My father's side of the family came from Warwickshire during the English Civil war. He was one of the first settlers on Long Island, New York. Than you for this story!
Another wonderful video. Thank you so much, Claire! I remember with fondness my visit to Stratford, back in 2010. It was as if I had come home. Actually, I live near a small town in Italy called Montecchio: there are two castles there and they are said to be Romeo's and Juliet's family seats.
I'm a huge fan of the Bard myself! Stratford-upon-Avon is such a lovely place. I performed the role of Nerissa from the Merchant of Venice while I was in school. It was such an honor. He truly understood human nature.
Thank you so much for bringing Will back to life and inspiring me to listen to Alfred Deller sing his songs and Richard Burton read his words. You have become an integral part of my year.
once again wonderful journey with you Clair, thank you so much, ive learnt more following you about my history than i did growing up... my fave passtime, a cup of tea and opening your videos..
I toured Shakespeare's childhood home. It was fascinating. We only saw Anne Hathaway's cottage from the outside. I think it was closed that day. But we did have a group photo taken of all of us outside of it. I have such great memories of my trip. I would love to return there someday. We stayed at The Moat House. I sat on the dock of the hotel on the Avon river. As I watched the swans, I thought, "How cool is this? These swans could be descendants of the ones that were here in Shakespeare's day!" Thanks for a great story today Claire! 💜👸👑🏰🎪🎭👍
We have a Stratford Festival in Stratford Ontario Canada. I had the pleasure of seeing Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Merchant of Venice there several years ago.
I’ve just brought “This day in Tudor history “, which I am looking forward to dipping in or not putting it down, and “The Anne Boleyn collection 2”. Very much enjoyed A.B collection 1, and your super TH-cam videos. Many thanks from one historian to another.
Thank you Claire for a most pleasant video --a very nice diversion from diseases, beheadings, and so forth. Thank you, Will, for making life more enjoyable for those who lived in Tudor times and beyond.
Fun to hear how you enjoyed Stratford as your 'sort of' hometown! Many people never take advantage of what's close by...I'm near Washington, DC, but have not visited most of the monuments!! But I DID visit Stratford several times while I lived in London!! A truly charming town with friendly people and a history that you absorb w/o effort.
Thank you Claire. I live in Birmingham not far from Stratford upon Avon. I have visited Stratford many times ( I love walking by the River Avon ). The town is very beautiful. Happy times. Also Happy St George's Day 🌹.
2 years ago, when my son was in Year 4 of Primary school, all the children take part in Shakespeare Week and perform scenes from a Shakespeare play, and was performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester! My son's year group did 12th night, it was FAB to hear all the kids speak in the Shakespearean language!! Whilest researching facts on Shakespeare, I discovered his wife's name....and it made me wonder if current popular actress Anne Hathaway either chose Shakespeare's wife's name (cos most actors change their names), or if she's even related to Shakespeare's wife's family!!
Today would have been my parents 51 st anniversary. My Dad was a big Shakespeare fan and learned later what a good Shakespeare day he picked!!! Being born rarely mentioned that he died on the same day.
The phrase "as dead as a doornail" predates Shakespeare by a couple of centuries. There's a print reference dating back to 1350 in an English translation of a French poem, and again in 1362 in an English poem.
There's a reference to it in print in 1350, a translation by William Langland of the French poem Guillaume de Palerne: "For but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenayl."
I spent two nights at Mercure Shakespeare last month after a trip to Wales, & got to see most of the sites. Shakespeare’s presence was all around...he died at 52, apparently stressed out due to recent troubles with his son in law (Judith’s husband) who’d impregnated a local woman who’d subsequently died in childbirth. He had enough strength to cross him out of the will. His wife Anne was the oldest daughter of a farmer (sheep business) and his mother Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of a farmer.
