Just to make the distinction clear Travellers are a historically nomadic group with Irish ancestry and have no ties with Romani people. The racism here in Ireland against Travelers is terrible. Like Travelers are banned from a lot of pubs and places and people who see themselves as anti racist will casually say vile shit about Travelers (if they're against Travelers they're probably also horrible about Romani though). Also Mincéirs is pronounced like mincarey. I think the word Pavee is used by travellers more than mincéirí. Travelers are one of the worst represented groups. Like I think the most mainstream representation of them was in Peaky Blinders. Which had them speaking speaking Romanian which is a wild conflation of Romani, Romanians and Irish Travelers. And especially frustrating cause Travellers have their own language Cant and it's is a really cool secret language that's a mix of English and Irish. Great vid!

I will never be normal about that cover image with Anne Hathaway caught between the two.

“Seems to be extremely devoted to him” overlaying a full contact kiss was an AMAZING cut

in the words of my classmates in our shakespeare class "oh so cesario's a twink"

"'Some are born with greatness, some achieve it, and others have it thrust upon them.' This will be a dick joke later." Was not expecting that, but honestly after the "Cs, Us, n Ts" joke, I wouldn't expect anything less from my favorite English bard.

Viola said: Drink your Respect Women juice! And Malvolio said "I was abused and I will have my revenge!" And then proceeded to lawyer up because he went through workplace harassment and unlawful containment. Sebastian said: I have no idea what is going on but it seems to be ending well!

Olivia being so excited about hot clones is so good

the way that THE promotion picture of the twelfth night central park production started my whole queer self discovery is unreal

Im so glad you directly credit me for the bigender baddie line lol. Genuinely one of the funniest Ive ever said, also Im glad more people are cursed with knowing about the exceedingly wet orientalist vampire twelfth night.

I like the cuts of different performances saying/ completing the quote. It’s fun seeing how different some performances are.

After this and the last Shakespeare video, the inescapable conclusion is that we as a civilization need more 'comedy hiding scenes'

I once went to Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth night for a high school theatre field trip and bumped into a friend of mine who'd moved school's a few years earlier who was on her own English field trip. Even in the real world I can't escape the bards fondness for contrived coincidence.

Sebastian is no thoughts just vibes

It's like never a ladyknight video until it makes you cry, which I definitely did at the section about siblings.

My little brother and I performed together in Shakespeare plays our entire upbringing. He died two years ago of an overdose and I'm still mourning. I needed this video. Everyone thought him and I were twins.

I saw that Anne Hathaway production. God it was so good, I wish I could see it again. I also very much prefer when they just play Malvolio’s imprisonment as really not that serious, it just makes the scene fit the tone of the rest of the play so much better in my opinion.

I do agree, I think opening the play with Viola, makes it much more interesting to me honestly. One of the best opening versions I saw was they had a boat break in half on stage with one half floating away and the other sinking into the "water". Right before that, in the middle Viola and Sebastian are holding on to the other while braving the storm and when the ship breaks apart it forces the twins to be pulled from the other. Each screaming for the other as Viola is being pulled down by the ship (the actress jumped last second into the orchestra pit and I STILL don't fully know how they pulled that off because it as small and FULL of people but it was so damn cool looking!) with Sebastian screaming for her as he is pulled into the storm and mist. It just made the opening so much more entertaining, and it made Viola's pain for her brother much more heartbreaking. Oh a side note, this play did NOT go with the musical vibe and even cut the songs down a bit (which wasn't something I was that fond of but it did match the mood that the went with a bit more) and they made it a bit more of a drama than comedy or dramady. I liked it but they did make it a little TO serious than other versions I had seen of the play.

