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An Introduction to Shakespeare

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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
  • Click [CC] for subtitles! This is the first video in a new series examining Shakespeare and his plays in more depth! Let me know what you struggle with when it comes to Shakespeare and what you'd like me to film next
    If you enjoyed this video you can find other episodes in the Shakespeare Series playlist - • Shakespeare Series
    Hi! My name's Lauren and I make videos about books I'm reading, thoughts I'm thinking, and things I'm doing. Let's be friends on social media -
    Twitter: / laurenwhitehead
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Komentáře • 75

  • @KrystalLynne
    @KrystalLynne Před 8 lety +19

    This is SUCH a lovely, comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare. I absolutely adore it. I especially love that you went into the culture of play-writing and play-going at the time -- since knowing that information is really integral to unlocking his astounding plays. And this video has PERFECT timing -- I'm hosting readalongs beginning next month in which we read one Shakespeare play a month and chat about it. Cannot wait to follow this series closely and have chats about Shakespeare with everyone! Thank you for this! Booktube needs more Bard. :)

    • @LaurenWade
      @LaurenWade  Před 8 lety +1

      +Krystal Lynne ah that's brilliant! It does need more bard, I'm surprised I haven't found more Shakespeare chat already

  • @raykline7904
    @raykline7904 Před 8 lety

    When I was a kid I really struggled with reading because I was dyslexic; it wasn't until I was in the sixth grade that I overcome my disability and reading became imperative to appearing smart and collected amongst my piers. And whilst in my English classes I couldn't wait for my teacher to reveal our reading syllabus, always on the edge of my seat one word could send me into a slouching, saddened, mess- it was Shakespeare. I can't make heads or tails of his writing, and my grades really suffered because of it. But since he's a writer I did enjoy learning a thing or two about him from your video.

  • @tahrin.choudhury
    @tahrin.choudhury Před 3 lety

    You are so smart know so much about Shakespeare and know everything in detail. I wish I had that quality.

  • @kerrithomas5528
    @kerrithomas5528 Před 3 lety +2

    How is this not viral? I’m 11 and I love this it’s really interesting 😂

  • @symobecca142
    @symobecca142 Před 8 lety +4

    Lovely introduction! I would love to hear about A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and The Tempest :)

  • @brendadennis2081
    @brendadennis2081 Před 4 lety

    This lesson was wonderful !! You are very knowledgeable and a wonderful teacher!! Your explanation of iambic pentameter was so clear and easy to understand...I am 72 and I have some vague recollection of being taught IP when I was in high school in the 60s. I wish I had been more attentive 👵

  • @naomissempa
    @naomissempa Před 8 lety

    This is going to be so helpful. I'm doing Romeo and Juliet for my gcse exam in 2017 so these videos will help

  • @laurencedeparis5656
    @laurencedeparis5656 Před 7 lety

    I d' just like to thank you So Much Lauren ! I've been eager to study William Shakespeare for more than 22 years ! I went on his grave in 1994 during my studies ... I will soon be retired but still have as much admiration for his work . Thank you for your help to improve my understanding of it . .

  • @rwaggs2623
    @rwaggs2623 Před 8 lety

    I can't wait!

  • @princessmagdalene
    @princessmagdalene Před 8 lety +2

    This is so fantastic, Lauren! You are so creative with your videos, I adore them all!
    I am so intimidated by "Othello", but I so so want to read it! Perhaps with your clever and wonderful analysis I might venture into it!
    Love from Denmark xxx

  • @elenadowney2688
    @elenadowney2688 Před 8 lety +1

    I'm studying The Taming of the Shrew with my 9-10th graders and I'd love more info about that one! I'm excited that you are doing this!

  • @RachelLouiseAtkin
    @RachelLouiseAtkin Před 8 lety

    This video was the best ever! I'm studying a module called "Shakespeare Perspectives" in uni this year, and we're reading six of his plays. I'm planning to do my own little series on my experience with Shakespeare too! I would love to see you do something on Hamlet, Henry V, or Anthony and Cleopatra as these are a few of the ones I'm studying. Thanks so much for this anyway! Lovely to see that Shakespeare is still being discussed :)

  • @esmemoongem1101
    @esmemoongem1101 Před 8 lety +8

    I would love to hear your thoughts on Othello!

  • @emmc9437
    @emmc9437 Před 8 lety +1

    The Tempest! It's my fav and I'd love to hear what you and your other viewers think about it.

  • @SofijaMitrovic
    @SofijaMitrovic Před 7 lety

    this is the best booktube video ever ... i can't wait for the rest of the series !!

  • @ornleifs
    @ornleifs Před 8 lety

    Looking forward to more of your Shakespeare videos, I recently bought the complete BBC box of Shakespeare plays and it's my goal to go through them all and read them too.

  • @dianechandler
    @dianechandler Před 8 lety

    I just love these series that you do!! And I have always been a Shakespeare fan so all the better! My top three favorites are Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. Great intro / background video ---- thanks for all you do!!!

