Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #36

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  • The Irish Renaissance in the early 20th century included a wealth of new plays written both in Ireland, and by Irish ex-patriots elsewhere. W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge were creating a new national theater of Ireland at the Abbey Theatre. They often drew their stories from the fabric of Irish life. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were meanwhile writing important (and often hilarious) works on the world stage.
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Komentáře • 112

  • @nodsmilebackaway
    @nodsmilebackaway Před 5 lety +109

    "Oh woe is me! For the sea has taken everything I value", said the old woman TO HER DAUGHTERS

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU Před 5 lety +14

      Well if the sea don't want them, what value do they have?

    • @zombiehoe
      @zombiehoe Před 4 lety

      Is this a reference to Riders to the Sea?

  • @tommurphy1153
    @tommurphy1153 Před 5 lety +156

    Thanks for avoiding all the annoying cliched jokes. Its nice to have our culture (our real culture) recognised! Thank you!

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g Před 5 lety +1

      This is not our real culture, these writers are all English heritage writers, and in my opinion English not Irish.

    • @somethingsomething3818
      @somethingsomething3818 Před 5 lety +20

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g All Irish born and raised and considered themselves Irishmen (and women). I bet you're British. Shoo, now.

    • @charlottecatherinenolan550
      @charlottecatherinenolan550 Před 5 lety +6

      He did call Irish Gaelic though

  • @ashleykim1427
    @ashleykim1427 Před 5 lety +99

    Who else watches these on their own and not just in class?

  • @robertmcdonnell3117
    @robertmcdonnell3117 Před 4 lety +6

    The funny thing about all Irish writing from this period is that if today you walk around the streets of Dublin you may say the faces of all of these writers, and others such as Joyce and Beckkett, postered in every bar and statued on every street however when they were alive much of their work was banned.
    Many of our best writers (and our best in other arenas) didn't leave the country but fled it. They wrote about Ireland as it was then without any decoration. The Irish saw themselves clearly and turned away not liking what they saw.
    'It's a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking glass of a servant'
    - Steven Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses

  • @cleoalexander7590
    @cleoalexander7590 Před 5 lety +13

    One of the things that I love about this series is that it makes you consider theatre from places that I never thought about before - that's what happened in the episode about Henrik Ibsen and Nordic drama and I am looking forward to learning about Irish drama.

  • @sivawright
    @sivawright Před 5 lety +19

    Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  • @IrishAndy855
    @IrishAndy855 Před 5 lety +38

    It's not that important but there is a small mistake at 1:57.
    The Abbey Theatre is still in the same location that it opened in 1904.
    There was a time from 1951 to 1966 were they had to move to a different building due to a fire until the theatre could be rebuilt.

  • @SlowToe
    @SlowToe Před 5 lety +22

    Thanks Mike, you brought a tear to my Irish eye. Thank you also to CrashCourse

  • @Jaydoggy531
    @Jaydoggy531 Před 5 lety +31

    You're particularly fond of muffins? I prefer bread and butter myself, because cake is rarely served in the best houses.

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU Před 5 lety +1

      Cake is a lie!

    • @CapKITZ
      @CapKITZ Před 5 lety +3

      @@DarkAngelEU Drat! You stole my joke.

    • @RedBear535
      @RedBear535 Před 5 lety +3

      Beware of butter on your cuffs.

  • @carpediem5468
    @carpediem5468 Před 5 lety +11

    Oh yes! I did my PG THESIS on 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST'.

    • @mrnobody-unowen
      @mrnobody-unowen Před 5 lety +2

      How are you, my dear Ernest?

    • @cramerfloro5936
      @cramerfloro5936 Před 5 lety +4

      I played it last year with my theatre group
      It was really, REALLY difficult to translate the jokes into italian
      But it was a lot of fun

  • @alonealien1474
    @alonealien1474 Před 5 lety +17

    Synge, Wilde and Shaw. What's not to like? Not enough Shaw, but that's alright.

