You forgot "Titus Andronicus" in your list of his Roman plays at 13:01 "People go to see Shakespeare now in Britain to show that they are rich and upper class." Nonsense and who would care if they did, it pays the actors, choreographers, craftsmen, stagehands, hell even the damn light bill After the Globe burned down the only way the Bard stayed in business was via the "rich and upper class" - the monarchy in fact, his company did dozens of performances for the Court, which facilitated the acquisition of a more expensive theater where they could charge 5x as much as they did at the Globe and that acquisition put them in the money. The Bard understood we set the misery index to fit our finances: "Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich; and being rich, my virtue then shall be to say there is no vice but beggary." -Bastard, The Life and Death of King John, Act 2 Scene 1
@@ruvindrasathsarani6064 He's known as more of a comedian in the late plays, of which Cymbeline is one. Technically, all his revenge plays are "Roman" in the sense Seneca (the Quentin Tarantino of Roman tragedy) was his early muse and that's what the Elizabethans wanted - to crush your enemy and see him driven before you, blood, guts, rape, etc - things Ms. Hall likely could never understand any more than genteel T. S. Eliot who refused to believe Shakespeare even wrote Titus Andronicus. Cymbeline involves Rome, but it's not "Roman" in this sense. It's a Renaissance comedy which means happy ending and the restoring of order. His "Roman" plays are the revenge ones: Henry VIII, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, etc. Think: everybody dies. As to her comment the 2016 BREXIT vote "will have violent repercussions for British Commonwealth and European identity for decades" - here we are nearly a decade later... where's the "violence?" In fact, it is the Brits who have stood forth on their identity while Muslims riot in France (which has led to Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, nationalist party National Rally winning a majority in the lower house just this month) and other EU countries like Italy are starting to say "No more." Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are notoriously liberal welfare states, Scotland's First Minister (a Muslim) said the quiet part out loud last year - he believes there should be less whites in govt. They've lost their collectivist minds. As to Ms. Hall's romantic notion that the lower class groundlings (Heads up, it was Shakespeare who used coined this disparaging term in HAMLET) were there to admire the "exquisite poetry" - when Shakespeare calls them "groundlings" the word then referred to a small big-eyed, big mouthed fish. It was the literate wealthy who enjoyed the poetry. In fact, Shakespeare was mocked by his contemporaries as Upstart Crow for not having a university education. If the groundlings were there for anything, it was the cannibalism, mutilation and more than a dozen killings of, say, TITUS ANDRONICUS. If she is such a "fangirl" of Shakespeare then why is it her ideology (the Left) constantly bastardizing his plays, apologizing for them, or outright banning them like the Protestants of the Cromwell's military dictatorship in 1642? I mean.. Good God... "Shakespeare is full of classism, sexism, racism and defunct social mores" www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/21/shakespeare-universal-cultural-imperialism
You forgot "Titus Andronicus" in your list of his Roman plays at 13:01
"People go to see Shakespeare now in Britain to show that they are rich and upper class."
Nonsense and who would care if they did, it pays the actors, choreographers, craftsmen, stagehands, hell even the damn light bill After the Globe burned down the only way the Bard stayed in business was via the "rich and upper class" - the monarchy in fact, his company did dozens of performances for the Court, which facilitated the acquisition of a more expensive theater where they could charge 5x as much as they did at the Globe and that acquisition put them in the money.
The Bard understood we set the misery index to fit our finances:
"Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich; and being rich, my virtue then shall be to say there is no vice but beggary."
-Bastard, The Life and Death of King John, Act 2 Scene 1
Edward, you are absolutely correct. Do these "scholars" do any critical self-review of their blather?
maybe she was focused only on his late Roman plys?
@@ruvindrasathsarani6064 He's known as more of a comedian in the late plays, of which Cymbeline is one. Technically, all his revenge plays are "Roman" in the sense Seneca (the Quentin Tarantino of Roman tragedy) was his early muse and that's what the Elizabethans wanted - to crush your enemy and see him driven before you, blood, guts, rape, etc - things Ms. Hall likely could never understand any more than genteel T. S. Eliot who refused to believe Shakespeare even wrote Titus Andronicus. Cymbeline involves Rome, but it's not "Roman" in this sense. It's a Renaissance comedy which means happy ending and the restoring of order. His "Roman" plays are the revenge ones: Henry VIII, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, etc. Think: everybody dies.
As to her comment the 2016 BREXIT vote "will have violent repercussions for British Commonwealth and European identity for decades" - here we are nearly a decade later... where's the "violence?" In fact, it is the Brits who have stood forth on their identity while Muslims riot in France (which has led to Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, nationalist party National Rally winning a majority in the lower house just this month) and other EU countries like Italy are starting to say "No more."
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are notoriously liberal welfare states, Scotland's First Minister (a Muslim) said the quiet part out loud last year - he believes there should be less whites in govt. They've lost their collectivist minds.
As to Ms. Hall's romantic notion that the lower class groundlings (Heads up, it was Shakespeare who used coined this disparaging term in HAMLET) were there to admire the "exquisite poetry" - when Shakespeare calls them "groundlings" the word then referred to a small big-eyed, big mouthed fish. It was the literate wealthy who enjoyed the poetry. In fact, Shakespeare was mocked by his contemporaries as Upstart Crow for not having a university education. If the groundlings were there for anything, it was the cannibalism, mutilation and more than a dozen killings of, say, TITUS ANDRONICUS.
If she is such a "fangirl" of Shakespeare then why is it her ideology (the Left) constantly bastardizing his plays, apologizing for them, or outright banning them like the Protestants of the Cromwell's military dictatorship in 1642? I mean.. Good God...
"Shakespeare is full of classism, sexism, racism and defunct social mores"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/21/shakespeare-universal-cultural-imperialism
thanks for the lecture
give a good hiding, to... 👍🇮🇱😜