  • @thereadinglist_
    @thereadinglist_ Před 8 lety

    I am taking a Shakespeare course this semester and this series will be very helpful!! I would love to watch a live production. This was a fantastic video(:

  • @Morpheus451
    @Morpheus451 Před 8 lety

    Great introduction! Thank you for doing this series; I am very much looking forward to your next videos. As for specific requests, I would be interested in hearing more about Shakespeare’s plays in comparison to one another, e.g. earlier vs. later ones, or what differences there are in the construction or language between histories, comedies, and tragedies.

  • @heathers8826
    @heathers8826 Před 8 lety

    These will be fun to watch. Shakespeare has been a favorite ever since I was 12. When I was 18 I had the privilege to see Romeo & Juliet at the Swann Theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Sadly, the actress who portrayed Juliet screamed all her lines to the point where her death was closer to bringing on applause than tears. I'd love it if you focused on some of Shakespeare's lesser known plays, such as A Winter's Tale and Two Gentlemen of Verona. This year I'll be teaching Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to my kids, which should prove interesting. I'd love to find some great BBC adaptations, but as yet have not found any.

  • @BooksandScribbles
    @BooksandScribbles Před 8 lety

    I'm excited for this new series. I love Shakespeare!

  • @Laurahmartens
    @Laurahmartens Před 8 lety

    I actually have to read As You Like It for tomorrow, and in a few weeks King Lear!

  • @Lvmikki77
    @Lvmikki77 Před 8 lety

    I have to read romeo and juliet for english class soon and i'm not a native speaker, so i appreciate a video about that play a lot ^^'

  • @ellamarie4257
    @ellamarie4257 Před 8 lety

    Really looking forward to these videos Lauren! :) xx

  • @hopebrookebabblesbooks6832

    Loved this video! I studied Macbeth in school & was the only one in class to read ahead.....tad bit nerdy I know. I would love to see you do a video on Macbeth.

  • @allisoncroghan446
    @allisoncroghan446 Před 8 lety

    I love Shakespeare. can't wait to watch all of the videos.

    • @allisoncroghan446
      @allisoncroghan446 Před 8 lety

      my favourite are Macbeth hamlet romeo and Juliet and the twelfth night. I also like the sonnets

  • @ChrissyM94
    @ChrissyM94 Před 7 lety +1

    The Tempest :) Thank you so much for this series!

  • @abc1906
    @abc1906 Před 5 lety

    Really good explanation! I’m Brazilian and I would like to start reading Shakespeare but I always get discouraged when I start reading all of those complicated words. But I will give it a try - I’m currently watching The Hollow crown show and if I like it I’ll try to read it in but not sure if I should read it in Portuguese first or go straight to the original

  • @jaievi76
    @jaievi76 Před 8 lety

    Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream please! :) So excited for this series!

  • @anaromanelli1391
    @anaromanelli1391 Před 8 lety +1

    Hi Lauren! This is such a brilliant video, and I'm looking forward to see more! About the language, I've seen a video a little while ago (I think it was actually made by the people from the Globe) about how Shakespeare is supposed to be pronounced - it makes a lot of sense when they show it. It's quite interesting, I'd definitely recommend you watch it if you haven't yet! Just type Shakespeare's pronunciation and it should be one of the top ones here (: xx

    • @LaurenWade
      @LaurenWade  Před 8 lety +1

      +Ana Stevenson oh yes I saw that! It was a father and son pronouncing it in the contemporary way, right? Really interesting! Xx

    • @anaromanelli1391
      @anaromanelli1391 Před 8 lety

      That's the one! I wish I had seen the performance where they used the original pronunciation, but I didn't hear about it in time... One day! xx

  • @sarahelasfour6562
    @sarahelasfour6562 Před 8 lety

    That's such an amazing idea, you seem so knowledgeable about Shakespeare. I'm trying to get into his work and bought myself a copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, so a video on that would be very helpful :)

  • @claresmeaton5903
    @claresmeaton5903 Před 8 lety

    This is great, Lauren. Amazing idea for a series

  • @kirstiehorton3128
    @kirstiehorton3128 Před 8 lety

    Loved this!! Really makes me want to get into some more Shakespeare now 😁

  • @blubimnotafish
    @blubimnotafish Před 8 lety

    I'm really looking forward to this!

  • @middleofadventure
    @middleofadventure Před 8 lety

    I'm really looking forward to more of your videos about Shakespeare! My favourite play is Much ado about nothing, so I'd like to see you analyse it a bit more. Also, could you recommend some stage productions, movies or audiobooks for each of the plays you'll be covering? Thanks!

  • @troubadourin6321
    @troubadourin6321 Před 8 lety

    Going the the globe is such a cool experience! I had the chance to see Richard III there and it really did help with understanding the play :P

  • @catduff8092
    @catduff8092 Před 8 lety +2

    I'm doing macbeth for my gcses so i'd to seem your thoughts on that

  • @amalinataib8581
    @amalinataib8581 Před 8 lety

    Finding it particularly difficult to understand and enjoy the historical plays. Lead me into them! :)

  • @jeanettebruce
    @jeanettebruce Před 8 lety

    Just read and LOVED Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time, but I'm a bit sheepish to admit that I've never read The Winter's Tale! I'd like to hear your thoughts on that one.

