Why should you read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? - Iseult Gillespie
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Explore William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”, a story of shipwreck, magic and a fight for power.
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Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves. It is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play. Why does this play still resonate with modern readers? Iseult Gillespie investigates.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet.
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I did this play in high school...
The Audience didn't know what was going on. Neither did half the cast.
Lol that's funny
That is very sad.
Thats unfortunate :/ I would love to see a play of this!
That’s sadly the case with a majority of high schools :( that’s why we need good teachers. It all goes back to them/the director
Lol, I've only been able to explain it to two people, ever. Everyone else: "Yeah, no, what happened?" He went out with a bang. "Who's Jove?" Um, Jupiter. (the god) "What happened again?" ...No.
Who would have thought that a couple of funny animations and dark music could make us all read Shakespeare
Dont wasted ur time, i studied it for 2 years and answered my exams just 5 days ago a complete waste of time . this summary is good enough sadly i did not now it was uploaded . This is very brief tho i had to study 200 pages of old english it was horrible.
Lol I am studying it in class
Not my favourite 😂
Rea Kariz but performing it on a huge stage is better
For sure it's worth to read. Not a summary, not a movie, but the actual play. But surely an animated version with a soundtrack, read by professional artists would make it more interesting. Of course, movies and summaries have their value as entertainment and students' aid, but they don't substitute the original work. I love your idea.
Why would you read something that you can't understanding
My favorite dis from a Shakespeare book:
*"What? You egg!"*
*[He stabs him.]*
*He has killed me mother !*
Y o u n g f r y o f t r e a c h e r y
@@micheasz2552 [dies]
I'm all for deep and thoughtful analysis of literature, but can I just take a moment to point out how utterly awesome the moment at 3:30 is? That moment was so well-done. The narration, music and animation really deliver that moment, imo.
Never got a chance to read it but I will soon. It’s looks like a great story
Yes
And a very engrossing one too
Had to read it for a course and I am eternally grateful!
Dont wasted ur time, i studied it for 2 years and answered my exams just 5 days ago a complete waste of time . this summary is good enough sadly i did not now it was uploaded . This is very brief tho i had to study 200 pages of old english it was horrible.
@@kevinnoronha7232 You just lack patience.
The tempest is my absolute favorite of Shakespeare’s. It is profoundly deep and introspective, and sheds so much light on many topics.
Agreed
Ok, a lot of people like to see _The Tempest_ as Shakespeare's final play, with Prospero giving up his magic being interpreted as Shakespeare retiring, but it's not. It was Shakespeare's last _solo_ play, but it wasn't his _final_ play overall.
So, Shakespeare wrote _The Tempest_ in 1611. Immediately afterward, from 1612-1613, Shakespeare wrote three more plays, all in collaboration with fellow playwright John Fletcher. These plays were, in order of writing:
_Cardenio_ (now partially lost)
_All is True,_ or _Henry VIII_
_The Two Noble Kinsmen_
But it was probably his retirement from the stage. I see the Fletcher collaborations as Shakespeare being bored to tears in his retirement in Stratford and telling them to send the boy up write a play with him. I can imagine the conversation: "But Master Will no-one watches those history plays anymore... it's all cynical city comedies now..." "Nonsense, did I tell you about the tears when Talbot and his son died..." "sigh. Yes, Master Will..."
It's also the opening play of the 'First Folio ' of published plays.
True, but he probably knew he was going to retire from the stage anyway, which is why John Fletcher was brought in as a collaborator. It was a way of breaking him in as Shakespeare's successor, which he became for the King's Men.
Writing plays at this time was treated like a craft and elder playwrights were routinely paired with what one might call "journeymen playwrights". When Shakespeare was younger, he co-wrote plays with Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, George Peele, and possibly Christopher Marlowe who, though he was an almost exact contemporary of Shakespeare, was still the more experienced playwright by some years.
Then when Shakespeare became the elder playwright, he was paired with new talent like George Wilkins (who only lasted three years in the writing biz, and whose _Pericles_ might have been an abandoned project Shakespeare took over), Thomas Middleton, and John Fletcher.
