What Your English Teacher Missed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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@regbar0
@regbar0 Жыл бұрын
William Shakesman was a black lesbian who was strong and independent.
@flamefusion8963
@flamefusion8963 Жыл бұрын
Many are saying this
@jimmyfaulkner5746
@jimmyfaulkner5746 Жыл бұрын
Seems like a sensible centrist position
@chrisc7265
@chrisc7265 Жыл бұрын
she was so brave because at that time they burnt lesbians at the stake, but she overcame oppression to be a real lesbian
@acuranrx4525
@acuranrx4525 Жыл бұрын
He was intersex and loved his prostate massaged
@divinestrike00x78
@divinestrike00x78 Жыл бұрын
Netflix taught me that.
@richtea615
@richtea615 Жыл бұрын
AA's got more courses than the King's got horses.
@Coldenthusiast
@Coldenthusiast Жыл бұрын
This content is sorely needed. Shakespeare is taught in such a horrid way by 99.99% of English teachers such that the only lesson learnt by their pupils is to avoid Shakespeare.
@mickeyrat2313
@mickeyrat2313 Жыл бұрын
Yes, more Billy please.
@vivecthepoet36
@vivecthepoet36 Жыл бұрын
I wrote an essay (probably poorly) in high school with the following premise: The events of Hamlet never happened. The entire play is a story concocted by Horatio, an assassin, to explain to Fortinbras and co why he's the only survivor in a castle full of dead bodies without revealing his true involvement.
@vivecthepoet36
@vivecthepoet36 9 ай бұрын
@@rachelwood4664 if I recall, upper 80s/A- territory, though this was well over a decade ago so I don't remember.
@CharlieKellyEsq
@CharlieKellyEsq Жыл бұрын
I've really grown to love this channel. I love an honest analysis on everything from cigars, to culture, to politics to literature without the complete doomer perspective of "lets just give up"
@yoba6037
@yoba6037 Жыл бұрын
Spoken like a true normie
@baldr2510
@baldr2510 Жыл бұрын
@@yoba6037 cry about it
@evan7391
@evan7391 Жыл бұрын
​@@yoba6037 a sensibly centrist normie*
@AcademicAgent
@AcademicAgent Жыл бұрын
@@yoba6037 Normies are better than perpetually online tbh.
@Kwisatz-Chaderach
@Kwisatz-Chaderach Жыл бұрын
​@@AcademicAgentshots fiyerd
@parastroika2393
@parastroika2393 Жыл бұрын
Fine work AA, hopefully we can get a full playlist of Shakespearean analysis
@SeanyMack
@SeanyMack Жыл бұрын
As someone too poor to afford any lessons on the Bard from an Oxford professor, I agree!
@Kwisatz-Chaderach
@Kwisatz-Chaderach Жыл бұрын
He has a couple books about him you can buy. No meme.
@drarsen33
@drarsen33 Жыл бұрын
I never before heard that Hamlet is about procrastination. In Serbian curriculum it was presented as being about dealing with world - life and death. About duality of it and other dualities - reason and madness among them. About tragedy and suffering rising from characters themselves. Indecisiveness is also discussed but not procrastination. I have done it in high school so almost 2 decades ago but this much I remember.
@collinalexander3879
@collinalexander3879 Жыл бұрын
I’ve discovered a love for Shakespeare recently. In school I was generally positive but not overly enthusiastic, but something about it really speaks to me now. This was an excellent video, and personally, I’d love to see more like it.
@JillessJack
@JillessJack Жыл бұрын
Hamlet’s supposition of Claudius’ guilt as ‘rash’ is an entirely new idea to me. Thank you for that. It gives me another perspective on a play I know very well; or thought I did! ;)
@TeaNoSugar87
@TeaNoSugar87 Жыл бұрын
I would be very pleased if you did more Shakespeare
@chocobowaltz3234
@chocobowaltz3234 Жыл бұрын
Hamlet, the great libra incarnate. Heaven forbid an Englishman considers the ramifications of murdering his step father and king. Very good video AA, could almost believe you are some sort of Shakespeare scholar!
@BuJammy
@BuJammy Жыл бұрын
Unless I missed your point, Hamlet was Danish.
@chocobowaltz3234
@chocobowaltz3234 Жыл бұрын
Yesterday's Danes, today's English. Also an unread potato N 🤷🏻‍♂️ .
