Uncovering Shakespeare’s Mysterious Life (Full Documentary) | Perspective
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- To the world, Shakespeare left a lasting legacy and an awful lot of unanswered questions. Follow John Nettles as he recounts the life of William Shakespeare.
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My daughter was slightly dyslexic in elementary school. When my son started to learn about Shakespeare when he was a about 11-12, she (9-10) would pick up the books & try to read them. Because the cadence is so different than it is now, she could read it. Every night she would read out loud, a few pages. We had a ritual of going to the bookstore every week & each got one book. The clerks always thought it funny that I would force my pre-teens to read Shakespeare when I usually got a detective or adventure novel. It was always their choice. Now nearly 20 years later, they are both incredibly well read. My son’s grade 8 teacher gave him a complete set of 100 year old leather bound plays because he thought he would be most appreciative - fabulous teacher. My son got a MA in Linguistics & a PhD in English literature. My new granddaughter is read a book in the morning & again night. My daughter has started the bookstore, then pizza ritual up again. Rarely do they miss a week. I think reading to them every night, was probably one of the best parenting things I did.
This post makes me so freaking happy. I teach and act for a Shakespeare Theatre Company is Sydney, Australia. I'm also a high school teacher. I really love hearing this about parents, who beautifully introduce Shakespeare works to young people. People who struggle with dyslexia can be so easily triggered and challenged by the work, but even if it's introduced in bite-size chunks it's so effective and so rewarding. Me for example, when I was a pre-teen I wasn't great at reading. So my Mum bought me Batman comics. Many moons later, I was reading Shakespeare and To Kill A Mockingbird. Now I work full time for a theatre company as an educator. Iris, thank you so much for sharing this story. You are clearly an amazing teacher and an gorgeous parents. Best of luck to you and your loved ones! xxx
I love Shakespeare also,my great uncle gave me leather bond series of all of Shakespeare 's books. I attend every summer Shakespeare in the park. I learned to be a reader also,I lose myself and how fast the day goes by. So wonderful the weekly bookstore and lunch.
The King James Bible is also in iambic pentameter. This is Shakespeare's rhythm. Psalms can be sung quite easily for some reason, unlike other places in the Bible where people are begat- ting or something. My story is that a teacher in 5th grade gave me dictionary terms every time I was caught reading in class or talking in class (notes or whispers) because my grades were awful. I was the only child in my family who did NOT have dyslexia nor dysgraphia. He also gave me a reading list on the college reading level because he thought I was reading one book a day, not 5, which I was. Wyatt McClenny, RIP.
Yes good for you. Most educated parents read to children. I still dislike reading aloud and being read to yet am recording my own first novel for those who enjoy listening. I remember some of those old children's books including Pickles the Fire Cat .
I'm so glad I found your channel. Every episode reminds me why life is worthwhile.
So well expressed. Life is worthwhile when you are learning and expanding your mind and soul.
Et tu Brute ? 👑👑👑
Yes, I agree! This is such a quality site!
What a lovely thing to say!
I've just discovered it myself. 🙂
Made even MORE ENJOYABLE with John Nettles narrating! ☺
YES!!!!❤
I wondered why he wasn't banging up villains.
Six years at Grammar School in thr 1950/1960's and reading his classics, stey with me forever
So " Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more".
I'm almost 75
Hoping Shakespeare is endearingly and perpetually appreciated.
" We are such dreams are made on
And our little life is ended with a sleep"
John Nettles, you are a newly discovered gem to me, love your work.
I know him from Midsommer Murders on PBS and Masterpiece for many years! glad you've discovered him!
Look up Bergerac , the jersey detective series in the 1980s which launched his career , then Midsomer Murders
He's pretty low rent
So happy to hear his voice!
Brilliant documentary, the best I’ve watched about Shakespeare.
What a piece of work was that man
I am not British but I have always been fascinated by British history. I love these videos where history is presented in a more "personal" way. John Nettles is an excellent choice for a host in this video. (I just keep expecting DS Troy to show up.)
One house of classical art ..thank you much appreciated
I thought I knew that voice 🙂 So lovely to meet again, Mr Nettles.
There are many mysteries about Shakespeare. One that has always intrigued me is in "A Midsummer night's dream"
In the intro, the characters are inruduced. With Puck it says " Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow".
It is never mentioned again until the very last line in the play, when, in the epilogue Puck says " if this
offends, then Robin will make amends".
Goodfellow is still a fairly common name in that part of England,. Who was he having fun with ?
I wonder if someone today could go over the parish records of that era and find a clue.
i would love that.
Shakespeare did not invent the name "Robin Goodfellow". It was an alternate name for a mischievous sprite or fairy from mythology. He appeared regularly in plays and in print, including in a play by Anthony Munday play from 1584, a decade before Shakespeare summoned him.
I thought Puck was Pan
@@sissy9393 That might have made it hard to portray him on stage.
I prefer to listen to Shakespeare in morse code. Ah the lovely beeps and stops... its beyond human words I tell you. But fools read in an old book, from the 1600's.
Just...just thank you for doing this channel! Much appreciated and may the arts live forever.
Fabulous, Waldy-again. Thank You from Wyoming,❇️
Many thanks for this.
