One of the papers I wrote in college was about the death of the Fool. That when the Fool is killed and no one is willing to speak truth to power, the powerful become the fools.
Everyone, ESPECIALLY the most powerful, needs someone to bring them "back to earth". In the military, the XO has that detail, especially on nuclear concerns. In ancient Rome, a conquering general had a slave ride beside him during his triumph, holding the crown of laurels over his head & whispering to him, "you are mortal, all fame is fleeting."
@@tootsietoyrestoration Cordelia was the daughter who spoke truth Lear didn't want to hear, but there was also a Fool who remained loyal and was killed. I would need to go back through the play to find when.
Wish I had had you as an instructor in Shakespeare! I learned so much about King Lear from your talk!! Wish you would consider a series like this on all his plays!!
It’s crazy, I just started reading King Lear a couple days ago and now this video pops up. King Lear is incredibly underrated and has supplanted MacBeth as my favourite Shakespeare play. In my experience, anyone and everyone will stab you in the back if given the chance (sadly including close family members). The wheel of fortune often strikes you down at the worst time and you’re left stark naked in the dirt.
Kurosawa, better than most, saw how true the humanity in Shakespeare’s works shine. He adapted 3 of the bards plays and knocked each of them out of the park.
Klavan makes me understand Shakespeare. I hated Shakespeare in high school. I couldn’t get past the old English which was like a foreign language to me. I like the stories of Shakespeare for the way they wrestle with complex moral problems and with the substance of being human. There is so little of that in our age. We are a shallow bunch yet many of us are facing the same tragedies and comedies and the same questions and trials of these Shakespearian plays. I think it would be good if Shakespeare was put into modern vernacular for dummies like me.
Klavan, this makes so much more sense. I never understood Shakespeare,not the stories themselves,but reading it. Once I see enough proper description,I appreciate the story. That being said, your analysis sounds as though Shakespeare may have been giving us a warning and now that it’s here, it’s quite obvious. I believe that’s how coincidence works,messages small and large, sent from Heaven and hell. Our free will is what we do with the message. Most of us do nothing but say,”huh”. That’s why Shakespeare is “white supremacy “ to cancel him. Democrat/satanists hate God. They prove it more each day. I pray for them…
Granted a complex tragedy to analyse, but a brilliant of literature. Thank you for your excellent analysis Andrew. You may it digestible for those not familiar with Shakespeare. Looking forward to your analysis of The Tempest. Two exceptional Shakespearean Plays.
Well ur grandpa was either going to the wrong church. Or he was a deist and if he was it makes since he didn't see GOD in church because as Jesus said his sheep hear his voice. And he is talking about when his words are spoken to them and that simply means ur grandpa wasn't looking at the right diety.
Your Grandpa sounds like a good, Godly man. It's a shame he never attended the Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox Church, he may have had a better opinion of the holiness to be found there
What was that Japanese movie that was King Leer but in the Shoganate and sons instead of daughters? Ran, that was it. It was a Kurosawa film, fantastic.
The Tempest is great. Looking forward to your thoughts on it. There were many movie versions. There was one updated to the 20th century I loved which I can not find now. I like Shakespeare but the language is difficult. For me, the language of the plays is better understood preformed live. It may be because of the way actors have to project. (I've only seen The Tempest and Hamlet in a theater.)
King Lear represents human psychology at its best, and it’s a tragedy that more people don’t turn to Shakespeare in their time of need, just like it’s a tragedy when people turn away from the Bible to understand their suffering. Andrew does a wonderful job at analyzing the more salient ideas in Lear, but look at the view count for this terrific analysis: Just over 10k as I write this comment!
What a splendid reading of this play. Only one additional observation. I saw Lear at the Globe a few years ago (bucket list activity). Often, Lear is played as one long rage-filled howl. Yet it can also be played with a lot of acid comment and bitter humour. That surprised me. I had not ever detected that in the script before. The usual Shakespeare as an onion writer experience. Layer after layer, with bite.