Shakespeare like Elizabeth 1st is a national icon, and Staratford upon Avon is world famous because of him, he wrote the most marvellous plays and one of them springs to mind with the famous battle cry, 'once more unto the breach dear friends' in Henry V, he also wrote Henry V111 Richard 111 and Romeo and Juliet, a Midsummer Nights Dream and many more, Shakespeare contributed to the golden age of Elizabeth as the age of playwrights along with the age of discovery and the defeat of the Amarda, his name brings tourists far and wide to that little part of England and he is read about in schools and universities and his plays are still being enacted today, his books are still in print and Henry V has been made into a movie and I think it's wonderful that the Globe theatre was built exactly how she looked in Shakespeare's day, and we have Sam Wanamaker to thank for that, Stratford is a pretty little town and amongst its attractions is Anne Hathaways cottage with the most beautiful garden vibrant with flowers, you must feel special being born in such a famous place Claire.
I love the idea that someone could contribute so much to a language, any language. Shakespeare came up with so many words. If you jus look at his contribution in terms of new words, it’s astounding. Moonbeam is one of my favorites. But even bedroom and blush and worthless, words that are less... poetic are attributed to him. So cool. I even have an inside joke with my friend that references Shakespeare. One of us will pretend to take offense, narrow our eyes and say, “I bite my thumb.” The other will gasp. “At me?” A pause. “No... not at thee. But I DO bite my thumb.” And they’ll either seem very aggrieved or we’ll sort or rush at each other and start a mock chase or something. People think it’s nuts, but it’s really fun. 😂 It’s such an “oh snap” moment in literature. It’s so weird to think of Elizabeth and Shakespeare sort of.. co-existing in a small region in a close period of time. It doesn’t seem two giants should be able to tower so close together.
I had absolutely no idea how many phrases,quoting Shakespeare and didn't know it. The little Anne B. Over your right shoulder must be swooning at your recounts of history. Would you please set her up on her feet. Thank you.
My main gripe with the supposed birthplace in Stratford is that what we see is pretty much a Victorian structure. I visited as a child and was amazed with the place and loved it, and I left in a state of wonder. Now I feel conned after having read about and seen pictures of this same place in the 19th century, where it was a collection of run down buildings and shambles that have been, over time, demolished and rebuilt into a kind of Shakespearean theme park. I think perhaps the only thing remaining from the actual Shakespeare era is part of the cellar of what was once multiple buildings. But still, I suppose, we need a place for the pilgrims to go to , that was David Garrick's feeling anyway, I think.
It's a great place to learn about Shakespeare, and at least P.T. Barnum didn't get his hands on the buildings. The Guild Hall, Trinity Church, Mary Arden's Farm and the Hathaway Cottage are all good ways to explore the life in Stratford and how it may have influenced Shakespeare.
I think Hathaway Cottage is equally as dubious, and up until the year 2000 the place known as Mary Arden's farm was actually found to be a house that belonged to a neighbour called Adam Palmer. Now Glebe Farm, which has now been renamed as Mary Arden's farm, is again quite clearly mostly Victorian in structure. As for it being a great place to learn about Shakespeare, I'm not so sure. I think the danger is a person could visit and then leave under the wrong impression. I remember tourists in the so called birthplace taking pictures of nearly every bolt and floorboard in the place, and various claims made about pieces of furniture inside and the goings on in the garden etc. I think the only hard facts about Shakespeare can be comfortably fit on a single sheet of paper. Everything else is speculative and invention. If you truly want to know Shakespeare, the best you can do is read the magnificent works, some of the finest ever written.
This has been mentioned, but I will remind all the Shakespeare fans to hunt down ‘Upstart Crow’- a comedic series about Shakespeare. It is streaming on Brit Box. Kenneth Branagh recently released the film ‘Alll is True’- also about Shakespeare.