The Tempest is one of my most favourite Shakespearean plays. Thank u Ted-Ed for making a video on it! 😃🤓
not trying to be mean bet its spelled thank
That's ur English after reading reading 2 Shakespeare books
@@gaurangr1767 from ISC/ICSE? 😂😂
@@shreyaspakhare1313 ISC this year 4 days ago
3:00 you forgot to mention one extremely important part as to why caliban was imprisoned.
Well, why is Caliban imprisoned?
@@Gowri_Prakash he tried to hurt Prospero's daughter
@@sebulbasebulby9354 oh thanks
@@sebulbasebulby9354 yeah, _hurt_
@@Gowri_Prakash molestation
Their ship wasn't destroyed tho.
It was in a deep nook where once at midnight prospero had called Ariel to collect the magical dews from the still vex'd Bermoothes.
*To Read, or not to Rea-*
*_TED-Ed wants to know your location_*
you are everywhere boi
blocked :)
I got chills at the last quote
Why should you read Shakespeares the tempest:
Me: because it required for school....
Yeah this story was a part of my syllabus in 9th std
You have std?
yesssss this is so real lol
@@LLL_14_85 where are you from bro?
Here in India we study it in high school +2
I once watched a beautiful live interpretation of this play. A dynamic, moving one (literally, the audience moved from place to place) inside a mountain castle grounds, lightly illuminated at night.
Agreed
I've always thought Prospero's soliloquy at the end was always Shakespeare's final bow. It was such a breath-taking soliloquy.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest Final Act - William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
What a stunning narration! This lady should narrate more videos! Great job as always, Ted Ed! ❤
Agreed
A brilliant animation that manages the capture the spirit of the play, rather than just providing a dry summary. I use it for my year 12 Literature class when discussing the influence of Shakespeare on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Agreed
The Tempest is a part of my literature course book for this year. I never really liked the story much but why do I have a change of mind after watching this video? 🤔
Alienhead Monsters good luck for board exams
There was a version with Colin Morgan at the Globe theatre that was amazing. You may like it now. Hope your course goes well.
@@ThePhenomBot thanks much
@@wijcik I might, thanks anyways
It might be that you understand it better now. Perhaps watch some good recording of the play while reading? Good acting usually makes a text easier to process.
Shakespeare. Doing meta before meta was soooo meta.
ISC anyone??😂😂
We know the pain
Its enjoyable though! :)
Read a scene I guess in English Literature in 2009-Icse
I LOOOOOOOVE Shakespeare
Macbeth tho!😅
Love Shakespeare! This was wonderful, Thank You! My son did "The Tempest" play in High School. This brought another generation to the beautiful art of Shakespeare.
I want to read the play after playing Life is Strange Before The Storm
Is there some overlap ?
@@rajatshukla2605 In one part of the story the MC has to participate in the play!
We have the entire play in our syllabus. I'm loving it so far. Thanks TED-Ed for explaining so fluently.
Agreed
Edit: I meant agreed
Amazing. Thank you so much for fulfilling my request! ❤ I have to read this again.
Agreed
This is one of my favourite plays to read about in Literature. I love it so much. I also love this video. The animation is nice and it sums up the story quite well.
Agreed
When the video came close to being finished : "I was thinking why this review is getting over before it's even has begun".🤔😍
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
In 2017, I wrote an essay about this play for my assignment. Now I watch this video to entertain and bring back my college life's memories😄 I really like Shakespeare works thou.
i have an essay assignment on this due monday 17th may :( haven't started lol
I am here to know what kind of ending will Gundam Witch of Mercury will have
Well kinda spoil the narrative isn't it
My god !!
I have no other words, I just want to say, " it's wonderful".
I've read the play but the way you presented is truly mind blowing.
Ag😢
Agreed
0:25 Okay I can't be the only one who sees his mustache as a creepy smile right?
Came here because of Gundam Witch from Mercury. Didn't expect to find so many similarities.
Probably my favorite Shakespeare’s work and the inspiration to read Shakespeare. Genius🧚🏼♂️
The animation is simply beautiful
I literally had chills while listening to his last line.
