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The Sycorax joke is a pretty good one because that is the name of Caliban's mother in the Tempest, but no one is sure where Shakespeare got it from, as there seems to be no precedent for it. So it checks out he got it from a time traveller talking about aliens.
He also had a hobby for making up new words, so it’s also not THAT inexplicable in that context tbf. 😅
I've always wondered if the writers called them the Sycorax in preparation for a Shakespeare episode
Me watching this: "Yeah, this is quite a fun episode, and you'll probably... OMG TINY KITTEN!! 😻"
The Shakespeare joke that Martha was telling at the end had the punchline "You're bard" as in Shakespeare often being referred to as being the Bard, but also being a play on him being barred (banned) from the place. It had nothing to do with Shakespeare going bald. Not to say he didn't eventually go bald, but that wasn't the joke at that point.
The imbalance of the humors part is referring to old medical science. it was believed that the human body consisted of the four humors. blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. And people thought that any sickness or death was due to there being too much or too little of one of the humors.
Despite what a few conspiracy theories say, we do know who Shakespeare was. If you're ever in Stratford-upon-Avon you can visit his house. He's buried at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford, next to his wife, Anne,
Formerly Anne Hathaway. Surprised no one's done a _Being John Malkovich_ time-travel story about that.
Like thousands of other phrases "Brave New World" was coined (I believe) by Shakespeare (The Tempest).😊
The doctor who team actually filmed in the theatre itself although they had to cover so many modern additions to it to preserve the past
Freema Agyeman remembered fondly at a con that they used to wander around in there after filming.
It had recently been rebuilt i think? - we visited as a school and they had statues of the witches beneath the globe
Beginning as mostly a children's show, one goal of Doctor Who was to occasionally introduce historical figures.
Laughed when you said "Uh oh. Spoilers". Remember this. You'll find out why next season.
This episode aired a short while before Book 7 was released, so David's line about crying was said to every Whovian.
The commentary track to this is just David Tennant being a Shakespeare nerd.
Where can it be found?
@@kurtwagner350 Well, it's on my DVD...But I imagine someone uploaded it somewhere.
This episode has always been a fun watch around Halloween for me. True fun one and done classic adventure
The lost play is real. We don’t know what happened to it but it just ended up in a list of his plays but it was never done on stage. This is one these things where Doctor Who try to solve the history mystery.
I always like the history episodes where they go back and address some real life mysteries with alien stuff. Feels like they should’ve done it more often.
the doctor was actually so excited to meet the queen and watching it fade into confusion is one of the funniest scenes in the show, davids delivery of 'what?' lines is always hilarious
Dylan Thomas - is the poet who wrote - Do not go gentle into that good night, which has rage rage against the dying of the light in it
I am so sorry, I was totally distracted by the little kitty :)
Also, Hail Hail Freedonia.
Oh, and Emme, they keep giving him phrases that he actually wrote. It's why he keeps saying, "might use that". :)
"Rage Rage against the dying of the light." is from Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. Also, the hospital they were at was officially called Bethlehem Royal Hospital but it was such a nightmare inside for the patients it was called Bedlam by pretty much everyone. Rich people would pay to look at and poke mental patients as a fun time.
The Bedlam thing is the other way round, we get the word 'bedlam' from the Bethlehem hospital.
“Oh I’m so bored, father. May we PLEASE go poke the crazy’s with sticks, papa??”
@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg thank you for the clarification. That is what I meant. I just didn't say it quite right.
The part about his son was true. His name was Hamnet, and he died young.
If you didn't know, this episode aired about 3 months before the last Harry Potter book was released. So it was written but the public had not yet read it. Oh, and Shakespeare's son was Hamnet.
This episode is fun, and I love how the Doctor keeps fanboying over famous writers. Also, what a cute kitten! 😊
Thank you! 😊
@@emmeI love doctor who nice reaction emme by the way are you going watchalong Star Wars are you seen sonic 3 December 20 2024🙂
Justice for Martha
Both Shakespeare and Elizabeth I appeared in Doctor Who all the back in 1965's The Chase.
That's interesting!
In folklore and demonology, it's thought that if you can specifically name an entity you have power over it. This idea sometimes crops up in fairy tales. Names had power, or so it was thought. What's your name? Don't tell me!
It was a huge thing in ancient Egypt to.
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@@jdeang3531 You nailed it!
I think I've probably seen this episode like twice ever in my life 😂 and Im 24. I was a kid raised on David Tennant 😂
The only thing I remember from school was he Shakespeare died on his birthday.
I do love the mentions of Rose. It's not like she's gone so she's erased. He's grieving and needs to grieve.
Dylan Thomas write 'Rage against the dying of the light'.