It's actually so fascinating to me that the historical Illyria became notorious for piracy, because when my class re-wrote the play in year 6, we made Duke a pirate captain and the whole thing takes place on his ship. Our version was called The 13th Day. Among Shakespeare's works this one has always had a soft spot in my heart since haha. I played Viola, and specifically re-wrote the part where she accidentally passionately romances Olivia. Irl foreshadowing, clueless baby gay was just thrilled to be the main character. Your analysis as always is incredible thankyou for making and sharing such excellent work ❤

My first Shakespeare play was Twelfth Night. I will forever remember the Malvolio scene in the yellow stockings. My classmates in the front row were in absolute screeching giggles as the actor thrust about. At one point he stopped to point at this girl and share a knowing chuckle with the audience about how embarrassed she was with his pelvic thrusts

beautifully done as always. the joke about twelfth night 2: malvolio's revenge really got me because it's a play. the classical theater of harlem put on malvolio by betty shemieh last summer. he became a foreign military power and all his troops wore the yellow stockings with cross garters.

I actually was a swing for a Twelfth night production that had a "play that goes wrong" tone and I had to step in to play Olivia/sea captain/officer 1 for the last weekend. I had a script in my hands and it became a little bit of a character when I'd have to interrupt a moment to turn a page or hand it to an audience member to do a quick change😂

29:13 The original“step on me, mommy” joke 😂😂😂

“Wettest production” what a phrase!

“Make some noise” inclusion was a delight!

There is this great scene in the Swedish movie "Prinsessa" where a teenage girl who feels like an outsider and has been basically ridiculed throughout the movie turns all that into an amazing performance of Malvolio's last scene. It's such a great moment because it really is her most vulnerable and lowest moment but she turnes it into a triumph.

Ladyknightthebrave uploading another elaborate Shakespaere video essay? Count. Me. In. Once again I adore the way you´ve braided all the bits from different adaptations together, it all makes it even more part of a whole story and it´s legacy.

Next video will be about Black Sails??! Oh my god yes, the noise that just came out of my mouth at that. So very excited!!

My first ever play was a scene from Twelfth Night in College. I played Duke Orsino and I was told that I killed it. So much so people did not believe it was my first time on stage. I'm pleased to see you talk about it now.

I watched the video on Nebula so I'm coming here just to comment this: I'm no Shakespearian expert but I am French and to me, you pronounced "Feste" perfectly. In modern French, "fête" is a party, of any size from a birthday to the National day. That little accent above the "e" is called accent circonflexe and is used in many modern words as a stand-in for the Old French practice of spelling and pronouncing words with "st" inside of them. It also works with a couple English words we have in common. For example, the Hospital becomes Hôpital, the Forest becomes Forêt. So "Feste" is the Old French word for a party, a fête, and it is pronounced exactly how you pronounced it, top marks. It's also a word used in many regional languages and patois of my country. Anyway, I loved the video, I especially appreciated you mentioning the slurs against Romani people and the history of their displacement, discrimination and ostracisation.

Lovely and well done, as always. A tip of my hat for the Dropout ‘Make Some Noise’ clip.

I love Twelfth Night so much. It's good to find someone else who feels bad for Malvolio and doesn't see him as a villain. Thanks for this wonderful video essay, it made me think about this play I adore in ways I hadn't thought of before

Twelfth Night was the first Shakespeare play I acted in. It was fifth grade. The teacher's daughter played Olivia, and her best friend played Maria and her other best friend played Viola. And my group of friends and I--we would almost all end up queer, us--were Feste and Fabian and Sir Toby. I was Sir Toby as a fifth grade [girl?], and all I knew was to be a ham. It's funny, so very funny. We had failed to perform female enough to be cast as the girl roles. But damn, did our hedge scene eat.

We did this show in high school and we did it themed to the setting of a Victoria Circus, with music from the 1970s to break up the show to be palatable suburban audience. I have fond memories of this being the show that I finally understood Shakespeare, and for that I am grateful. This essay is marvelous - thank you for the analysis and nostalgia trip! :)

i am crying this video is so perfect. the blending of all of these super obscure productios is amazing.

It's already up on Nebula! Hooray!

Oh my god as a dedicated follower I am so excited to see this video, especially since I just finished performing in the musical All Shook Up, which is based on Twelfth Night!

One theatre in my city staged an adaptation of "Twelfth Night" titled "Queer Night" that turned the gender-bending up to 11. It was glorious!

