Ben Crystal | Part 1: Sonnet 18 | Speaking the bright and beautiful English of Shakespeare

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Part 1 of this lecture, looking at Sonnet 18.
(the full lecture can now be viewed here: • Speaking the Bright & ... )
The British Council and the English-Speaking Union welcomed Ben Crystal as part of the English Language Council lecture series. This 2014 lecture marked the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare.
The guardian of English poetry, the inventor of over 1,000 words still in use today, and one of the greatest players with our language, Shakespeare has given us a treasure trove of English to read - funny how so much of it doesn't make sense until it's spoken out-loud.
Actor and author Ben Crystal explores the accent, the theatrical conventions, and the world of Shakespeare, to reveal a bright and beautiful English. With Jennifer Jackson & Aslam Husain.

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28 сен 2024

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@Toranaboy634 2 года назад

What a marvellously instructive lecture, and the reading of the sonnet was of the highest standard.

@polientoico509 4 года назад

"We write in sentences, we speak, and think in thoughts." -- 3:48 I still think about this all these years later.

@instructor8759 3 года назад

Speak in thoughts?!

@Tom_Tom_Klondike 2 года назад

I think this is pointing to most people not speaking in complete sentences. If one carefully transcribes conversation, it's full of half starts, fragments, sounds etc.

@methamphetamememcmeth3422 3 года назад

If Mark Zuckerberg took literature instead of computer science.

@irenejames4569 3 года назад

Nailed it 🤣🤣

@jaybuckeye2866 2 года назад

It’s probably just me, but I think this is a bit sappy. My favorite is Sonnet 130 and the way it overturned the poetic clichés of the day.

@Paulkazey1 Год назад

Ben is very fine.

@KayHarpaGone 5 лет назад

SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

@ayanahmed2346 3 года назад

thanks, mate.

@ConstanzeWeber 4 года назад

So glad I've heard someone else say that Shakespeare ought to be watched/heard not read!!! I've thought that for ages! Love your videos by the way!! :-)