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@biographics Great Channel... Could you make a video on Ahmed Shah Durrani... The Afghanistan leader that took power in the 18th century... It's quite fascinating that he became such a great leader after being picked from crowd by a religious leader!
A few years ago I had a conversation with a young man in probably 9th grade, who was reading "Romeo and Juliette" in English class. I asked him what he thought of it, and he answered that he didn't understand what was so great about Shakespeare. "The whole play is just a bunch of famous quotations strung together."
I took a Shakespeare class in college, even after 500 years the guy is still relevant. You don't hear that too often. Great writter even though I bearly understand his works.
I had a high school English teacher who made us read Shakespeare... best thing she ever did for us is to introduce Shakespeare to broaden our horizons in great literature.
good teachers are like that...best teacher i've ever had was in 3ed grade Mrs. Hines...all instructors since are compared to her greatness and they pale by comparison....
Do you mean that Shakespeare isn't a part of a highschool education anymore? I'm sure children are learning much more important things instead. Yeah, right.
Reading Shakespeare is great, but seeing a performance is something else. When The Bards plays are acted, that’s where it truly shines. I love reading, I love reading Shakespeare, but man a play performed by the right people with the right production can change how you understand the story.
Would you consider doing Vincent Van Gogh? I find many people base their idea of artists needing to have mental illness to be brilliant on their misconceptions about his work and life. It would be nice to have some clarity regarding his situation, some debunked myths and a generally more rounded story to share with people. Thank you for your consideration
Have you seen the Buzzfeed unsolved episode that goes into more questions about his passing? It pokes some holes into the theory that he hurt himself and looks at the town he was living in at the time.
I'm not sure why but I found this surprisingly touching. I often wonder how long dead creatives would react to discover how eternal their works have turned out to be.
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Most of Shakespeare's play were actually performed at the Rose, and to a lesser extent The Swan. The Globe was not built until around 1599 - 1600. The leftover timber was from a theatre called "The Theatre" where the Chamberlain's men also played.
“The Rose” is reference to honor the “Rosicrucian” cult. Frantic Bacon, a member was the REAL writer of the work dedicated to Willam Shakespeare. Why else would this work never be for his wife. Also, why would his children be illiterate..
When I read Shakespeare's work in high school I didn't think much of. In fact I thought it was cliché. Recently I have realized that everything since Shakespeare has been cliché, he set the precedent. It's insane how one person has influenced culture so much.
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I did find this video fascinating because I've always heard people trying to discredit Shakespeare's works as being slightly borrowed. It's nice to see someone acknowledge he was the greatest, most influential writer ever.
His plots weren't slightly borrowed. He copied them wholesale. Nearly every last one of them. The genius of Shakespeare isn't in the stories, but in the language he uses to convey them.
love the Mr. Peabody episode where the line "Bacon...you'll fry for this" was said...but then i base a lot of my life lessons on Bullwinkle...as should everyone
At 1:52 you state "William Shakespeare was only able to attend primary school until the age of 13, because......" You state this with absolute authority as if it was a know fact that he attended school, and also a known fact that he left at that date for the reason stated. Neither is correct. There IS a Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon which William Shakespeare could have attended. It is generally SSUMED that he was educated at this school. But it is NOT a known fact. The evidence against this is that no writing exists from Shakespeare's hand, except several signatures on documents drafted by other hands, such as his Will. These signatures are written by someone who has rather shakily penned the letters in the style of a very old-fashioned and rather ornate copy-book. They are not the fluent signatures of someone who spends his life writing. Although this fact might not be readily apparent to a modern person, looking at the rather elaborate form. Even two little dots, in the W and the S have been copied direct from the Copy-book from which he learnt to write his name. In other words, his signatures suggest that his ability to write might have been limited to ONLY signing his name.
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This is really amazing stuff. I really enjoy this channel and how the stories are presented , also your delivery.. it's wonderful! - This makes learning about Shakespeare's work even more intriguing.
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I am currently educating myself with Shakespeare's books because I am fond of his literature more so than the subjects in my school, especially science and maths.
No mention of whether WS was the author of works attributed to him. No mention of the variety of historical topics addressed in his plays. No mention on the reluctance to attribute authorship of popular materials critical of the crown to oneself.
I have a cousin who had done a lot of research on our family. He learned that William Shakespeare is our grandfather. He would be my 12th great grandfather. I just thought this was so neat. I’ve been a fan of his since I was a freshman in high school.