Interesting that so many of the comments below on this fine documentary are from people who wish to discredit Shakespeare's existence or that the wrote the plays. These people never explain their credentials or do more than make assertions. Whereas there is to my knowledge no serious academic interest in the authorship conspiracy theory in any major university worldwide. I myself am a theatre director with a deep experience of his work. It clearly is the work of one man, he develops but there is one voice. This s a Warwickshire voice that received a good but not deep education, and above al he was a manor the theatre who wrote in rehearsal or after rehearsal. His plays are utterly unlike Marlowe's (Marlowe had no sense of humour and hated writing women's roles). Francis Bacon did not write poetry let alone plays. The Earl of Oxford wrote some terrible plays. There is so much evidence for Shakespeare and none except bizarre embedded codes that suggest otherwise. No one doubted Shakespeare in his lifetime. Why bother now??
Right you are! Have you read James Shapiro’s “Contested Will” and “A Year in the Life…”?
Couldn't even spell his own name, owned no books. He was a grain merchant.
Of course there is a serious academic debate! Thats an absurd statement to make.
@@fgoindarkg 1) He could spell his own name. The existence of alternate spellings of his name written by other people is no more evidence that he couldn't spell his own name than the existence of alternate spellings of mine proves that I can't spell my own name. Seriously, reading my name on junk mail is one of the most amusing pastimes I know. I've collected 22 variant spellings of my name.
2) There is no evidence that he owned no books, but, _arguendo_ , even if he owned no books in *STRATFORD* , that would be irrelevant to his career as an author in *LONDON* . However, you'd need the inventory to show what property he owned when he died, and the inventory is missing. A will is not an inventory and cannot be assumed to comprehensively document all of the personal property the testator dies possessed of.
3) The only thing that anti-Shakespearians claim identifies him as a grain merchant is their subjective interpretation of a badly executed sketch, turned into an even worse engraving, in William Dugdale's _The Antiquities of Warwickshire_ . Lacking any historical knowledge of ancient funerary monuments, or what was said about this one (e.g., the object was correctly identified as a cushion by Gerard Langbain in _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_ (1691)), they eyeball the cushion in the image and assert that it's either a sack of grain or a sack of wool. In this, they show that they don't know anything about agriculture or sheep-shearing either, since these sacks were massively larger than the object depicted on the monument. Finally, they show themselves up as illiterate because they haven't even bothered to read what William Dugdale himself said about the monument and the person it honors. Dugdale himself said that, "One thing more, in reference to this antient Town [Stratford-upon-Avon] is observable, that it gave birth and sepulture to our late famous Poet Will. Shakespere, whose Mo∣nument I have inserted in my discourse of the Church." Their *OWN* source for the grain merchant claim explicitly says he was a poet, but anti-Shakespearians evidently prefer looking at pictures to reading.
My favourite theory about the missing 7 years is that Shakespeare went to Italy. Not so ridiculous as it sounds, once he had made his way to London, he could take ship with Venetian merchants who regularly visited London. His Italian plays are a clue: he stopped at Messina in Sicily (Much Ado about Nothing) sailed into Venice (The Merchant of Venice and Othello), travelled across the Po plain to Padua (Taming of the Shrew) and Verona (Two gentlemen of Verona and Romeo and Juliet). These plays have contemporary settings and are not historical or fantasy, as are his Greek settings, Timon of Athens and Midsummer Nights Dream.
Had he actually been there, he would know that there are no tides in the Mediterranean, that Verona and Milan are nowhere near the sea, and Venice was a republic, with no Duke.
@@Jeffhowardmeade exactly. Yet another sign that the “authorship” bs is nonsense. Shakespeare’s specific knowledge of foreign geography is very sketch - he was not a nobleman who traveled extensively. But his Elizabethan “grammar school” education, brilliant sense of the stage and stage language, prominent father (in the town - likely a recusant Catholic), etc all support his identity. Not to mention his many friends…
@@dannetterousseau4095 I wonder what they called his money.
He would have needed permission to travel abroad, which he didn’t have.
In the late 16th century you could travel to Milan from Venice by boat via the canal system, but you know that, don’t you.
@@enheduannapax7988 An earl needed permission to travel. A normal person did not.
And please describe how a person rushing to catch the tide to get from Verona to Milan would get there by using a canal, in the Mediterranean where there are no tides.
Even if it were possible, why someone would do that when they could hop a horse and make the trip in a day?
Thank you for this wonderful resource filled with classical stories and history!
what history are you referring to? check out what is actually known about shakspear of Stratford - I would suggest around 90% of this documentary is made up. they don't even know if he went too grammar school !
Thank you 😊
Thanks!
😎 It's content like this, that makes me glad I SUBBED! 👍
And (in Othello, I believe) mythopoetically he coined "green-eyed monster" for "jealousy." And in King Lear, "marble-hearted fiend" for "ingratitude"; and the adage "how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, to have an ungrateful child."
Very Good !
I watched this a long time ago, but it’s well worth the second watching! Excellent! I note, in my opinion, Shakespeare studied Job? He was the first dramatist! Many of those sayings are Job’s? Excellent! Thankyou
Great documentary thanks valdemar
Great channels on the arts the best. Considering we virtually did no arts at school. Made for the factory. Thanks again.
I’ve been watching most of Waldemar ‘s brilliant programmes on tv for many years, so I’m glad to have discovered this ‘Perspective’ series here.