  • @rosannerubino4603
    @rosannerubino4603 Před 6 lety

    Now I wanna do Shakespeare!

  • @tlacoyo1000
    @tlacoyo1000 Před 8 lety

    yes! more, please!! thanks!!!

  • @masteatro
    @masteatro Před 8 lety

    Two years ago I visited "The Globe" and it was a great experience. Very interesting video.

  • @willlexie
    @willlexie Před 4 lety

    Please make videos of Read with Me but Shakespeare edition. Wanna know if you read it just like reading novel or make annotation etc.

  • @ellierigby7331
    @ellierigby7331 Před 8 lety

    Such a great idea! I've always been curious about Shakespeare and his writing but:
    -as a non native speaker in class we really didn't study much of it, probably the teacher didn't think our English was good enough (and at the time, it wasn't)
    - I've always refused to read it translated
    -I've always been scared be the aura of: top of the English literature, and scared not to understand it.
    probably it about time I start it though... I'll follow you very closely in this series ;-)

  • @ItsClumsyBecky
    @ItsClumsyBecky Před 8 lety +1

    I love Shakespeare ❤️

  • @thelovelymadbs
    @thelovelymadbs Před 8 lety +5

    Much Ado About Nothing!

  • @sydneyc9339
    @sydneyc9339 Před 8 lety

    i'd love to hear you talk about romeo and juliet, a midsummer night's dream and macbeth!!!

  • @melissabee8522
    @melissabee8522 Před 8 lety

    My favorite plays are Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night (because I am a twin!). Maybe you could tackle one of them? :-)

  • @inessamaria2428
    @inessamaria2428 Před 7 lety

    Amazing explanation!

  • @EricJLarge
    @EricJLarge Před 4 lety

    How do I get residents in a town and surrounding rural communities to explore Shakespeare’s plays?

  • @SuperZapie
    @SuperZapie Před 8 lety

    It's a great video ! I really would like to discover Shakespeare (especially since I saw the Doctor Who's episode about him) but I am always afraid to miss out on something.
    I bought A Midsummer Night's Dream in a bilingual edition so I will understand the text and have verses and the rhythm at the same time :)

  • @warholcow
    @warholcow Před 6 lety

    Love this! Hamlet please!

  • @veronicaolivares9150
    @veronicaolivares9150 Před 5 lety

    Great!!!

  • @riyam6051
    @riyam6051 Před 8 lety

    Hey Lauren. Great video.
    can you suggest a good place to start with Shakespeare?

  • @kellykroger272
    @kellykroger272 Před 8 lety

    What editions of the plays do,you feel are best for reading?

  • @LaFonaa
    @LaFonaa Před 8 lety

    This was a great Video and I'm excited for more Videos to come.I'd love to see you discuss Othello :)

  • @elgarner1704
    @elgarner1704 Před 8 lety +1

    King Lear please :) that would be great!!! xx

  • @Lauren-sq9em
    @Lauren-sq9em Před 8 lety

    I would love to see a video on Othello as I'm studying it for A-level at the moment :)

  • @IsuriniSirisena23
    @IsuriniSirisena23 Před 6 lety

    Would love to hear your thoughts on The Merchant of Venice.

  • @lisarodrigues6131
    @lisarodrigues6131 Před 5 lety

    Please consider doing "A Midsummer NIght's Dream," it would make a lot of 8th grade English teachers happy.

  • @amiraaloui4913
    @amiraaloui4913 Před 6 lety

    Hamlet is not Jacobean. and Shakespeare is not necessarily a Tudor apologist.

  • @stefaniaalexandra9878
    @stefaniaalexandra9878 Před 8 lety +1

    you posted it exactly when I opened Hamlet for reading it 😂 coincidence?

    • @LaurenWade
      @LaurenWade  Před 8 lety +2

      +Stefania Alexandra I think NOT! Haha

  • @ALu-nq8rf
    @ALu-nq8rf Před 5 lety +1

    Wow, so those audiences might've liked Game of Thrones!

    • @ShakespearewithSarah
      @ShakespearewithSarah Před 3 lety

      Yes definitely! Titus Andronicus at the very least. Feels very Game of Thrones.

  • @LoveHighway
    @LoveHighway Před 3 lety

    You had me at iambic pentameter 🧐

  • @Naomi-dm4nw
    @Naomi-dm4nw Před 8 lety +1

    Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado & Othello!

  • @nedmccarroll8462
    @nedmccarroll8462 Před 2 lety

    This yong

  • @patriciawoodward9121
    @patriciawoodward9121 Před 8 lety

    the comedy of errors

  • @EricJLarge
    @EricJLarge Před 4 lety

    How do I get residents in a town and surrounding rural communities to explore Shakespeare’s plays?