You're very lucky. He seems like an amazing teacher. Does he get that emotional in lectures? I had an English teacher like that once and it just warms my heart so much haha
I'm blown away by this man's passion. I was lucky to have had some incredible teachers, but not as many professors, and I miss learning from someone like him.
I enjoy how this Ted talk complements understanding literature and yet going against all the standardized requirements (metaphors and analyzation) that I went through regarding English.
He is right. Hearing a live performance is so much more powerful than watching any movie of a Shakespeare play. I saw Olivier's "Richard III" and thought, "Meh." I saw a local production with local talent and was blown away! The scene between Richard and Lady Anne, Richard III Act I, scene ii, OH MY GOD! You could hear the audience's jaws hit the floor at the end of that scene!
Wow, I have never thought to approach any text in this way, despite having studied some Shakespeare in high school. I am a business major and my mind is largely oriented around very practical concerns. Thank you, Dr. Brown, for challenging me. I look forward to giving Shakespeare another go.
Wonderful vulnerability! And absolutely! So many productions miss things - I would love to direct more Shakespeare and help people SEE it for what it is and not READ it. Thanks so much.
"The nurse says that looking at Juliet, and Lady Capulet is looking at Juliet, and two daughters are dead. And if we are not listening, we miss that." Damn.
I mean if you don't do what the entire video talks about maybe. But if you actually look at it, so many themes are just as relevant today as they were before. Anger and frustration with controlling parents who don't like who you're dating, wanting to act out and go against them. How dearly the cousins in As You Like It care for eachother and would do anything for each other. Iago's jealousy leading him to make Othello paranoid that his wife was cheating on him. Beatrice and Benedict are a romcom in the making, two friends that love to bicker with each other but totally don't like each other actually falling in love. Many fathers that worry about the men trying to marry their daughters are not in love with them and won't treat them well, or wanting their daughters to be happy and finding good men to introduce to them. Wanting revenge after someone harms you or your family. Wanting a higher status and how far people are willing to go for position in the spotlight. Theres a reason shakespeare is constantly being remade and reinvented into modern classics. Lion King being Hamlet is well known and West Side Story is an obvious Romeo and Juliet, but then there's 10 Things I Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew), She's the Man (Twelveth Night), and tons more.
@Extravagant Baboon No, you don't NEED to, but if you're able to engage with art (any art, not just Shakespeare, not just literature), if you're able to engage with it in the way this professor is trying to describe to you, your inner life will be enriched immensely. If you're young, that's something which can be difficult to see or comprehend - and some people never see or comprehend it, whatever their age - but if you can, then trust me, it makes life so much more worthwhile. The book's age is irrelevant.
@Extravagant Baboon Perhaps part of the point also is that if we learn from people's past mistakes, we can do better or feel less alone. The relevance in Shakespeare's themes sheds light on the idea that much of the human experience is relatable and similar regardless of where you are born or what year you live in. And why do we read anything? To enlighten ourselves, to derive enjoyment and pleasure, and to learn, so I do not see why Shakespeare should fall outside of this category because some people find his writing inaccessible. As others have said, art enriches your inner world in many ways.
Shakespeare is beloved the world over in so many ways, in so many other countries, except he's practically absent in the UK. Few people are seen reading the plays in the streets, few statues, fountains and art on the streets, few public houses and streets named after him or his characters. England mourns one of their most famous sons.
"We shouldn't have feared him to begin with"! YES! Found this really interest as a professional Actress. Thanks for recording this TED and Prof. Brown for writing/sharing this! Thank you!
I am very grateful to the book series, "Shakespeare made easy," and, "No Fear Shakespeare" because I love Shakespeare's plays and I found some of the dialogue almost incomprehensible. The English language has changed quite a bit since Elizabethan times, and also Shakespeare uses slang words that have completely disappeared. I would like to see a play done with the modern English used in the above books. In my opinion it would still be a great play. It is better to become familiar with Shakespeare's original dialogue, but I think that many people are put off by lack of understanding many of the words.
If we think to ourselves " what would self aware artificial intelligence take away from Shakespeare." One reason is because humanities is one of the things that might teach artificial intelligence the value of human life.