He's from Swansea, South Wales as is Showrunner Russell T Davies. RTD got an honorary degree from the university that operates out of Dylan's old boys school.
RTD also has a real degree in English from Oxford University.
22:40 Shakespeare's son was indeed called Hamnet, named after a family friend. Nothing to do with "Hamlet", which was written a few years after Hamnet's death.
Kitten!
Classic Doctor WHO is great too. The Classic Doctors adventures are on Tubi. The third Doctor, 4th Doctor and 7th Doctor are my favorite classic Doctors but I love them all.
The smell: indoor plumbing wasn’t a thing, yet. Nor was anything resembling a sewer system.
Indeed; people just threw their bodily waste into the streets.
It smells bad because in that time they just threw their waste out into the street. Yes that means Chamber pots too.
Ooh, new doctor who!! Been loving your reactions
Yay, thank you!
Great fun when Shakespeare gets the hots for Martha. Such fun ! The witches are scary and fun.
And when he starts flirting with The Doctor: “Fifty-seven academics just punched the air!”
20:59 "Expelliarmus!" Followed by "Good ol' J.K."
That one didn't age quite so well...
Ironic considering who wrote this one.
Well a lot of people don’t age well.
Yeah, I keep getting recommended "JKR coming after David Tennant" videos for some reason.
@@pafladyeah Gareth Roberts is a hack
Worse and worse.
"I told thee so I told thee so!" I love that the preecher is so happy to be right that he doesn't care about the end of the world.
'He doesn't make friends with Queens'... Wait until you get to season 14!!
Those fingers in my hair, that strange come hither stare... that lays my conscience bare...
Really fun episode, sets up the dynamic between Martha and the Doctor going forth. You will have seen already on the patreon i believe, but next episode is a particular favourite.
love these historical ones. and witches!
One of my favourite doctor who eps
Shakespeare's identity is confirmed. Some people (including Derek Jacobi) theorize he didn't write his plays, but most are pretty convinced he did. (Mark Twain thought he couldn't have written them because he wouldn't be educated enough -- interesting. Shakespeare's education would have been quite sufficient, even laying aside that people can self-educate after school, as Twain did himself.)
I'm glad you're enjoying this. This is the point where fans get used to the fact that there are lots of companions and lots of Doctors. The actors come and go but the show keeps going. Its tough to believe these episodes were made nearly 20 years ago. Without spoilers, I'll just say that series 3 is really good and series 4 is even better... no hints why. I'll keep tuning in as long as you do.
We don't really know what Shakespeare looked like. There are portraits that people think are of him, but the famous ones (like the one printed in the First Folio) were likely posthumous and not necessarily donw by artists who had ever seen him (or with those artists having the aid of anyone who ever saw him personally). It's like the busts of Caesar...the popular bust of him *_might_* be him (or it might not), but every century or so scholars change their mind about that. The only image we know to be Caesar is his image on coins and they are not very detailed.
Kitty is back!
The question isn't why she was planning on killing anyone (she wasn't), but why the Doctor is blowing off every reasonable question Martha asks.
The Doctor naming the Carrionites comes from the same idea that a creature’s or spirit’s or demon’s or god’s *true name* is equivalent to their true *nature*, because language is connected to magic or even a form of it (which is also a theme in this episode), an idea that has existed across the occult as well as many old religions and philosophies.
By naming the Carrionites, the Doctor communicates to them he knows what they truly are, and it’s this knowledge that is the key to power over them. Until then, most of their power over the humans around them came from preying on their ignorance of them being witches.
"It may be witches, some evil witches . . ."
Which is ridiculous 'cause witches, they were persecuted
Wicca good and love the earth and women power
And I'll be over here
@@Cossieuk It must be bunnies.
The sonnet Shakespeare recites to Martha was probably written to a young man. He did have a cycle of poems that were written to someone known as a "Dark Lady," whom we might identify as Martha (in the Whoniverse). I like how you point out that the Doctor, despite his current Rose issues, does really like Martha a lot.
Emme, with all due respect, you look so young -- was school really that long ago or did you study Shakespeare in an advanced school? :)
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" was part of a poem by Dylan Thomas.
THANKS for this, @emmereacts !!!! I do love me some Martha :)
I like how, in the beginning, she asks all the questions I would in pretty much the order I'd ask them.
I think this episode is a perfect introductory episode for people who don't know anything about #DoctorWho !!!!!
#Shakespeare #TheShakespeareCode #DoctorWho #MarthaJones #FreemaAgyeman #DavidTennant #DoctorWhos3 #DoctorWhoSeason3
LOL It's "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble". :P
Emme was right. It's "Double, double, toil and trouble"... literally, "May toil and trouble multiply four times". The full couplet is:
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
@@ftumschk oh wow, thanks for letting me know that!
