Love and Friendship in Hamlet: David Bevington Harper Lecture
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Noted Shakespeare expert David Bevington discusses how "Hamlet" presents amorous love as deeply problematic and doomed to failure, while male friendship emerges as a spiritual bulwark for the protagonist. Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the humanities, professor in the departments of English and comparative literature, and chair of theater and performance studies.
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Wonderful.
At seventy-three years of age, I can now really enjoy listening to such a distinguished professor - not so much when I was actually a student at Chicago.
Some professors have a habit of cracking jokes even when talking about tragedies....and they deserve our appreciation for that
The current Avello Publishing Journal call-for-papers is December 1st 2015.
A long serious talk dies early.
Deep bro
Everything seems to be problematic, if he only changed his perspective. He describes a chronology which is speculation, as fact. If he put the plays in the proper context, with the correct author the problems would disappear.
Care to elaborate at this?
He absolutely seems to be a very prestigious English scholar, but I really don't know what I have learned from this lecture...
mumbling hard to follow--drop speed for better listening.
what's the word he says @14:00
métier
@@mariamuller1314 thank you!
8:00
The Tempest. This is the literary
testament of Shakespeare 403 years later. That I have deducted in one
night.
I do not know why the Shakespearean
experts speak of the island as an imaginary place, or the Bermuda
Islands, and another hypothesis. The island of The Tempest, Is
England. The tests are here.
Shakespeare wanted, and prayed, for
Spain to invade England, and Catholics to be liberated. Although he
feels very English. Nobody wants to imagine that Shakespere, the most
universal English, wanted Spain to invade England, because England
builds its national identity remembering the year 1588. But this is
the truth:
Precisely
because Shakespeare secretly practiced Catholicism, and his family
had been recused and impoverished, he wrote the Tempest to vent,
because of the Protestant intolerance against Catholics. It was the
last play, and he risked reprisals and left the theater. The tempest
that disperses the ships (not the English action, because later there
were more invincible navies, 2nd and 3rd, of 1596 and 1597, dispersed
by storms). But the tempest could also bring an army to rescue the
Catholics of the island. Who lives on the island of Shakespare's
Tempest? They had lived Sycorax before. Look for Sycorax in
Wikipedia, for example: "An especially odd and early guess at a
meaning by one critic was sic or rex, a Latin homophone alluding to
Queen Elizabeth's pride". Elisabeth Sycorax only appears in the
named text. She is described as a ruthless witch who has already
died. Now there is Caliban, which is a cannibal transformation.
Caliban is the son of Elisabeth (who brought Protestantism again
after the death of Maria Tudor). Protestant cannibals are "eating"
Catholics. Shakespeare is very cruel to Caliban, who is a deformed
being, "like Protestantism then?" But who lives abandoned
on that desert island of the Tempest? (It can be deserted if they
kill us all, thinks Shakespeare). Live Miranda (María Tudor),
"daugther" of Prospero, Duke of Milan (Felipe II of Spain
was Duke of Milan, and before King of England, and the great
protector of Catholicism in Europe) Who commanded the invincible army
of 1588 ?: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (who was captain general of
Lombaría , Milan). Who commanded the navy in the text of
Shakespeare? a man named Alonso, king of Naples. Always Italy, where
the Pope is, and always Spanish territories in Italy. Who is the
greatest traitor in Spain in history? Antonio Pérez, who betrayed
Felipe II, and traveled to England to ally with Elisabeth.
Shakespeare met Antonio Pérez. Shakespare makes a caricature of
Antonio Pérez in Love's Labour Lost, called him Don Adriano de
Armado. Who is the greatest traitor in the Tempest? Antonio, who has
stolen Prospero (Felipe II) the title of Duke of Milan, has usurped
the name of Spain.
The daughter of Alonso (head of the
real and fictitious army) is called Claribel. How could Spain invade
England? Taking troops from the Netherlands, to embark them in the
army. Who was the Spanish sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands,
daughter of Philip II, king who sent the army? Isabel Clara Eugenia.
Isabel Clara Eugenia was proposed to be queen of France. The King of
France rejected the proposal, but in return he made France Catholic.
"Paris is worth a Mass". Shakespeare was thinking that this
was a solution for England, a wedding like that of Philip and Mary,
an invasion, or the solution that there was in France, to bring
Catholicism to England. In addition, Claribel comes from Tunisia,
where the uncle of Isabel Clara Eugenia, had just left the Moors
expelled from Spain by infidels. Sycorax (Elisabeth) fue expulsada de
Argel, por hacer brujería, era menos cristiana que los argelinos.
Who is the servant of Prospero and Felipe II: Ariel, the wind, who
has a childish spirit, and does not always obey Prospero. But
Prospero reminds him of Ariel, that he rescued him from Sycorax.
When? When Philip II of Spain was king of England he brought
Catholicism. So in The Tempest, Ariel brings the ships to England.
Shakespare could not go further without discovering his intention.
The text of the Tempest is full of much more subtle allusions, almost
on each page, showing the suffering and relief of Shakespare. The
text talks about the barrels of wine from Jerez (Spain) that the
fleet brings to fill the whole island, and that are hidden in a cave
(wine for Catholic Masses, which were hidden in the 17th century? )He
wanted what he thought was best for England.
What is the last sentence of the
Tempest, the farewell phrase of Shakespeare from the theaters? A
Catholic phrase.
Francisco Escudero Silva First, the theory that Shakespeare was a Catholic (cf. Richard Wilson, Clare Asquith, ...) is speculative and has little traction today. Second, The Tempest was not his last play. Shakespeare wrote several plays afterwards.
Can't speak coherent English. Has little to say. Does a poor job not saying it.