Arguably the BEST of Bipolar Tragedy the Bard wrote. Nature is the theme, vs Nurture. The daughters Goneril & Regan, are corrupted nurture, and Cordelia the Honest, BonaFide NATURE. She’s a REAL SHE. My favorite Shakespeare tragedy 🎭 that still makes me sob.
"he comes in with dead cordelia in his arms (hanged like jeffrey epstein)" gotta be the most outta pocket thing someone could say analyzing shakespeare
A tad Schizo in parts, but I agree with the overarching idea of it being telling of modern times. The disrespect new generations seem to have for the old is flabbergasting.
I wonder though if there are two opposite but intertwined moral strands to the story. Cordelia saying she loves him like a father is the NATURAL way./Nature The other two daughters feign artifice/aka Culture. Never read King Lear but just from the video it seems it shows the upside and the downside of BOTH sides of the equation: Nature and Civilization. And by extension perhaps Man and Spirit?
This analysis is fascinating, it's so completely out of touch with reality despite starting from a place of intelligence. American right wing culture is just out of this world.
Wonderful analysis. However, some quick corrections/clarifications about "nature". One can think of Nature as that which man has not created. That is a very broad but fine view of nature. However, this is not what Natural Lawyers are talking about when they talk about Nature. What Natural Lawyers are talking about is "the principles of discernment". That is, how do we understand the thing before us? What must be the case for the thing to be understood as a whole? It has a principle of unity that allows us to both understand and categorize it--how its parts are ordered. So, to understand a man is know that it is *natural* for a man to grow, and to act rationally. But that cancer, although it occurs within the man, is not *of* man's nature--but instead an attack upon it. It does not accord with an intelligible whole. It is therefore alien to the kind. How do we understand the thing? Always, we do in virtue of its form. That *is* the things Nature, as a Natural Lawyer understands it. The Nature of a triangle. The Nature of a cat. The Nature of a dog. Is the cat behaving naturally? Is the triangle being drawn in correspondence to the nature of a triangle? So it is very important to have this distinction in mind. And I think I better appreciate your conflict with Matt Walsh on this subject because of it.
Wow! Lear failed in bringing up his daughters!!! Or did they learn all this from him? 🤔 did he set the bad example? Like everyone else he he saw the light, only a little too late!!!
It was an expose on human nature, the Good the Bad & the Ugly..........wah wah wawwww! Pew pew! 🤠😜😏 (I also enjoy Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet....signed, Tuco.)
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I have always found Klavan the most introspective of the DW gang, and once more he proves me right.
Here, here. I really like Michael Knowles as well but Klavan has the wisdom and humor of a man who has traveled a longer path.
One of the papers I wrote in college was about the death of the Fool. That when the Fool is killed and no one is willing to speak truth to power, the powerful become the fools.
That is really interesting and seems to be true...
Everyone, ESPECIALLY the most powerful, needs someone to bring them "back to earth". In the military, the XO has that detail, especially on nuclear concerns. In ancient Rome, a conquering general had a slave ride beside him during his triumph, holding the crown of laurels over his head & whispering to him, "you are mortal, all fame is fleeting."
The Fool isn't killed. "My poor fool is hanged" refers to Cordelia
@@kellydg471 But it is Cordelia who speaks the truth to her father... right?
@@tootsietoyrestoration Cordelia was the daughter who spoke truth Lear didn't want to hear, but there was also a Fool who remained loyal and was killed. I would need to go back through the play to find when.
Excellent, I have read Lear at least 6 times, my absolute favorite, and agree, in my opinion the greatest work of western literature.
Absolutely! It’s the best.
I agree. Well, except for "One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish"
Wish I had had you as an instructor in Shakespeare! I learned so much about King Lear from your talk!! Wish you would consider a series like this on all his plays!!
Yes. That would be so good.
This is an exceptional analysis of a rather difficult but exquisite play.
