I’ve been binge watching these for about 3-4 hours, and I can’t tell you how wonderful I’ve found them! You have changed distant historical figures, into real life human beings that I can relate to, feel real pity for, share the feelings I believe they felt! I know this sounds very ordinary, but it has honestly changed the way I view history and the people from it! Thank you!
excellent storytelling talent with relevant and very interesting facts... excellent visuals and writing, editing and delivery... and I love at the end that the subject is reconstructed visually in a VERY well thought out way with the explanation of how and why ... these little vignettes are SO well done and even with delivery of facts the storyteller brings the viewer into the subject's life in a special way that helps me to understand and have empathy and kinship for a person long gone... these are VERY well done and without cheap graphics or sordid details or conjecture and yet, still touches on rumors and speculation that occurs with famous people. excellent quality and very entertaining
My favorite part is usually the modern recreation. It makes him seem more familiar, like we could bump into this guy at a university and have an interesting conversation.
William Shakespeare is a fascinating figure because (as you mentioned already) there’s very little material on his life so a lot of us can project ourselves on to him. Also, people think his English is archaic and too posh for us now but his language was the most accessible yet poetic way of putting things across.
Very well thought out and authentic, based on what we know. It's s quite possible that Shakespeare travelled abroad 1585-1592 which is where he picked up Italian, Venetian and Genoese knowledge mentioned in his plays and explains why there is no record of him in England during that period
He got so many things about Italy wrong that there is little chance he actually saw the place. He has a character in Verona rushing to catch the tide. Shakespeare was obviously thinking of the Thames, where the tide carried boats in and out every day. The Adige not only isn't tidal, the whole of the Mediterranean has no tides to speak of.
anything is "possible" and if Shakespeare MUST BE the Strafordian then yeah. I would point out, just for the sake of balance that such travel was quite expensive and it basically bankrupted Edward de Vere. But his attitude was, 'well what's money for if you can't use it for Adventure?'. Still just using Occam's Razor and considering the simplest explanation of something: let us be objective. We have one fella who we have NO information about for such travel, and we have another fella that we have volumes of stuff about his travels during this time. Which would you consider best suited?
@@fgb3126 Logically, one cannot isolate just a single type of evidence and ignore the rest, but oh well. If we're judging solely by what Shakespeare got right and wrong about Italy, then Occam sides with Shakespeare. Aside from some generally known facts, like there being a university in Padua (many Englishmen studied there), and a church named St. Peter's (which every city in Christendom has) he gets everything wrong, especially about geography and the nobility. De Vere's travels in Italy don't make him more likely to have written the works of Shakespeare. They rule him out.
I have read of that possibility because there is nothing recorded of him being in England. If he considered himself a serious playwright, I would think that is what he would do. He did not come from poverty being of lower nobility. Thank you for your work.
I love this! When I look at your modern recreation, I feel like I actually could be looking at Shakespeare, and that we can infer so much about him from his face. I also love that the modern interpretation looks like he could be a professor of Shakespeare at a prestigious university.
you just have the most pleasant voice EVER, i could listen to you reading recipe cards!:) and as usual your work is on point, thank you very much for your efforts!
Since the pandemic my life has suffered many setbacks. Watching your wonderful recreations and historical lessons has become the highlight of my evenings. My kids and I look forward to them at the end of our day and even though they are quite young I feel they are learning quite a lot. So thank you very much for your inspiration 😊
Once again you've left me breathless with your interpretation. The modern one actually looks like a director I once had! Fantastic work as always, and thank you for bringing him to life.
Where does one begin? There's so much to LOVE about this beautiful video. Watching this made my heart beat a little faster... and I felt goosebumps on my arms and neck for the reveal. Splendid! I'm envious of your skills and talent... we are so fortunate that you share them with us! 💖
Thank you for making Shakespeare’s eyes come alive. Looking at your re-creation, the eyes remind me of my oldest brother, who has passed away. Once you added AI there was a light in the eyes for a split second reminded me of my brother's large eyes.
he is absolutely one of my favorite literary authors of all time! The recreation of him reminds me of Tim Burton a bit? Or is it just my eyes. Anyway i do think some of the portraits that are presumed to be him share vague similarity! I do think that the Chandos portrait could have been close to his likeness its the way i've always imagined him. I think his appearance is not far from these artistic interepretations however portraits can be different from photographs because they cannot capture a person aging each decade. Anyway I love awaiting to see what historical figures you will recreate next. I do have a suggestion I made it on an older video I would love to see a recreation of Tecumseh. I do often wonder what portraits out there might possibly be close to his likeness.
This is a great narration, far better than 99% of all of the videos I have seen on youtube. The vocal inflection is perfect as can come only from someone who has taken the time to actually look at the words she is speaking beforehand. It adds a great deal of interest and enjoyment to the subject.