@Roxnolds
@Roxnolds Жыл бұрын
Thank you AA for this insight. My enjoyment of Shakespeare was spoilt by the pretentious "literary criticism" of high school English teachers. Thanks to your insights, and some others, I have learnt to appreciate Shakespeare in later life.
@sye601
@sye601 Жыл бұрын
My English teacher did miss this....although she also missed most of the classes while she was at it 🤷‍♂️
@KonyCurrentYear
@KonyCurrentYear Жыл бұрын
What your English teacher missed when teaching you Hamlet, in-between bouts of getting pregnant and going on paternity leave.
@Paul-A01
@Paul-A01 Жыл бұрын
"Mom please stop screaming. I know this must be difficult to understand, but I have a good reason. A ghost told me to kill him and he didn't like my play"
@xmaseveeve5259
@xmaseveeve5259 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for saying 'Get out'. I agree.
@vaseofflowers4619
@vaseofflowers4619 Жыл бұрын
I honestly cannot remember doing Shakespeare in school. But I missed at least half of my time at high school. I went to night school in 1994 when I was twenty-one, I joined an adult education centre's (it's actually on this street I've been living on since 2001) English literature class and the first book we covered was Othello. Othello cost £12 I believe from a local book shop in 1994 and I still have it in pristine condition 29 years on. If you miss out on something the first time around you can always catch up later. Not one Shakespeare memory from school but that's no reason to be ignorant of our greatest writer in adult life. Hehehe - Iago is an unmitigated cnut
@FeHearts
@FeHearts Жыл бұрын
I have heard that the character Polonius was based off the work De Optimo Senatore by Wawrzyniec Goślicki. A famous and influential work at the time that was translated into English in 1598 as The Counsellor. It was apparently widely quoted in pamphlets and other works in the decades leading up to the War of the Three Kingdoms.
@Mumon010
@Mumon010 Жыл бұрын
Considering the subject matter Shakespeare deals with and his depth of understanding regarding human affairs, it is not surprising that high school students, no matter how well taught, are not really going to grasp what is being conveyed in the plays. A subject for ongoing study into full adulthood, where if one has some intelligence and real life experience a greater appreciation of the works may be possible. I don't believe an 18yo, no matter how bright, can really grasp the meaning of the works, something for ongoing study throughout one's life. Thank you for the insight AA.
@zachlong5427
@zachlong5427 Жыл бұрын
Yeah. I'm having similar situations with Shakespeare, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, and dowdy modernists novels like Joyce, now that I'm in my 30s.
@basketweaver1144
@basketweaver1144 Жыл бұрын
I didn't even know what hamlet was when I did English. We did Lord of the flies and holes. Older generations really failed us zoomers.
@GeordieSwordsman
@GeordieSwordsman Жыл бұрын
I had to do those two books as well, but we also did Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. A-Level students got to do Richard III as well.
@12345678900987659101
@12345678900987659101 Жыл бұрын
My English classes were all just film adaptations with occasional readings in class of the books assigned. Zoomers are being taught not to read for leisure and analyze themes.
@BuJammy
@BuJammy Жыл бұрын
@@GeordieSwordsman I left school when I was 14 (42 now), but we had still done MacBeth, Much Ado, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors and maybe a few others I don't remember.
@BuJammy
@BuJammy Жыл бұрын
I left school when I was 14 (42 now), but we had still done MacBeth, Much Ado, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors and maybe a few others I don't remember.
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I was in the advanced courses and college courses in the US. Most books we covered were really about American ideals/questions. Tons of slave stories, great Gatsby, Orwell, brave new world, wuthering heights, heart of darkness ect. Weird mix of stories tbh. Some terrible progressive nonsense mixed with decent Americanism-centric themes.
@sellingenglandbythepound5255
@sellingenglandbythepound5255 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic, can’t wait for the course.
@artfuldodger9550
@artfuldodger9550 Жыл бұрын
Thanks - these are some really valuable insights. I hope you include more Shakespeare on this channel in future.
@Michael.n17
@Michael.n17 Жыл бұрын
Thank you AA. If time permits, please do something like this for WB Yeats.
@jasonveenendaal207
@jasonveenendaal207 Жыл бұрын
I was waiting for something like this. Thank you
@conservativemovement
@conservativemovement Жыл бұрын
Excellent, thank you.
@gothicwestern
@gothicwestern Жыл бұрын
Been longing for this!
@Giru86
@Giru86 Жыл бұрын
This was excellent, thank you.