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Fucking for real, though. I've seen some FAQ's, but I want it done like this. In this sort of tone. I want to hear about his heartbreaks like this, greatest days yet, etc.
Simon! We DEMAND A Biographics about YOU! If you got married from the woman you met in Sri Lanka and moved to Prague to be with, I wanna know! You were so cute with her! I'm a Hopeless Romantic in a world full of hookup culture. It's SO not fair! Make my heart Happy!!!
I got through near enough all my school life without reading or even learning about Shakespeare at all, it wasn't til the final few weeks of the 5th year at secondary school our English teacher said he would of failed as a teacher by us not having read any Shakespeare , it was literally a crash course. I'd like to of learnt about him. Being as he was one of our greatest writers.
I think it a biographics on Glenn T. Seaborg would be really interesting. He's the only person to have an element named after him while still alive, he rearranged the periodic table, helped discover 7 elements, and worked on the Manhattan project developing the plutonium bomb.
At 14:13 you insinuate that any conclusions drawn due to unexplainable synchronicity is absurd 🤨 why so quick to dismiss the unknown...? Unknown doesn't mean unknowable. Aaaand I am curious just what an androgynous being "looks" like. 11:33 Your personal definition please... please tell all what androgyny looks like 🧐
John Heminges, Henry Condell, and Richard Burbage, three actors of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, a famous acting company that included William Shakespeare, were given money by William Shakespeare of Stratford in his Last Will and Testament in 1616. Two of these actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, were responsible for having 36 of Shakespeare's plays published in the First Folio in 1623. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio clearly praises Shakespeare as a great writer. He states that "thy writings to be such, /As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much." Heminges and Condell also praise Shakespeare as a writer, stating that "he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who onely gather his works, and give them you, to praise him." These are "his works" and "his papers" that they are publishing. He is clearly presented as the writer of these works in the First Folio. The Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare of Stratford clearly connects him with the 1623 First Folio through Heminges and Condell and it is clear that Shakespeare is presented as the author of the plays.
Heminges and Condell did not own the rights to the works and did not have the kind of money required to print the First Folio. Their letter in the First Folio is written by Ben Jonson. The words in the 1616 Will are interlineations, eg. written after the rest of page 3. The Will says nothing about printing a collection of Shakespeare plays -- it says buy rings. The name "William Shakespeare" appears on neither the tiny empty grave nor the wall monument and instead of any Shakespeare quotes, we get the lame "cursed be he that moves my bones". The man in Stratford Upon Avon never spelled his name "Shakespeare" and never said he was the writer of anything. The people who shut down the Pavier quartos in 1619 and Othello in 1622 are the ones controlling the printing of the First Folio. Heminges, Condell and Stratford Shakspeare have no control over it. Between 1594 and 1603 fifteen Shakespeare plays are published without the author's participation. After 1603, no new Shakespeare play is printed for the next 19 years except Troilus and Cressida. The troublesome Sonnets are printed in 1609 and it says in the introductory pages that the author is dead, eg "ever-living".
I did Shakespeare plays with my 5th graders for five years. When I left teaching I volunteered at my neighborhood elementary school in my neighbor’s 6th grade class and did Shakespeare with her students for 14 years. The kids loved Shakespeare! We did the real plays just abridged so that the the bawdy bits and anything that absolutely didn’t move the story forward (long soliloquies, etc.) were removed. The secret to making his work accessible is to first understand the overall story. That was paramount. We then learned about the Shakespearean language and what it meant. The kids LOVED that. Hearing them calling each other scurvy knaves or foul suppurating pustules sure beat hearing them using the usual mother f****er! Kids who normally struggled with school work or in social situations became stars. One year when Titania queen of the fairies forgot her lines she marched up to her husband Oberon clutching her Cabbage Patch doll and said, “Touch the kid and you’re dead meat!” When these students got older they participated in statewide and national middle school and high school Shakespeare competitions plus they went to the Utah Shakespearean Festival plus other festivals and would later email or text me all about their experiences. Most of the students I did Shakespeare with are now parents and have or are now introducing their kids to the Bard. Anyone who says that children are too young to be introduced to Shakespeare’s works are dead wrong.