I also have to admit I’m a bit jealous. I grew up in a town of about 15,000 on the Tennessee and Kentucky border. We went on a field trip to a farm and a cotton gin museum. 😂 So. Young me would be super upset with you. Even current me is having to keep perspective to reduce the sting of it. 😅 I’m glad you got to enjoy it; of everyone, a historian would be worthy of the location! I also love the insult dictionary! My Dad got it for me for my birthday. Gotta love an insult that’s totally lost on people. Although he has so many good insults sprinkled in his plays. “Thy sin’s not accidental but a trade,” is one I’ve quoted before that I just adore. As funny as he was for the time, he was quite talented at verbal whipping. One thing that will forever bug me about him though is, we don’t have more than one signature on his with any specific spelling of his name. I think there’s about a dozen surviving but they’re all different, and I don’t believe any of them are the version we use. I guess with a name like his, it’s easier to go crazy with spelling variations; it’s so unfortunate! 😅 I always take a moment to be grateful for standardized spelling when I think of Shakespeare. And to enjoy having a dedicated word for moonbeams. ☺️
While April 23rd is usually given as Shakespeare's date of birth, he might actually have been born a day earlier. While children were usually baptized three days after they were born, there were exceptions. April 25, 1564 was St. Mark's Day, a day considered very unlucky, and a day when no weddings or christenings took place. So if he were born on April 22, his parents would have had to wait until the following Monday to have him christened. At any rate, in 1564 England was still using the old Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar we use today. So by our modern reckoning, he was born on May 2nd or 3rd. You will often read that Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, but they did not. Both died on April 23, 1616, but since Spain was using the Gregorian calendar and England the Julian calendar, Cervantes actually died ten days before Shakespeare.
Well said! And the inscription on Shakespeare's tomb says a few abbreviated words in Latin, telling us that he died in the year of the Lord 1616, in his 53rd year, on 23 April: OBIIT AŃO DOI 1616 ÆTATIS٠53 DIE 23 APR. So he very well may have been born the day before we traditionally celebrate it!
@@JenniferM13 Well, not having a letter from Shakespeare makes sense. He wasn't a Romantic poet writing deep thoughts to other people, he was a jobbing actor and house-poet, so his letters would have been filled with mundane things about Globe business, New Place, etc. After he died, Susanna and John Hall got most of everything, and paper was a scarce commodity, used to light fires and line pie tins. We don't know what he left behind, but Time (his old enemy, if you read his Sonnets) and he fact that his last descendant died in 1670 sure took care of it. We don't even have his manuscripts, because, once printed, they were considered worthless. At least we have his will, Hand D in SIR THOMAS MORE, and a letter written TO him! Pretty good for a commoner. As to the image, well, we only have images of the two leading period actors in all of London (Burbage and Allyn) and a few woodcuts of others (Kemp). We don't even know if the one supposed portrait of Marlowe is actually him. Obviously, Shakespeare had a recognizable look: Jonson says the likeness in the First Folio is close.
I also enjoyed the epitaph. I have read part of the long list of sayings that are attributed to Shakespeare. Do you believe there is any credence to the belief of some that Henry VIII is the author of some of the works attributed to Shakespeare? I would think not, based on the dates of Henry's death and William's birth. Thank you for another interesting bit of history. Happy St. George's Day to you!
I am sure he had a superior way with words, which helped turn the head of Miss Hathaway. Thank goodness he made an honest woman out of her. E-gad he could have been a cad.
“Holy S!” 4 reals? He was born April 23rd?... i knew I was the reincarnation when I was younger and read him... I was born May 23rd... We’re practically twins... FF,Y!
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A wonderful tribute to one of the world's most famous playwrights. Thanks, Claire!
That epitaph is wonderful. Thank you for going so in-depth with the video on Shakespeare . I really enjoyed it. All hail good Will!
My father's side of the family came from Warwickshire during the English Civil war. He was one of the first settlers on Long Island, New York. Than you for this story!
Another wonderful video. Thank you so much, Claire! I remember with fondness my visit to Stratford, back in 2010. It was as if I had come home. Actually, I live near a small town in Italy called Montecchio: there are two castles there and they are said to be Romeo's and Juliet's family seats.
I'm a huge fan of the Bard myself! Stratford-upon-Avon is such a lovely place. I performed the role of Nerissa from the Merchant of Venice while I was in school. It was such an honor. He truly understood human nature.
It really is amazing how many phrases and names that he created that are still used to this day. Thanks Claire.
He didn't create "dead as a door nail". That dates back (in print) to the mid 1300s.
Thank you for your ode to the bard. William Shakespeare is amazing. I I would love to someday visit Stratford Upon Avon.
