Shakespeare's Ghosts and Spirits - Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA CBE
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2018
- Where do the ghosts in Shakespeare come from? And what about the magic? In this lecture, Jonathan Bate will summon up the ghosts of Old Hamlet, the victims of Richard III and Julius Caesar, revealing their origins in the bloody plays of Seneca. He will then show how such figures from classical mythology as Theseus and Medea provide a key to the association between supernatural powers and Shakespearean art.
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The weaving of religious undertones into the use of ghosts and particularly the connection to Luther was, I thought, a deeply insightful and illuminating reading of Hamlet.
As a dedicated Shakespearean, this was astonishingly great
Absolutely brilliant. This lecture should be required listening and reading for those of us in the paranormal field. Are Ghosts really "out there" or are they inside us? After a lifetime of paranormal research I go with Shakespeare and The Liminal. The footprints on the sands of eternity are our own. If "we" are spirits having a material existence then we occupy an infinitely vaster space than we give ourselves credit for. And if so, we also haunt that space as "fellow travelers to the grave." Thank you, Dr. Bates.
Paranormal field? You're ghost hunters?
Yay! Much louder now! Thank you!
Thank you very much. I realy appreciate your effort. I hope you continue giving lectures online.
Thank you again Professor Bate, for this and for your Future Learn Online classes
I'm writing a seminar paper on a related topic, so this has been quite helpful. thanks for the video :)
Please can I text you? I need your help.
@@ahmedabdallah2040 Did you get help?
Please give a lecture about J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy judgment of Macbeth.
That can be dispensed with by one observation: Tolkien vastly and unreasonably overrated the scenic resources of the early modern stage.
Very interesting. Entirely actors upon the stage.
Too quiet. The ends of your sentences often vanish.
Shakespeare didnt exist. So he couldnt have believed anything.
What?? He was a real person
Funny how there are so many documentary records related to him, then. Records related to his baptism, his burial, his marriage to Anne Hathaway, his testimony in a lawsuit, his bringing suits against other people, his will, his acting with the Lord Chamberlain's Men/King's Men, etc. To say nothing of the extensive publication record. It seems a little odd for a nonexistent person to be able to generate this much paperwork.
There are records of "them" finding dinosaurs too, but they didn't exist. Go figure.
@@SongbirdX Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Well, at least you saved me some time, and I thank you for that. There aren't many things you could have said to prove that you're a complete lunatic in just one sentence, but that is one of them.
0:11 no it is not, it is a cheap and lazy device.
You can't say that the Ghost in Hamlet is a cheap and lazy device...
An entire play is a construction filled with elements, now all are devices, an opening, closing, anything becomes a constructed device. So...nope.