The importance of Shakespeare and his plays in history of mankind is also the opposite of what Stephen Brown said. His plays were one of the great trailblazers of the Enlightenment, the era of 'comprehension'. All the social critique of the habits and mores of the kings and 'noble' men and women was to open up a vision towards a new society, to get rid of the feudal schemes and murders where the common people didn't have any interest in, except to look at it with disdain. As Hamlet fools Claudius that Polonius is being fed to the worms. "A fisherman can use a worm as a bait, but the worm itself can be filled with the intestins of a King." Is it a coincidence that the Dark Middle ages (where one would indeed have to listen and not try to comprehend) was more easily shed off in England than in France in the seventeenth century? And led to Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution compared to the absolute monarchies in France of Louis xiii en xiv? The plays of Shakespeare might have well have educated generations to not only 'feel' the historic period they lived, but as well as to comprehend it and opened them up to overthrow it.
Shakespeare ( like the Beatles ) had no nationality. It just so happened by random chance that they were born in that place ; at that time . Somehow or other - subconsciously I assume ? - people all over the World realise this and this is partial explanation to his universal acceptance .
Pls someone let this guy direct some Shakespeare so he can stop TELLING people what plays mean. SHOW, don’t tell. It’s a PLAY. You should be both watching and listening. Because it’s being performed.
That Asian guy in the audience at 5:25 knows that he is a culprit because he has used No Fear Shakespeare SparkNotes to write his English commentaries for Shakespeare's works just like the rest of us.
I like the emphasis on the importance of listening and encouraging people to enjoy Shakespeare's original works and the power of live theater. That said, there are a number of inaccuracies. Here's a link to the scene he references, I.iii: internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/Rom_F1/scene/1.3/. Juliet is actually not present in those lines of the nurse. In addition, Lady Capulet puts up with the Nurse's prattling about Juliet's age, but there's no indication she doesn't remember. I see the Nurse's affection for Juliet standing in sharp contrast to the distance of her mother.
Totally agree. The cheerings for Hamlet clearly outnumbered the acclamation for 'Romeo & Juliet'. And the Professor picked up largely from those rooting for 'Romeo & Juliet'. Thats not done, Man! Personal preference outweighed popular demand. Truth be accepted! If there was anyone else in his place, one could easily have said that he was just not confident enough to do a take off from Hamlet.
Truth is a funny thing. I doubted the William Shaksper as author and was an Oxfordian for 15 minutes until l found the argument for his authorship way too shallow. It wasn't until I came across the literature on Francis Bacon that all the pieces fit into place from his genius, to his timeline, to all the comments of admiration from Ben Jonson, to Bacon's Shakespeare Notebook, The Promus, sealed the deal for me. Nobody else has evidence but conjecture.
An interesting viewpoint, but it would have been much better if he hadn’t so deliberately broadcast his own opinions & prejudices (below) and instead concentrated solely on the task at hand, which is informing us about Shakespeare. (‘…our wonderful young prime minister [Trudeau!] …throwing off the shackles of colonisation…all demonstrating their masculinity - excruciatingly funny…a dozen people dead - it turns into a guy-flick…’) He is obviously very right-on politically, and doubtless regularly visits this on his students, when he should actually be concentrating on the subject at hand - Shakespeare, rather than himself - and not using it as a stage to inflict his own beliefs on a captive audience…
I came here looking for insight into why people like Shakespeare, what I got was Benjamin Franklin's pretentious cousin going on a self important rant and yelling about screens. (Yes I get he's making a point about not reading but apprehending Shakespeare, but he just looks like an angry technophobe)
People like Shakespeare because his plays are real and shine a light on our strengths and weaknesses, do you not like jealous revenge, heroic speeches that stir the soul
Pure speculation..! You have NO idea, if The man from Stratford cared if he got paid or not! There's no record of Shakespeare getting paid! The Folio was never an honoring by his actor friends!