I love Twelfth night, but my first real Shakespeare play was "As you like it", I did not even know about Twelfth night until Shakespeare in love. While my favorite still is Hamlet, as that was my high school play and I related strangely to Queen Gertrude lol. This is still one of my favorites. I always took it as Viola trying to keep her brother Alive even though he was probably dead. So when she says "I am all the sons of my father's house, and all the daughters too." I felt like she really was trying to keep her brother alive. Serving as her brother's ghost and embodiment. I think It's why she unwittingly appeals to Olivia. Because Olivia lost her brother, and she wishes she could keep him alive, but she goes about it by grieving for him. I think she kind of sees her own love for her brother in Viola, and that's why she falls in love with her as Cesario. By the end they all kind of get what they want and were aiming for. The Duke tells Olivia that he is her brother, and thus she gets a brother and the Duke has her made a part of his family. Viola gets the love of her Duke and successfully woos Olivia, for another man, namely her brother. It could be said that the type of love felt is as transmutable as Gender and in this play as Fluid. Oaths too, as we see here, oaths of fealty and of friendship. Oaths of marriage and Oaths of familial duty. How they all come with their own forms of love to strengthen the bonds, and we see too when those oaths are broken and how much it can hurt the people we care about. Thanks for the vid!

I actually worked on a high school protection of twelfth night when I was a junior and part of the tech crew. This production set the play in the 1950s and there were a few covers of 50s songs interspersed through it. The ones I remember were fever and Que sera sera. my responsibility was in the sound booth, turning the back microphones off and off whenever the curtain was drawn for scene changes and I handled the spotlight for one of the music numbers. A few of the male characters were played by girls because obviously there are more girls in theater than boys.

in Ireland at least “tinker” is not antiquated, and is a very common slur used against travellers, although not as common as the one meaning saddler, which i don’t even like to write. I’m glad you’re addressing this issue, as I think especially in Britain and Ireland, discrimination against Irish travellers is often dismissed, as people don’t understand their history. Some really great work to help with that is being done by Pavee Point, who mostly work to dismantle anti-Irish Traveller racism, but also work for Roma and other Travellers as well

the Helen Hunt and Paul Rudd production was shown on PBS, and I think that was when I was like, "oh, ok, Paul Rudd is hot", lol, I think I was 18, lol

My favorite Shakespeare play!!! Yes!!! I can't wait to hear what you think about it.

EVERYONE SHUT UP! LADYKNIGHTTHEBRAVE UPLOADED ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE VIDEO!

Ok this was BRILLIANT, even better than the Much Ado one! As a theater major thats starting their thesis on Shakespeare and Queer readings next month, this could not have come at a better moment!

I saw Twelfth Night at the American Player's Theatre in Springgreen, WI. And as the last song was sung, it was raining. It was a glorious moment.

Antbody else low key hoping to see a Brows Held High collab next shakespear month?

Overall a very good breakdown of Twelfth Night, but there is one area that would have been interesting to see your take on: Malvolio being a Puritan. You mention it once, but I think it would have been worthy of time to devote even a few minutes on the ways that Puritans treated the stage and the way the stage treated them back.

It's been a while since I've had enough free time to watch your videos, and I forgot how much i love this channel. Your editing, with the music and chapters, especially where you choose to diverge and add extra context, is so engaging and interesting to watch

This is one of the few Shakespeares I’ve seen live, and I loved it! It was in a local “Shakespeare in a park” and I went to see it with some friends. An amazing time!

Brilliant. I learned so much. Twelfth Night (and Othello) are the Shapespeare plays I know the least about so it made this deep dive extra special to me.

I love black sails, I feel like I've never seen someone on youtube talk about it. Excited for the next video!

my sophomore year of high school my english class went to go see Shakespeare Theater Company’s Twelfth Night in DC, and the Feste in that production was an airport janitor who had a guitar strapped to his supplies cart. I think about him all the time fr

I really love the way you pace your vids, between the chaptering, use of music, and your delivery. Makes it so smooth to watch that it takes you a minute or two to realize you are crying.

Oh great, a new piece of media for me to become obsessed with. I just finished Six of Crows for the fifth fucking time, so why ever not ??

10:38 this sounds suspiciously like one of the set designers had been playing a lot of Fallout New Vegas recently

I saw that National Theatre production and it was *incredible*.