  • @ariannamonson4092
    @ariannamonson4092 Před 5 lety +4

    And the thought bubble wasn't about The Importance of Being Earnest? What a missed opportunity for an awesome thought bubble moment

  • @amelieniroibeaird526
    @amelieniroibeaird526 Před 5 lety +6

    Ok I’m Irish and those first thirty seconds were great I completely aprove 😂

  • @TomSistermans
    @TomSistermans Před 5 lety +10

    YOS Dadaism and symbolism that's some good stuff right there!
    Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
    pögiff,
    kwii Ee
    Oooooooooooooooooooooooo,
    dll rrrrr beeeee bö
    dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö,
    rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö,
    beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää,
    bö fümms bö wö tää zää,
    fümms bö wö tää zää Uu.
    No I didn't go crazy, that's the beginning of the greatest tone poem ever, Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate

    • @cramerfloro5936
      @cramerfloro5936 Před 5 lety +2

      Comunque vada, comunque Dada!
      Al Cabaret Voltair!
      Comunque vada, resto comunque Dada
      Vedo una sola strada, comunque Dada
      Qualunque cosa accada, comunque Dada!
      Io metto in disscussione tutto
      proprio tutto
      Forse non sono Dada, ma sono un po',
      Dada un po', Dada un po'

  • @daniellebreitstein6007
    @daniellebreitstein6007 Před 5 lety +23

    Oscar Wilde is my everything

    • @kashishkukreja5904
      @kashishkukreja5904 Před 4 lety

      The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” Can you explain this one quote in detail. I know the gist just looking for a detailed one.

  • @nechma13
    @nechma13 Před 5 lety +8

    I really hope you talk about Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Becket with absurdism
    And Susan glaspell and Sophie Treadwell who are American women expressionist playwrights who have gone mostly limited their performance though their writings inspired many male writers

  • @eanna773
    @eanna773 Před 5 lety +6

    Táim i mo chónaí in Éirinn agus ba bhreá liom é sin.
    * Im Irish and im in love with this video♥️🇮🇪

  • @amyamy1507
    @amyamy1507 Před 5 lety +3

    YESSSSSSSSSSS to the 'Irish culture deserves more than leprechaun jokes' intro! THANK YOU! Super tired of people (especially Americans in my experience) applauding our literature one minute and then being racist the next.

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe Před 5 lety +7

    But if you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge
    For the love you brynge won't mean a thynge
    Unless you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge

  • @brianudkwang8380
    @brianudkwang8380 Před 5 lety +3

    is that a kodama on the shelf during thought bubble??? (from princess mononoke)

  • @fh9061
    @fh9061 Před rokem

    Oh god. I've never been moved by a
    Summary of a play but all the drowning and the poetic lines. I have to read this

  • @ThainaYu
    @ThainaYu Před 5 lety +2

    It might be too late but I think the crash course opening theme song for Crash Course Theater should be revised to orchestra version

  • @TheBibliophiliac
    @TheBibliophiliac Před 5 lety +10

    Once again, An Ideal Husband is snubbed.

  • @hisbigal
    @hisbigal Před 5 lety +9

    You left out Sean O’Casey.

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g Před 5 lety

      Sean o casey is actually Irish, the rest are all English ex pats. That is why they are so good and o Caseys plays are not mentioned

    • @jimbobjimjim6500
      @jimbobjimjim6500 Před 5 lety +2

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g They are Anglo Irish whose families had lived in Ireland for centuries.

  • @DrWarman86
    @DrWarman86 Před 5 lety +1

    one of Oscar wilds quotes the one featured is vary similar to a quote from Hagakure. the quote from Hagakure was also featured in the film Ghost Dog.

  • @cathaldunne6741
    @cathaldunne6741 Před 5 lety +2

    Trust Crash Course to respect us for the culture we have

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g Před 5 lety

      This isn't our culture this is English culture, read the names they are not Irish

    • @somethingsomething3818
      @somethingsomething3818 Před 5 lety +3

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g yeah, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde doesn't sound Irish at all. By the way, every one in Europe (and most of the world) is of mixed heritage, so I don't see what names have to do with it. By your logic, Irish isn't your culture, as you claim, since you don't have a traditional Irish name, not that it matters.

