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It's really good to have an actor's perspective on this neglected play.

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great job! lovely video!

That was a brilliant breakneck scene. I've always heard the letters performed with the P replaced by an N in front of the T. Maybe that's a compromise for modern audiences that still don't get it - mostly.

Good video except the severe TDS.

The way the message was delivered, it drilled this piece of advice in my head. Thank you

In one place? "Naughty Shakespeare" by Macrone

HA! The stockings are hilarious. Great costuming!

I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks so much!

in antiquity pretty sure eunuchs were sex workers women have needs and babies are not amongst them always the singing voice is just a 'work perk' see also: ammon hillman, phd

Good stuff. I remember my English teacher trying - and failing miserably - to explain a salacious remark by Sir Toby Belch to me without saying something that might get him into trouble. Of course the best way to study a Shakespeare play is to see it performed live, and this we were able to do (with a cast that included the great Judi Dench as Viola). When it came to the passage that had puzzled me the actors concerned made sure that all was revealed - in more than one sense.

Looking forward to more as Twelfth Night is my fav play!

G'day to you, As some one who has followed the Bard for many a long year, now 74 ,I have oft noticed the Ribald now and again,I think it quite apt for the time, well done to you Sir on your Work! ps have Lucky enough to see Plays at the Globe Twice! Perth West Aust.

Love this !

Thank you

Thankyou for this

Good job with the bushes. I too hate gardening and lawn work. I will NOT miss that now that I don't have a house.

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The Pole Barn is lookimg great, Tim! The little snippet of Twelfth Night also sounds wonderful as well. Good to hear from you! 🥰

I had to memorize this speech for acting class in the 9 th grade 1979. I still can recite this as my special talent today. 😆

Orson Wells Chimes at Midnight is a great depiction of Halspur and Falstaff also the young Prince Henry V (Hal). He uses the Herriads 3 plays to make his movie.

I love this exercise in emotional projection. Definitely an 11! I'm tempted to break incestuious sheets into four words - incest YOU US sheets.

What a fascinating play. Thanks Shakespeare, and Tim!

I will attend one of the shows to see my friend Schmoo (aka Sara Cutlip)...

Thanks Tim!

I wonder how much information we get from intonation and not volume?

I'd like to correct a mistake you made about Reims, it was never under English control but rather Burgundian. The English and Burgundians were allies but it would still be weird to Crown a King on territory not actually under their sovereignty.

The most offensive historical inaccuracy of this play is the slandering of Jack Cade, made worse by you comparing him to Trump when he was actually the closest thing the 15th Century England has to a Socialist. But it also bugs me that he make Suffulk the lover of Margaret when that was actually Somerset.

I've seen other people say Shakespeare is not vilifying John as much as most pop history does.

words as weapons!

"The Monologue"... Ominous!

I agree whole-heartedly with your points on enunciation. Often times a missed word or phrase that buries important exposition can take you out of the experience as you play catch up while interpretting lesser subsequent clues. Please allow me a pointed barb for the dramaturg who insists on 100% authentic period and locale pronunciation without regard to burden placed on the modern audience. A pox on such pedants. I don't agree with your disdain for the microphone. The inverse square law requires that an actor projecting adequately to the back wall exposes the front row to a rather more intense experience. Speakers placed throughout the auditorium ensure a more even decibel level. A good audio engineer can also balance the varied projection strengths of the actors to create a more natural sound for the audience.

I agree completely with your dismissal of method acting. I heard an anecdote where Dustin Hoffman stayed awake for 24 hours to prepare for the torture scene in Marathon Man. Olivier reported told him: "My dear boy. Why don't you just act?" For me, the point is to covey the characters feelings to the audience through acting. I continue to be amazed and delighted at how each actor and production uses costume, stage, movement, and phrasing in fresh interpretations of the same words.

Excellent!

Please continue to review the histories🙏

impossible to compare ! It is not the same thing .

You are very wonderfully intelligible, Tim. I remember the first time I heard most of your plays. I always understood everything even when I was laughing over you! And, I think the students noticed that without putting it into those words. One student once asked me if you were English because your delivery sounded so much clearer than normal. She looked shocked when I said you were an American from the Chicago area! 😘 Great job!

Selective hearing be like

Hear, hear! (Get it?) I agree completely with your views on miking actors in plays. Good chapter.

Yes! Wonderful advice.

Congratulations. You get your British heritage. It's cultural symbolism you damned American. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are Britain, in those days. King Harry is Welsh you know.

Sempre che Shakespeare sia davvero esistito

I love this exercise, as it gives the actor live feedback in the moment instead of getting to the end where your notes say he did everything wrong. I think a bell is a pretty gentle prod, where a heavy handed director might use an air horn 📯😅

You make some excellent points, and I love how you illustrate them. Methinks I need to ensure that my TV is properly adjusted such that I may best enjoy the next Bridgerton binge-a-thon.

Tim, I have some youtube blurbs that I ask questions about and then give the class extra credit. One of those is Mascrille doing his Précieuse Ridicules bits. One of the kids said "I love the way his face and hands are moving about when he tells his little story" and she reinforced that idea with something like "it is so much clearer than just the words".

And let's not forget Churchill's later speech that includes "[n]ever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." The outcome of the Battle of Britain was still very much in doubt when he said those words on August 20, 1940. That stirred the entire free world to stand in support of the RAF.

God bless Saint George! God bless King Harry! Saint Crispins Day! In the times we live, I am surprised that Shakespeare has not been banned in schools. Henry V could be interpreted as white supremacy. Religious accusations.

G'day to you "Hale and Well Met!" any one who does anything about the Bard is indeed a Good Fellow in my Eyes,I will watch for more of your work Squire,I have been fortunate Enough to have gone twice to the Globe, but the 24 hr Flight was Worth it, until Next Time!

Tartuffe/Trump

And we don't know who wrote that? Interesting. Seems like they truly hit the major points of what went wrong. I watched an explanation of what went on in James Towne during this time and the guy was very apologetic to the colonists, totally ignoring their wrong behavior, and instead pointing out things like "well, they didn't know how things worked in that climate." Whatever. It may be true, but it does not excuse their attitude towards the Powhatan Indians, nor their fault in the troubles between them. Could it have turned out differently if the English hadn't had an attitude of superiority? Big question without much in the way of an answer. Ah, well. An extremely nice series, this one. Thank you so much, Tim. I enjoyed these five shows very much. 😘