There doesn't have to be any record of Shakespeare being paid because Shakespeare wasn't a piecework playwright. He didn't have to shop his plays around to other companies; he was the house playwright of the Lord Chamberlain's Men/King's Men, and he was a sharer in the company. He got a percentage of the box office along with his fellow sharers. (And in fact there is a record of Shakespeare being paid for an impresa by Francis Manners, the 6th Earl of Rutland.) The only record we have of _any_ playwright being paid _anything_ is via the survival of Philip Henslowe's Diary. If it weren't for that sole record, we would have no evidence of any playwright being paid anything in the entire Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. But Henslowe was the impresario of a rival company, the Lord Admiral's Men, and ran an entirely different theatre, the Rose. Only two of Shakespeare's early plays were performed at the Rose - _Titus Andronicus_ and _Henry VI, Part One_ - and neither of them appeared to be written for a playing company Henslowe had a stake in. As for the Folio being produced by his actor friends to memorialize Shakespeare, that's exactly what we're told by those actor friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell, in the Epistle Dedicatory to the Herbert brothers. "We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans; guardians, without ambition either of self-profit or fame: only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend & fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most humble patronage." You may choose to disbelieve what they say, even though there's no real reason to, but unless you can climb into their heads after almost 400 years you can't possibly prove what their motivation was. There's certainly no basis on which to doubt the face-value sentiments in Heminges and Condell's dedication.
this dude is overrated, why does he get so much credit for some bs he threw down on a paper, and how do we even know that he wrote the stuff, it was hundreds of years ago, I ain't no genius but there's some seriously more important stuff we can learn about I'm school. also if my English teacher see's this than sorry, plz don't fail me even though I already am, also if ur a class mate dont snitch
There probably is more immediately useful stuff you can learn in school, min - things which are more obviously relevant to what you need to be able to do in modern society. The thing is, what Shakespeare reminds us (perhaps depressingly) is that, in 500 years, in a thousand years, in 200, 000 years, humans ain't never changed. We are still obsessed by the same things (power, love, revenge, control, sex, war) and, for all our sophisticated evolution, we do still behave in much the same ways as we always have. Like I say, depressing stuff. But Shakespeare himself wasn't writing for a high-brow audience - he was writing for a stage space and audience stuck between bear-fighting pits and prostitutes! That's why, if you get a chance to see any of what he has done on stage, or on film, or even clips on TH-cam, you should give it a look see. Because that's where you will see the blood(literally), sweat and tears that kept people watching his plays then.
@elspeff Apprehension vs comprehension, right? Like the tower of babylon we bask in so called achievements, forgetting that they matter most in a different sense. Vain as it was, built it was by myriads of beasts, somehow uniting. That is the true wonder. The humanity of a beastly nature.
Just sayin I would rather learn how a car runs, more health classes, or more economics classes. That way I don't have to go to a car mechanic all the time, or go to the doctors, or I could know how to invest
I'd rather learn how we can feel so much in our vain existence and still be have that vanity bring out our so called worst selves. About what's important to me, if anything. Maybe then I can find my dream and be happy.
Anyone who believes a conspiracy of such magnitude could be kept under wraps for so long has obviously never spent half an hour with a group of actors at the pub.
Awesome. It must have been hard work keeping his rustic Essex dialect out of Shakespeare's Midlands dialect. Imagine all the effort you'd have to go through to work out a consistent system of unique spellings, rhymes, quibbles, etc. and never let the one bleed into the other. For example, Oxford pronounced "like" to rhyme with "leek" and his spellings are consistent: misleke, leklywhodes ("likelihoods"), etc. Shakespeare never rhymed "like" with any long e sound. He also consistently spelled "you" as "yow", which is something Shakespeare never did. If he had written Shakespeare's great comedy, the title would have been _As Yow Leke It_ . Conversely, none of Shakespeare's unique spellings, like introducing a c in words where a long i followed an s, as in "scilens" ("silence"), appear in Oxford's known correspondence or poetry. Shakespeare uses Warwickshire dialect words like "dey" for "dairy" (the merry milkmaid Jacquenetta of _Love's Labour's Lost_ is "admitted as the dey-woman") and "dowel" for a bird's down feather (Ariel in _The Tempest_ : "one dowel that's in my plume"). It's really amazing the lengths Oxford went to to hide his authorship of the plays, making the vocabulary, spellings, and rhymes consistent with Shakespeare's ostensible Midlands upbringing. It's _almost_ as if they're two different people. And if you read the poetry of Edward de Vere, it's obvious that they're two different people. Aesthetically, in the use of language, rhythm, and imagery, Shakespeare is in an entirely different universe.
