- 21. Victorians Wore These Elaborate Costumes To Fancy Dress Balls
- (Living)
- ... woman dressed as Titania from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Of the more creative costumes, the Kentish Gazette reports two women dressed as “Winter” in gowns of “swan’s down flakes.” There was ...
- Created on 17 October 2018
- 22. The Legend Of The Unicorn Goes Back Almost 2,500 Years
- (General)
- ... cloven hooves, and a spiral horn. In 16th century literature, unicorns are mentioned in several of Shakespeare’s plays as well as in the poetry of Edmund Spenser, who writes in his epic, The Faerie Queene: ...
- Created on 18 September 2018
- 23. In Broadway's "Head Over Heels," The Go-Go's Music Is The S
- (Entertainment)
- ... times laugh-out-loud funny. Head Over Heels has a story line that faintly resembles Shakespeare in Love, which garnered Gwyneth Paltrow her Oscar for Best Actress in 1999. This is fitting because ...
- Created on 07 August 2018
- 24. What Happened To The Wild Ravens Of London?
- (General)
- ... man hears the raven croak from the next roof, he at once makes his will.” Others believed that the wings of the raven carried contagion, bringing pestilence and illness wherever the bird went. Even Shakespeare ...
- Created on 31 July 2018
- 25. The Original "Beauty And The Beast" Was VERY Different From Than The Disney Movi
- (Books)
- ... Shakespeare “has several remarkable references to this superstition.” For example, during one scene in Hamlet, Ophelia recites a portion of the legend of "The Baker’s Daughter" in which Christ, in the guise ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 26. How I'm Reclaiming The Word "Fa
- (Feminism)
- ... cats. Samantha likes Shakespeare, space babes, bikes, and dismantling the patriarchy. For more, follow her on Twitter @theverbalthing. More from BUST On Being Fat In Ways White Girls Don't Understand ...
- Created on 18 May 2018
- 27. Moms Mabley Was The Trailblazing Dirty Granny Of Standup Comedy
- (Entertainment)
- ... TO TELL YOU GUYS ALL ABOUT IT! The gorgeous Jackie "Moms" Mabley. Now the start of Moms' life reads like the worst Shakespearean tragedy. It’s truly FUCKING HORRENDOUS! She was born in North Carolina ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 28. Supermodel And Photographer Velvet d’Amour Has A Plus Size Fashion Magazine And It’s Gorgeous
- (Style)
- ... mania like Shakespeare’s Ophelia. Velvet d'Amour/Volup2 Velvet d'Amour/Volup2 “Live the Full Life Of the Mind” features Zimbabwean-born model Netsai Tinaresse Dandajena. She sports vibrant couture ...
- Created on 25 April 2018
- 29. March For Our Lives Brought Hundreds Of Thousands Of Gun Control Protestors To Washington D.C.: Link Roundup
- (Living)
- ... and almost fighting someone who bit Beyoncé (!!!!!!), all while looking for whales off the coast of L.A. Read more at GQ. Margot Robbie Is Producing An All-Female Shakespeare Series As the famous playwright ...
- Created on 26 March 2018
- 30. The Secret Lives Of The Ziegfeld Follies, "The Most Beautiful Girls In The World
- (Living)
- ... theatre world's most adored leading lady. But years later she was still there, in the back and no closer to swapping sequins for Shakespeare. Mona Parsons Then in 1930, Mona’s mum died. To make ...
- Created on 22 November 2017
- 31. This Brooklyn Theater Troupe Is Staging A Gender-Swapped "Macbeth
- (Entertainment)
- The witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth come across as less than spellbinding. Cackling, “Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble,” they’re often hunched over bubbling cauldrons filled with eyes of newt ...
- Created on 31 October 2017
- 32. The John Hughes Effect: When Men Harass Women And Claim Romance
- (Feminism)
- ... break us stubborn gals down into agreeing to be with them again. Take it from the original love guru, Shakespeare, who wrote in Henry VI, “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; she is woman, and ...
- Created on 02 October 2017
- 33. I Recreated 4 Historical Lipsticks — Here's How Well They Worke
- (Style)
- ... something weirdly romantic about the idea of flowers as lip tint. It feels very Shakespearean, very feminine, very "oh don’t mind me, just off to go skip through this meadow wearing a daisy crown." If ...
- Created on 05 September 2017
- 34. OITNB's Jessica Pimentel Stars On BUST's "Poptarts" Podc
- (Poptarts)
- ... behind bars. But in real life, she's a Shakespearean actor who also fronts an extreme metal band and studies the Buddhist path. She's full of surprises! About: BUST's Poptarts is a twice-monthly podcast ...
- Created on 04 August 2017
- 35. 3 Brief Books By Big-Time Writers To Read In One Afternoon
- (Books)
- ... 208-page reimagining of a Shakespeare classic, you should be able to read these books in a single afternoon — but we won't blame you if you'd rather stretch them out. THE ART OF DEATH: Writing The Fina ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 36. Helen Mirren's Commencement Speech Is A Feminist Dream ...
- (Feminism)
- ... advice for any of you born in England who decide to become Shakespearean actresses, and end up doing nude scenes in 10 films. I mentioned that just to see if any of your fathers are getting out their cell ...
- Created on 24 May 2017
- 37. How "Laggies" Director Lynn Shelton Found A Backdoor Into The Film Industry: 52 Weeks of Director
- (Movies)
- ... prick an emotional vain, especially for those who have a close brotherly or sisterly bond in their own lives. As Duplass describes it, “It’s a dramatic Shakespearean bed-switching comedy with a certain ...
- Created on 03 March 2017
- 38. 14 Books By Women To Make Your February A Little Brighter
- (Books)
- ... our Lit-Pick, The Crunk Feminist Collective. Enjoy! Hag-Seed By Margaret Atwood (Penguin Random House/Hogarth) The fourth installment in the Hogarth Shakespeare project, Hag-Seed is a magical reinterpretation ...
- Created on 06 February 2017
- 39. Why Cats Are Responsible For All Of English Literature (Really!)
- (Books)
- ... In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, one of the three witches calls out the name Grimalkin when summoning her familiar: “I come Graymalkin!” Contentment by Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) And in 19th century ...
- Created on 06 December 2016
- 40. We Can't Wait To Binge-Watch 'Good Girls Revol
- (Movies)
- Amazon has released the trailer for Good Girls Revolt — and we get a look at the rampant sexism in New York's media industry in 1969. The series is inspired Lynn Povich's notable book The Good Girls ...
- Created on 26 September 2016
