The genuine passion you exude for the Classics that you delve into not only makes your videos engaging but inspires me to read every title on your lists. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, insights, and love for these great works! 📚
I went from "I'm never reading Shakespeare" to adding Hamlet to my Amazon shopping cart after just 15 minutes of analysis. We don't study Shakespeare in school where I'm from (Brazil) because we have our own authors. Now I'm super interested! You're the best! P.S. I finished school a long time ago 😅 and only read for pleasure now.
Ok, I was already impressed when I thought this was a 50 minute review of the whole play. This is a long video just to look at one speech. Will come back later when I can give it my proper attention.
Tristan’s there in a long-sleeved, turtleneck sweater while I’m across the pond sweating my butt off from working in the garden before it gets to 95f/35c outside. Thank you for the analysis of Hamlet. I read it earlier this year. It’s helpful to hear ideas that I might have overlooked the first time. I’m currently reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I figured it’s timely for the season we’re in.
Great, I love it when you make these Shakespeare monologue analysis videos. I've saved it to my watch later and I'll see it tonight! 😍 I vote you do all of Hamlet's soliloquies, next Act 1 Scene 2! 🤓😎🤣
What a brilliant analysis. Hamlet is my favourite play although I still have a few to read including Macbeth. What I love about Shakespeare is that you can get a real understanding of the words without knowing what a lot of them mean but then taking the trouble to understand the vocabulary adds another depth to the writing. He really understands humans and shows us that we’ve barely changed in 400 years. I would love to delve deeper into any of the plays (except Titus Andronicus) 😊
Tristan this was wonderful! As I mentioned before, this is my Shakespeare Summer and your review of this speech in Hamlet, is the “cherry on the top !!” Think I need to move Hamlet from this winter to later this summer. I know you have a wonderful selection of reviews ( sorry, review is the only word I can think of at the minute- yours is more than just a review) of Shakespeare from a couple years ago, but maybe you can add a few more in the coming months or year. YES, your lesson on iambic pantomber (spelling ?) was so helpful to my finally getting Shakespeare. Thank so much.
I really thank you for these literary insights! I am recently following your RU-vid's and very happy with it. This one is really what I am looking for always❤
I've heard that another reading is that he's not contemplating suicide. He's trying to decide whether to play it safe and live (suffer in the mind the slings and arrows), or stand up against this crime of the king, in which case he will probably die. Of course he goes on to talk about suicide but perhaps this is the nature of Hamlet's wide-ranging mind.
This was an inspired, illuminating, thorough, passionate and beautiful examination of "To Be or Not to Be" that I'm so grateful to have experienced. THANK YOU, sir!
You really help me to understand Shakespeare Tristan. I am still reeling from your ‘Tomorrow’ Macbeth speech analysis. This is such a pleasure to listen to and learn from. So much to enjoy, thank you. ❤
Epic. You broke it down and skilfully explained Shakespeare's layered meanings and beauty of language, that even an idiot like me could understand. Thank you Tristan 10/10
I just loved your analysis of this sililoquy!!!! Though it's not my favourite of this play but my second one. I so love reading shakespeare!! I'd be interested in the classes you mentioned and you explain the plays so fantastic!!!! Thank you so much it was really a delight
I particularly love your enthusiastic and knowledgeable breakdowns of Shakespeare text. I’m always trying to improve my understanding so that I can better enjoy seeing productions. I’m interested to hear more about reading a whole play in a smaller group. Kind regards Elaine
Thanks so much for this explanation! You're really teaching not just to understand the play but to love it (and some english too, as it is not my mother tongue). I would be very interested in paying for more extense Shakespeare classes, but maybe if they are videos we could watch at our own peace. ☺
That was so beautiful. Thank you for doing this, I got a bit emotional. I'm very new to Shakespeare. I can't spare any money but if I could it would be such a dream to be in the group with you. You're excellent at this. Thank you thank you.
Great video ❤. So it seems people of the 16th century were just as anxious about the finalty of death and what that could bring despite living in a very religious period. Shakespeare just said it better.😁
Wonderful analysis. Thank you. To be reading that masterpiece is enough to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and act, readiness is all. ❤
Tristan, your perspicacious analysis of one of Shakespeare's most profound puzzles, "To be or not to be," is enlightening. You've highlighted the existential dread that saturates Hamlet's words, emphasizing how paralyzing the fear of the unknown can be. Yet, I'm intrigued by another potential dimension to this soliloquy-beyond the fear of death and what lies beyond. Could Shakespeare also be critiquing the inertia that results from our own spirals of introspection? Sometimes, it feels like Hamlet’s real ghost is his overthinking, which shackles him as much as his dread of the undiscovered country, emphasizing not just the paralysis of fear but also the paralysis of indecision itself.
Sophocle's Oedipus in Oedipus at Clonus is the epitome of the man who is nobler in the mind for bearing the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and Captain Ahab from Moby Dick is the epitome of the man who raises arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing ends them.
I'm an A-Level student currently in my final year of high school studying Hamlet, and I just want to say your analysis of the soliloquy was brilliant for helping me understand it! Thank you so much! Also from the way you delivered it at the end, maybe you should consider being an actor? 😂
Fascinating So passionate 🎉 Although this is the most famous and most philosophical soliliquy but we have other ones which are as important and deep as this one here. Thank you 🙏 Effort highly appreciated 👍
Thank you, Tristan, that was just fabulous. I would love for you to do more Shakespeare -- perhaps you have; I'm still catching up with your back catalogue. The idea of a group would be terrific, but I'd have difficulty with it because of time zones, if it's in real time. I so enjoyed this video. And it was nice to hear your laugh a couple of times, even in the midst of all this sorrow.😊
Thank you for sharing your passion in such a fantastic way. Your ability to inspire is wonderful. Your ability to teach is great, my friend. Would love to be involved in your proposed Shakespeare classes, whatever the cost.
Loved the explanation of "calamity of so long life" & "patient merit of th'unworthy". Rather ashamed I've always allowed myself to skip over those two bits I didn't really get!
Until sometime when I was in my fifties whenever I heard that famous line "To be or not to be", I wanted to scream "To be or not to be WHAT?" It was then that I learned that when Shakespeare wrote "to be", he meant "to live". That is, "To live or not to live". Now what appeared to be an incomplete sentence made sense. I point this out as one example of why I have always felt very frustrated trying to read Shakespeare. As a modern-day reader, I feel like his 400-year-old works were written in a foreign language masquerading as English.
I'd be interested if you do a Shakespeare group. I just read the Judi Dench interviews on performing Shakespeare and am refired up on reading the plays. Thanks for this video, it's super helpful.
Hello Tristan. Great video - Thank You. May I respectfully ask why you say, “Everythink” and “Nothink” - as most people in this country seem to say now. Is it not, “Everything” and “Nothing”? I really hate to hear these word said incorrectly every single day and by so many people. Is this just the ‘modern’ way we have to speak now? I am not being rude - just asking. I love your work and appreciate your videos very much. XX
An Evening with Shakespeare...an episode of Ozzie and Harriet featuring John Carradine:and Hamlet ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A2rU2mAi0UI.html