@@newsoulsam3889 Thanks for the thanks :)
Side Note: Freema Agyeman (Martha) was also a star in the Netflix show “Sense8” which I think you would love, and if you have not seen it, would make a good reaction (though on second thought, it would have to be a Patreon viewing, or HEAVILY blurry, lot of nudity…)
Fabulous series 👏
@@stanleysmith2221 unfortunately too quickly ended 😞
I think there's enough beyond the nudity (although, yes, there is a lot of nudity) to have an edited reaction for TH-cam.
Wait!! I did watch Sense8!!! I really loved it. I’m going to have to get a refresh on who she was in that I had no idea!
@@emme Do a rewatch reaction -- I love those.
Barred/bard. Not bald.
Yeah, there is some debate over Shakespeare being the true author of the plays, it’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but the majority do believe it to be the case, but short of time travel and or physical evidence it’s one of those things we can quite ever be sure of. I remember once reading that there are some locked away versions of the plays hand written by the bard himself, it would be great if those ever came to light as we could compete it to do things we do have available, his will and some other legal documents I believe are some of those things.
Dylan Thomas wrote "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"Off, with his head!" Back in the day i was wondering, what did he do....
Well, we know now why she was mad...
Oh Emme, you wait for the Queens return :) Please dont spoil her !!!
That's the thing about Shakespeare's behaviour at the start. The portrayal is probably pretty close seeing as the original pronunciation (OP) from the time period uncovers a fair number of obscene and raunchy puns and jokes in the plays. Shakespeare's works also rhyme better in OP.
You are such a joy and your commentary is so smart and interesting
Nice funny and spacey episode 🤣 Martha and the Doctor's dynamic is fantastic 😀
Thank you so much!
this was filmed in Warwick at the lord Leyster hospital , nine miles fron Startaford-upon-Avon , and two miles from my home
I remember at school we learned about sonnets and Shakespeare, and one day our teacher showed us this episode of Doctor Who because so many of the references are on point. This may be one of my favourite episodes; 2007 was a good year for entertainment.
Shakespeare did have a son named Hamnet who was named after a family friend, but the play Hamlet was also directly inspired by the story of Amleth, a medieval Scandinavian legend, which was also adapted into The Northman (Eggers, 2022).
P.S. you have a cute lil kitty 🖤🤍🖤🤍
Omg that mustve been so fun to watch doctor who in school!
Shakespeare, Martha being treated different as the Doctor was used to Rose, Martha does what she can, alien Witches, Voodoo doll magic. Fine episode. Shakespeare references/other DW ones.
When Martha brings up the possibility of her not existing because of the butterfly effect, that is the same thing as the Doctor bringing up _Back to the Future._
At the time, I never knew what the 'expeliarmus' reference meant. I've never been a Harry Potter fan.
“Free style rapping” was actually not uncommon. Maybe not called that but people knew and remembered words better than most now, and often could put them together in short order.
Although I don't believe it has happened in any of the classic episodes there is a novel where the first doctor visits the Salem witch trials
I wish they would have made a Indiana Jones joke. You call her doctor Jones, doll
Fabulous reaction .......... emme ,Thank You for sharing
Before germ theory, people believed that the humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) had to be in balance in your body, otherwise you got sick. It got to the point that sometimes people would go somewhere to get "bled" (their blood was literally taken from their body) to stay "healthy." Of course, this did not work well. As for knowing someone's name... In many cultures around the world, knowing someone's name afforded you a certain "power" over them. In European cultures, this was called The Law of Names. Rumpelstiltskin was a good example of this.But this was only true if you knew their "true name." In catholicism, in order to have power over a demon that has possessed someone you must first know their true name. This can be seen in The Exorcist and in Constantine, as examples. As for the Dr., I think you're right... Martha does look at the Doctor as if to say "What am I? Chopped liver?" Fun episode and fun commentary and reactions! Looking forward to the next episode!!
Concerning we don't know Shakespeare, there's two layers to this.
First, there are some fringe theories that William Shakespeare of Straford upon Avon did not write all or any the plays accredited to him, but the overwhelming academic consensus (even at Oxford, which was the source of the most popular theories) is that he did.
The other is that none of the paintings confirmed to be of Shakespeare were made during his lifetime. There are some from his lifetime that experts believe might have been him, and the the portrait of him from the First Folio was reported as 'accurate' by a contemporary, but we don't really 'know' what Shakespeare looked like.
Okay, I'm just going to keep adding facts in comments. "Sudden imbalance of the humors" refers to the medical theory at the time that the body contained four 'humors' that regulated health and emotion. These humors were thought to reside in certain bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile, so they'd bleed or purge someone to get out the excess humors (often making them sicker.)