This did nothing for me. I'm no more educated or impressed, actually bored, it could be the voice, the delivery. The clapping at the end was very cold and stilted it can be heard.
Listening, key to many enlightenment, but so few who heed that advice. Age, for some can be a cure though. Literature is truly the last refuge. How lucky are you that have him as a teacher.
This has helped me see Shakespeare in a way I never thought I could imagine. I love to read it with my students. I love to see it, to hear it, but omg I have never listened like this. Beautiful!!!!!
7:15 "Whenever we apprehend an effect we want to comprehend a cause. And that's a problem, especially with theatre and always with life, something happens to us and we want to know why. Well, the cause doesn't matter. Who knows what the first cause of anything is?...They're beyond my comprehension, right? But in the moment of life I apprehend constantly what it is to be living, and to seek meaning in that - rather than to simply swim in the luxuriousness of my own soul and heart, seems like an extraordinary abandonment of the joy of living."
Shakespeare is proof of innate intelligence - uncorrupted to any imaginable degree of understanding that is possible to comprehend. This is my own understanding of a Superior person, who articulates way beyond the destiny of his genetic predisposition, bringing forth a new realm of consciousness which nobody can understand but many can perceive just as he did. Why Shakespeare? Give me a call...because people like us these days always keep ourselves to ourselves.
He was my prof! Great prof! Loves what he does and you can tell.
You're very lucky. He seems like an amazing teacher. Does he get that emotional in lectures? I had an English teacher like that once and it just warms my heart so much haha
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
@@Dani_London When I had him for a professor back in the 90's, yes he did.
@@paulcleaver8747 That's amazing, what a top man!
I'm really glad I watched this. In 20 minutes I don't think I've ever learned more about storytelling. What a fantastic professor.
I agree
His speech skills and voice are also incredible (except "uh" and "right?" That he mumbles all the time lol)
I'm blown away by this man's passion. I was lucky to have had some incredible teachers, but not as many professors, and I miss learning from someone like him.
I enjoy how this Ted talk complements understanding literature and yet going against all the standardized requirements (metaphors and analyzation) that I went through regarding English.
Normal people: right
This guy: riyye
He is right. Hearing a live performance is so much more powerful than watching any movie of a Shakespeare play. I saw Olivier's "Richard III" and thought, "Meh." I saw a local production with local talent and was blown away! The scene between Richard and Lady Anne, Richard III Act I, scene ii, OH MY GOD! You could hear the audience's jaws hit the floor at the end of that scene!
absolutely amazing, got me thinking about so much. only 18 min and I learned more from him then my teacher ever has. Absolutely incredible.
who is watching for school
me
Hello 👋 I'm here for school too
everyone saying who is watching this for english class nobody summarizing it for me so i dont have to do my assignment. sad.
Stephen is national treasure. How this man isn't famous I have no clue.
‘ When Shakespeare wants ya to listen, he has a listener on stage’
So obvious but literally blew my mind right now..
pretty ingenious
Except it's not true. Hence soliloquies.
My absolute favourite University prof!
Dude, give Jeff Goldblum his voice back.
Wow, I have never thought to approach any text in this way, despite having studied some Shakespeare in high school. I am a business major and my mind is largely oriented around very practical concerns. Thank you, Dr. Brown, for challenging me. I look forward to giving Shakespeare another go.
Wonderful vulnerability! And absolutely! So many productions miss things - I would love to direct more Shakespeare and help people SEE it for what it is and not READ it. Thanks so much.
Does he have lectures online?? I need more of Stephen Brown! ❤
What an amazing lesson - about shakespeare and about listening. Great and touching!
"The nurse says that looking at Juliet, and Lady Capulet is looking at Juliet, and two daughters are dead. And if we are not listening, we miss that." Damn.
