I wondered about that. But you still qualify as one of the more erudite RU-vidrs. Who also posesses skills like atmospheric use of an electronic fireplace.
Why do you use a 'cod' Irish accent for Thomas Dekker? He was a born and bred Londoner with no Irish connection whatsoever. Also who is "William Defoe?" Daniel Defoe wrote a 'Journal of the Plague' and he too was a born and bred English man with no Irish connection. Yet you give him a cod Irish accent? Unless you know a William Defoe who also wrote a journal of the plague and came from 'Bally Go Backwards' 'County Bog?'
If there is ANY RU-vidr that deserves to be wealthy, and have access to all the funding he needs to make great little films, and educational spots. It is this man. He goes so hard FOR US. God dammit, the pandemic fucked up my, and my wife’s finances, and I wish I had the disposable income I once did to help him fund the movie. Tax return, and stimulus, he’s getting a chunk. No matter what.
Hope the English groundling somehow becomes a recurring character. As a frequent commentor on this website, he really resonated with me on an emotional level.
When I was a baby in Colorado in the mid 1990s I came within literal inches of catching the Black Plague. My mom heard my voice exclaiming from the entry way "Bunny! Bunny!" She found me sitting in front of a dead mouse, pointing at it and grinning. "Bunny! Bunny!"
I caught rabies by something like that when I was 3 or 4. There was a dead bat that tested positive for rabies on the playground. I ended up petting it, and I told my mom I pet the bird on the playground.
My wife's favorite part of teaching Romeo and Juliet was using the Globe Theater production of it, where they went a bit more "obvious" with some of the jokes, seeing just how far she could explain before getting the side eye from parents.
A fair amount of it yeah. I wish that facet was more empathazied than his insults. Growing up in Stratford, I can't tell you how tiresome I find the Shakespeare's insults books/magnets/band aids/juice boxes...
3:48 George Lucas 2003: “Well here we are, an official first draft. Of course there’s a lot of cheating in there, there’s a lot of, ‘they fight’” (Awkward laughter)
I doubt that cannon had balls. I've seen turfs and bundles of straw shot from cannons to give the powder enough compression to ignite properly without launching an iron projectile into the crowd. Maybe they shot a bundle of straw and it caught fire and set fire to something else.
if you see footage or photos of battlefields in comparatively modern times you see smoke trails - they are where artillery are located and the cordite has ignited the grass/wheat/whatever .. the shot blast could ignite surrounding vegetation, knock tiles off roof, blow in windows etc .. you don't need an actual shell or ball to cause damage.
The real irony for me is noticing that this video (which mentions that Shakespeare’s early career thrived in spite of the plague) has comments from people exclaiming at how you only have 4k subscribers...and now, only a month later, that number has jumped all the way to 33k. 👌
There is so much garbage on RU-vid, but it's channels such as these that restore my faith in mankind. I'm not particularly familiar with Shakespeare's work, but this man has led me to give his plays a chance. At the moment, I'm fully emerged in the world of 16th/17th century England. Bless you, Andy.
I came for the Civil War videos, and I'll stay for the OP. Kid you not, classical singer and ever since I saw the Crystals' original OP video, my pet project has been performing works of the era in OP. A great, nerdy touch.
Help us make The Sudbury Devil, which will be the first feature film ever made (that we know of) spoken entirely in Original Pronunciation, the accent of Shakespeare: igg.me/at/sudburydevil/x/15029872#/ Stay home, stay safe, and WASH YOUR HANDS!
So I just realized I made an error in my reading of Alas, Poor Yorick in OP, which isn’t a huge deal I guess, but I’m a weird obsessive perfectionist so it’s driving me crazy. When I was reacquainting myself with the monologue in preparation to film this video, I foolishly checked the text on the MIT Shakespeare site instead of referring to my trusty old Folger copy of Hamlet. This was a grave mistake. The MIT site has the line “my gorge rims at it,” as in, my throat is filled to the metaphorical rim with puke. When I read that I thought, “Hmm, that’s weird, I seem to remember it being ‘my gorge rises at it’ but whatever. MIT is a reputable source, they probably know something I don’t.” How hopelessly naive I was then! Well, I did a little digging and it turns out that “rims” is a typo from the early days of the internet that’s been copied and pasted to all sorts of online transcriptions of the play. The Folios say “rises.” O happy dagger, this is thy sheath! There rust, and let me die of embarrassment!
Ben Johnson was genuinely a violent and dangerous man who fought in duels, killed people and spent a lot of time in prison. He'd have given the fictional John Marston a serious run for his money.
Chris Ball I highly doubt that Ben Johnson could outgun Red Dead John Marston. That man killed entire armies(source: I beat Red Dead Redemption 1 again the other night).
I'm sorry I only caught this the second time viewing. There were historical figures named Willem Defoe, Ben Johnson and John Marston? Two famous actors and a video game protagonist??? What.
ahahah i loved the groundling scene, when i was in college we watched king lear at the reconstructed globe in london and we were standing. it was a great experience but jeezzz my legs hurt. king lear is not short
I remember in your Ravenous video you talking about how lovely it is to find something that hits so many of your niche interests that it feels as though it was made for you. So this video feels like for me. Thank you for making my quarantine a little better. :)
Fantastic as ever. Just a quick and very tiny point though.....it's not Lord Chamberlain but The Lord Chamberlain; not a hereditary peer but a job in the royal household. Think Groom of the Stool but way more senior. In fact it was, and still is, the most senior position in the household. The Lord Chamberlain who was patron of Shakespeare's company was Henry Carey (coincidentally Anne Boleyn's nephew).