As for Shakespeare and Stradford, now, it’s definitely wonderful to have preserved that 16th century very house as a piece of history that helps us all to better dive into the daily life at the time, etc. Except that I happen to have been introduced to the famous ‘authorship controversy’ at school, around age 15, in the late Sixties… Therefore, at least in my eyes, there’s a quite reasonable doubt about the Bard’s actual identity (as there’s one in France as well, by the way, regarding the authorship of Molière’s plays). Whatever - only one absolute evidence in all this: the man was a true genius!
No there isn’t any doubt. To me as a medievalist (though I also specialize in Renaissance literature) there is ample evidence to support the identity of the Bard. I don’t even want to argue the point because it is laughably absurd to anyone who actually works on early literature (you think no “evidence” exists for such a “famous” writer? Don’t even ask me about every anonymous great medieval poet whose poetry was known well-enough to be quoted by others yet their specific identity is entirely unknown). Just stop it with the horrifically arrogant, classist, pointless, and inaccurate “controversy” nonsense. It started in the nineteenth century and is rooted in classist arrogance.
The “birth place” is a 19th century reconstruction. Almost nothing in Stratford is original. It is not known where Shaksper was born - the Henley Street mansion was purchased later in his life.
The authorship debate is real and valid. The reluctance of academics to recognize that fact speaks to the propensity for higher education to beat critical thinking out of most people’s minds. Falsified old fossils will never admit the evidence supporting Shaksper of Stratford is unbelievably weak.
@@AleisterCrowleyMagus Your handle speks more than....
@@AleisterCrowleyMagus Just look at the six signatures. The man couldn't write. It has nothing to do with arrogance or classism. There's not a drop of evidence that he ever wrote a thing. Christopher Marlowe came from the same class as Shakspere. Marlowe excelled, went to university, studied and became a great writer. Shakspere never went to university, probably never went to grammar school. Parents were illiterate, his children were illiterate, he left no money to educate his grandchildren. He didn't value education because he was illiterate too.
@@AleisterCrowleyMagus Agree. As Shakespeare biographies, e.g., the instant video, point out, the public Stratford Grammar School for boys that Shakespeare attended early rigorously, "university level" trained them in the classical "Trivium" of Latin (and now English) grammar, rhetoric (all its schematic structural devices that Shakespeare as a poet later deployed) and history. Shakespeare's maternal great uncle Sir Henry Alexander Webb had been a trusted counselor of Queen Catherine Paar, who mentions him in a document.
During the great pendulum swings of the earlier Tudor Catholic versus Protestant religious reversals that shook and permanently altered the country, Shakespeare's family (having some Catholic holdouts) had to keep up with every latest new law governing English citizens, upon pain of execution. And after school Shakespeare seems (like later Charles Dickens) to have clerked in a law office, and so become proficient in legal doings (e.g., chicanery [hence, his later witty satire, "first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"] as well as processes and court proceedings).
As this video narrates, he viewed in Stratford royal theatre troupe tour performances of prior plays of Henry V, Richard III, Romeo and [Ethel, Rosalind, or whomever]. And from near books he absorbed Hollinshed's Chronicles of English history and Plutarch's Lives of notable ancient Roman Imperialists. A quick and retentive study, by age 18 he was ready (fully equipped by education, and natural imaginative, dramatic and wordsmith endowment) to shake the theatrical scene in London, as he did by his poetic improvements of said above plays and others.
A mere seven years after his 1616 death, his contemporary poet dramatist rival Ben Jonson wrote a great tribute poem to him (conceding that "my Shakespeare," "Sweet Swan of Avon" had, compared to university M.A. Ben, "little Latin and less Greek", yet rating Shakespeare's poems and plays as "out-topping knowledge") in Ben's preface to the 1623 First Folio publication of Shakespeare's plays, collected by his two actor colleagues from the King's Men, Heminges and Condyll. These two actors had personally known and worked with Shakespeare in London from the early 1590s.
So the historicity of William Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon and then London; and his authorship of nearly all his plays, but for possible collaboration (based on inconsistent style evidence) in one or more early plays, as in the Henry VI trilogy and in Henry VIII, and an unfinished drama of Sir Thomas More, is beyond dispute.
3.25. The illustration supposedly showing Stratford in the mid 16th century actually shows the Victorian memorial theatre just right of centre.
Excellent
John Nettles !!❤
Don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed that documentary :)
Great film, great presenter, but it is natural when created a film about the greatest writer in the world.Thank you.
Shakespeare is still so genius to help anyone discovering the beauty of the human language, using stories in order to manage situations instead of building up wars for keeping under control the same boundless frustration...from here to Kiev UKRAINE to China and back friends, it's so cute listening lnspector Barnaby talking about Shakespeare as a suspect of a crime, in fact he is the bigger murderer of human ignorance, a huge outrageous criminal indeed. I was watching last night a great movie, The Accountant, a shocking gorgeous Ben Affleck, we still have to deal with this huge trend of autism disorder, of this intollerance to a hostile evil kind of society, most Shakespeare stories are based on this lack of comunication creating the most tragic disasters among people
Years ago I attended a performance at the Globe while visiting London. I don't remember which one it was but I do remember how unbearably uncomfortable the wooden stadium seating was and how long it seemed to go on. The space between the seating was so tight that knees intruded into the backs of those seated in front o fyou. Of course, no seat cushion or back rests. Toward the end, I became jealous of those standing or seated on the ground in front of the stage. The attendees back in the day were shorter and sturdier than me that's for certain. Loved the Shakespeare history lesson. Thanks.