You should! It is so beautiful, and you can see it all in a few days. Just lovely.
Thank you so much for bringing Will back to life and inspiring me to listen to Alfred Deller sing his songs and Richard Burton read his words. You have become an integral part of my year.
once again wonderful journey with you Clair, thank you so much, ive learnt more following you about my history than i did growing up... my fave passtime, a cup of tea and opening your videos..
I toured Shakespeare's childhood home. It was fascinating. We only saw Anne Hathaway's cottage from the outside. I think it was closed that day. But we did have a group photo taken of all of us outside of it. I have such great memories of my trip. I would love to return there someday. We stayed at The Moat House. I sat on the dock of the hotel on the Avon river. As I watched the swans, I thought, "How cool is this? These swans could be descendants of the ones that were here in Shakespeare's day!" Thanks for a great story today Claire! 💜👸👑🏰🎪🎭👍
We have a Stratford Festival in Stratford Ontario Canada. I had the pleasure of seeing Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Merchant of Venice there several years ago.
I’ve just brought “This day in Tudor history “, which I am looking forward to dipping in or not putting it down, and “The Anne Boleyn collection 2”. Very much enjoyed A.B collection 1, and your super TH-cam videos. Many thanks from one historian to another.
Thank you Claire for a most pleasant video --a very nice diversion from diseases, beheadings, and so forth. Thank you, Will, for making life more enjoyable for those who lived in Tudor times and beyond.
Thank you, Miss Claire for your amazing upload. Great lesson.
A really fine tribute, thank you Claire!
Fun to hear how you enjoyed Stratford as your 'sort of' hometown! Many people never take advantage of what's close by...I'm near Washington, DC, but have not visited most of the monuments!! But I DID visit Stratford several times while I lived in London!! A truly charming town with friendly people and a history that you absorb w/o effort.
Ty, Claire!! Fun!!
Lovely, concise, and packed full of info! Thanks!
Loved this!
Thank you Claire. I live in Birmingham not far from Stratford upon Avon.
I have visited Stratford many times ( I love walking by the River Avon ).
The town is very beautiful. Happy times. Also Happy St George's Day 🌹.
Thank you Claire very interesting information about the Bard and some things I hadn't heard before xx
So proud to share my birthday with the Bard and St George’s day of course.
2 years ago, when my son was in Year 4 of Primary school, all the children take part in Shakespeare Week and perform scenes from a Shakespeare play, and was performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester! My son's year group did 12th night, it was FAB to hear all the kids speak in the Shakespearean language!! Whilest researching facts on Shakespeare, I discovered his wife's name....and it made me wonder if current popular actress Anne Hathaway either chose Shakespeare's wife's name (cos most actors change their names), or if she's even related to Shakespeare's wife's family!!
Thank you.
We have the sonnets , the tragedies , the comedies , and the rest is history
Today would have been my parents 51 st anniversary. My Dad was a big Shakespeare fan and learned later what a good Shakespeare day he picked!!! Being born rarely mentioned that he died on the same day.
The phrase "as dead as a doornail" predates Shakespeare by a couple of centuries. There's a print reference dating back to 1350 in an English translation of a French poem, and again in 1362 in an English poem.
There's a reference to it in print in 1350, a translation by William Langland of the French poem Guillaume de Palerne: "For but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenayl."
🇭🇲🦘 (viewed 17/04/2021) ... 🔔 A great tribute to William Shakespeare ! Thank you Claire 👑👍
I spent two nights at Mercure Shakespeare last month after a trip to Wales, & got to see most of the sites. Shakespeare’s presence was all around...he died at 52, apparently stressed out due to recent troubles with his son in law (Judith’s husband) who’d impregnated a local woman who’d subsequently died in childbirth. He had enough strength to cross him out of the will. His wife Anne was the oldest daughter of a farmer (sheep business) and his mother Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of a farmer.
The crossing out was done a few weeks earlier, when the trouble came to light. Thomas Quiney was shifty, that's for sure.
