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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2016
- Shakespeare died 400 years ago, but his influence on language and culture remains.
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Have returned this video many times over the years when I introduce Shakespeare in the classroom. Thanks for creating it!
Shakespeare explores all aspects of the human psyche - that is why he will always be relevant and modern. And plus the man invented 25% of the English language. He rocks 🤘🏼
No he didn't that's a debunked misconception
He did neither of those things
He definitely invented some but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t 1 out of every 4 words we speak
Great video! Thank you! ♡
No matter how far you run or how well you hide, you cannot escape the Bard. he might have to drag you kicking and screaming, but sooner or latter you'll learn to appreciate his words and the stories he tells.
I love this video! Thank you and God bless 💓
Shakespeare never set foot out of England yet you’d think he’d traveled the world.
well I did hear that there were 7 years of his life from before he started writing plays where no-one's quiet sure what he was doing or where he was......
He may have done. We can't actually be sure what he did during the period in between the birth of his younger daughter, Judith, and his first appearance in the documentary record as a playwright in 1592. Presumably, _some_ of his time was spent as an actor and a playwright (scholars think he may have written plays as early as 1589-90), and actors often traveled in retinues even when they couldn't afford to go to the Continent on their own. There were also traveling troupes of English actors who performed on the Continent.
But there were also foreigners in England by the thousands. In the early 17th century, Shakespeare roomed with a family of French Huguenot refugees named the Mountjoys, and he even acted in negotiations over the marriage between the daughter of the house and another French Huguenot refugee named Stephen Bellot. We know this because when Bellot sued over the non-payment of the marriage portion, Shakespeare was deposed in the lawsuit. In the same era, there were Venetian glassblowers operating in Bishopsgate who would meet in the afternoon for what a visiting Italian called their "Rialto hour". In the apothecary shops in Lime Street you might meet Dutch and French apothecaries. In the halls of St. Paul's, you could talk to soldiers who had been turned off from wars on the Continent. And ships carrying international crews rigged up in the Thames estuary just yards from the public theatres on the north and south banks of the river. So Shakespeare didn't need to leave England because London was like a miniature Europe. It may be ironic that London is _less_ cosmopolitan in the post-Brexit 21st century than it was in the 16th and 17th centuries, but it is true.
Shakespeare’s plays performed around the world...Soweto to London,Havana to Tokyo.. a man who hardly travelled...brilliant from Middle England.
1:56 "B or not a B"
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Thats what im thinking rn. Do i try on the assignment to not lol
What if Shakespeare only became relevant because we taught him more than any other playwrite?
This was a very good video
why do we still study Shakespeare today? Its for my English homework
His plays, poems and books cover the issues we may have (Dreaming, love, loyalty, ambition, marriage)
It covers issues that effects our world (Power, revenge, race, religion, obsession, death, sin, guilt)
His famous works are the original versions of well known movies (such as The Lion King)
His dialogue is also referenced in other famous works, such as Lord of The Rings, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter.
@@adikkya8205 Thanks man, just a few weeks too late 😂 but still interesting to know
When I saw Star Trek I swear my heart leaped
He was also mentioned in a few video games.
Shakespeare is the main influencer in most, if not, all entertainment we have today.
I love how they put Taylor lmao😭😭
WOW
lots of great Shakespeare quotes for Valentine's Day, from Folger Shakespeare Library.
Not bad from the son of a glove maker who never set foot out of England and died over 400 years ago.
Well said
1:49
DAVID TENNANT AGHHH 💙💙
I love you 😝 I love David tennant too pookie let’s get married 😮😅
which movie is the scene from in 1:33?
Isn’t that the 2013 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth?
Who from armwood?
everyone here are either students or teachers
Shakespeare’s plays performed around the world...Soweto to London,Havana to Tokyo.. brilliant from Middle England.
is somebody else here to do a school´s work?