Absolutely stunning portrait at 15:04 ! I love your work sooo much...I make portraits on carved leather and I did Shakespeare several times from the same source, so I'm used to see it but my heart litterally bumped at seeing your recreation from it... I thought I was really in front of Shakespeare himself as If I had jumped through times!!! Amazing!
I have watched most of your work but somehow missed this one. When I saw the modern interpretation of what S may have looked like, I was filled with emotion. Well done.
Honestly the recreations are my favorite parts of your videos. It makes them feel real not someone I read in a book but real people who lived just like us.Thank you!
These recreations are a treatise on mortality. You give us the arc of a past life in all its fame or infamy, then let us be in the presence of that person. Always brings tears because you bring the good ones, or the wronged ones, back to life, but we know they are long gone from this earth.
in many ways, he reminds me of another mysterious author... one closer to our own time... Edgar Allan Poe. they both have that air of sadness about them; that edge of knowing too much and having seen too much. they both have that touch of mystery where we Think we know a lot about them but do we _really._
I always believed that the First Folio (although poorly etched as you mention) is the most accurate picture we'll ever get of Shakespeare because it was commissioned by people who knew Shakespeare in his lifetime. The Chandos portrait's history is still too unclear to me and it's not even known when it was actually painted. No proof of it being painted in Shakespeare's lifetime. The monument displays him as pretty portly so I always assumed that was an accurate depiction of him in his last days. The First Folio and funerary monument are acceptable to me as accurate. Nonetheless GREAT video and thanks for giving me plenty of info I never knew!!!
I know hardly anything about history at all. These videos are so intriguing and make me feel excited about learning more about these famous historical figures! The 1500-1800’s are so incredibly fascinating to me!!
This is an extraordinary channel.A channel that actually contributes to keeping history alive with a fresh a brand knew perspective..Hats off to the creators of this..
I can't help but notice the resemblance between William Shakespeare and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. Perhaps it's the playful mischief in their eyes. Fantastic videos - my students are big fans of Royalty Now Studios.
Shakespeare's grammar school education was better than any education today. He read Latin and Greek authors in Latin and Greek. It is ridiculous to think Shakespeare didn't write his plays because of his "limited" education. Geniuses don't need a college degree to excel.
I've enjoyed these recreations immensely as well as the historical backdrops and always look forward to the next... A common theme throughout is one we all face...The hardships and tragedies of life... One however must always persevere...
I just discovered your wonderful sites! I am so impressed by the quality of work you do, both with the recreations and the presentation of material. So now, I am addicted to Royalty Now Studios and want to watch everything you have worked on.
I love all of these re-creation works of art and discovery. Shakespeare's likeness is so compelling and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent.
How is it that he looks like a creep in his time bur looks very scholarly in the modern version? I'm enjoying your channel so much. I'm about 4 hours into a binge. Thank you for all the work into not just recreating their faces but telling their stories in such an amazing fashion
If you ever get a chance, go see Shakespeare home in Stratford upon Avon. It appears to be a comfortable house, whilst not being extravagant. It’s beautiful
Your video was amazing as always. You set the bar very high for yourself and you always make it. And I'd love to work on William Shakespeare. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.
Would love to see you do a reconstruction of Michelangelo. I enjoy these shows greatly and have been forwarding them to my history loving friends. Than you so much ❤. The modern Shakespeare really is my favorite.
Both interpretations were brilliant. Looking at a writer. He seemed shy and very private a person, maybe that's why we know so very little about him. I think if he could, he would have written under another name to keep his identity secret. My daughter is a born writer, busy with her first novel. She is going to write under another name, not her name. She is very shy and likes to spend hours alone in her room, writing. But she is very happy, especially when she can write something. So as the Mom of a future writer of best seller novels, I think I saw a little more of what Shakespeare was like as a person. You did a great job on the interpretations.
Thank you RNS! I like your narration of the subjects that you choose for your channel. You are easy to understand and have a lovely speaking voice. I'm not a huge Shakespeare fan, but I do like a couple of his plays, especially "The Taming of the Shrew". I have been watching some of the Olivier film versions and Kenneth Branaugh as well. You asked for requests of future subjects for you channel. I would like to see one on Molly Brown, famous survivor of the HMS Titanic. I have not seen one on her and any of the history channels that I follow on RU-vid. I think she would be quite delightful. Thank you!