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We know exactly who worked on the King James Bible, from very detailed notes and letters the translators and scholars left. Shakespeare was not a polyglot, nor was he a Doctor of Divinity, or an established authority in theology and ancient languages. I can recommend two books for your edification on the subject. GOD'S SECRETARIES, The Making of the King James Bible, Adam Nicholson, 2003, HarperCollins; and IN THE BEGINNING, Alister McGrath, 2001, Doubleday.
I have read that the guy who wrote the first, unauthorized, English translation of the Bible was burned at the stake for heresey. Then they used much of his work in the King James version. I think all the contributions are pretty well attested though and don't include Shakespeare.
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He created 1700 new words. Words and sentences and phrases must have been racing through his mind all day long, day after day Such words! Such pithy passages. Such beauty w words And such heart, such great characters
Shakespeare did not have anything to do with the King James version of the Bible. The translators are well known and well credited: there were 47 of them, so I won't list them here. William Shakespeare was not one of them, partly because it has been pretty well established that William Shakespeare was almost certainly a life-long Catholic. And Shakespeare had also almost certainly retired to Stratford by 1610 or 1611 at the latest. He wrote his last solo play, The Tempest, in 1611 -- all of that 2 years before the Globe burned, so he did not retire in reaction to the Globe burning. Just a couple of examples among the many other errors and confabulations in this 20 minute essay. C-.
In the past couple of years, they've actually discovered a new portrait of Shakespeare with hair and what might be a play of his that for years was credited to a later writer. There's still much to discover with this man, I daresay.
Yeah, didn't you know? Shakespeare got American citizenship back in '09 after he got married. He and Hathaway rented out Newport Beach, CA and threw a wild orgy and apparently that's where Shakespeare got his creative inspiration - the rest was history. I heard he died a couple years ago, OD'd off of heroin.
Another outstanding video. If I could request one, I would ask for Marcus Aurelius. He who wrote the brilliant Meditations. One of the greatest leaders in human history, who was fostered and raised to be such. A Stoic, a man who, despite being one of the most powerful men in the world, struggled with mortality and life in possibly the most vivid way imaginable.
Would like to see a Biographic of Caravaggio, one of the best artists of his time, but also an eccentric swordsman who got drunk and had duels to the death on the streets of Italy. Feel like it would be an interesting one
Picture at 6:11 I realise that It is not entirely your fault that you have included a picture here that has recently been proclaimed as a lost portrait of Shakespeare. No it isn't. It is a portrait of the handsome Sir Thomas Overbury. Let me just point out that this man wears a doublet magnificently decorated with silver and gold braid, and that his needle-lace collar cost as much as a Lambourghini. No, this isn't a poor actor, or a struggling playwright, or even someone who makes a bit on the side by dealing the occasional bale of wool.
Also a veteran who read Henry V for the first time during World war two said that the fire side scene just before Agincourt said that Shakespeare must've been a soldier at some point because in his words "that's how man who think they're going to die talk not how they talk in a tavern months or years after a battle"
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Excellent job, as per usual. Thank you. There were a couple of things I was curious about and both were explained within. I typically don't look too on random videos on Shakespeare, because many of them are simply theories or suggestions, not factual. However, given the research Biographics typically does with it's subjects, I find it enjoyable and valuable. Thanks again for your time and energy. I look forward to whatever the next upload will be.
Around the 10:00 mark: I completely understand this principal of Brilliant's. It teaches what I know to be "Listening With a Purpose". Likewise, "Reading w/ Purpose". It aids memory & comprehension by untangling concepts before they are a mess in your head. Even if a concept is over your head, you can remember it to ponder it later or discuss it with better questions rather than sounding like a complete dunderhead. It teaches you to learn. Some people and educators say "there are no stupid questions"...well, see, that solely depends on the recipient of the question, as they can (and will), if they're haughty and consider your question (or you) beneath their contempt. So, listening/reading with a purpose keeps you from becoming befuddled and shutting down brain power and dismissing everything by beginning to think "man, am I confused" or "what'd she just say...musta missed something there" or even just keep you from spacing out for moments at a time, forgetting everything , even prevent you from learning Therefore you can ask smarter questions and not get dismissed by the arrogant or remember points to ponder.
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Most of Shakespeare's plays were not published until after he died. The only plays that were published when he was alive are as follows: Henry VI, Part 2 ; Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry VI, Part 3; Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1; Love's Labour's Lost, Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Othello. The other twenty plays weren't published until 1623 or even later for The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
"Alright future boy, if you're from the future, tell me who's the most recent person to play Catwoman!" "Anne Hathaway!" "Oh, and does William Shakespeare retain his role as Batman?!?! Is Thomas Middleton Robin?!?!"