2:48
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Shakespeare, I've heard, was heavily influenced by ancient Greek tragedies, but he added the element of collateral damage.
Only indirectly. It's unlikely that Shakespeare knew any Greek tragedies firsthand, but he knew the Greek dramas as they were filtered through Seneca's Latin tragedies, which he could read in the original and in _Seneca His Tenne Tragedies_ , a 16th century English translation.
And arguably "collateral damage" already existed in Greek tragedy. For example, in _Medea_ by Euripides, Medea kills her own children to spite Jason for putting her aside and choosing a new wife. She also kills the new wife with a poisoned crown and robe, and her father, King Creon, is inextricably caught up in this poisoned robe when he rushes to succor his daughter. Creon is definitely collateral damage no matter which way you look at it, and Medea's killing of her own children to spite Jason is as well if you take the view that Jason's acts are the cause of the tragedy. Jason survives the play, though Medea foretells his death-crushed to death by a falling beam from the Argo.
I’m just here because I have to do it
I don't know if they were thinking of "alas poor yorrick" with the Chewbacca and c3p0's head scene but I'm embarrassed as a big star wars fan to have not noticed that before.....
Same, 40 years of watching the films, and TV, reading the books and comics, even playing the games and collecting the toys etc, and this is the first time I've noticed that. The force was not with me apparently.
Guys, I have to finish my assignment. The topic is 'Modern day reaction to William Shakespeare'. Can you give your thoughts pls?
Could I read it anywhere?
I would help but im a little late...
This material is a fountain of creativity and insight. A book I read with comparable themes guided my decisions. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
I had to watch this video for my English class
Hi
Ole shaky coined the term swagger
Combined with creativity obviously
Was that Stephen Greenblatt when he the first "to be or not to be" (1:47)
Great vid watched it in school. Gravity Falls for the win!!
0:27 who is that
Why am I here from English in lockdown uhhhh
Being forced to watch this for school ):
Still a good vid tho
Shakespeare is a punishment to most of the population who were forced to study him. I immediately lose respect for people when they try to bring him up or try to validate his work in any way...
The lion king, the avengers, the notebook
Anyone here from Miss Garcia.
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Mr Malak
what?
Ok... I need movies that reference Shakespeare... any ideas?!?!😅
West Side story.. Kiss me Kate...Ill met by moonlight..Shakespeare in love..
10 things I hate About you, She's the Man, Romeo Must Die (kind of), O (2001 movie, though as well as that, there was another modern adaptation of Othello released in the same year from England, just called Othello), Get Over it (though that changes too much from the original story - won't say what), the 'Shakespeare Retold' series, anyone got anything else?
Warm Bodies- a zombie apocalypse version of Romeo and Juliet
yeah generations of classically trained writers and actors have contributed to Shakespeare' long lasting appeals, but for how long? with the current de-classicism going on , I am afraid we will lose this man on our stage in no soon future.
People are not interested to know him, Kids are FORCED to learn about him
Not only kids. I'm literally suffering lol
Regardless, he left behind a legacy. Even if some people have no interest in following the works of Shakespeare, it's likely that they enjoy stories that were influenced by Shakespeare. In other words - appreciating Shakespeare Indirectly rather than directly.
I wasn't forced to learn about him. I learned about him by flipping channels on the TV at home and coming across a show on the local educational station titled _Shakespeare: From Page to Stage_ . There was something about the brief clips from the Stratford Festival that piqued my interest, and so I started reading his works _years_ before they were ever assigned to me. Indeed, even before I got to high school, I was already branching out to other early modern dramatists like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, etc. And I am a person last time I checked.