1. Why should modern audiences still read/watch Shakespeare? What makes him so relevant to today?
😂English class
I mean if you don't do what the entire video talks about maybe. But if you actually look at it, so many themes are just as relevant today as they were before. Anger and frustration with controlling parents who don't like who you're dating, wanting to act out and go against them. How dearly the cousins in As You Like It care for eachother and would do anything for each other. Iago's jealousy leading him to make Othello paranoid that his wife was cheating on him. Beatrice and Benedict are a romcom in the making, two friends that love to bicker with each other but totally don't like each other actually falling in love. Many fathers that worry about the men trying to marry their daughters are not in love with them and won't treat them well, or wanting their daughters to be happy and finding good men to introduce to them. Wanting revenge after someone harms you or your family. Wanting a higher status and how far people are willing to go for position in the spotlight. Theres a reason shakespeare is constantly being remade and reinvented into modern classics. Lion King being Hamlet is well known and West Side Story is an obvious Romeo and Juliet, but then there's 10 Things I Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew), She's the Man (Twelveth Night), and tons more.
@Extravagant Baboon No, you don't NEED to, but if you're able to engage with art (any art, not just Shakespeare, not just literature), if you're able to engage with it in the way this professor is trying to describe to you, your inner life will be enriched immensely. If you're young, that's something which can be difficult to see or comprehend - and some people never see or comprehend it, whatever their age - but if you can, then trust me, it makes life so much more worthwhile. The book's age is irrelevant.
@Extravagant Baboon Perhaps part of the point also is that if we learn from people's past mistakes, we can do better or feel less alone. The relevance in Shakespeare's themes sheds light on the idea that much of the human experience is relatable and similar regardless of where you are born or what year you live in. And why do we read anything? To enlighten ourselves, to derive enjoyment and pleasure, and to learn, so I do not see why Shakespeare should fall outside of this category because some people find his writing inaccessible. As others have said, art enriches your inner world in many ways.
I wish I'd studied with this man before I subjected my students to my own love of Shakespeare. They would have gotten so much more of the good stuff.
How can you be bored when you've met William Shakespeare?!
7:00 --- just nailed it..
Why am I so sleepy
Shakespeare is beloved the world over in so many ways, in so many other countries, except he's practically absent in the UK. Few people are seen reading the plays in the streets, few statues, fountains and art on the streets, few public houses and streets named after him or his characters. England mourns one of their most famous sons.
He even has the Shakespeare haircut
5t.
You nailed it!
Is that Larry David?
This was wonderfully presented. Who cares what the man looks like?
"We shouldn't have feared him to begin with"! YES! Found this really interest as a professional Actress. Thanks for recording this TED and Prof. Brown for writing/sharing this! Thank you!
Who watching this because they are actually interested in Shakespeare.......
Wasted a lot of my time and could have studied something more useful.
Proffesor: Talks *minecraft villager noise*
Bro legit moved from being a fan of Shakespeare to becoming the double of 'The Bard of Avon" himself😂❤
I am very grateful to the book series, "Shakespeare made easy," and, "No Fear Shakespeare" because I love Shakespeare's plays and I found some of the dialogue almost incomprehensible. The English language has changed quite a bit since Elizabethan times, and also Shakespeare uses slang words that have completely disappeared. I would like to see a play done with the modern English used in the above books. In my opinion it would still be a great play. It is better to become familiar with Shakespeare's original dialogue, but I think that many people are put off by lack of understanding many of the words.
right?
I love you, love this talk thank you for opening my mind and my heart
Brilliant. Thank you!
If we think to ourselves " what would self aware artificial intelligence take away from Shakespeare." One reason is because humanities is one of the things that might teach artificial intelligence the value of human life.
The importance of Shakespeare and his plays in history of mankind is also the opposite of what Stephen Brown said. His plays were one of the great trailblazers of the Enlightenment, the era of 'comprehension'. All the social critique of the habits and mores of the kings and 'noble' men and women was to open up a vision towards a new society, to get rid of the feudal schemes and murders where the common people didn't have any interest in, except to look at it with disdain. As Hamlet fools Claudius that Polonius is being fed to the worms. "A fisherman can use a worm as a bait, but the worm itself can be filled with the intestins of a King."
Is it a coincidence that the Dark Middle ages (where one would indeed have to listen and not try to comprehend) was more easily shed off in England than in France in the seventeenth century? And led to Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution compared to the absolute monarchies in France of Louis xiii en xiv? The plays of Shakespeare might have well have educated generations to not only 'feel' the historic period they lived, but as well as to comprehend it and opened them up to overthrow it.