Incredible video, I've always been fascinated and intrigued by Shakespeare's life and literary work. Your channel is amazing! Would you consider doing a video about Dutch writer Anna Blaman?
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I already did from another video of yours I watched a little while back. 😊 I noticed there are no youtube commercials on any of your videos, - I must say, I respect your integrity in how you advertise your sponsorships. It's brilliant & I fully support this. 👌🏽
@biographics Great Channel... Could you make a video on Ahmed Shah Durrani... The Afghanistan leader that took power in the 18th century... It's quite fascinating that he became such a great leader after being picked from crowd by a religious leader!
Could you do a bio on the legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach.
What about Andy Warhol video.
I seen Shakespeare with my mom. I loved it.
A few years ago I had a conversation with a young man in probably 9th grade, who was reading "Romeo and Juliette" in English class. I asked him what he thought of it, and he answered that he didn't understand what was so great about Shakespeare. "The whole play is just a bunch of famous quotations strung together."
Oh, that's just classic!
@@johnstevenson9956 - Yeah. I thought he was joking. He wasn't. He was truly disgusted.
@@Silkendrum I hope you enlightened him. After you slapped him.
@@Silkendrum What did you say in response?
Oh that is a classic right there!
I am going to have to tell the Head of English about it, he will get a real laugh out of it!
I took a Shakespeare class in college, even after 500 years the guy is still relevant. You don't hear that too often. Great writter even though I bearly understand his works.
400 years.
Tolstoy111 ~450 I’d say
@@seraphimboys3699 1595-1610 or thereabout. So between 410 and 425 years.
Yahh agreed
Thank Thy truly
I had a high school English teacher who made us read Shakespeare... best thing she ever did for us is to introduce Shakespeare to broaden our horizons in great literature.
good teachers are like that...best teacher i've ever had was in 3ed grade Mrs. Hines...all instructors since are compared to her greatness and they pale by comparison....
Do you mean that Shakespeare isn't a part of a highschool education anymore? I'm sure children are learning much more important things instead. Yeah, right.
Reading Shakespeare is great, but seeing a performance is something else. When The Bards plays are acted, that’s where it truly shines. I love reading, I love reading Shakespeare, but man a play performed by the right people with the right production can change how you understand the story.
Would you consider doing Vincent Van Gogh? I find many people base their idea of artists needing to have mental illness to be brilliant on their misconceptions about his work and life. It would be nice to have some clarity regarding his situation, some debunked myths and a generally more rounded story to share with people.
Thank you for your consideration
Have you seen the Buzzfeed unsolved episode that goes into more questions about his passing? It pokes some holes into the theory that he hurt himself and looks at the town he was living in at the time.
Good choice! At least we know simon does his research and is entertaining.
Edvard munch would be pretty good too, oh, and dahli. Nice one Stel_.
Stel _ recommend you see painting/film-“Loving Vincent”.
Good story, great film construction.
Thanks so much guys! I’ll definitely look these up! It would still be nice to see how Simon and his team address it all though.
He did another one about Richard Wagner, which was really good.
I'm not sure why but I found this surprisingly touching. I often wonder how long dead creatives would react to discover how eternal their works have turned out to be.
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Thank you for doing Mr Shakespeare. I honestly cannot remember a time when I was not fascinated by him. Your good work is always appreciated
Most of Shakespeare's play were actually performed at the Rose, and to a lesser extent The Swan. The Globe was not built until around 1599 - 1600. The leftover timber was from a theatre called "The Theatre" where the Chamberlain's men also played.
“The Rose” is reference to honor the “Rosicrucian” cult. Frantic Bacon, a member was the REAL writer of the work dedicated to Willam Shakespeare. Why else would this work never be for his wife. Also, why would his children be illiterate..
The past tense of William Shakespeare was Would-I-Was Shook-Speared.
And Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway? Nice.
Disco Saturn Loves To Do Subtitled Comedies and Other Things 24/7 why is this so hilarious too me lmao
Ha! Shookspeared!
He married Hathaway in the hallway!
@@historiculgeomocule5569 Getting married in a corridor, hm, ok.