YOu can actually rent a comfy pillow to sit on. Very cheap.
Your refreshing commentary and striding knowledge is thoroughly engaging and enlightening Waldemar. Bravo! (A snide comment on your French pronunciation ... emphasize the second syllable of the Impressionists MoNet, DeGas, et GauGuin, s'il vous plait mon ami :-).
John Nettles! 🥳 will always be Inspector Barnaby to me!
Sorry, ‘ Bergerac’ for me.
There's such a fun biography of him in the recently published POTTED PORTRAITS book.
Please do a bookshelf tour 🤩🤩🤩
There are literary talents as stellar as Shakespeare's alive today. They are held captive in the dungeon of memes.
they're living in poverty
Excellent work, loved this
John Heminges, Henry Condell, and Richard Burbage, three actors of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, a famous acting company that included William Shakespeare, were given money by William Shakespeare of Stratford in his Last Will and Testament in 1616. Two of these actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, were responsible for having 36 of Shakespeare's plays published in the First Folio in 1623.
So very interesting. Thank you for sharing. So very much appreciated ☺️
06:39 "...He was always known as a glovemaker stroke [slash] whittawer. Now, a whittawer is a tanner; a tanner but who's producing really fine white leather. And that ties in with the sort of gloves John Shakespeare was making. These are fashionable, high quality gloves made for the well-to-do."
Made an effort to websearch the term he was using (which sounded a lot like "widower") -- to see how it was spelled: "whittawer".
"White" plus "tawer". ..."Tawing" or "white tawing" is a process a tanner uses by treating animal skins with alum or lime in order to make "whitleather".
I got that from...Swedish! I figured the spelling was "wittare." Witt = vit = white; are = are = one who makes things _____; and together _one who makes things white_ , so he made the materials for the gloves white.
There's a though going round that English is a Scandinavian language. I've only recently heard this, but the more I think about it, the more I think it could be true. Germanic, yes, but once upon a time mutually intelligible with the other Scandinavian languages.
@@rubynibs Exactly. A whittower worked in delicate leather such as calf-skin, and the 'whitt' bit DOES mean 'white'.
I am seriously considering moving to Ashland just to get more Shakespeare in my life. Oh, but the tourists...
Used to visit there, from Seattle, every year for quite a while 80s to 90s when my son was young! he used to go with his class mates from Garfield as well! was the high point of our summers! not sure what it would be like to live there!
Ashland and the surrounding Southern Oregon area is a nice place to live away from the hustle & bustle of life in big cities.
One of the commentators in this wonderful documentary mentions that Shakespeare's father was, at one time, a nail taster. What was a nail taster? I've googled around some, including medieval history and lists of old-time occupational sites and can't find anything. Anyone know?
Thanks.
I hear d it as an ALE taster! Just saying...
@@emilieraphael4431 He WAS an ale taster.That was a real job. He later worked his way up to High Bailiff (kind of Mayor), but if it was me, I'd have stuck with the ale tasting.
Many seem unaware that Shakespeare's origins weren't really humble. His dad was an alderman, who (before financess went sour) owned several houses and a farm.
Me and my class mates writing a rap about Midsummers night's dream 🤣❤️
There are many questions about him and this is but one view that although possibly on shaky ground has a whole industry dependent upon it.
Are you suggesting nobody's making money selling non-stratfordianism?
@@Tmanaz480 no. But corner store vs Walmart 😄
@@Tmanaz480 Actuality, nobody is making money selling Anti-Stratfordianism. 99% of their books are self-published. The only one making any money from it is the Howard Johnson where they hold their annual meeting in one of the smaller conference rooms.
mrsakesalive smells of cats and likes to poo in his garden. now there are are rumours about you that are obviously true because someone has said them.
Professionals in evidence and logic based occupations- scientists, judges and attorneys, historians, physicians - tend to be authorship doubters. The artsy, subjective, soft disciplines fall in line with the orthodoxy and careerism.
Plagues sweeping through seem to have been somewhat expected by people of this time, like how now we expect tornadoes and hurricanes.
I think Romeo was a stalker.
And, after four and half centuries, we have a new Shakespeare in the world!
Interessante.
Time machine, 🙏 please
Thank you!
they do a good video on the life of homer.
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shalkespeare great plays...the spear is.migjtier than the sword..😉birthday same as his death...still..great story ...
FYI - Should read: Shakespeare’s Mysterious Life instead of Uncovering Shakespear’s Mysterious Life - missing an 'e' in the title
At 22:18 I'm pretty sure he says Aristocats
Thumbnail picture makes him look like he works the door at a Northern, shady, run-down nightclub.
"Hey Shakesy, wanna throw this trouble maker out?"
"No problem boss."
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Capitalize and understand the new mediums.
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תעביר את הכתוב לmedium שלך
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האם יודעים איך שייקספיר היה נראה
מה החשיבות השפתית של שייקספיר?
האם לשייקספיר היו חיי אהבה
האם לשייקספיר הייתה משפחה.
איך שייקספיר עברה להיות מחזאי?