@edwardcullen1739
@edwardcullen1739 Жыл бұрын
Loving the new add!
@quackhouseproductions5572
@quackhouseproductions5572 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff.
@bart29324
@bart29324 Жыл бұрын
Ok AA now that you've opened that can of worms we need a full Shakespeare playlist to set the record straight
@shaurz
@shaurz Жыл бұрын
I must be the only person who didn't know anything about Hamlet.
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756 Жыл бұрын
Haha I'd wager a lot of gen z and milennials know it more from its echoes in loin king rather than the play itself
@dartharpy9404
@dartharpy9404 Жыл бұрын
Thanks. And more Andrew Marvel!
@dramares
@dramares Жыл бұрын
Judging by Burton’s face, he knew of the absurdities to come.
@_GOD_HAND_
@_GOD_HAND_ Жыл бұрын
That Earl of Oxford sure was a clever playwright
@odond36
@odond36 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff AA, for the uncultivated like me especially!
@sicsempertyrannis4104
@sicsempertyrannis4104 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. You’re a Gentleman & a Scholar
@tiborkovacs5317
@tiborkovacs5317 Жыл бұрын
I was watching a Lutheran classical education channel who use the progymnasmata to teach writing. & it was mentioned that it is what was used to teach Shakespeare.
@joebloggs479
@joebloggs479 Жыл бұрын
Lol My school was so shit we managed only one book in two whole years. Never read Hamlet at all
@waterfoxy5690
@waterfoxy5690 Жыл бұрын
very good thank you. I am a Shakespeare beginner and so that was really appreciated. I hope to become well versed in Shakespeare. One day.
@photosyntheticzee9915
@photosyntheticzee9915 Жыл бұрын
Shakespeare, a typical pagan, tells you to trust ghosts and theater as justification for murder XD
@maccadamn
@maccadamn Жыл бұрын
The private performance of Richard II was for Essex the night before he marched on Westminster to overthrow Elizabeth I. Shakespeare and pals were hauled into see the Queen afterwards. She must have made them squirm when she commanded them to perform the play for her at Whitehall the night before Essex's execution. In lore, Shakespeare played the ghost in Hamlet who is in purgatory, which as part of Catholic theology, was wiped out by Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. In another Elizabethan play with a possibly subversive spin, Henry V, the King promises his men that their names will be remembered each time men raise a toast in taverns across England on St Crispin's day. The audience know that this is a Catholic feast day and thus was also wiped out by Elizabeth's father's schism from Rome, only a few years since. So much for promises from English Kings. So this introduces trust into the themes and whether the question of doubting the old dead King's spirit and the new king's right to reign. For someone who performed at the royal courts and was asked to hold the canopy over James I at his coronation, Shakespeare seemed to inhabit the archetype of the fool who could say what he wanted to his sovereign and although they would not necessarily find it comfortable, they seemed to value it.
@notsure4475
@notsure4475 Жыл бұрын
Very nice
@TygerTyger24
@TygerTyger24 Жыл бұрын
More Shakespeare please!
@rcw3009
@rcw3009 Жыл бұрын
You should do more of these bad boys for different plays.
@Cunnysmythe
@Cunnysmythe Жыл бұрын
Never studied Hamlet at school, only ever saw one of those BBC animations. Would be interested to see similar videos on some of his other plays, this was very interesting
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756
@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756 Жыл бұрын
Yeah we didn't do hamlet in general English, but did do Romeo and julliet. Seniors had to take two elective English classes where one option was brit lit. Brit lit did cover hamlet though. It was primarily watching the 90's/early 2000's film Looking back it is suprising that Tolkien was not covered in brit lit
@gamermilk6399
@gamermilk6399 Жыл бұрын
I want to see this 30 minute Hamlet now.
@fredbloggs5902
@fredbloggs5902 Жыл бұрын
Mel Gibson’s film version of Hamlet is excellent.
@cademiclips
@cademiclips Жыл бұрын
can't wait! basedness beyond comprehension
@ingold1470
@ingold1470 Жыл бұрын
Do schoolteachers like to teach the "procrastination" theme because that is the most relevant to their students' pursuit of good grades?
@goyonman9655
@goyonman9655 Жыл бұрын
Lol
@vivecthepoet36
@vivecthepoet36 Жыл бұрын
The theme of this new video series: "Step-parents"
@oraz.