Not only did he marry Anne Hathaway, but according to the documentary "Shakespeare in Love" he was also screwing Gwynneth Paltrow.
When I read Shakespeare's work in high school I didn't think much of. In fact I thought it was cliché. Recently I have realized that everything since Shakespeare has been cliché, he set the precedent. It's insane how one person has influenced culture so much.
Man Simon I almost want to hear you read more Shakespeare, you have a great voice for it
2:12 - Anne Hathaway has a gorgeous mustache.
To Bio or not to Bio... that was the survey.
How about.... "Biographics. Oh, Biographics. Wherefore art thou, "Biographics?"
Let me not to the marvel of true facts.
Exit stage left persued by Whistler
Excellent! Love this quote from Mudder Fukker 🎭🎭🎭
William Shakespeare: The Inspiration of the First Fanfiction.
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@@frankuvlkan Did you end up making a friend?
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I did find this video fascinating because I've always heard people trying to discredit Shakespeare's works as being slightly borrowed. It's nice to see someone acknowledge he was the greatest, most influential writer ever.
His plots weren't slightly borrowed. He copied them wholesale. Nearly every last one of them. The genius of Shakespeare isn't in the stories, but in the language he uses to convey them.
love the Mr. Peabody episode where the line "Bacon...you'll fry for this" was said...but then i base a lot of my life lessons on Bullwinkle...as should everyone
A suggestion is: mad Jack Churchill - the mad man stormed Normandy with a Claymore, longbow and bagpipes
What a don, love this channel btw
Yeah!! Good call!
An Absolute Mad Lad.
darkest creed yes
This!!!
I think he did a TIFO about this gentleman.
Thank you so much for covering William Shakespeare! I’ll always marvel at his work. Was really interesting to learn about the man behind the scripts.
I love the way you tell these stories, Simon.
Can you do one on C.S Lewis J.R.R.Tolkien Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick.
Bro a Kubrick one from this guy would be great
Stanley Kubrick is a wanker's obsession.
Bluey but his movies pretty 🥺👉👈
Loved it! Thank you. Educational information on a Sunday afternoon is always the way I wanna spend my Sunday.
Could you cover Grace Kelly? She was a beautiful woman and a fantastic actress. Who went on to become Princess of Monaco.
Thank you again Biographics team.
I felt like this was already covered I guess not, either way I am glad you guys uploaded it.
Phew, no bad jokes, well done lad! 😁
fuckingcuntybollocks Don’t get to excited they are coming 🤪
Good lad.
The recent discovery of the Shroud of Avon proves without a doubt that Shakespeare wrote all those plays and sonnets.
At 1:52 you state "William Shakespeare was only able to attend primary school until the age of 13, because......"
You state this with absolute authority as if it was a know fact that he attended school, and also a known fact that he left at that date for the reason stated.
Neither is correct.
There IS a Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon which William Shakespeare could have attended. It is generally SSUMED that he was educated at this school. But it is NOT a known fact.
The evidence against this is that no writing exists from Shakespeare's hand, except several signatures on documents drafted by other hands, such as his Will. These signatures are written by someone who has rather shakily penned the letters in the style of a very old-fashioned and rather ornate copy-book. They are not the fluent signatures of someone who spends his life writing. Although this fact might not be readily apparent to a modern person, looking at the rather elaborate form. Even two little dots, in the W and the S have been copied direct from the Copy-book from which he learnt to write his name.
In other words, his signatures suggest that his ability to write might have been limited to ONLY signing his name.
Reason shakespear is still relevant today because he wrote about human nature in his drama and human nature never change
This is perfectly true.
Simon , Thank you for this posting. Absolutley brilliant.
When adrift at sea, you get the rum ham with the Hamnet.
And Richard the 3rd looks terrifyingly similar to Richard Lewis god bless him.
I think these videos are amazing!! I watch these every week.
Brilliant 😊😊 keep up the good work
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Actually thank you so much
My favorite TH-camr doing a bio on one of my favorite authors! Great presentation, Professor!
Hey !
Am from India pursuing MA English and inspired got to know much about Shakespeare's life.
Will you by chance do a bio about Jim Henson?
Yes... I love him. Would love to find out more about him. Great choice.
This is really amazing stuff. I really enjoy this channel and how the stories are presented , also your delivery.. it's wonderful! - This makes learning about Shakespeare's work even more intriguing.