You are telling me that for two months I was unaware that this video had been uploaded?! Time to binge it!

I got to direct a production of Twelfth Night a couple of years ago, so this play is always gonna hold a special place in my heart 💜

YOOOOOOOO, Black Sails is one of my absolute favorite stories of all time, across all media. I'm incredibly stoked for your next video!!!

Such a good and well-researched, accessible video what the heck! Forever thankful. I am a huge theatre nerd but have never been able to truly understand why Shakespeare is as big as it is. This makes all the sense. Thank you! I hope you do many more videos and I will watch all of them.

I did LOVE playing Malvolio. Half way through me walking onto the stage got a round of laughs. So many parts were so well taken. It was quite fun.

I never thought I would enjoy a video about Shakespeare so much. I love your videos❤

first off: i LOVED this video, twelfth night is one of my favorite plays, and your discussion of queerness in elizabethan england is absolutely fascinating. i think about that tension of layers of queerness on stage (crossdressing, men kissing men playing women (playing men) SO often, what a beautifully complex thing. re: malvolio - i remember that when we analysed twelfth night in a shakespeare seminar, we discussed a reading of him as a parody of the puritans that were in control of london at the time. especially considering the puritans' positions on and actions against theatre and entertainment specifically - leading to theatres to only be allowed to exist outside city limits, which is how you get the density of early modern theatres near the globe - this reading to me allows for a perspective on malvolio (whose name in italian means basically "bad intentions" or "evil will") as a sort of? revenge fantasy against a repressive regime that was full of glaring hypocrisy (see malvolio's delight not only at olivia loving him, but explicitly also about the position of power he'll hold over the other people of the household). i agree that the way his plot escalates is uncomfortable, and complicates this reading, which i find very interesting. anyways, i thought this might add some alternative context.

Really looking forward to that Black Sails video! I saw Toby Stephens and my first thought was "what's flint doing in a Shakespeare play" lol One of my favorite series, but there's very little written about it.

i just hope this shakespearean mini-series never ends

Okay that tumblr poem at the end made me cry and immediately want to call my sisters. 😭

Pov: i am about to be a sobbing wreck after this drops

Antiquated and antiquated... my Irish grandmother (born in 1918) would use "tinkers" when I was a child in the 80-90s when talking about Travellers. There was a family of Travellers who lived a few doors down from her and she told me to stay away from them. I still remember being around 4 or 5 and sneaking over there to play; they gave me a doll once that I hid away so Granny wouldn't find it. My aunt and uncles (born between 1940-1960) would also use the word to refer to them, although they've updated their vocab by now I think. I agree with the pinned comment that the discrimination and racism against Travellers is still very bad.

I love your videos so much. I've been lurking around the channel for years and I often do a marathon rewatch slowly over weeks whenever I don't feel so good and need some company. The way you approach your subjects always comes from a place of such love and curiosity that I can't get enough of hearing you talk about it. You've made videos on so many of my favourite things (I nearly shed real tears when I saw you made a Much Ado one, for example) but even when it's something I know fuck all about, it's such a joy to discover it through the loving eyes and words of someone else. I actually squealed when you said the next one is going to be Black Sails. Especially seeing Toby Stephens' beautiful face pop up here and there in this video, it's like you reminded me of this great love of mine only to say you're tackling it next. Anyway, please keep doing what you're doing. I can't wait for the next one, and I'll be going back to old favourites as I wait !

Genuinely love your work! More Shakespeare video essays pls!!

SO GOOD! And you gave love to my favorite film Twelfth Night. I did the play during my RADA summer course. This play is close to me for forever.

not me being in tears by the end of the video 🥺🥺

Thank you for the video! This and Much Ado are two of my absolute favorite Shakespeare plays in such different ways-Much Ado I can always discover more in but feel as though I have a decent handle on (partly through semi-obsessive re-watching of assorted productions), while Twelfth Night I read more recently and am enraptured by while feeling like I'm wrestling with it at every step. I loved hearing your thoughts on it!