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על מי שייקספיר השפיעה
When Ben Jonson speaks of Stratford and Avon in the First Folio, of which Stratford and of which Avon did he speak?
Jonson didn't refer to Stratford. He mentioned Avon. Leonard Digges referred to Shakespeare's "Stratford Monument". Digges' stepfather was the executor of Shakespeare's will.
By “Avon” he meant Hampton court. Not stratford upon avon.
@@byzantinegold What makes Hampton Court a better candidate than the Avon River?
@@OddawallWood Because Shakespeare's plays were performed for Queen Elizabeth I there. Avon is the ancient Welsh word for "river", many places in Britain could be misconstrued as "Avon".
In fact, "Hampton" is a corruption of the word Avondunum, which means "fort on the river", AKA Hampton Court. It was a fortified palace on the banks of the Thames.
@@byzantinegold Where might one find ¨the Stratford moniment¨ if not in the Church of the Holy Trinity at Stratford upon Avon.?
No one can tell the story without background Muzak
We had his merchant of venice in school 7 standerd
"a rose by any other name..."
Whether we’re poets or not, Shakespeare made us all into poets.
Very good decision fans, let's hang on with genius minds to give us further inspirations because they make life worth living, Shakespeare is helping us to love words that become more powerful than bullets or bombs if well used. Web connection is the best prove, using a language, comunication is everything friends, let's be straight about it. Thanks God humankind evolve, makes me smile recalling the Past, watching such documentaries, how ages were then, the best reason to learn to improve ourselves together, using web connection for...saving the power of comunication friends
I fell in love with Stratford-Upon-Avon at first sight. Immediately loved it, what a wonderful city
This video was originally published as "Shakespeare: The Legacy" by Film Media Group n 2016 and has been posted by others on RUclips. There is a good chance you have seen it before.
I think we would be able to tell that for ourselves thanks
I have a book about this coming out, "The Precious Gem of Hidden Literature: Francis Bacon 1576-1655" if you search for that you'll find the PDF version for free.
Bravo! I look forward with pleasure to reading your book - merci beaucoup.
Do you believe he compiled the 1611 King James Bible?
@@tropes_ There was a team of translators but it's very likely he did the final revision, giving it a uniform style.
@@ryanmurtha2392 Then why is there no record of him being involved? It's not as if a very public figure in the Court of King James would have needed to keep his involvement a secret.
@@Jeffhowardmeade You're looking at it from a modern point of view. Today the risks of authorship are minimal and the potential rewards are great, it was just the opposite in Shakespeare's time. Then there is the question of Bacon's parentage, which I discuss in the introduction, if Bacon's parents were really Elizabeth and Dudley he would have very good reason to be quiet as possible. Elizabeth died just before Hamlet was first published, so there is some reason to believe she was the model for Gertrude, as Otto Rank has suggested. People were arrested for saying Elizabeth was pregnant at the time, so it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. Bacon considered as his primary mission the reform of natural philosophy or what we now call science, some writers say poets and playwrights were not taken seriously in Elizabethan times and this may also have prompted the use of a pseudonym. At least Burghley seems to have thought the activity unworthy of a statesman, maybe something like Nero fiddling as Rome burned. To be fair there is a surprising lack of evidence for anyone's involvement, the massive manuscript materials required for the First Folio have all vanished without a scrap surviving. That was by accident or intent, and it seems strange that people should have thought the plays worth preserving after Shakespeare's death, for seven years, then just thrown them all in the bin once the Folio was published. These would have included the only hard copies of Macbeth, As You Like It, The Tempest, right? Julius Caesar too? In the introduction I mention a recently discovered or recently disclosed pamphlet from 1599 which claims Bacon was writing anonymously for the government. He'd only published a small book of ten essays and some religious meditations at that point, so this is a bit strange as well. In the book you will find the story of Coriolanus, Timon and others in the parallelisms I've compiled, I think you will like it.
Not really a mystery. He made money from plays, went back to Avon and lived and died a wealthy man. That's the plot.
Few years ago I saw a show about the doubt if Shakespeare actually did write all these stories. And even club for or against it. But how sure are we today- because I think it’s fair to say there is some doubt. But perhaps a subject for another show!
That depends on who "we" are. If "we" is the community of scholars of early modern theatre, literature, history, etc. then "we" were never in doubt that William Shakespeare wrote the works because he's only one - barring co-authorship credits for John Fletcher for _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ and _The History of Cardenio_ , but these also credit Shakespeare - whose authorship of the plays and poems is supported by documentary evidence from the 16th/17th century and contemporary testimony. Literally, every title page that credits an author credits William Shakespeare (and in one case also John Fletcher), every single Stationer's Register entry (again, but in one case also John Fletcher) and every single Revels Account entry that names the author of the canonical plays and poems identifies Shakespeare as an author, and every single contemporary who bothered to speak on the subject said that Shakespeare was an author. All the evidence exists for Shakespeare and none exists for any rival "candidate" (if you can use the term for people who never sought to be identified with Shakespeare's works when they were alive).
If "we" is the general public, then more than 99.99% of us accept that Shakespeare was the author. Anti-Shakespeareanism is a vanishingly tiny fringe group of people.
If "we" is the community of anti-Shakespearians themselves, then they're always full of doubts because they have to ignore the evidence that can settle the matter, since it never goes their way.