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Thanks Can will be friends?
I am currently educating myself with Shakespeare's books because I am fond of his literature more so than the subjects in my school, especially science and maths.
It may be the subject matter - after all, who doesn’t love old Bill - but this is one of the best Bio videos yet. Bravo, Simon, keep up the good work.
No mention of whether WS was the author of works attributed to him. No mention of the variety of historical topics addressed in his plays. No mention on the reluctance to attribute authorship of popular materials critical of the crown to oneself.
I have a cousin who had done a lot of research on our family. He learned that William Shakespeare is our grandfather. He would be my 12th great grandfather. I just thought this was so neat. I’ve been a fan of his since I was a freshman in high school.
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The greatest writer of all
Time.
Thank you.
Love from Far away India.
We all want to see a simon whistler biographic
Fucking for real, though. I've seen some FAQ's, but I want it done like this. In this sort of tone. I want to hear about his heartbreaks like this, greatest days yet, etc.
Simon! We DEMAND A Biographics about YOU! If you got married from the woman you met in Sri Lanka and moved to Prague to be with, I wanna know! You were so cute with her!
I'm a Hopeless Romantic in a world full of hookup culture. It's SO not fair! Make my heart Happy!!!
I got through near enough all my school life without reading or even learning about Shakespeare at all, it wasn't til the final few weeks of the 5th year at secondary school our English teacher said he would of failed as a teacher by us not having read any Shakespeare , it was literally a crash course. I'd like to of learnt about him. Being as he was one of our greatest writers.
I think it a biographics on Glenn T. Seaborg would be really interesting. He's the only person to have an element named after him while still alive, he rearranged the periodic table, helped discover 7 elements, and worked on the Manhattan project developing the plutonium bomb.
I've seen every episode of Upstart Crow, so I'm fairly confident I'm an expert on old Billy, thanks.
At 14:13 you insinuate that any conclusions drawn due to unexplainable synchronicity is absurd 🤨 why so quick to dismiss the unknown...? Unknown doesn't mean unknowable. Aaaand I am curious just what an androgynous being "looks" like. 11:33 Your personal definition please... please tell all what androgyny looks like 🧐
11:59 “Because you know, it’s totally normal for dudes to write love poems about each other.”
Someone put that quote on a t-shirt, or a variant.
Great video. If I may submit a recommendation: Rafael Trujillo. The Dominican dictator who ruled ruthlessly from 1930 until his assassination in 1961
John Heminges, Henry Condell, and Richard Burbage, three actors of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, a famous acting company that included William Shakespeare, were given money by William Shakespeare of Stratford in his Last Will and Testament in 1616. Two of these actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, were responsible for having 36 of Shakespeare's plays published in the First Folio in 1623. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio clearly praises Shakespeare as a great writer. He states that "thy writings to be such, /As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much." Heminges and Condell also praise Shakespeare as a writer, stating that "he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who onely gather his works, and give them you, to praise him." These are "his works" and "his papers" that they are publishing. He is clearly presented as the writer of these works in the First Folio. The Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare of Stratford clearly connects him with the 1623 First Folio through Heminges and Condell and it is clear that Shakespeare is presented as the author of the plays.
Heminges and Condell did not own the rights to the works and did not have the kind of money required to print the First Folio. Their letter in the First Folio is written by Ben Jonson. The words in the 1616 Will are interlineations, eg. written after the rest of page 3. The Will says nothing about printing a collection of Shakespeare plays -- it says buy rings. The name "William Shakespeare" appears on neither the tiny empty grave nor the wall monument and instead of any Shakespeare quotes, we get the lame "cursed be he that moves my bones". The man in Stratford Upon Avon never spelled his name "Shakespeare" and never said he was the writer of anything.
The people who shut down the Pavier quartos in 1619 and Othello in 1622 are the ones controlling the printing of the First Folio. Heminges, Condell and Stratford Shakspeare have no control over it. Between 1594 and 1603 fifteen Shakespeare plays are published without the author's participation. After 1603, no new Shakespeare play is printed for the next 19 years except Troilus and Cressida. The troublesome Sonnets are printed in 1609 and it says in the introductory pages that the author is dead, eg "ever-living".
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I’ll show myself out.