Shakespeare's sonnets were addressed to (possibly fictional) people described as 'the Noble Youth', 'the Rival Poet' and 'the Dark Lady.
He had twins named Hamnet and Judith, but there's no direct evidence that Hamnet's death inspired the play (Shakespeare would continue focusing on Comedies over Tragedies for some years after his son's death.)
@@saberstrike000 He also had an older daugher, Susannah, the only one of his children (at least children we know of) to wed. There was recently a novel (and possibly movie?) about Hamnet and his death.
@@HuntingViolets You know what, I always forget about Susannah.
Dr Who Is back!!
I think I know how book 7 made the Doctor cry. (It would have been a spoiler at the time 2007.)
11:11 What was that... "Spoilers" you say...
When the series started in 1963 the idea was to have every other story be a historical story to educate children and get them interested in history. However circumstances arose so that didn't quite happen as regularly as they planned initially.
Indeed, in the first and second season historical episodes were lacking Sci-Fi elements outside of the TARDIS, up until the Time Meddler, which broke this rule forever by introducing the first Time Lord (not that they knew them as such back then) villain "The meddling Monk"establishing that the TARDIS was not, in fact, one of a kind and begining a long tradition of aliens interfering in Earth History.
Crazy to think a modern forward thinking show like Doctor Who would praise JK Rowling so much, but this was 2003 or so so it was a different time.
The characters she wrote would all be against her hypocrisy. Even Umbridge.
Not my favorite episodes but I enjoy Martha so I enjoy the episode regardless
I'm watching Emme watching Doctor Who with an audience watching a play.
Are you sure the royal family aren't werewolves?
Hello Emme!😊Great reactions to Doctor Who's interesting take on Shakespeare!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 P.S. - Your kitty is adorable!❤
Your cat is so cute omg ❤ Love your reactions, can't wait for you to get to so many cool episodes !
Thank you!! 😊
Yay another reaction!! What's your cat's name?
Her name is Mochi!
Martha is actually my favorite companion, but a bunch of people look at me oddly when I say that.
She's my favorite too! We love Martha.
One thing i did appreciate about this episode that wasn’t shown in this reaction is that Martha asks questions about whether or not she will be safe in the past because of her race. People say all kinds of things about the show now…but it’s always been socially aware!
Too bad the Doctor says she just has to carry herself like she owns the place because he does, though.
@@HuntingViolets Yeah. I guess maybe it had never occured to him before or something. After all, she was his first not white companion (at least in the TV series.) Although it’s more likely to just be that not-quite-there-yet 2000s writing.
Yeah that’s definitely appreciated that it’s acknowledged as it’s a true part of history!
@@queenyblahblah Yeah, I think we still aren't quite there a lot of the time, which is kind of mindblowing.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas
1914 - 1953
Love lorn Martha.
She meant by inevitably killing her Grandpa
I think your cat caught a bug at the start of the video, it was really entertaining.
omg really!!!!! i wouldnt be surprised
Hey Nonny Nonny.
Most of what is said about shakespeare is true in this episode the picture of shakespeare is usually as an older man but there are a few of him younger showing that he was a blonde or fair haired. He did have a son called hamnet who was only 11 when he died he wrote a plat dedicated to his son and the pain he was feeling. There's a line about academics punching the air a lot of historians believe he may of been gay or at least what would now be considered bi sexual
Also a lot of David Tennant's early career involved working with the royal Shakespeare company which he continues to do
Thanks, Emme! ⏳
Considering the writer of this episode, those Harry Potter references haven't aged well.
Excellent! One of my favorite episodes. I would say more but someones going to claim it as a spoiler.
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It took me far too long to notice the cat asleep on your lap 🥺
Question: Who's the kitty in the background? They look cute [I was going to say "she" but I wasn't certain] I love cats - all kinds of then from the tiny to the biggest cats.
I can't comment of my feeling toward Martha's family because I want to hear your honest first response.
modern science did not really exists so the humours where an inaccurate description of why illness occured, goes back to the greeks if i remember correctly
kitten~!
You wondered rating. Just about every episode of doctor who are PG but some episodes push nearly PG-13
Didn't they bathe? There's an urban legend that Queen Elizabeth I only bathed once a year “whether she needed it or not”.Certainly bathing was less frequent, but public baths existed.
There were also people throwing chamber pots out the windows, as we've seen, which couldn't make the city smell great. On the other hand, exhaust fumes are not great either.
@@HuntingViolets Indeed - the streets in parts of London weren't far from being open sewers.
Expelliarmus! :)
Finally !!