Great stuff, really. Thank you.
There is no subtitle you know?
This guy is amazing!
Shakespeare ( like the Beatles ) had no nationality. It just
so happened by random chance that they were born in that
place ; at that time . Somehow or other - subconsciously
I assume ? - people all over the World realise this and this
is partial explanation to his universal acceptance .
Amazing!!
This guy said anything I said to my friends when they can't enjoy literature and movies lol
Juliet is my dad
You are mistaken.. he must be Julian!
Beyond the shadow of a doubt!
Pls someone let this guy direct some Shakespeare so he can stop TELLING people what plays mean. SHOW, don’t tell. It’s a PLAY. You should be both watching and listening. Because it’s being performed.
Does anyone know of a production of Romeo and Juliet that does, in fact, play Act 1 Scene 3 in this manner? I'd love to use it in my classroom!
Nice save at 13:29
extraordinary
Hello Classmates
Great Performance
To say the man never cared that he didn’t make a penny from his play is both a lie and a generally ridiculous thing to say.
I was forced to watch this during English class but I have to admit that it's a great video
Wonderful, but he's really talking about INTERPRETATION from about 11:00 on. He can't say that Juliet is on stage already, etc. That's his impression.
That Asian guy in the audience at 5:25 knows that he is a culprit because he has used No Fear Shakespeare SparkNotes to write his English commentaries for Shakespeare's works just like the rest of us.
I like the emphasis on the importance of listening and encouraging people to enjoy Shakespeare's original works and the power of live theater. That said, there are a number of inaccuracies. Here's a link to the scene he references, I.iii: internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/Rom_F1/scene/1.3/. Juliet is actually not present in those lines of the nurse. In addition, Lady Capulet puts up with the Nurse's prattling about Juliet's age, but there's no indication she doesn't remember. I see the Nurse's affection for Juliet standing in sharp contrast to the distance of her mother.
why?
didn`t know larry david is an shakespeare expert
I didn't catch his name when I clicked on the video and I honestly thought this was Larry David.
Nice
2020
Impressive
AP Lit Amiright???
Stephen either is a god, or Stephen could kill god, and I do not care if there is a difference!
What does apprehend the effects mean?
Our gorgeous young prime minister did it for me… cheers
that was amazing
Everyone shouts Hamlet. 'Okay let's do Romeo and Juliet'. Prepared one more than the other much?
Zippo404 could be what the mics picked up
Tyler Boyle Exactly what I was thinking =)
Totally agree. The cheerings for Hamlet clearly outnumbered the acclamation for 'Romeo & Juliet'. And the Professor picked up largely from those rooting for 'Romeo & Juliet'. Thats not done, Man! Personal preference outweighed popular demand. Truth be accepted!
If there was anyone else in his place, one could easily have said that he was just not confident enough to do a take off from Hamlet.
hmm? huh ?.... Hmm ?
Gabriel Gianni “right?”
I KNOOOWWWW😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The reasons to read (and "listen" to) Shakespeare FAR outweigh the reasons not to and the reasons not to are amazingly all superficial...
ill give someone five bucks if they summarise this for my english lol
Unfold yourself ... into life.
I heard a serious branch breathe me near…
this guy looks like shakespeare
This guy talks like Jeff Goldbloom
ehm.. why 20 minutes? If Jesus woud come back and went to TED, TED would say: ehy man! Welcome back! you have 22 minutes, not more!
Truth is a funny thing. I doubted the William Shaksper as author and was an Oxfordian for 15 minutes until l found the argument for his authorship way too shallow. It wasn't until I came across the literature on Francis Bacon that all the pieces fit into place from his genius, to his timeline, to all the comments of admiration from Ben Jonson, to Bacon's Shakespeare Notebook, The Promus, sealed the deal for me. Nobody else has evidence but conjecture.
And what makes your 'evidence' for Bacon any different than conjecture?
I know it's just me but the beep and vibrate noise in background is so distracting. :(
Who's out here because of highschool?