4:55 so you're telling me that the way Curly Bill and the rest of cowboys were acting during Faust in Tombstone was a historically accurate theater going experience for the time. Damn, the thing is you learn.
In my childhood, the Lord Chamberlain was the guy who decided what could be done on stage (burlesque to classic theatre), I'd always presumed that Shakespeare's patron held the same office, but apparently not (after 5 seconds of blurred google results, it seems that the guy in the 60s was empowered by an act of 1737 - mind blown!)
I know this is different, but what I loved the most in The Lighthouse was listening to the dialogue. The dialogue alone transported you to that time, and even if I couldn't understand all of it on 1st view I fully enloyed it. So yeah, I'd be down for a full film in OP.
"Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail?" "In his tongue." "Who's tongue?" "Yours if you talk of such tales, so farewell.: "What With my tongue in your tail?" Ah, yes, high culture
Came for the Shakespeare, stayed for the petty squabbles of playwrights in the 17th century. I also learned here first that Chaucer had Richard II's patronage. Either I didn't pay attention to my classes or you're just awesome at teaching.
By now the Cannibal is such a staple of this channel that he only needs to grin in that peculiar way from under the hood and all of us understand the implications. Kind of like phylosophie tubes Arsonist.
This is one of the two best exposition of the life and times of William Shakespeare I have come across. And this from a Shakespeare fanatic who watched no less than twelve Shakespeare plays... in his home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon..... before I was even 20. Well done Atun-Shei!
I'd make it more Michael Bay - given the average age of a medieval peasant, the humor involved, and the combination of fights and vulgar talk. "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime." -Michael Bay
It's a rotten shame that this video doesn't even have 100.000 views. I think I'll keep using it in my English classes (year 11 in Germany) for decades to come.
I still love to point out to people that, thanks to Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare predated Mystery Science Theater 3000 by about 400 years!👨🏫🧚♂️
Oh my goodness that joke really does work so much better in OP. I did not laugh until he told it in that accent. I wasn't even expecting to, but I did!
I just stumbled upon this, the quality of this video is ridiculously high for your current sub count, I'll definitely be subscribing, keep up the good work
How have you only got 4k subscribers?! Boggles the mind! This is quality content mate. I genuinely think you'll skyrocket very soon, not that I think that's you're overall aim or that's the only barometer of success, but damn!
I study acting at university over here in England, this is gonna help me out TREMENDOUSLY with my Shakespeare essay. Thank you sir, you have rightfully earned another subscriber!🙌🏻🙌🏻
I think ol' Bill & the various theater companies would love YT & other platforms, they'd enjoy Patreon & commercial sponsorship, & we'd look forward to watching, hearing, & commenting on, all the plays.
Show business, nothing has changed. This was a great video and one of the best on the Bard. Really excited I learned some new things. One of my favorite new pieces of knowledge was hearing the accent of his time!
You had me at England during the Elizabethan/Shakespearean Era. I was a Drama Kid in High School, and working at Renaissance Faires the Groundlings are actual common people that you normally saw. And yes the Plague Jokes are very much strong this year.. This is why I am focused to get to know my Ancestors during this current Pandemic.
Dutch has this same thing where West-Vlaams or Western Flemish is seen as the most difficult dialect, but that may be because it is closest to Middle Dutch! (And also, most mediaeval (famous) Dutch documents we still have are actually in the dialect of Western Flanders.) I need more content in Middle Dutch AND in West Flemish! lol
Excellent program and this is from a history nut. I've read alot of history. And I think you are one of the really good story tellers about any period of history that your covered. I look forward for your next program. Thank you for covering periods of history I really have not had an interest in until watching one of your programs. Keep up the good work
Nice commentary. Re: "seeing" vs. "hearing" a play -- as late as 1895, Oscar Wilde has one of his characters, in response to "Want to go to the theatre?", say "I can't stand listening." It was silent movies that changed it all.
Watching Atun-Shei do Shakespeare in OP after watching a lot of the VVithfinder General is very weird. It's like seeing a production of Hamlet by the puritans of the Colony of Maffachufettf
@ 18:25 I'm guessing they did the 16th century equivalent of saying "Gingers have no soul!!!"? @ 20:53 So he would not have approved of Italian actors :P
What I found interesting when I had heard the "correct" accent for Shakespeare's plays for the first time, I found the plays easier to understand. With the usual posh faux-Old English accent that is typically adopted for a Shakespearean performance, I found the dialogue hard to follow, but in the true accent, it actually sounds like how a human being would talk, and so would be easier to understand for me.
Not only entertaining but I learned something new. Plays weren’t ment to be read like books and I never thought about dialect and accent. It changes everything.
You can still go to the (rebuilt) globe theatre and see performances, with groundling tickets costing £5. I went to see The Merchant of Venice, and Gratiano threw up over the side of the stage directly into someone's handbag.
When I was in high school, a hundred years ago, we got to see Romeo and Juliet done on a stage in the middle of a ball diamond, in the middle of the day..Our drama class loved it...you really got Shakespeare when you saw something like this.