Im always learning from you thank you
Shakespeare like Elizabeth 1st is a national icon, and Staratford upon Avon is world famous because of him, he wrote the most marvellous plays and one of them springs to mind with the famous battle cry, 'once more unto the breach dear friends' in Henry V, he also wrote Henry V111 Richard 111 and Romeo and Juliet, a Midsummer Nights Dream and many more, Shakespeare contributed to the golden age of Elizabeth as the age of playwrights along with the age of discovery and the defeat of the Amarda, his name brings tourists far and wide to that little part of England and he is read about in schools and universities and his plays are still being enacted today, his books are still in print and Henry V has been made into a movie and I think it's wonderful that the Globe theatre was built exactly how she looked in Shakespeare's day, and we have Sam Wanamaker to thank for that, Stratford is a pretty little town and amongst its attractions is Anne Hathaways cottage with the most beautiful garden vibrant with flowers, you must feel special being born in such a famous place Claire.
I love the idea that someone could contribute so much to a language, any language. Shakespeare came up with so many words. If you jus look at his contribution in terms of new words, it’s astounding. Moonbeam is one of my favorites. But even bedroom and blush and worthless, words that are less... poetic are attributed to him. So cool.
I even have an inside joke with my friend that references Shakespeare. One of us will pretend to take offense, narrow our eyes and say, “I bite my thumb.” The other will gasp. “At me?” A pause. “No... not at thee. But I DO bite my thumb.” And they’ll either seem very aggrieved or we’ll sort or rush at each other and start a mock chase or something. People think it’s nuts, but it’s really fun. 😂 It’s such an “oh snap” moment in literature.
It’s so weird to think of Elizabeth and Shakespeare sort of.. co-existing in a small region in a close period of time. It doesn’t seem two giants should be able to tower so close together.
I had absolutely no idea how many phrases,quoting Shakespeare and didn't know it. The little Anne B. Over your right shoulder must be swooning at your recounts of history. Would you please set her up on her feet. Thank you.
Upstart Crow! Yay for the BBC!
Happy Birthday Billy. All the world was within you. You changed lives in your present and forever forward.
My main gripe with the supposed birthplace in Stratford is that what we see is pretty much a Victorian structure. I visited as a child and was amazed with the place and loved it, and I left in a state of wonder. Now I feel conned after having read about and seen pictures of this same place in the 19th century, where it was a collection of run down buildings and shambles that have been, over time, demolished and rebuilt into a kind of Shakespearean theme park. I think perhaps the only thing remaining from the actual Shakespeare era is part of the cellar of what was once multiple buildings. But still, I suppose, we need a place for the pilgrims to go to , that was David Garrick's feeling anyway, I think.
It's a great place to learn about Shakespeare, and at least P.T. Barnum didn't get his hands on the buildings. The Guild Hall, Trinity Church, Mary Arden's Farm and the Hathaway Cottage are all good ways to explore the life in Stratford and how it may have influenced Shakespeare.
I think Hathaway Cottage is equally as dubious, and up until the year 2000 the place known as Mary Arden's farm was actually found to be a house that belonged to a neighbour called Adam Palmer. Now Glebe Farm, which has now been renamed as Mary Arden's farm, is again quite clearly mostly Victorian in structure. As for it being a great place to learn about Shakespeare, I'm not so sure. I think the danger is a person could visit and then leave under the wrong impression. I remember tourists in the so called birthplace taking pictures of nearly every bolt and floorboard in the place, and various claims made about pieces of furniture inside and the goings on in the garden etc. I think the only hard facts about Shakespeare can be comfortably fit on a single sheet of paper. Everything else is speculative and invention. If you truly want to know Shakespeare, the best you can do is read the magnificent works, some of the finest ever written.
Did Elizabeth attend any of his plays??? As always another great video💓🥰💓🥰💓
She NEVER attended a public performance, but several appearances at court for Elizabeth are documented.
My son’s birthday today also. Love Shakespeare ❤️
Thank you. :-)
This has been mentioned, but I will remind all the Shakespeare fans to hunt down ‘Upstart Crow’- a comedic series about Shakespeare. It is streaming on Brit Box. Kenneth Branagh recently released the film ‘Alll is True’- also about Shakespeare.