@@Biographics lol
I did Shakespeare plays with my 5th graders for five years. When I left teaching I volunteered at my neighborhood elementary school in my neighbor’s 6th grade class and did Shakespeare with her students for 14 years. The kids loved Shakespeare! We did the real plays just abridged so that the the bawdy bits and anything that absolutely didn’t move the story forward (long soliloquies, etc.) were removed. The secret to making his work accessible is to first understand the overall story. That was paramount. We then learned about the Shakespearean language and what it meant. The kids LOVED that. Hearing them calling each other scurvy knaves or foul suppurating pustules sure beat hearing them using the usual mother f****er! Kids who normally struggled with school work or in social situations became stars. One year when Titania queen of the fairies forgot her lines she marched up to her husband Oberon clutching her Cabbage Patch doll and said, “Touch the kid and you’re dead meat!” When these students got older they participated in statewide and national middle school and high school Shakespeare competitions plus they went to the Utah Shakespearean Festival plus other festivals and would later email or text me all about their experiences. Most of the students I did Shakespeare with are now parents and have or are now introducing their kids to the Bard. Anyone who says that children are too young to be introduced to Shakespeare’s works are dead wrong.
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Great video, well done and much appreciated.
We know exactly who worked on the King James Bible, from very detailed notes and letters the translators and scholars left. Shakespeare was not a polyglot, nor was he a Doctor of Divinity, or an established authority in theology and ancient languages. I can recommend two books for your edification on the subject. GOD'S SECRETARIES, The Making of the King James Bible, Adam Nicholson, 2003, HarperCollins; and IN THE BEGINNING, Alister McGrath, 2001, Doubleday.
I have read that the guy who wrote the first, unauthorized, English translation of the Bible was burned at the stake for heresey. Then they used much of his work in the King James version. I think all the contributions are pretty well attested though and don't include Shakespeare.
Thank you for this one. I've been a fan of old Willy since I was 13 and saw Hamlet for the first time.
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what about Mozart?
Or any other great composer?
"Two beer or no two beer, that's the question!".... cheers!
Shakespeare's house is still intact in Stratford upon Avon. We got to see it when we visited England a few years ago. It was pretty cool.
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I loved the video. I just wished there was more commentary on Shakespeare's works.
YES! been waiting for ages!
He created 1700 new words.
Words and sentences and phrases must have been racing through his mind all day long, day after day
Such words! Such pithy passages. Such beauty w words
And such heart, such great characters
Shakespeare did not have anything to do with the King James version of the Bible. The translators are well known and well credited: there were 47 of them, so I won't list them here. William Shakespeare was not one of them, partly because it has been pretty well established that William Shakespeare was almost certainly a life-long Catholic. And Shakespeare had also almost certainly retired to Stratford by 1610 or 1611 at the latest. He wrote his last solo play, The Tempest, in 1611 -- all of that 2 years before the Globe burned, so he did not retire in reaction to the Globe burning. Just a couple of examples among the many other errors and confabulations in this 20 minute essay. C-.
BRAVO! Well done! ****STANDING OVATION****
In the past couple of years, they've actually discovered a new portrait of Shakespeare with hair and what might be a play of his that for years was credited to a later writer. There's still much to discover with this man, I daresay.
You should do a video about Andrea Bocelli, he has a very interesting story.
Second that.
Yes!!
Wait, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway?
Yeah, didn't you know? Shakespeare got American citizenship back in '09 after he got married. He and Hathaway rented out Newport Beach, CA and threw a wild orgy and apparently that's where Shakespeare got his creative inspiration - the rest was history. I heard he died a couple years ago, OD'd off of heroin.
Kit Marcos 😂🤘🏻
He also had a side gig, working as a ghost writer for Kanye and Kendrick
Yeah, TMZ was all over the leaked photos of them
William Shakespeare’s Dracula
Will( Undead to our current Anne Hathaway
:I have crosserth oceans of Tyme to findeth you
I would love to see something on the great classical music composers
"Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Another outstanding video.
If I could request one, I would ask for Marcus Aurelius. He who wrote the brilliant Meditations. One of the greatest leaders in human history, who was fostered and raised to be such. A Stoic, a man who, despite being one of the most powerful men in the world, struggled with mortality and life in possibly the most vivid way imaginable.
moon: And man far beyond his time.
Would like to see a Biographic of Caravaggio, one of the best artists of his time, but also an eccentric swordsman who got drunk and had duels to the death on the streets of Italy. Feel like it would be an interesting one
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I realise that It is not entirely your fault that you have included a picture here that has recently been proclaimed as a lost portrait of Shakespeare.