👇
@@minithon sad life
Nice dress he has on
I'm never going to be embarrassed to go out because I think I look bad again. :)
An interesting viewpoint, but it would have been much better if he hadn’t so deliberately broadcast his own opinions & prejudices (below) and instead concentrated solely on the task at hand, which is informing us about Shakespeare.
(‘…our wonderful young prime minister [Trudeau!] …throwing off the shackles of colonisation…all demonstrating their masculinity - excruciatingly funny…a dozen people dead - it turns into a guy-flick…’)
He is obviously very right-on politically, and doubtless regularly visits this on his students, when he should actually be concentrating on the subject at hand - Shakespeare, rather than himself - and not using it as a stage to inflict his own beliefs on a captive audience…
Disappointing
This is my homeworkkkkkkk
I came here looking for insight into why people like Shakespeare, what I got was Benjamin Franklin's pretentious cousin going on a self important rant and yelling about screens. (Yes I get he's making a point about not reading but apprehending Shakespeare, but he just looks like an angry technophobe)
People like Shakespeare because his plays are real and shine a light on our strengths and weaknesses, do you not like jealous revenge, heroic speeches that stir the soul
Pure speculation..! You have NO idea, if The man from Stratford cared if he got paid or not! There's no record of Shakespeare getting paid!
The Folio was never an honoring by his actor friends!
There doesn't have to be any record of Shakespeare being paid because Shakespeare wasn't a piecework playwright. He didn't have to shop his plays around to other companies; he was the house playwright of the Lord Chamberlain's Men/King's Men, and he was a sharer in the company. He got a percentage of the box office along with his fellow sharers. (And in fact there is a record of Shakespeare being paid for an impresa by Francis Manners, the 6th Earl of Rutland.) The only record we have of _any_ playwright being paid _anything_ is via the survival of Philip Henslowe's Diary. If it weren't for that sole record, we would have no evidence of any playwright being paid anything in the entire Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. But Henslowe was the impresario of a rival company, the Lord Admiral's Men, and ran an entirely different theatre, the Rose. Only two of Shakespeare's early plays were performed at the Rose - _Titus Andronicus_ and _Henry VI, Part One_ - and neither of them appeared to be written for a playing company Henslowe had a stake in.
As for the Folio being produced by his actor friends to memorialize Shakespeare, that's exactly what we're told by those actor friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell, in the Epistle Dedicatory to the Herbert brothers. "We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans; guardians, without ambition either of self-profit or fame: only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend & fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most humble patronage." You may choose to disbelieve what they say, even though there's no real reason to, but unless you can climb into their heads after almost 400 years you can't possibly prove what their motivation was. There's certainly no basis on which to doubt the face-value sentiments in Heminges and Condell's dedication.
Edward DeVere
Well, this is boring
this dude is overrated, why does he get so much credit for some bs he threw down on a paper, and how do we even know that he wrote the stuff, it was hundreds of years ago, I ain't no genius but there's some seriously more important stuff we can learn about I'm school. also if my English teacher see's this than sorry, plz don't fail me even though I already am, also if ur a class mate dont snitch
"I ain't no genius". Really? May I suggest you read a book or two and then you may find the answers you seek.
There probably is more immediately useful stuff you can learn in school, min - things which are more obviously relevant to what you need to be able to do in modern society. The thing is, what Shakespeare reminds us (perhaps depressingly) is that, in 500 years, in a thousand years, in 200, 000 years, humans ain't never changed. We are still obsessed by the same things (power, love, revenge, control, sex, war) and, for all our sophisticated evolution, we do still behave in much the same ways as we always have. Like I say, depressing stuff. But Shakespeare himself wasn't writing for a high-brow audience - he was writing for a stage space and audience stuck between bear-fighting pits and prostitutes! That's why, if you get a chance to see any of what he has done on stage, or on film, or even clips on TH-cam, you should give it a look see. Because that's where you will see the blood(literally), sweat and tears that kept people watching his plays then.
@elspeff Apprehension vs comprehension, right? Like the tower of babylon we bask in so called achievements, forgetting that they matter most in a different sense. Vain as it was, built it was by myriads of beasts, somehow uniting. That is the true wonder. The humanity of a beastly nature.