Happy World Book Night!
I also have to admit I’m a bit jealous. I grew up in a town of about 15,000 on the Tennessee and Kentucky border. We went on a field trip to a farm and a cotton gin museum. 😂 So. Young me would be super upset with you. Even current me is having to keep perspective to reduce the sting of it. 😅 I’m glad you got to enjoy it; of everyone, a historian would be worthy of the location!
I also love the insult dictionary! My Dad got it for me for my birthday. Gotta love an insult that’s totally lost on people. Although he has so many good insults sprinkled in his plays. “Thy sin’s not accidental but a trade,” is one I’ve quoted before that I just adore. As funny as he was for the time, he was quite talented at verbal whipping.
One thing that will forever bug me about him though is, we don’t have more than one signature on his with any specific spelling of his name. I think there’s about a dozen surviving but they’re all different, and I don’t believe any of them are the version we use. I guess with a name like his, it’s easier to go crazy with spelling variations; it’s so unfortunate! 😅 I always take a moment to be grateful for standardized spelling when I think of Shakespeare. And to enjoy having a dedicated word for moonbeams. ☺️
While April 23rd is usually given as Shakespeare's date of birth, he might actually have been born a day earlier. While children were usually baptized three days after they were born, there were exceptions. April 25, 1564 was St. Mark's Day, a day considered very unlucky, and a day when no weddings or christenings took place. So if he were born on April 22, his parents would have had to wait until the following Monday to have him christened. At any rate, in 1564 England was still using the old Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar we use today. So by our modern reckoning, he was born on May 2nd or 3rd. You will often read that Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, but they did not. Both died on April 23, 1616, but since Spain was using the Gregorian calendar and England the Julian calendar, Cervantes actually died ten days before Shakespeare.
Very fascinating information & something which never even occurred to me before! Thank you! 🙏
Well said! And the inscription on Shakespeare's tomb says a few abbreviated words in Latin, telling us that he died in the year of the Lord 1616, in his 53rd year, on 23 April:
OBIIT AŃO DOI 1616
ÆTATIS٠53 DIE 23 APR.
So he very well may have been born the day before we traditionally celebrate it!
Another talented man who was one in a generation.
As well known as Shakespeare was back then, it’s funny we don’t have an authenticated image of him.
Or even one single letter by him.
@@JenniferM13 Well, not having a letter from Shakespeare makes sense. He wasn't a Romantic poet writing deep thoughts to other people, he was a jobbing actor and house-poet, so his letters would have been filled with mundane things about Globe business, New Place, etc. After he died, Susanna and John Hall got most of everything, and paper was a scarce commodity, used to light fires and line pie tins. We don't know what he left behind, but Time (his old enemy, if you read his Sonnets) and he fact that his last descendant died in 1670 sure took care of it. We don't even have his manuscripts, because, once printed, they were considered worthless. At least we have his will, Hand D in SIR THOMAS MORE, and a letter written TO him! Pretty good for a commoner.
As to the image, well, we only have images of the two leading period actors in all of London (Burbage and Allyn) and a few woodcuts of others (Kemp). We don't even know if the one supposed portrait of Marlowe is actually him. Obviously, Shakespeare had a recognizable look: Jonson says the likeness in the First Folio is close.
I also enjoyed the epitaph. I have read part of the long list of sayings that are attributed to Shakespeare. Do you believe there is any credence to the belief of some that Henry VIII is the author of some of the works attributed to Shakespeare? I would think not, based on the dates of Henry's death and William's birth. Thank you for another interesting bit of history. Happy St. George's Day to you!
I am sure he had a superior way with words, which helped turn the head of Miss Hathaway. Thank goodness he made an honest woman out of her. E-gad he could have been a cad.
If you want to see your stomping grounds watch exploring the cotswolds here on TH-cam
🇺🇸Much ado about nothing! That’s my fav.🇬🇧
Henry VI, parts one, two, and three!
“Holy S!”
4 reals? He was born April 23rd?...
i knew I was the reincarnation when I was younger and read him...
I was born May 23rd...
We’re practically twins...
FF,Y!