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Lots of speculation about Shakespeare here. He created a world in which women rivaled men in wisdom and presence of power. He keenly knew the role of men in a family and so he went off to London to spend the year only returning to his family at Christmas time to raise a daughter who probably never learned to write. It's curious that he never went into other areas of human thought like science and philosophy with such a great mind. For these reasons it was Francis Bacon, who was one of two illegitimate children of Elizabeth I who wrote the plays and paid handsomely for William Shakespeare to play the part of the playwright. "The Shakespeare Code"
Try "The Lithium Code". It'll help you spot charlatans like Petter Amundsen.
Exactly - the speculation becomes complete fantasy with these 'Life of Shakespeare' documentaries. Most interesting, and perplexing, is the Northumberland Manuscript - which along with Sir Francis Bacon’s name on the cover, is also the name 'William Shakespeare', both written several times, though seemingly unconnected....? Why is Bacon writing William Shakespeare's name unless he is using it?? There are many theories related to the 'Shakespeare Authorship Question' and they all have fascinating aspects to me... as Ben Jonson wrote in the preface of the First Folio "Reader, looke Not on his picture, but his Booke." and in a poem dedicated to Shakespeare, he is “not of an age, but for all time”... says it all.
@@mondomacabromajor5731 Bacon didn't write the Northumberland Manuscript.
@@Jeffhowardmeade Says who - you? Almost everyone agrees that the folder and its contents were originally compiled in or around 1596 and ’97 by Sir Francis Bacon or one of his secretaries, as his name appears in a number of places on the cover along with a list of titles, of which six of the nine manuscripts inside the cover are copies of his works, most of them pointing to this time period. Of most importance to the Shakespeare Authorship Question is the fact that it’s the only Elizabethan document that contains the names of both William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon (“ffrauncis Bacon”) on a single page. Either Bacon himself or his secretaries may have used the space on the cover, perhaps to practise their penmanship, practice signatures or to make sure their pen was properly inked... Sir Francis Bacon was a chameleon in many ways, and heavily into secrecy, that he probably had a number of different writing styles for different purposes. His name is jotted in different forms in what seems to be an exercise to arrive at the proper means of identifying himself on the title page of his essays, when he got around to publishing them.
@@mondomacabromajor5731 You've never read a source that wasn't Anti-Stratfordian. How would you know what actual scholars say on the matter?
Actual scholars think it was Adam Dyrmonth. There is no indication for whom he was worked.
All his family was illiterate but he became the greatest writer of all time ,strange
I don't think that is true. They were a quite rich family in that area around Stratford. Shakespeare himself did very well financialy. He was a part owner of the Globe.
@@dixondavies it’s true and there is no evidence he even went to school 😳
According to "Shakespeare, A Biographical Handbook" (Gerald Eades Bentley, Yale University Press, 1961), Shakespeare's father was part of the municipal administration of Stratford and, the year after William was born, he was in charge of repairing the school master's house and, later, was active in the selection of a new schoolmaster. Although school records have long since been lost, it is likely William was educated at that school.
@@professorsogol5824 I just find it very odd for such a great writer their is no documentary evidence that he went to school and that none of his manuscripts of all his work survive where other great writers in history have numerous works on display
@@robinfereday6562 Since there's no evidence anyone went to the school before 1800, yet they kept paying the schoolmaster, certainly somebody was attending. Why not the mayor's sons?
And there are three play manuscript pages in his handwriting, which is more than we have for most poets of the age, including Ben Jonson, who lived 20 years longer than Shakespeare and was more famous in his own time.
Charming --makes you almost wish it was true.
You are quite right. The plays were clearly written by an aristocrat who was the son of the Virgin Queen who went on to have sex with his mother, who was busting a gut to write plays for the unwashed apprentices of Lodon, and just HAPPENED to choose the same name for his pseudonym as a living, breathing human being who was an actor in the plays of Ben Jonson, and received payment for court performances.
Now when you say that to people, they don't believe you.
have you got the correct legal age to marry correct , other websites quote between age 14 to 16 years to marry
Had my appendix removed in Stratford upon Avon
I, too had surgery there. I was left with a semicolon ;)
Many Stratfordians have had their brain removed there too
@@chrisgamble4939 Since when is relying on documentary evidence having your "brain removed"? Believing in conspiracy theories is generally regarded as the brainless move.
Don't talk to me John with your hands in your pockets. Most discourteous! July 2022.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
...was a mediocre poet. What does he have to do with Shakespeare other than being related to the guy who translated Ovid?
@@Jeffhowardmeade Where are the proofs that Shakespeare could write? Signatures? Handwritten manuscripts of his plays? Where was his personal library? When did he travel abroad? How did he know about Royal intrigues?
@@romanclay1913 There are three play manuscript pages in his handwriting, which is more than we have for most of his contemporaries. His family line died out in 1670. His houses and theaters were all destroyed by 1700. Where would this library be housed? He gets so many things wrong about the Continent that it's obvious he never traveled. The only accurate palace intrigue in his works comes straight from history books. In Love's Labors Lost he names as one of Navarre's companions a Catholic who was in real life Navarre's mortal enemy. He gives Vienna and Venice dukes they never had. He puts Padua in the wrong country. He gives landlocked Bohemia a coastline. He makes the Duke of Milan a client to the King of Naples. He has a character rushing from a landlocked city to catch the tide, IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
If he HAD wanted to know about court intrigues, well, he WAS a groom of the chamber to King James.
