Shakespeare is everywhere | Christopher Gaze | TEDxVancouver
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- Best known as Artistic Director of Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Christopher Gaze has performed in England, the USA and across Canada. Born in England, he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before coming to Canada in 1975 where he spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival. He moved to Vancouver in 1983 and in 1990 founded Bard on the Beach which he has since
nurtured to one of the most successful not-for-profit Arts organizations in North America, with attendance exceeding 91,000. His many honours include induction into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, Canada's Meritorious Service Medal (2004), Honorary Doctorates from UBC & SFU, the BC Community Achievement Award (2007), the Gold Medallion from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America (2007) and a Jessie Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Equus at The Playhouse.
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as a high schooler, this is totally what I want to learn, so thank you literature teacher. Also thanks for making this assignment due in 2 hours. I really appreciate it.
What would you rather learn? (Genuine q).
@@ellenmarch3095 honestly, i think the school should focus more on creativity and individuality more than being forced to learn about how other people are creative. even if it sounds childish, maybe do small projects involving our own creative writing skills or 'make your own play' type thing that gets creativity flowing instead of worksheets that no one is interested in doing. involving these types of small fun activities help me learn and get to be involved more than sheets of homework that are just all questions that you can just listen to the answer for. because that way, with homework, it doesnt really get you active on the subject, more just bored or aggravated at it.
ROMEO AND JULIET (RECOMPOSED)
by Jason Rudge
THE PROLOGUE
The CHORUS enters.
Our scene is set in an enticing city
Where two rival households swap stinging scars,
Uglifying the air two teens make pretty
When true love blows their hearts across the stars,…
Which rouse a prickly sun imparting heat
To twisting blades that twist the plot on stage
For the benefit of worms seeking meat
From fools who rashly court despair and rage.
Youth can make fools of all the greatest lovers,
But sometimes outside forces play a part
And in this tale a foolish youth discovers
His love can’t keep old hatreds from his heart-
Nor halt hearts taking trips to heaven’s gate,
Which fast becomes the lovers’ tragic fate.
The CHORUS exits.
@@frootloopsr I agree 1000%, I have to watch this to make up an assignment from a Sub day 💀
@@ibu_gobrrrrr872 thats terrible im so sorry for you
This man would make an amazing voice actor.
I think he is a voice actor.
he was in star wars ;)
He was Turaga Vakama
He was in the Bionicle Movies
@@sdFreerey I was looking for this comment!! Thank you!!
I love how literally everyone in the comments and almost everyone that watched that is here because of school....
shut up weirdo
@@matt6722 :( what was that for??
@Mr. Sir seriously, why? I'm here for school. Why are you being mean for someone asking a question?
Im just here out of a general hatred of Shakespeare
Wkwk that's me
I don't know why but I cried so much during this. Everything he says about Shakespeare is just so beautiful even to his performance of the sonnet.
+Nikki Wilson dude are you gay?
+jimreid5 uh, no I'm female and heterosexual. Also yes I am gay, very happy indeed.
+Nikki Wilson I think he's just quoting Shakespeare.
+Tanner Sneddon yeah pretty much. and I like that a lot.
You're welcome then.
What a brilliant performance! Sonnet 18 is one of the very few poems I know by heart, and I have never thought of it as a eulogy before. Makes so much sense. Heartbreaking, but I love it even more now.
Who’s here from school homework on shakespear
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XD yeah me lolll
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I’m an English student looking into being a scholar focusing on Shakespeare. This gave me pure goosebumps.
Me too
Fantastic delivery, gifted orator! The sonnet!! Heartbreaking!
Richard III, given life. Gripping performance!
How cheerful and wise his lecture is!
I must say I was in love with Shakespeare but today I am also in love with Mr.Gaze. What a brilliant analysis and what a more brilliant oration.
With that wisdom and diction Christopher Gaze could have started a religion, with Shakespeare being likened to a prophet...
Thank you for rekindling the bard in us, thank you for keeping him omnipresent, yet human.
Unbelievably Superb! Outstanding! I wish to listen to this wonderful artist, actor and dramatist all day. I love this theatrical creator, voice over and Brilliant Shakespearean Scholar. You are an outstanding Orator. I have listened already three times and still, can sit, stand, kneel, clap, learn and then listen all over again and yet again and again! I loved you💪🏼I am but speechless!
still watching after seven years, as a parent who also has close friends who have lost their children, to know that Sonnet 18 may have been a eulogy; it is a very soothing and thoughtful salve.
OK so basically I'm going to fail this worksheet. Also, "Quoting Shakespeare" ends at 5:10 if you're getting annoyed by its redundancy.
Thx that helped a lot
Starts at 2:20
was begging for it to stop
I watched this because Christopher Gaze is a master craftsman.. Bravo Sir!