Wonderful! Thank you! I really would like to see the modern picture of him moving. To see his smile and to look around with his glasses on. It would really put him in our time 🤩
I studied Shakespeare in college but it wasn’t until years later that I learned about the controversy surrounding his authorship, and I was today years old when I discovered that my image of Will all these years is possibly not him? Mind blown. But for, I would say, inarguably the most influential, prolific and famous writer in the English language, the paucity of details about his life is incomprehensible. The thing that troubles me most is the complete absence of diaries, letters, notebooks…any scrap of paper in his own hand. We’ve got one signature I believe. Not only did Shakespeare not write any correspondence, but apparently no one wrote to him either. The leading literary mind of his time-all time-didn’t bequeath a single book? Which means he had none, as books were extremely valuable heirlooms. He didn’t even own copies of his *own* plays or poetry. His disciples fished those out of the garbage and preserved them. Their author couldn’t have cared less. Curiouser and curiouser. We have many more examples of contemporary documents by Geoffrey Chaucer, and he lived 200 years earlier. I had the privilege to tour Shakespeare’s schoolroom in Stratford virtually with an historian. Far from being a quaint rustic with a rudimentary village education, William was quite the promising young man. His father John had a thriving glove making business, and parlayed that into becoming the Lord Mayor of the town. It’s possible that the older Shakespeare was illiterate, but he would’ve had an excellent head for figures and leadership abilities. The grammar school in Stratford was the top school in the region, and is still operational today. Boys would have received a solid grounding in classical languages, mathematics, dialectics, and history of antiquity. By the age of 14 it’s thoroughly possible that these boys would’ve received the equivalent of a modern undergraduate education. Young Shakespeare was relatively well off, for Stratford, but I don’t think that he had the funds to go abroad. I think the lost seven years were spent traveling the countryside with a troupe of actors, learning stagecraft. Will was industrious, entrepreneurial and must have been charismatic, to in a relatively short time be co-shareholder in a thriving company. He was an impresario. This skill set seems at odds with the dreamy poet of the sonnets. I have come round to my own theory that Shakespeare had a collaborator of noble birth-the Earl of Oxford is the leading contender-who supplied the library, the knowledge of court, of ranks of nobility, of Italy. Shakespeare supplied the crowd pleasing bits…the lowborn characters, the knowledge of how to stage a play and market it. He likely wrote the early comedies. But if it often feels like two separate voices wrote the plays, maybe it’s because they did.
Again, many kudos for your work. I share the same birth date. I did not know that he died on the same date, Thank you again for the lesson, sincerely, Lady Barbara
First playwright, first author I studied, first works I studied not only in school but as an actor. My first play ever was Midsummer's Nights Dream reinterpreted as a Teenage midsummer Night's Dream. I played Demetrius "Dean Metrius"
Hi! I found you on Instagram and then I came to your channel. I love every video you do! It would be amazing see a video about the Romanov sisters, or at least Anastasia! Love from Mexico!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it. I haven’t don’t the romanovs because there are photos of them, but it could be fun to colorize/bring them to life anyway and tell their story.
I kind of chuckled a bit at the effigy carving, ".... accepted by those who knew him...." It made me think of every open casket funeral where you hear loved ones saying, "It doesn't look like her, why did they do her hair like that??" 🤭
Love your thorough research of your Subjects this one was so Wonderfully done! The Man behind his famous writing works! Its intriguing how you lead up to revealing their Likeness and was so Thrilling to see such a Famous well known Artist come to Life! Well done and Thank you! Brava! 👏🏻😍🖤
Your videos and art are amazing. I just found your channel and am going through each video. They are all wonderful! The art is breathtaking, you are careful with your history presenting it in a sympathetic way, and your speaking voice is so pleasant and easily understood. As a hearing impaired person, it's always nice to not have to stare at the captions only, put the speaker next to my ear, or just give up (from mumbling). I would love to see your recreation of the Mona Lisa!
I am loving your channel! At first, I was only interested in the last part of your videos, but I am thankful for the History intro. I can tell that there is a fair amount of research and it just makes it more special when we get to see them in motion.
Seeing your recreations really brings these historical figures back to life as people, not just names and dates in a history book, especially when you make them smile and move. Would you do Grace O'Malley?
i can believe that he could of done all those by himself. as an exercise i wrote 365 poems in a year to see if i could do it. the longest was 6 pages. but the fact that some one in the genius level of writing ability could create great works in a relative short period of time especially when there is so much material to write about in his time, both historic and during his life time
Excellent work, as usual. Couple of thoughts…my understanding is that Shakespeare’s magnificence as a writer is not for originating the idioms or stories you mentioned and for which he is known for…rather, he coined and presented them in unique, heartfelt, and/or penetrating ways that lifted the stories from the mundane to fine art, while still appealing to the general audiences. It is pretty well known that almost none of his storylines were original to him and, further, original stories were not a selling point for audiences of that time. So his ability to write about historical figures or other countries is a non-issue when determining whether he was “really” the author of these plays, since he repurposed others’ storylines. His true art was his ability to translate through his emotional intelligence his understanding of the human “condition” into plays and poetry in ways that his audience could Identify with and understand. Then and now. Some of his poetry conveys this tension/sameness between the mundane and the sublime (“shall I convey thee to a summer day…”).