It’s crazy, I just started reading King Lear a couple days ago and now this video pops up. King Lear is incredibly underrated and has supplanted MacBeth as my favourite Shakespeare play. In my experience, anyone and everyone will stab you in the back if given the chance (sadly including close family members). The wheel of fortune often strikes you down at the worst time and you’re left stark naked in the dirt.
There’s a great Akira Kurosawa film based on king Lear called Ran that I highly recommend
Bravo, KGH..
It's a brilliant piece of work as all his films are!
Saw it a long time ago but it is still in my memory. Am going to try to get it again
Yes, the BEST adaptation of King Lear IMHO. 👍
Kurosawa, better than most, saw how true the humanity in Shakespeare’s works shine. He adapted 3 of the bards plays and knocked each of them out of the park.
Klavan makes me understand Shakespeare. I hated Shakespeare in high school. I couldn’t get past the old English which was like a foreign language to me. I like the stories of Shakespeare for the way they wrestle with complex moral problems and with the substance of being human. There is so little of that in our age. We are a shallow bunch yet many of us are facing the same tragedies and comedies and the same questions and trials of these Shakespearian plays. I think it would be good if Shakespeare was put into modern vernacular for dummies like me.
Watched this on last weeks episode and now I’ll gladly watch again! Excellent.
Klavan, this makes so much more sense. I never understood Shakespeare,not the stories themselves,but reading it. Once I see enough proper description,I appreciate the story. That being said, your analysis sounds as though Shakespeare may have been giving us a warning and now that it’s here, it’s quite obvious. I believe that’s how coincidence works,messages small and large, sent from Heaven and hell. Our free will is what we do with the message. Most of us do nothing but say,”huh”. That’s why Shakespeare is “white supremacy “ to cancel him. Democrat/satanists hate God. They prove it more each day. I pray for them…
I'd pay for a Drew Klavan Shakespeare Masterclass.
Thanks! Keep It Up!
Granted a complex tragedy to analyse, but a brilliant of literature. Thank you for your excellent analysis Andrew. You may it digestible for those not familiar with Shakespeare. Looking forward to your analysis of The Tempest. Two exceptional Shakespearean Plays.
I am looking forward to this! Thanks!
I have a lifelong love of Henry V.
Every bit of it..
My grandpa always said that he saw more of God in nature than he ever did sitting in the pews of a church.
Well ur grandpa was either going to the wrong church. Or he was a deist and if he was it makes since he didn't see GOD in church because as Jesus said his sheep hear his voice. And he is talking about when his words are spoken to them and that simply means ur grandpa wasn't looking at the right diety.
Your Grandpa sounds like a good, Godly man. It's a shame he never attended the Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox Church, he may have had a better opinion of the holiness to be found there
What was that Japanese movie that was King Leer but in the Shoganate and sons instead of daughters? Ran, that was it. It was a Kurosawa film, fantastic.
You need to do more Shakespeare, this was awesome.
The Tempest is great. Looking forward to your thoughts on it. There were many movie versions. There was one updated to the 20th century I loved which I can not find now. I like Shakespeare but the language is difficult. For me, the language of the plays is better understood preformed live. It may be because of the way actors have to project. (I've only seen The Tempest and Hamlet in a theater.)
King Lear represents human psychology at its best, and it’s a tragedy that more people don’t turn to Shakespeare in their time of need, just like it’s a tragedy when people turn away from the Bible to understand their suffering. Andrew does a wonderful job at analyzing the more salient ideas in Lear, but look at the view count for this terrific analysis: Just over 10k as I write this comment!
Thank you for this thoughtful content.
What a splendid reading of this play. Only one additional observation. I saw Lear at the Globe a few years ago (bucket list activity). Often, Lear is played as one long rage-filled howl. Yet it can also be played with a lot of acid comment and bitter humour. That surprised me. I had not ever detected that in the script before. The usual Shakespeare as an onion writer experience. Layer after layer, with bite.
THE BEST! More art and literature commentary please!!!