This wasn’t a ted talk, this was an audition hahaha
Seriously though, bloody brilliant
Lovers of Shakespeare: "I like to think Shakespeare this ... Shakespeare that ..." . I love the passion. Thank you 🌹
Online Schoolers, Hi, How's It Goin'?
Nothing much, just doing homework.
youre not funny x
- james
jk lmao
jk lmao
jk lmao
Rock music and Shakespeare...got me through high school!
Yeah that's the only way to go I think.
He also invented the word swagger
swagger back home ok
So he’s the CEO of swag 😳
"A hard days night," indeed! Good work Christopher. We loved it.
What better way to 'discuss' Shakespeare than to perform it. Brilliant! Michael and Edith
Shakespeare. What a brilliant mind.
The all-devouring fire of burning lust
The joy of youth, the pain of getting old
The truth that man one day must come to dust
There's nothing in his sonnets left untold.
I am trying to write a sonnet about William Shakespeare, and this is the first quatrain.
Did you finish it?
nerd
@@davo64th if you're incapable of encouraging someone else's art then better remain quiet nay?
@@Anicius_ That reply made me hard
I find this quite fascinating if I must say. Do continue your poem.
Hey 9th graders! Online school tough, can't believe I spent my first year of high school online, I was so excited to go to a new school, and new everything, but here I am. 10th grade will kinda be like my first day of in-person high school.
Hows it going for you
Vivid, illuminating, instructive, agitating, stirring!!! A helpful aid for EFL classes!!!
Chanced upon this. Not here because of School.
My goodness! this man can act.
He also reminds me of Rowan Atkinson.
My teacher made me watch this and write about “why we should read Shakespeare” like bruh this didn’t talk about why we should.. guess imma bs this paper...🤩🥳🤗🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Toxicity can you send me your paper please
I could give you 20 reason off the bat why you should not.
sameeee
@@deliri0um I could give you 20 reasons why you should.
@@jl_culwell fair enough, im just tired of him being called the greatest writer or whatever there are so many beautiful poets in thousand of languages out there that werent written for queens entartainment
"Grief fills the room up of my absent child;
Lies in his bed ,walks up and down with me.
Puts on his pretty looks,repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts..."
From King John.
The man who wrote that felt the loss of his child.
He can still feel his presence, grief stricken with the loss he expresses it in the way he can do best .
And down the ages we feel that pain and pray we never have to go through it.
And through that expressed grief we remember Hamnet and his father .
Well said, thank you
I hadn’t read that speech before so I looked it up and it made me cry. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read and I can’t believe it isn’t more popular.
A hard date night indeed good work...... I love this sonet, his through of knowledge my god. It's too good ❤❤❤❤
I definitely plan to use this in my class. I am teaching a poetry unit prior to reading Romeo and Juliet, one aspect of which focuses on the Shakespearean sonnet. Students read both Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, then wrote their own. I think they would love this. It's great because it highlights 2 important things: that Shakespeare is very relevant today and that poetry can delight our imaginations. Not to mention, it adds the element of drama. Love it.
Tracy Gamache You might want to read Hank Whittemore’s book “100 reasons Shake-Speare was the Earl of Oxford” for real insight into the biographical meaning behind the works. It opened a whole new world of meaning behind many obscure passages.
Hello there
i love shakespeare so much but i think i also have feelings for mr gaze 👉👈
I agree
I'm speechless!
Gathered friends, listen again to our legend of Shakespeare.
In the time before time...
I think this was the best TT I ever saw.
A great and learned orator! I am so thrilled by his view about that sonnet and now feel that, yes, Shakespeare might have written it for his departed son Hamnet.
My rich banker friend quoted Shakespeare all the time along with Cicero and Homer. I did not understand the Latin and Greek parts but he said a classical education was the best training for modern banking, commerce and industry. He died a very rich man but I was a flake and did not listen. Now I realize that the tools of intelligence are language and while schools can teach functions they cannot teach intelligence as the recent failure of the bankers has proven. He was also a great charmer and charmed the panties off many beautiful women though he was short and stout. There is more to it than they taught me when I was a boy but I was not intelligent enough to realize it.
He recites so well.
A lovely presentation, Christopher, especially Sonnet 18 and the Richard III speech. The "quoting Shakespeare" section at the beginning was written by Bernard Levin, the English journalist and author, who was also a big Shakespeare fan.
Brilliant! ... I love his Peter Seller's reference at the end, in those last few Beatle's lines..
Hello there
That was the greatest reading of the 18th sonnet I've ever heard. But the audience didn't applaud??
I think the audience was too stunned to move. I've never heard that sonnet interpreted that way before. What a beautiful delivery.
Shut up nerd
A memorable performance.
This is sooo good! 😊
You are a Genius to say the least!