The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece by taking the concept of tragicomedies the furthest he personally could after he worked within both genres to the best of his abilities. The play begins during a storm, which is the tragedy and ends as a comedy, after the storm has ended, because, regardless of circumstance, all internal and external storms (something everyone endures in life), eventually subside and end: that is the nature of life via it's never-ending story.
I don't know, I think The Merchant of Venice takes first place. Christian heroes win the day, but Shylock is one of the most tragic surreal characters I've ever read about.
We study this story in iraq schools, My teacher read this story in class but I don't understand it but now I understand and I loved this story .
in Monday we have exam in this story and I want get a high score.
The way this was animated is wonderful uGHhh ♡
BRUH THE ANIMATION IS SICK DAMN!!!!
Definitely always has been my favorite of Shakespeare's plays. So good!!
Agreed
I would love a video about Berthold Brecht, the brothers Grimm, or Heinrich von Kleist. I know they did not write in english. But neither did Tolstoy or Homer. You could feature more classics from other languages. French. Spanish. German. Arabic. Arabic literature is something I sadly know nothing about, but there surely are some treasures to be found!
What serendipity! Today I decided to reread the First Folio since it's that book's 400th anniversary this year. The first play in it is _The Tempest_ , and even as I'm reading the play this video now shows up in my recommendations.
My favourite Shakespeare, tied with "The Merchant of Venice"
Life is strange made me read this masterpiece! Thank you rachel&chloe♡
I have read Shakespeare about 12 yrs ago and almost forgot everything. Great way to revise it. Thank you 😊
Who all are watching this before their board exam...
Me
Mee😶
Mee too
me before isc board exams
Mee
This looks like the animation from the brother’s character arc in _The Breadwinner._
I absolutely adore the animation of this series, and am all about those themes being broken down, it’s very satisfying.
But you should absolutely not read Shakespeare, unless you have no other choice. Shakespeare didn’t write books! He wrote plays! WATCH Shakespeare!
agreed
Please keep making these. I love them 😍
Wait that's weird, my English class just started the Tempest
Ted ed videos always make me see books I have read before in new light and thus challenge me to wander round the fields of the writer's mind afresh
Great narration. Thank you, Iseult Gillespie!
I had to learn the tempest play in grade 3 (just the basics, not writing essays or stuff like that).
We had to do a play on it.
I was Miranda.
I was traumatized.
The tempest is my all time favourite Shakespeare play
Who here after the Gundam WFM season 1 finale looking for answers?!
The world would be a far better place if channels like Ted-ed would be the most subscribed on the RUclips rather than junk meme review videos.
True that
Junk Meme review channels also review books that you should read
I, in general, don't like neither the pew nor the T and specifically the hype and drama everyone is creating about it,
Meanwhile, those who watch these incredible lessons learn something incredible every time.
@@abhaysharma9317
To each his own
I guess
The reason why i love watching pewdiepie is because i know after a tiresome day there is at least someone who will be there with me laughing at the lamest jokes sort of evolving a metacommentary on life
Because they're mutually exclusive of course uwu
We literally just finished doing the tempest in ELA and we did skits for each act I loved it
Really grateful to watch such an amazing clip. Thanks to my English teacher for sharing this deep message with us. 🙂
Honestly I came here because of Life Is Strange: Before The Storm and I gotta say, I ain't disappointed
I have been waiting for this....my favourite from Shakespeare along with king lear and the taming of the shrew
Wow... this is one of your best animations TedEd👏👏
The Winter's Tale must be considered the culmination of Shakespeare's oeuvre. If it is not the final statement that The Tempest is considered to be, it is at least the most enigmatic and exhaustive of the plays. It doesn't get enough love. Just try to suss out the latent tensions that drive Leontes to jealous madness! Measure for Measure is also dark and baffling, though perhaps not as beautifully crafted as the romances.
I just appreciate this play so much, I hope my essay will honor it as much as this video did
The Tempest and The merchant of venice are great books .
I’ve read both and they are very good .
Agreed
In India, *ISC(Indian School Certificate) Board Examinations* syllabus contains - The Tempest (i.e in class 11 and 12)
Also in *ICSE(Indian Certificate of Secondary Education)* i.e class 9 and 10 we need to study Merchant of Venice by W Shakespeare
In short, Prospero was a sadist.
