2025-02-17 16:39:53 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

thereweresunflowers:

> feeling ill thinking about about how in the robert icke version of hamlet they changed laertes’ “this sword is too heavy, let me see another” to be him wanting to switch out the poisoned sword and trying desperately to stop the tragedy rather than asking for the poisoned blade. an adaptation so compassionate the characters themselves are trying to break free from the tragedy and still can’t