  • @teucer915
    @teucer915 Před 5 lety +2

    I'm looking forward to seeing you cover Brecht.

  • @KathyTrithardt
    @KathyTrithardt Před 5 lety +2

    I've been to the Abbey Theatre - the newer location. It's grand.

    • @KathyTrithardt
      @KathyTrithardt Před 5 lety +1

      I was actually there for the 100th anniversary of Playboy of the Western World, which was a treat.

  • @zoeheffernan1096
    @zoeheffernan1096 Před 5 lety +3

    ‘Cathleen ní Houlihan’ ?

  • @JonBastian
    @JonBastian Před 5 lety +1

    Amazing as always.

  • @Full_Metal_Angel
    @Full_Metal_Angel Před 5 lety +2

    Wow I am speechless

  • @ms.rstake_1211
    @ms.rstake_1211 Před 5 lety

    Thank you for putting this up on time.

  • @TheAmbientMage
    @TheAmbientMage Před 5 lety +1

    There really is excellent whiskey and knitwear out there.

  • @ms.rstake_1211
    @ms.rstake_1211 Před 5 lety

    Thank you putting this up on time.

  • @kramermariav
    @kramermariav Před 5 lety +1

    I ❤ Wilde

  • @Directionless.Sponge
    @Directionless.Sponge Před 5 lety +2

    Bruh you said Yorrick might come back with a sheleighli but how he gonna carry it without hands he just gon bite it

  • @joewarren5248
    @joewarren5248 Před 5 lety

    COYBIG!!!
    Also just realised that to "crack on" with something is not a common saying

  • @Pferdesuppe
    @Pferdesuppe Před 5 lety +1

    I tried to find the actual source of the Shaw quote at the end of the video, but was unable to do so. A couple of essays and papers quote it, but none of them state where they originally got it from. Only that it's supposed to be a quote by Shaw. I would love to include this quote into a thesis of mine that I'm writing about fin de siècle drama, but without an actual source, this is somewhat difficult unfortunately. Do you happen to remember where you came across the quote?

  • @BulaGuy
    @BulaGuy Před 5 lety +1

    Where's Phil and his outer space episodes?

  • @Caoimhin1909
    @Caoimhin1909 Před 4 lety

    YEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOO 🇮🇪

  • @tbotnoblett
    @tbotnoblett Před 5 lety +31

    I am Irish

    • @bobdickweed
      @bobdickweed Před 5 lety

      Im real Irish..thats why i say the sunny southeast its a irish saying for where i live in Ireland...
      @Essie

    • @airigid
      @airigid Před 5 lety

      @@bobdickweed you are not Irish, clearly Mexican.

    • @AmandaFromWisconsin
      @AmandaFromWisconsin Před 5 lety +1

      *Essie* When an American says, “I’m Irish,” they’re more or less saying they’re of Irish descent. They’re not saying they’re just as Irish as Irish people who were born an raised in Ireland.
      I’m German. ;)

    • @claspe1049
      @claspe1049 Před 5 lety

      @@AmandaFromWisconsin Iam too but when I'am drunk I kinda feeel irish ….

    • @wannabe0rockstar
      @wannabe0rockstar Před 5 lety +1

      Is maith liom caca milis

  • @MKPiatkowski
    @MKPiatkowski Před 5 lety

    Saint Joan isn't worth even a mention? I've directed it and it's powerful.

  • @megancerys7260
    @megancerys7260 Před 5 lety

    Oooooooooooooh yes thank you

  • @OlanKenny
    @OlanKenny Před 5 lety +1

    Irish drama? You mean most of the 20th century?

  • @CMichaelEH
    @CMichaelEH Před 5 lety

    CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

  • @undead8883
    @undead8883 Před 5 lety

    do not said my name oscar is my name do not said it

  • @habibikebabtheiii2037
    @habibikebabtheiii2037 Před 5 lety +2

    Where is the Jameson?

  • @eugenmoscalenco6266
    @eugenmoscalenco6266 Před 5 lety

    What happend to crash course kids

  • @itiswhatitis9705
    @itiswhatitis9705 Před 5 lety

    I feel like Conor Mcgregor was inspired by Oscar Wild.