No it isn't.
It is a portrait of the handsome Sir Thomas Overbury.
Let me just point out that this man wears a doublet magnificently decorated with silver and gold braid, and that his needle-lace collar cost as much as a Lambourghini.
No, this isn't a poor actor, or a struggling playwright, or even someone who makes a bit on the side by dealing the occasional bale of wool.
Well, Shakespeare's landlord was a maker of lace collars, so he probably got the friends and family discount.
I agree with you, though. It's Overbury.
Also a veteran who read Henry V for the first time during World war two said that the fire side scene just before Agincourt said that Shakespeare must've been a soldier at some point because in his words "that's how man who think they're going to die talk not how they talk in a tavern months or years after a battle"
Interesting observation.
Really good video! I like that you included the topic of sexuality too :)
Most interesting and educational video yet! I learned a lot about William Shakespeare today! Very enlightening!
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Excellent job, as per usual. Thank you. There were a couple of things I was curious about and both were explained within. I typically don't look too on random videos on Shakespeare, because many of them are simply theories or suggestions, not factual. However, given the research Biographics typically does with it's subjects, I find it enjoyable and valuable. Thanks again for your time and energy. I look forward to whatever the next upload will be.
bro did not write that
Thank you Simon, I also recommend Brilliant. It keeps one's mind sharp
I have been waiting for this one for ages. thanks :)
Great work. Thanks a mil. Perhaps your fans would find a spot on Herman Hesse interesting!
Recurrent in our world today, is the work of Shakespeare. He puts volumes into the comments sections I would wish...🤔
Nice video!
Thank you for another great video! Daughter says she loves your videos :)
Around the 10:00 mark: I completely understand this principal of Brilliant's. It teaches what I know to be "Listening With a Purpose". Likewise, "Reading w/ Purpose". It aids memory & comprehension by untangling concepts before they are a mess in your head. Even if a concept is over your head, you can remember it to ponder it later or discuss it with better questions rather than sounding like a complete dunderhead. It teaches you to learn.
Some people and educators say "there are no stupid questions"...well, see, that solely depends on the recipient of the question, as they can (and will), if they're haughty and consider your question (or you) beneath their contempt.
So, listening/reading with a purpose keeps you from becoming befuddled and shutting down brain power and dismissing everything by beginning to think "man, am I confused" or "what'd she just say...musta missed something there" or even just keep you from spacing out for moments at a time, forgetting everything , even prevent you from learning
Therefore you can ask smarter questions and not get dismissed by the arrogant or remember points to ponder.
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thank you for doing William Shakespeare, I've like millions is a huge fan of his work. Would you do one on Emily Dickson please
Great video: I can't believe he wasn't among the first 25 selections.
About time Biographics just kidding I enjoy all your videos
lovvie what is this angle.... thank you for the vid though it helped a lot
Can we get some military bios?
General Mills of Old Navy.
Captain Crunch and the battle of the Gap.
Please consider making a video on James Maxwell. In my opinion he is one of the most underated scientist.
Thank you for saving me hours of reading
One of your best. Thank you.
Can you also do one for Christopher Marlowe, please?
Very good Simon, a little bit over simplified but a good introduction. Well done
Most of Shakespeare's plays were not published until after he died. The only plays that were published when he was alive are as follows: Henry VI, Part 2
; Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry VI, Part 3; Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1; Love's Labour's Lost, Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Othello. The other twenty plays weren't published until 1623 or even later for The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
If anyone here loves Shakespeare, I'd highly recommend a tv program called "Upstart Crow"...yo.
shakespeare was a bicon and I'm proud to have a wholeass collection of his plays on my shelf:')
"Alright future boy, if you're from the future, tell me who's the most recent person to play Catwoman!"
"Anne Hathaway!"
"Oh, and does William Shakespeare retain his role as Batman?!?! Is Thomas Middleton Robin?!?!"
Incredible video, I've always been fascinated and intrigued by Shakespeare's life and literary work. Your channel is amazing! Would you consider doing a video about Dutch writer Anna Blaman?
I love all this channels content. I would really appreciate a video on Robert The Bruce.
BRAVO!!! well Done! that stuff about the bible!!!! Mind blowing. Thank you
The was terriby accurate n enticing Once again Thank u Simon..