I have this for my exam!
It's fascinating how u guys work hard and create such amazing videos!!
or or... you should watch the anime Blasts of Tempest. its great. im not a big anime fan, but this series combined the Tempest and Hamlet into an arc. which was pretty wowing.
Yeah that show was pretty neat.
@@The_Evening_Sun right! I honestly thought itll be boring
@@Pfyzer however my my ship for that show died before I even knew about it which was unfortunate
You’ve got to do A Winters Tale next. It’s one of the best. I can write it for you!
I saw the RSC production with Patrick Stewart. Wow!
Helen Mirran’s rendering as Propero is pretty amazing. Check it out. Greetings from the Wilds of Wyoming, Fellow Shakespeare Fans!🙋🏼♀️🏔🌠
I'll have to check it out! Have you seen the Roger Allam and Colin Morgan version? It was pretty amazing as it was filmed at the Globe.
Prospero. Sorry about the typo. yikes! 🙃
No I haven’t seen that. I will look for it. Thanks!🙋🏼♀️
Thank you so much for this short version of the play.....love this ...
"I'll break my staff. Bury it in certain fathoms in the Earth. And deeper did ever plummet sound.
I'll drown my book." *Prospero
Seeing a good live/filmed performance of Shakespear is always the best way to start understanding him. Then again hes an old white guy so what could he say thats worth while? Excellent video!
Studied this drama for 2 years.... Now I miss Shakespeare
I would really recommend making a. Ted Ed library
okay but the art in this video is beautiful
14 year old me could not absorb a coherent story from whatever version of the tempest it was I was forced to read by my English teachers.
A mid summer's night dream I understood, but The Tempest, was always just gibberish to me.
Nice to finally have some closure on that.
My English teacher might be happy to know I ended up as an accountant :/
Hey , I am from India, in our school portion we have to learn the whole tempest in 8th grade, and merchant of Venice in grade 10th,
And believe me it sucks.....
If you have to write 1 page long answers just by reading a passage, yes it sucks
don't worry, in Canada it is one every year from gr7 to 12
In my country we didn't even get to read anything from foreign writers at schools, just our own. Granted we had a vast amount of writers but something different would have been great for a change.
Fie fie
@@anand8180 I know why u r sad...because u r not happy
Still my favorite Shakespeare play but you forgot to mention that it is also a play about redemption through the processes of betrayal, revenge, forgiveness and finally love. The best film adaptation, IMHO, is Peter Greenaways Prosperos Books.
We had to study the play for our ISCs and that felt like a torture. Still don't find the play that interesting but yeah, the animation and narration are so good.
man, the animation done for this is beautiful!!!
I’m glad I’ve read the play before the video was uploaded . So I have a better insight for the play
I'm studying this play, and I'll act as Alonso, The King. This will be a hard play to do, but it's being nice to come back to the stage after years
I was Miranda a couple years ago and this play genuinely changed my mind set
I would love to see you give this treatment to 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'. The way the book is written alone will make for some great visuals.
Some people believe that Shakespeare was actually a group of people and not just one person. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I think ted ed has made a video about this doubt too
yeah I found it
ruclips.net/video/K-aAUwAFZlQ/видео.html
This play was a plot point in Life is Strange: Before the Storm. Nathan Prescott as Caliban makes absolute sense.
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2:40 you forgot that the only reason that caliban is in slaved now is because he tried to for himself on Miranda and begged not to be killed
Am I the only one who finds this series legitimately helpful?
ISEULT GILLESPIE IS ONE OF THE TED-ED'S BEST NARTORS
I would love it if Ted-Ed and Kurzgesagt made a collab.
I just watched the play here on RUclips while keeping up with a book since I'm not a native speaker. My first play by Shakespeare. I have to say, it was good, but I feel like I didn't get most of it.
In few weeks I have English exam on Tempest. Thanks for the video🌟
You guys should totally make a video about Shahnameh. The Epic story from Iran.
because I want to understand Gundam
One of my favourite Shakespearean play .
The other one is the merchant of venice .
❤❤❤❤
Fantastic video