Just sayin I would rather learn how a car runs, more health classes, or more economics classes. That way I don't have to go to a car mechanic all the time, or go to the doctors, or I could know how to invest
I'd rather learn how we can feel so much in our vain existence and still be have that vanity bring out our so called worst selves. About what's important to me, if anything. Maybe then I can find my dream and be happy.
The Stratford man did not write the plays and sonnets. The Earl of Oxford wrote them!
Anyone who believes a conspiracy of such magnitude could be kept under wraps for so long has obviously never spent half an hour with a group of actors at the pub.
Serena Lake. That is actually the gentleman known as Mr Shakespeare who came from the fair town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford is in London.
Hello Serena , I am interested in your confidence in what you say, and why? Where did you get this information?
Awesome. It must have been hard work keeping his rustic Essex dialect out of Shakespeare's Midlands dialect. Imagine all the effort you'd have to go through to work out a consistent system of unique spellings, rhymes, quibbles, etc. and never let the one bleed into the other. For example, Oxford pronounced "like" to rhyme with "leek" and his spellings are consistent: misleke, leklywhodes ("likelihoods"), etc. Shakespeare never rhymed "like" with any long e sound. He also consistently spelled "you" as "yow", which is something Shakespeare never did. If he had written Shakespeare's great comedy, the title would have been _As Yow Leke It_ .
Conversely, none of Shakespeare's unique spellings, like introducing a c in words where a long i followed an s, as in "scilens" ("silence"), appear in Oxford's known correspondence or poetry. Shakespeare uses Warwickshire dialect words like "dey" for "dairy" (the merry milkmaid Jacquenetta of _Love's Labour's Lost_ is "admitted as the dey-woman") and "dowel" for a bird's down feather (Ariel in _The Tempest_ : "one dowel that's in my plume").
It's really amazing the lengths Oxford went to to hide his authorship of the plays, making the vocabulary, spellings, and rhymes consistent with Shakespeare's ostensible Midlands upbringing. It's _almost_ as if they're two different people. And if you read the poetry of Edward de Vere, it's obvious that they're two different people. Aesthetically, in the use of language, rhythm, and imagery, Shakespeare is in an entirely different universe.
This did nothing for me. I'm no more educated or impressed, actually bored, it could be the voice, the delivery. The clapping at the end was very cold and stilted it can be heard.
Your loss. I've studied Shakespeare most of my life and I certainly learnt something here.
i fell asleep within the first 20 seconds
And I bet that makes you proud.
Listening, key to many enlightenment, but so few who heed that advice. Age, for some can be a cure though. Literature is truly the last refuge. How lucky are you that have him as a teacher.
he talks like that poetry teacher from one of SNL's skits that's amazing lol
Shakespeare almost makes me proud to be a human.
This has helped me see Shakespeare in a way I never thought I could imagine. I love to read it with my students. I love to see it, to hear it, but omg I have never listened like this. Beautiful!!!!!
who out here in 2019
Tucker A. Hawkins me
Me.
We all are 😊
Great Ted talk.
One of the best in recent memory.
I am going to audition for Titania next month wish me luck!
christin smith hope you got the part!
No
3 years later how did it go
@@karrishay1359 they didn’t give me the role. They treated me horribly. They had no respect for me at all.
@@Disneylover2023 oh, sorry to hear that. What did you do since then?
7:15 "Whenever we apprehend an effect we want to comprehend a cause. And that's a problem, especially with theatre and always with life, something happens to us and we want to know why. Well, the cause doesn't matter. Who knows what the first cause of anything is?...They're beyond my comprehension, right? But in the moment of life I apprehend constantly what it is to be living, and to seek meaning in that - rather than to simply swim in the luxuriousness of my own soul and heart, seems like an extraordinary abandonment of the joy of living."
Nailed it right there
Shakespeare is proof of innate intelligence - uncorrupted to any imaginable degree of understanding that is possible to comprehend. This is my own understanding of a Superior person, who articulates way beyond the destiny of his genetic predisposition, bringing forth a new realm of consciousness which nobody can understand but many can perceive just as he did. Why Shakespeare? Give me a call...because people like us these days always keep ourselves to ourselves.
Judging from your comment , this
" innate intelligence " seems to preclude modesty . ?