Maybe Dailywire could do a series on Shakespeare, the way Jordan Peterson explored the bible
That would be incredible
I wish Jordan Peterson would stop his myopic obsession with the Bible. He used to be so broad minded.
Wonderful! Yes, Love more Shakespeare! Great analysis and understanding!
I still remember lines from THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. If you prick me, do I not bleed.
"King Lear" was nice, but "Hamlet" is the best work of the immortal bard.
Absolutely agree.
BRAVO, SIR! BRAVO!
Love these segments
Excellent synopsis.
I have been reading Gibbons which has many spooky echos for our times as well
Arguably the BEST of Bipolar Tragedy the Bard wrote. Nature is the theme, vs Nurture. The daughters Goneril & Regan, are corrupted nurture, and Cordelia the Honest, BonaFide NATURE. She’s a REAL SHE.
My favorite Shakespeare tragedy 🎭 that still makes me sob.
Nice segment .
"he comes in with dead cordelia in his arms (hanged like jeffrey epstein)" gotta be the most outta pocket thing someone could say analyzing shakespeare
Excellent! Looking forward to the tempest!
King Lear (1987)... Great movie
A tad Schizo in parts, but I agree with the overarching idea of it being telling of modern times. The disrespect new generations seem to have for the old is flabbergasting.
“See better, Lear!”
Great film. Thanks for the wonderful analysis.
You're choices will ultimately let you feel the pain
We need more than natur gives us... If not we are beasts... That sentiment could be used in so many ways
Ignoring the conservative nonsense, not a bad analysis. 😉
I wonder though if there are two opposite but intertwined moral strands to the story. Cordelia saying she loves him like a father is the NATURAL way./Nature The other two daughters feign artifice/aka Culture. Never read King Lear but just from the video it seems it shows the upside and the downside of BOTH sides of the equation: Nature and Civilization. And by extension perhaps Man and Spirit?
Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost… But not on this channel!
What about Trump?
You make me wanna read Shakespeare again. This time in english... I've read only one shakespearean play in the original language : (
This analysis is fascinating, it's so completely out of touch with reality despite starting from a place of intelligence. American right wing culture is just out of this world.
Wonderful analysis. However, some quick corrections/clarifications about "nature".
One can think of Nature as that which man has not created.
That is a very broad but fine view of nature.
However, this is not what Natural Lawyers are talking about when they talk about Nature. What Natural Lawyers are talking about is "the principles of discernment". That is, how do we understand the thing before us? What must be the case for the thing to be understood as a whole? It has a principle of unity that allows us to both understand and categorize it--how its parts are ordered. So, to understand a man is know that it is *natural* for a man to grow, and to act rationally. But that cancer, although it occurs within the man, is not *of* man's nature--but instead an attack upon it. It does not accord with an intelligible whole. It is therefore alien to the kind.
How do we understand the thing? Always, we do in virtue of its form. That *is* the things Nature, as a Natural Lawyer understands it. The Nature of a triangle. The Nature of a cat. The Nature of a dog. Is the cat behaving naturally? Is the triangle being drawn in correspondence to the nature of a triangle?
So it is very important to have this distinction in mind. And I think I better appreciate your conflict with Matt Walsh on this subject because of it.
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The low amount of views on this video is so telling! Our culture is brainless. We want flashy lights and dumbed down nonsense.
Call me a cynic but like King Lear, our culture, our civilization, is as doomed as Lear’s finality.
Quid leges sine moribus? 😭😭😭 Horace, Odes
Wow! Lear failed in bringing up his daughters!!! Or did they learn all this from him? 🤔 did he set the bad example? Like everyone else he he saw the light, only a little too late!!!
It was an expose on human nature, the Good the Bad & the Ugly..........wah wah wawwww! Pew pew! 🤠😜😏 (I also enjoy Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet....signed, Tuco.)
Can't stand the Daily Wire so I won't listen to this take.
We're blind to the need to act now. Start local fix your house then move out from there
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