@@Jeffhowardmeade Sonnet LXXVI--That every word doth almost tell my name....
Every = E. Vere
@@romanclay1913 Read the whole thing. You haven't actually done that, have you? The poet is saying his verse hasn't kept up with the times because his style is his signature.
If EVERy time any poet used the word EVER, nEVER, EVERy, VERy, etc. it was a reference to De Vere, then he must have written EVERything written by EVERy poet EVER.
I'll see your misunderstanding of Sonnet 76 and raise you Sonnet 136.
"Make but my name thy love, and love that still, And then thou lov’st me, for my name is Will."
Sick to death of constant adverts. Switched off.
Does it really matter who wrote the works? They still exist, they still teach us about life,love,greed,war and the nature of Man. Whether it was the son of a glove maker or an unknown aristocrat. The works still exist!
Yes it matters. We don't do it to Chaucer, or Wordsworth, or Dickens or, indeed, Shakespeare's contemporaries like Ben Johnson or Marlow or Kyd. In fact the more I find out about how theatre worked in that era, the collaborations and the relationships, the more convinced I am that the various theories that he didn't write his plays are utter nonsense.
@@joannemoore3976We do it for William Shake-Speare because the evidence William Shaksper of Stratford-upon-Avon writing them comes down to essentially myths regarding his life not backed by contemporary evidence. What we do know about his life doesn’t line up with him writing anything at all, let alone court poetry.
@@byzantinegold but that simply isn't true. We have plenty of evidence for William Shakespeare as the author. To say otherwise is misrepresentation and spin to be honest. What you don't have is any evidence for the other so called contenders.
@@byzantinegold and what do you mean, court poetry? He wrote poems yes but predominantly he was a playwright. It was popular entertainment that the court also patronised and enjoyed. Stop looking at Shakespeare as some remote poet sitting in isolation with his muse and see him as he was, an actor, a writer, a shareholder, a collaborator, a working man of the theatre who also happened to be a genius. Everything else will then fall into place quite easily you'll find..for example, some early publications of the plays have accidentally retained the writer using the actor's rather than the character's name in the script..is that more likely to be the actor playwright working with his fellows every day or an Earl delivering his secret manuscripts via some stooge. It's just not sensible.
@@joannemoore3976
I understand we are arguing in the comments section of a youtube video, but I think its only fair to expect respectful discussion. I hope we could agree on that, at least.
In my opinion, there has been no convincing evidence during his lifetime to prove the man William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works written under the name William Shakespeare. That's all I am saying. I understand that may enrage the contingent of Shakespeare scholars who disagree.
I do agree there is a some evidence, primarily the traditional story that we have been given, that some scholars think proves he wrote them, but many reasonable and credible people have taken issue with that evidence. Furthermore, they have made other discoveries that point to other candidates, most notable Edward de Vere. The point is there is a reasonable doubt regarding the traditional narrative, and that's something you too cannot deny in good faith.
What should be done, if you truly believe in the ideals of truth and fairness, is to engage in objective study of the information we have available to us to form conclusions. From that basis, you're welcome to your conclusions as am I.
However, to deny it is even conceivable to question the Shakespeare doctrine in any scholarly way is simply dogma, and it is WRONG to do so.
Where did the plague come from, just like where did Covid 19 come from
he went to sell gloves to london, and was fascinated by the theatre
Don't need to Kill to have it:-- just stretch out for it, as you would for the farthest star, and you shall find BY HEAVEN, METHOUGHT IT WAS AN EASY LEAP.
Why don't you do one on Christopher Marlowe who Shakespeare had bumped off allegedly? Mainly by me.
Some say Marlowe was the first pseudonym for The Shakespeare Society.
@@fgoindarkg It's all Greek to me or it might just as well be for the little sense it makes in today's world gadzooks
@@philfletcher3434
I hear ya. My Latin begins and ends with "hang hogg" which is bacon for Francis, I'll warrant.
Literally NOBODY says that. Apart from you, obviously. Some think that Marlowe's death was faked, and he was exiled and wrote the plays in Italy
It's a wonderful theory, with one small flaw. It's bollocks.
The story goes that an inquest jury was shown the body of a hanged man. While it's possible to fake the knife-would in the eye that actually killed Marlowe, it's difficult to hide the obvious marks left by hanging. Also, Marlowe's style is nothing like Shakespeare's.
1:29 Shakespeare wrote on a pillow
5:15 is that the reconstructed version of the house? 11:10 Third graders were doing college level lit in a foreign language 16:40 they speculate wildly and without basis
Shakpere's life is only "mysterious" if you try to make him into a prolific author. No explanation for how he could have obtained the medical, legal and Italian travel knowledge that is fond in the works. No explanation for the trite verse on his grave marker or the rambling unpunctuated Last Will with three different versions of his signature.
Which act, which scene, which line, demonstrates knowledge of medicine? He made HOWLING errors in his Italian plays, and didn't realise that Bohemia didn't have a sea coast. A study has shown that his legal knowledge was about average among playwrights.
If you want to make extravagant claims like that you HAVE TO back it up with evidence if you want to be taken serously.