That’s freaking Vakama, to all my fellow _Bionicle_ fans here!
ffs we all here because our teacher made us watch this during quarantine right?😭
Yep
Yep
Sometimes many of us may wonder what people will remember of us when we are gone, and of course one could imagine the same of a country. The British , a small group of rain on islanders, built the largest empire in the history of the world, they were the first people to invent an entirely new economic system known as industrialisation, they and their progeny have to date been the most inventive people in modern times.
Now readers, before you condemn me for lack of modesty, I once heard an interview on BBC radio 4, the question discussed was what would Britain be remembered for if the country ended, and he replied “our literature” and so it is , the pen is indeed mightier than the sword. Don’t forget Shakespeare , the greatest gift of these islands to the world, and now in your possession, and yours.
On of the best,
Thank you sir for the marvellous lecture 👌
He should have had a standing ovation.
The voice of Bionicle!
Turaga Vakama, Mata Nui smiles upon you
Wow.That was impressive.Thanks.
super!!!! i like it!
Love that guy!
Incredible
I have a presentation on Shakespeare and I am trying the best I can, I have never been so inspired and creative, I want to be not not to be.
This is amazing!
Lol I have to write notes on this. Let’s get some rippssssss
this is also hella late but rip
How did he know I was eating pop tarts!?
can someone please explain what he says in the first 5 minutes? because I'm not English and it's hard to understand for me
freakin' online school!
and how much you will learn from that poetically dramatically that person is awesomely of all his biographical information stories of his life is. that guy is educationally informative.
ROMEO AND JULIET (RECOMPOSED)
by Jason Rudge
THE PROLOGUE
The CHORUS enters.
Our scene is set in an enticing city
Where two rival households swap stinging scars,
Uglifying the air two teens make pretty
When true love blows their hearts across the stars,…
Which rouse a prickly sun imparting heat
To twisting blades that twist the plot on stage
For the benefit of worms seeking meat
From fools who rashly court despair and rage.
Youth can make fools of all the greatest lovers,
But sometimes outside forces play a part
And in this tale a foolish youth discovers
His love can’t keep old hatreds from his heart-
Nor halt hearts taking trips to heaven’s gate,
Which fast becomes the lovers’ tragic fate.
The CHORUS exits.
What is the intention with his talk? asking for a school assignment
English teacher assign this extra credit assignment
Have any of you been to the amazing Kentucky Shakespeare Festival? It’s outdoors and totally free! I highly recommend!!!
Just want to confirm if this is how you would cite this video in APA format, or if I'm incorrect where am I wrong?
TEDx. (2012, Mar 21). Shakespeare is everywhere | Christopher Gaze [Video file]. Retrieved from th-cam.com/video/LsESSyMnwmU/w-d-xo.html
someone has the written speech?
FROM MISTA HOPPY BABYYYYY
Beautiful. God it's so beautiful.
WHOOPS. He read Sonnet 18 powerfully except he messed it up, it's "shake the darling buds of May," not "break the darling buds of May," and I think he knows he messed up because he pauses after "darling," like "oh man I screwed that up."
no one is here on their own will. its for school
i remember reading this about 25 years ago, pinned to a bookshelf in a bookshop in Sydney, and I've been looking for it ever since, but could never find it and never knew the author, I wonder if this guy wrote it, or has just pinched it and not credited it.
Hi Vakama :D
1.5x speed for normal talking speed, you're welcome
I did 2x
Thx that helped alot
I'd love to have the text for his compilation of "Quoting Shakespeare".
Me too
Nostalgic voice y
Great talk :-)
❤
The sonnet just doesn't seem that sad. He often wrestled with eternity.
Who else is here due to home school?
I'm here for my drama class
Here from school
My mother used to say: "That's Greek to me." Didn't know she was quoting Shakespeare!! (Incidentally, my mother was from Atlanta, Georgia.) I wonder if Mom knew she was quoting the great author? 🤔
Wow. His take on the most famous sonnet is moving!
c) In the end of the presentation, Gaze quotes Richard III. Why is Richard discontented?
while i m very impress for your Idea
and on how much you will learned from his biographical information stories of his life is. and he is definitely an educational informative great person.
I get to write an "Argumentative" essay on why schools should teach it, I put quotes because WE HAVE TO SAY IT'S IMPORTANT. I literally would fail if I said it shouldnt.
The faster speeds just sound like he’s talking normally
Brilliant.
In my high school years, I had to learn Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth. Which Shakespeare plays were you required to learn in your school days?
I am a german student watching this before being presented the theatre Richard the III by real english actors
AP lit anyone?
Brilliant. Bravo
Very nice Mr. Gaze. Very nice. Great to finally see it from the other side of the curtain.
Shoutout my boy Marco
He does a very nice reading of Bernard Levin's "On Quoting Shakespeare." Pity he doesn't credit Levin at all.
Whatever
f in the chat for every one here because corona cancelled our actual classes
Incredible acting!
Can someone summarize this for me?