@@Nullifidian hello stranger, i’m currently scanning the internet for any information about shakespeare inspired literary works for my english presentation in two days titled ‘contemporary shakespeare’ and you seem like a pro, not only that but you’re actually interested in shakespeare which i admire. So if it’s not much of a hassle could you maybe help a sister out😂 i’m struggling to piece together important books that were inspired by him and im not well educated on the relation between the authors you mentioned at the end and shakespeare except that they were his contemporaries, which raises the question on whether their works were inspired by him or not. my apologies for the lengthy comment :( although i have to do this project for school i do find the topic quite interesting :D
@@Assyafami I didn't find your comment at all lengthy. The question is a complex one when it comes to what degree Shakespeare's contemporaries were influenced by him, because the influence did go both ways and just because a playwright was junior to Shakespeare didn't mean he refused to be led by him. For example, Shakespeare's experiments in tragicomedy were likely influenced just as much by the popularity of Beaumont and Fletcher's tragicomedies as the success of his own works in that form.
And some of the playwrights I've named were Shakespeare's predecessors and influences on him. For example, Thomas Kyd wrote _The Spanish Tragedy_ sometime in the 1580s and is also likely the author of a lost _Hamlet_ play called the ur-Hamlet. Darren Freebury-Jones has gone into the subject of Kyd's influence in great depth in _Shakespeare's Tutor_ (Manchester UP). Another acknowledged influence is Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe and Shakespeare were exact contemporaries by birth, both being born in 1564, but Marlowe was nevertheless the more experienced playwright and many of Shakespeare's works show the enduring influence of Marlowe. For example, _Richard III_ is an "overreacher" character in the Marlovian mold.
But Shakespeare also had an influence on the younger playwrights. One book you might check out on this point is _The School of Shakespeare_ by David L. Frost (Cambridge UP). Frost demonstrates that the influence on Thomas Middleton in particular was quite stark.
However, are you bound to discuss just the Shakespearean influence on early modern drama, or are you free to cover the rest of world literature? Because there are a _ton_ of works influenced by Shakespeare since the early modern period, as well as works written to praise Shakespeare, like John Milton's and Matthew Arnold's famous poems.
Just a few off the top of my head, I can think of _All for Love_ by John Dryden, which was his adaptation of _Antony and Cleopatra_ . Adaptations of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline-era plays were popular in the Restoration era, more popular than the originals.
Goethe had nothing but praise for Shakespeare and worked him into his own works. For example, a not insignificant part of _Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship_ deals with the titular character getting into the theatre and trying to stage _Hamlet_ .
Friedrich Schiller was another author who loved Shakespeare, and he turned his love into a history play, which happens to be his finest play, IMO: _Maria Stuart_ , about the conflict between Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I leading to her execution.
Alexander Puskin wrote _Boris Godunov_ in blank verse (!) under the influence of Shakespeare.
Jane Austen knew Shakespeare (there's an extant letter where she recounts her sorrow at having to miss Sarah Siddons giving her Constance in _King John_ and instead being forced to see _Macbeth_ , which seems like an inversion of how we'd feel but _King John_ used to be a very popular play) and she brought him in to _Mansfield Park_ when Henry Crawford reads from _Henry VIII_ and then later discusses his reading of the play with Edmund. Also, the structure of the novel has a certain reminiscence to _King Lear_ . Both Julia and Maria are rivals for the affection of Henry Crawford, as Goneril and Regan compete for Edmund's attentions, while Fanny stands outside and unregarded, like poor Cordelia. She's not disinherited, but she is emotionally exiled from the rest of the group.
Another 19th century work based on _King Lear_ is _Père Goriot_ (also variously translated as _Old Goriot_ or _Old Man Goriot_ ) by Honoré de Balzac.
And Ivan Turgenev wrote the novella _A Lear of the Steppes_ , which from the title is frankly borrowed from _Lear_ .
And while I'm on the subject, 20th century works influenced by _Lear_ include Edward Bond's play _Lear_ (he also wrote _Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death_ about a real estate deal Shakespeare did late in life that facilitated the enclosure of common land), Toni Morrison's _Sula_ , Akira Kurosawa's film _Ran_ (pronounced "rahn" - his _Throne of Blood_ is a version of _Macbeth_ and _The Bad Sleep Well_ is a loosely adapted version of _Hamlet_ ) and Jane Smiley's Pulitzer-winning novel _A Thousand Acres_ plus the film based on it.
