Ares’s response to the accusations of his cold-blooded murder of a fellow immortal’s son. Ares’s defense was simple: Halirrhothius suffered the fate of a rapist.”
-Ares: The Origins and History of the Greek God of War by Andrew Scott and Charles Rivers Editors
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Konrad walking around his cell and ranting about how he's equal to God and can change whole world with his poems be like:
Polish people in a silent protest It will be better with you here in Warsaw on 26.06.2020 against hate, discrimination, violence, and dramatic injustice the LGBTQIAP+ community faces every day in Poland.
We are the change, and the change lies in our hands
To make that change, we humbly ask for your attendance, because we know, that
It
Will
Be
Better
With you here
With us, side by side, as one of the colors of the rainbow,
The rainbow, which colors are love, strength and the change
The change for the better
Photos by: Karol Grygoruk, Zuza Krajewska, Dorian Górski
americans on twitter commenting on protests in Belarus saying shit like "this is whats gonna happen in november look closely" like... FUCK YOU!!! this isnt about your problems with Trump, dont compare 25 years of Lukashenko's presidency, who's literally called the last dictator of europe, with 4 years of Trump okay. just dont.
Me
Using the hobbit age of adulthood (33) and average life expectancy (100), and comparing them to the legal age of adulthood in 1937 England (21) and life expectancy at the time (~late 50s early 60s):
Frodo (51, physically unchanged since 33) is the equivalent of a human 32-33 year old, and looks 21
Sam (39) is the equivalent of a human 24-25 year old
Merry (37) is the equivalent of a human 23-24 year old
And Pippin (29) is the equivalent of a human 18-19 year old, and by both hobbit and 1937 English tradition, still underage.
When we first meet them before the timeskip:
Frodo (33) - the equivalent of a 21 year old (barely, it was the days after his birthday)
Sam (21) - the equivalent of a human 13 year old (Which is adorable, bc his father describes him as constantly being over at the Baggins’ house, listening raptly to Bilbo’s stories)
Merry (19) - the equivalent of a human 12 year old (which is really funny because Merry is chilling at Frodos house and helping him distribute the stuff from Bilbo’s will and kind of affectionately sasses Frodo quité a bit and that’s so much funnier thinking of Merry as a literal child, which didn’t occur to me when I was listening to that scene)
We don’t meet Pippin but he’d be 11. The equivalent of a human 7 year old.
During the timeskip it talks about how Frodo mostly hangs out with the younger hobbits and is closest to Merry and Pippin out of everyone, and when I was listening, I was just like “oh okay his friends just happen to be younger” but no they were both literal kids for most of that timeskip, Frodo’s that guy who hangs out with kids because grownups all exhaust him.
(and meanwhile, the kids are just like LOOK ITS OUR COOL BIG BROTHER FRODO)
Bonus – I don’t remember the exact numbers, but Bilbo is basically a guy in his 80s who looks 33. Which really drives the ring thing home imo
Why does he sulk so much about Hange having a crush on Shadis?
(he knows her knock)
(her face connie’s face aaughghg)
‘ … i’ve spent all this time and energy …”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS 2AM AND THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT I CANT STOP WHEEZING
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