Iambic Pentameter and the Bard's use of language is why so few actors and actresses can actually manage to do Shakespearean acting any justice at all. I started watching these films to prepare my A Midsummer Night's Dream interactive reading journal for my middle school ESL students and now I watch because it fascinates me. I've always known that only a select few actors can manage Shakespeare with any form of skill, however, this shows the nuances and intensity that is needed for the actual role one plays. Bravo to the coaches and the actors and actresses in these videos. Bravo, indeed! Very well done!
I never understood metre when studying sixth form lit - it always seemed like an overly contrived extravagance, and maybe it is - but this demonstration helped me reassess somewhat.
The aural division between verse and prose was much more pronounced and obvious in performance in the original context. If actors used a similar style today, people would think it silly.
It’s subtle but listen to Lear “Blow WINDS and CRACK your CHEEKS, rage, BLOW, you CATarACTS and HURriCANEos! SPOUT…” It’s there, subtly, when done right. Assuming I even got the rhythm right🥴
The scansion on the line from Romeo & Juliet is off. "Gallop" is a trochee, not an iamb. And the line starts with a strong stress. Yes, the line overall is predominantly iambic. But it's not the best representation of a line of perfect iambic pentameter. Unless it can be demonstrated that "gallop" might have been pronounced with the strong stress on "op" in the early modern period...(but I don't think that's the case).
Yes, "gallop" is a trochee! And I've never heard any rendition of Elizabethan/Jacobean English that pronounces it with an emphasis anywhere but on the "ga", unless you frame it as a deliberate choice by the actor (which could also be made today).
3:41 Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
My entire grade depends on this video please answer these 1. Iambic pentameter is similar to what human function? 2. How many feet or in one line of iambic pentameter? 3. How can the verse help the actor understand the text?
Can you imagine Shakespeare living today and seeing people still doing this stuff with his work? “Why f*** has not thou come up with anything new?!?!?!?!?!?”
This is all nonsense. English verse is stress-counted. Five stresses makes a five-stress line. Doesn’t matter how many unstressed syllables there are. The term iambic pentameter is borrowed from Latin and Greek prosody. If you read Shakespeare as iambic pentameter you distort natural speech rhythms and make such a mess of his verse as these poor folks do here. Try making almost any line of Shakespeare into ta dum, ta dum-on endlessly: it doesn’t work. Try “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Or “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow . . .” Good luck with that. Shakespeare knew better. And the RSC should know better than to teach this balderdash.
My English teacher made me watch this in online school
me too
Same
Same
same here
Sounds like you summon a demon.
LMAO
Iambic Pentameter and the Bard's use of language is why so few actors and actresses can actually manage to do Shakespearean acting any justice at all. I started watching these films to prepare my A Midsummer Night's Dream interactive reading journal for my middle school ESL students and now I watch because it fascinates me. I've always known that only a select few actors can manage Shakespeare with any form of skill, however, this shows the nuances and intensity that is needed for the actual role one plays. Bravo to the coaches and the actors and actresses in these videos. Bravo, indeed! Very well done!
What a dork.
Who else was forced to watch this by their theater teacher
me
Lmao
Im getting forced by my english teacher smh
Yeah. Crying rn
Forced?
Wow and thank you! This lesson is transformative. Voice and text become one in musicality, meaning, emphasis and enunciation.
My mom made me watch this for school
😂
Beautiful video! What a TREAT to see actors galloping together within this breathtaking language. Fiery-footed is right! 🔥😌💖 Bravo!
I never understood metre when studying sixth form lit - it always seemed like an overly contrived extravagance, and maybe it is - but this demonstration helped me reassess somewhat.
my friend here justin he’s cracked at fortnite my guy
Despite hearing so many explanations of imabic pentameter i find it difficult to spot it when actors are speaking their lines in movies or stage.
Presumably because the actors do all this work and all you see is actually speaking, not designed to be seen or heard, very subtle in that way
@@garrettcolon20 yeah makes sense
The aural division between verse and prose was much more pronounced and obvious in performance in the original context. If actors used a similar style today, people would think it silly.
It’s subtle but listen to Lear “Blow WINDS and CRACK your CHEEKS, rage, BLOW, you CATarACTS and HURriCANEos! SPOUT…” It’s there, subtly, when done right. Assuming I even got the rhythm right🥴
@@jessieelldee2947 haha i guess you did it fine
The scansion on the line from Romeo & Juliet is off. "Gallop" is a trochee, not an iamb. And the line starts with a strong stress. Yes, the line overall is predominantly iambic. But it's not the best representation of a line of perfect iambic pentameter. Unless it can be demonstrated that "gallop" might have been pronounced with the strong stress on "op" in the early modern period...(but I don't think that's the case).
Yes, "gallop" is a trochee! And I've never heard any rendition of Elizabethan/Jacobean English that pronounces it with an emphasis anywhere but on the "ga", unless you frame it as a deliberate choice by the actor (which could also be made today).
She even says it that way later in the video. GALLop.
2:06 what night?? 😳😳
3:41
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
iambic is the usual and natural rythem in which the english language is spoken.
hmm yes I understand this very well
The girl with her hair in a bun looks as though she's wondering if her agent had made a mistake in getting her to audition for this.
Can't understand why people get so worked up about him! Though I did like Upstart Crow!
It’s cos until they got a role in that play at school they never had any rizz.
My entire grade depends on this video please answer these
1. Iambic pentameter is similar to what human function?
2. How many feet or in one line of iambic pentameter?
3. How can the verse help the actor understand the text?
Ik the 1st one is heartbeat lmao
1 - heart 2 - 5
2. Is 5 and 3 is the rythme gives structure to the language
I still don't get it because you never hear the words being spoken like this in a play so what does it matter. Waiting for the penny to drop!
Perhaps they are speaking it that way and those watching the play do not register it.
When it’s spoken naturally for an audience it falls out in the right way if you’ve done the work on the Iambic
Who else is here because of Tupac?
Amazing
Iamb is the natural metre of the English language
Can you imagine Shakespeare living today and seeing people still doing this stuff with his work? “Why f*** has not thou come up with anything new?!?!?!?!?!?”
di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum
i didn’t know i was signing up to watch a cult-
Lmfao why are they all barefoot except the dude? I thought he had on some air force ones.
I am
LOL.
What a sad little life
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@@squeezy8414 kioken X 100 cringe
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cringe +after 4 years.
im forced to watch this and its boring a they are talking to much
This is all nonsense. English verse is stress-counted. Five stresses makes a five-stress line. Doesn’t matter how many unstressed syllables there are. The term iambic pentameter is borrowed from Latin and Greek prosody. If you read Shakespeare as iambic pentameter you distort natural speech rhythms and make such a mess of his verse as these poor folks do here. Try making almost any line of Shakespeare into ta dum, ta dum-on endlessly: it doesn’t work. Try “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Or “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow . . .” Good luck with that. Shakespeare knew better. And the RSC should know better than to teach this balderdash.
get better music at the beginning because it is awful to listen to.
this is boring