Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University.
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
Will no one rid me of this continuous cringe marketing for Wuthering Heights?
February 2, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Will no one rid me of this continuous cringe marketing for Wuthering Heights?
RICHARD
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM
RICHARD
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
Love the little boar hiding under the dust jacket #richardiii
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Love the little boar hiding under the dust jacket #richardiii
Charles Lamb in response to George Frederick Cooke's #RichardIII
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Charles Lamb in response to George Frederick Cooke's #RichardIII
Not a date to celebrate #noprideingenocide
January 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Not a date to celebrate #noprideingenocide
THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 AM
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
January 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
William Heath's 1814 'The Rival Richards, or Shakespear in Danger' depicts the public rivalry between #RichardIII actors Edmund Kean and Charles Mayne Young.
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
William Heath's 1814 'The Rival Richards, or Shakespear in Danger' depicts the public rivalry between #RichardIII actors Edmund Kean and Charles Mayne Young.
Louis XVI translated Horace Walpole’s ‘Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third’ while imprisoned in the Bastille awaiting his execution
January 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Louis XVI translated Horace Walpole’s ‘Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third’ while imprisoned in the Bastille awaiting his execution
Time’s up for Islamophobes
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Time’s up for Islamophobes
An Imam and his wife were attacked and bashed in Noble Park by white supremacists on Saturday. Hasn’t made any news outlets yet. This is what Australia is, always has been, and this element is becoming more and more emboldened.
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
An Imam and his wife were attacked and bashed in Noble Park by white supremacists on Saturday. Hasn’t made any news outlets yet. This is what Australia is, always has been, and this element is becoming more and more emboldened.
Queen Elizabeth:
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Queen Elizabeth:
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
The attempt to silence universities, academics, writers and artists is a 'social' technique of genocide, as established by Raphael Lemkin in 'in 1944. The persistent and sustained attacks on thinkers by institutions and the government equals complicity in genocide.
January 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM
The attempt to silence universities, academics, writers and artists is a 'social' technique of genocide, as established by Raphael Lemkin in 'in 1944. The persistent and sustained attacks on thinkers by institutions and the government equals complicity in genocide.
Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers Week, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Is it understood that this censorship regime is persecuting Jewish people as well?
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers Week, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Is it understood that this censorship regime is persecuting Jewish people as well?
How we are coping with the heat today.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
How we are coping with the heat today.
Some ancient trees along the Thompson River, Brayakaulung country. Some are up to a thousand years old
January 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Some ancient trees along the Thompson River, Brayakaulung country. Some are up to a thousand years old
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Grumpy’s joining the supervisor team
January 1, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Grumpy’s joining the supervisor team
One last adventure
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
One last adventure