@@thoutube9522 Whenever I've seen any Shakespeare authorship denier try to argue the subject of Shakespeare's alleged medical knowledge, it happens to be because he knew the symptoms and stages of syphilis. How the actor William Shakespeare could have come by that knowledge in Southwark, in a theatre situated in the liberties and thus surrounded by brothels, alehouses, and bear-baiting pits, is otherwise a complete mystery, of course. He had to have studied medicine!
Alexander Waugh is worth following if you feel a bit suspish about the whole thing 😉 I am writing this as I have pressed play...I may be cockily pre-empting what is said (apologies) X
Waugh is worth following if you want a good laugh.
I think you are right :D
I had a little run-in with Waugh a few years back. He claimed that before the 19th century American Shakespeare scholar John Payne Collier regularized the spelling, the name of Portia had always been spelled Portio in previous editions of _The Merchant of Venice_ because he wanted to link it with the lost play _Portio and Demorantes_ , which the Oxfordian Eva Turner Clark claimed was an early version of _The Merchant of Venice_ . This was a lie, of course, and it was a stupid lie because even if he could have proven his contention, _Portio and Demorantes_ was a Lord Chamberlain's Men's play from a previous incarnation of the company, thus vastly increasing the possibility that Shakespeare could have seen it in manuscript, even if were never printed. It would simply become another play that Shakespeare had used as a source, just as he used _The Troublesome Raigne of King John_ , _The Famous Victories of Henry V_ , and _The True Chronicle History of King Leir_ .
But, unfortunately for Waugh, he chose the wrong person to lie to, because I've read the entire First Folio front to back (and to celebrate its 400th anniversary I'm doing it again this year, currently having finished all of the Folio comedies and histories, and now up to the 12 tragedies). I knew that it was "Portia" in the Folio and a quick glance online showed it was also "Portia" in the 1600 first quarto. So that's Alexander Waugh for you: he's a liar who doesn't even have the wit to see when a lie won't help him.
THIS TALE UNFOLDS AT A DROWSY SNAILS PACE,,,,,,TOO SLOW FOR "CONCENTRATION" READY, SET, RUN !
To be or ...
You have the wrong Shaksper.
The real Skakes-Speare was Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
The Stratford man has NO connection with the royal cour, zlord Burley, or Italy.
Edward was a favourite of Elizabeth I, he was the adopted son of Burley, and spent three years in Italy.
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Agreed..
Shakespeare of Stratford was a member of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, which became The King's Men. He was literally a servant of the Queen's closest advisor and then the king, himself.
He didn't have any documented association with Burghley, but then neither do the works of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare got so many things wrong about Italy that if it WAS De Vere, he was a moron.
Even calcified academics agree the character Polonius in Hamlet is based on Burghley.
Why do you show up on these threads spreading debunked garbage ad nauseam.
@@enheduannapax7988 Please direct us to some of these "calcified academics". Polonius was a stock character, nothing more. This is the consensus of academia.
If any contemporary had thought Polonius was Burghley, Hamlet would never have seen the light of day.
My money's on Sir Francis Bacon.
Why so little doubts? Why so little questions? Why not a single letter of the most literate man of history?
Because very few letters from ordinary people have survived..there is at least one letter addressed to him
What qualifies him as "the most literate man in history"? His peers thought him uneducated.
@@joannemoore3976 thanks, for your overwhelming knowledge!! Unbelievable.
@@Jeffhowardmeade who is meant by „him“?
@@bastianconrad2550 Since this video is about Shakeapeare, it would seem rather obvious that's who "him" is. Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and the anonymous author of The Second Return From Parnassus were all referring to the poet. Vicar John Ward was referring to the poet AND the man from Stratford.
Ever heard of Edward de Vere?
Child molester, servant murderer, money waster and mediocre poet?
Yeah, I've heard of him.
Yes. I've also read Edward de Vere, which is something that most of the people advocating for him as Shakespeare haven't done. And there is a vast gulf of poetic talent between even Shakespeare's earliest work and Edward de Vere's acknowledged writings.
Why is the Midsomer Murders guy here?
Fascinating and definitely puts to bed all those conspiracy theories that he was not the true author. Great work.
Granted, he had a rather prescient start full of incubus which perhaps redounded his slightly adventurous overtures later.
This documentary should be called,
"Tis Possible... Alas, We Are Ignorant."
or "Geezers 'ave a Guess About The Bard,"
Um.
17th Earl of Oxford.
Nope!
stratford upon a river, in the nearby of London, full of swans, ...
Try to imagine what Shakespeare would have do holding in his hands a smartphone, time for you to get smart dear Perspective channel managers, Facebook technology is helping us getting in touch with no matter who, mostly with those who need to become your fans supporters partners in business from now on thanks to the cyber friendships, people should become friends as Shakespeare lovers, getting together for sharing such trips and becoming like stadium football game supporters groups. You know, in Verona there's still very much alive the Juliet 's fans club, only Shakespeare was capable to realize, the Romeo and Juliet 's story worth the pain to become famous, Juliet still receives hundreds and thousands of letters world wide from her admirers, a sweet illusion that is giving a lot of people a lot of jobs
What about the ones written by Francis Bacon.❓
Do you mean the ones which have no sense of humor whatsoever and are a dry as cracked mud?