Agha Hashar Kashmiri was a turn-of-the-20th century Urdu-language poet and playwright who wrote several stage works adapting Shakespeare plays.
Heiner Müller wrote a kind of theatrical scenario (it's only about 8 pages and mostly improvised) based on _Hamlet_ titled _Hamletmaschine_ ( _Hamletmachine_ ). I've seen the play performed and I also have an operatic adaptation of it by Wolfgang Rihm.
_Hamlet_ also is the basis of _The Story of Edgar Sawtelle_ by David Wroblewski.
_Othello_ heavily influenced Machado de Assis' novel _Dom Casmurro_ . Machado de Assis was also a translator of Shakespeare into Brazilian Portuguese.
Another Latin American writer, this time from Argentina, is Manuel Mujica Lainez, whose novel _Bomarzo_ (currently the only work he wrote that has been translated into English, sadly) is highly indebted to _Richard III_ . _Bomarzo_ was also adapted into a fantastic opera by Alberto Ginastera, with a libretto by Mujica Lainez.
So this should give you material to start with.
Pretty entertaining if not
Bro is getting free views by school making us watch this
and this? Shakespeare's Macbeth = Prisoner of Azkaban!
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Is this really about Shakespeare because i don't think is about Shakespeare but its probably similar.
is what really about Shakespeare?
It's about the influence of Shakespeare still in the modern world
yeah Shakespeare is cool and all but have you ever played minecraft?
btw he did not create the word assassination. sorry to ruin
He did-
..can you give proof? instead of randomly saying "nO hE diDnt" to a video that obviously had done research?
_månekatt_ jaiboles simple research says otherwise and that it’s a popular myth
True. It comes from the Arabic for hashish-eaters (hashishin), "members of the Nizari branch of Ismaili Muslims at the time of the Crusades, when the newly established sect ruled part of northern Persia (1094-1256). They were renowned as militant fanatics, and were popularly reputed to use hashish before going on murder missions."
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i hate it
Lmao Shakespeare plays/books are super boring to read and analyze. Now people are saying stuff is relevant but it’s still boring asf and doesn’t relate to me at all. I hate reading it. Maybe I like it when I’m older when I’m not being forced to like and read it in school. Not even most of the modern books about the way love explained relate to me. I hate ELA class.
Alot of it's an acquired taste as you get older
I use to have no patience for reading but now I do it alot
Strangely literature has less restraints than visual mediums on some levels leading to more unique tales
It's very varied so if you tried you could possibly find something you'd like there's just so much out there it's insane.
Yes, you will learn to acknowledge the quintessence of the Bard when you are older and mature and have enough experience with the language so that you will be able to catch the ickle bits of linguistic splendours cast all over his works, besides the great continuous ocean of the depth of his works and the themes of his opuscula. Indeed, you will enjoy his works when you pick them up yourself and read it out of your own will and accord.
try the movies or live filmed performances.
I understand that you may find it difficult and tiresome at first, but I recommend that you try and think of Shakespeare’s plays- as well as books themselves- as a hobby with many benefits. Perhaps if you change your perspective, you can bear the fruits better. English Language and Literature classes can be extremely fun if you put your mind to them as well!
There WILL be a Woke rewrite of Shakespeare, and the original will be banned on every college campus.
DeSantis has him on his book ban list.
Pity he didn't write one play or sonnet! He couldn't even write his own name!! Edward De Vere is the true Shakespeare and everyone except the experts knows it!!
"Everyone except the experts." Fare thee well, thou moseying pneuma in the glens of gremlin.
The person who wrote the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare was clearly some kind of humanitarian. That does not describe De Vere or any aristo of that time.