thinkofaugust:

thinkofaugust:

where’s that quote from sir ian mckellan where he implies mercutio was based on marlowe? because I feel like making myself suffer

“When Marlowe met his own violent death, his glittering reputation was overtaken by law-abiding Shakespeare. Had Will liked Kit Marlowe so much, that he recreated him as the roistering, iconoclastic Mercutio, who so resents Romeo’s love affairs with women?”

THIS ONE.