  • @cdw2468
    @cdw2468 Před 5 lety +3

    I thought it said “Irish Resistance” and this was a random video about terrorism

  • @cianhorgan4824
    @cianhorgan4824 Před 5 lety +4

    “GROSS INDECENCY”

  • @elperroreggae
    @elperroreggae Před 5 lety +4

    Your thumbnails should Change, they're pretty bad, I mean they don't generate attention

  • @marjanghazanfar44
    @marjanghazanfar44 Před 5 lety

    Can you make a video about the roman gladius/sword?

  • @171QA
    @171QA Před 5 lety

    Who else saw the kodama? :D

  • @DuranmanX
    @DuranmanX Před 5 lety

    Is Seinfeld dadaism?

  • @PhoenixoftheGays
    @PhoenixoftheGays Před 5 lety

    Pearl Hates the Irish
    If you understood that referance then you are Gid Tier

  • @StephaneBura
    @StephaneBura Před 5 lety

    This series has been great so far but scones are not muffins!

    • @MordredsGirl
      @MordredsGirl Před 5 lety +1

      I'm pretty sure those are English muffins, which while not *actual* muffins, are at least still called muffins.

    • @StephaneBura
      @StephaneBura Před 5 lety

      I can't abide things pretending to be other things in a video about theater.

  • @advisingeconomics2179
    @advisingeconomics2179 Před 5 lety

    ig 牛逼

  • @xxiao5156
    @xxiao5156 Před 5 lety +1

    Not enough potatoes in this.

  • @emilyr6510
    @emilyr6510 Před 5 lety +2

    SECOND

  • @avatarmary
    @avatarmary Před 5 lety +3

    why don't these people just learn how to swim

  • @mikeoxsmal8022
    @mikeoxsmal8022 Před 5 lety +1

    Im pretty sure it's called the anglo irish revival

    • @talideon
      @talideon Před 5 lety +5

      I've never seen it referred to as that. That might be a British thing.

    • @mikeoxsmal8022
      @mikeoxsmal8022 Před 5 lety

      Keith Gaughan well this video focus on yeats, sygne, wilde, its the anglo irish revival while the irish language revival is the gaelic revival this is history in irish schools

    • @talideon
      @talideon Před 5 lety +3

      @@mikeoxsmal8022, they themselves might've been of Anglo-Irish decent, but you can't really separate them out from the Gaelic Revival itself, which involved Irish people of all backgrounds, regardless of their ancestry. I don't believe any of them did. They were part of the same milieu as the Young Irelanders, Seán O'Casey, Arthur Griffith, Joseph Plunkett, &c., and we're pointedly participating in a revival of Gaelic culture, albeit though the medium of the English language, but a uniquely Irish form of that language.

    • @talideon
      @talideon Před 5 lety +3

      @@mikeoxsmal8022, also I'd like to point out that I am actually Irish, went though that same education system, and never once recall hearing it referred to as the 'Anglo-Irish Revival'. I recall it being called the 'Celtic Twilight', the 'Irish Literary Revival', and a few other things, but never qualified with 'anglo-'.

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g Před 5 lety

      Was it gaelic revival ? I'd like to think the real Irish would have something to say about that. Our whole culture spearheaded by Protestants with English names. Our culture is Gaelic written in Irish by the Irish. This is why I maintain the Irish cannot write plays or poetry only the English can do it well enough. But we can write and play music, and tell stories better than anyone, and that to me is true Irish art, not the works of Yeats Wilde or shaw.

  • @loyalt_3421
    @loyalt_3421 Před 5 lety +1

    First

  • @larousian9254
    @larousian9254 Před 5 lety +1

    I bet CrashCourse will never pin this comment

    • @jojololo9157
      @jojololo9157 Před 5 lety

      ....my calculations say it is unlikely but physically possible to occur.

  • @wannabe0rockstar
    @wannabe0rockstar Před 5 lety +1

    Needs more proper 12

  • @advisingeconomics2179
    @advisingeconomics2179 Před 5 lety

    ig 牛逼