This video was so good! Like many other of your videos, it made me want to engage more with Shakespeare and theatre in general. There is something so amazing about different theatre productions of the same source material!

me @ 13yo, openly bi but 15 years away from transitioning: idk why exactly but twelfth night is definitely my favourite shakespeare play, it really speaks to me 🤔🤔🤔

I was so excited to recognize the clips from the Chicago Shakespeare production - I got to see it last fall! One thing I thought was a nice touch was Malvolio's involvement in the final song, giving him a moment of peace after his mistreatment. I'm really curious about the version with Alec Guiness in the role, now. I'm glad you highlighted Ben Kingsley as Feste. His addressing the audience was such a sweet way to end the film. Good point about Rosalind versus Viola. As You Like it is my favorite Shakespeare, but I admit it can be hard to defend or understand the way Rosalind acts while in disguise. And yeah, I love how Sebastian is just like "Uh okay??? : ) " in response to Olivia's interest in him XD Wonderful work - thank you for posting!

As a genderqueer person thank you for helping me understand my liking for Shakespeare in love. 😂❤

Almost made it through this one without crying, but damn, that sibling bit at the end got me 😭 Also, as a Canadian: Stratford Festival mentioned!

Love the use of the Stratford Festival production XD

Great video, as always! Side note that the Feast of Fools is indeed twelfth night. The lyrics in the Disney song even state “scurvy knaves are extra scurvy on the sixth of Januervy”

Another certified banger from LadyKnightTheBrave

OH MY GOD, I am not exaggerating at all when I say I gasped OUT LOUD when i heard the topic of your next video. One of my favorite video essayists?! Doing a video about my favorite (criminally underrated) tv show of all time?!?! I LEGIT DROPPED MY KNITTING TO START DOING HAPPY HAND STIMMING, I am so excited!!! (yes I was knitting socks while watching this video, I am spiritually a little old lady)

The enby happiness this video gives me is immaculate. Thank you.

Can't tell you how much every video you make just hits every single time for me. It's like you have pick my favourite shows, movies and plays and just make video of them......omg black sails. Also head empty no thoughts is the perfect description, but if a beautiful rich lady threw herself at you after a horrible 3 months not sure many would turn them down.

I remember watching one of the film adaptations in a high school class… always my favorite Shakespeare play. Here’s a short TV show recommendation that is absolutely amazing and plays a lot with gender roles and history: Blue Eye Samurai!

I've never seen nor read a Shakespeare play and we aren't taught about him in Sweden (at least I wasn't) so it's great to learn more about his works! Thank you:D

I saved this video for a couple days, your much ado video being one of my comfort videos. Thank you for making such beautiful and clear and loving analyses

These video essays have single-handedly gotten me into Shakespeare, and for that I will forever be grateful :)

one of my favorite youtubers and my favorite shakespeare play I AM SO READY

Omg my favorite Shakespeare play, I can’t wait!

Truly, every conclusion of your videos is so strong and makes me feel the feels. Thank you!

LadyKnight!! It is you!! I'mso glad to see you!! :DDD Fun fact: in the middle of me watching this video my Nebula subscription got charged to my card

Very much looking forward to your Black Sails video. Loved that show, and I feel like almost nobody watched it, and nobody talks about it.

Thank you so much for this! I love the way you read and analyze these Shakespearean works ☺️🖤

First video I have seen on this channel. Just great. Thanks

I was ready to say that once again you made me cry with your incredible video essay but then I heard that your next video is going to be about BLACK SAILS??? my fav tv show EVER????? I'M SO EXCITED AAAAAAA

i watched that recent globe production in person! it was magnificent and michelle terry is a BEAST of an actress. Also the globe put on a play called "I, malvolio", where a man playing malvolio does a long, fourth-wall-breaking monologue about the unfairness of the world, culminating in him calling audience members on stage, giving them a rope and almost having them hang him. it was good..

Your videos always make me happy and encourage people to think in deeper and more thoughtful ways. Thank you

This is what I named myself from! Thank you for the great video.

I love what you said about the siblings- i also think that them being essentially identical twins (though not biologically, obv.) Been together since the womb. Also, seeing clips of the Nunn film reminded me of what a dish Toby Stephens is, so you mentioning Black Sails at the end made me chuckle.