@oraz. Жыл бұрын
I'm very tempted to opine about it right here but I have self control.
@Kwisatz-Chaderach
@Kwisatz-Chaderach Жыл бұрын
AA reveals his true form as a Shakespeare scholar.
@xmaseveeve5259
@xmaseveeve5259 4 ай бұрын
Hamlet was 16. (See Steven Roth.)
@Finn959
@Finn959 Ай бұрын
More Shakespeare content pls
@DuaneJasper
@DuaneJasper Жыл бұрын
For an interesting twist, I recommended the novella Hamlet's Father by Orson Scott Card. Some may find it in poor taste but I thought it was well done
@Rid3thetig3r
@Rid3thetig3r Жыл бұрын
I was in high school in Scotland. Of course, we did the Scottish Play. Any chance of something similar for that?
@basketweaver1144
@basketweaver1144 Жыл бұрын
Lol this video was a spoiler for me.
@LukeGeoDude
@LukeGeoDude Жыл бұрын
Could I humbly request a consideration for DL regarding various Shakespeare screen adaptations?
@NotQuiteFirst
@NotQuiteFirst Жыл бұрын
Yeah right like I'm gonna take notes on Shakespeare from the guy who took dozens of viewings of _Labyrinth_ over the course of decades before he realised that it's all a dream inspired by the things in her room. And then cried about it. (jk bro)
@jamess2413
@jamess2413 Жыл бұрын
I'm confused as to how this changes the meaning of the play? How does viewing the play from solely Hamlet's perspective without knowing the outcome affect what Shakespeare was trying to communicate?
@AcademicAgent
@AcademicAgent Жыл бұрын
It’s not a play “about procrastination”
@fredbloggs5902
@fredbloggs5902 Жыл бұрын
What would the poison administered by ear typically be?
@hugor1338
@hugor1338 Жыл бұрын
Words
@Karl_Burton
@Karl_Burton Жыл бұрын
I assume there was a good reason to set the play in Denmark ?
@Vingul
@Vingul Жыл бұрын
Hamlet was based on the Danish/Norse legendary figure Amleth. I would say that's reason enough, but maybe there are others.
@Karl_Burton
@Karl_Burton Жыл бұрын
@@Vingul Thank you. (and funny is funny, regardless of the subject 😀)
@Vingul
@Vingul Жыл бұрын
​@@Karl_Burton You're welcome. And, right you are!
@BuJammy
@BuJammy Жыл бұрын
It's stuck between various "blocks of power", then as now.
@hugor1338
@hugor1338 Жыл бұрын
Wait till you find out where he set the Tragedy of Julius Caesar
@byzantinegold
@byzantinegold 9 ай бұрын
What is your opinion on the authorship debate?
@johnforkner
@johnforkner Жыл бұрын
What about Elizabethan views on Danes? Vikings, anyone?
@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin
@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin Жыл бұрын
Now do Macbeth
@intelligencelimited2708
@intelligencelimited2708 Жыл бұрын
17.22 What am I missing? Hamlet repeatedly addresses the problem of his own procrastination in soliloquy; I don't see how it can be spun as 'privileged information' 'hindsight' or something being read 'into' the drama that isn't actually there. Also, Hamlet could just intuitively know C's guilt in an animal way, like Tony Soprano. Also, what's with the odd pronunciation of regicide?
@johnwatts8346
@johnwatts8346 Жыл бұрын
richard burton was into drinking shakespeasre womanising and rugby, which is cool, but problem is he was also an actor and a communist.
@curiositycloset2359
@curiositycloset2359 Жыл бұрын
More
@entropy2030
@entropy2030 Жыл бұрын
World War Greg
@darrenelkins5923
@darrenelkins5923 Жыл бұрын
Reeeegicide!?
@nickkorkodylas5005
@nickkorkodylas5005 Жыл бұрын
Your teacher missed to teach you Shakespeare because they are a left leaning ideologue. Our teacher missed to teach us Shakespeare because we don't occupy ourselves with lowly barbarian "literature". We are not the same.
@intelligencelimited2708
@intelligencelimited2708 Жыл бұрын
'missed to teach you'? what?
@MartinMcAvoy
@MartinMcAvoy Жыл бұрын
Sorry. In my humble opinion, AA's analysis is nonsense. I have watched and studied Hamlet for 20 years. The play is not a revenge drama. Revenge is just a connivance to discuss the real motive, which is to explore the purpose of existence and whether can we trust our senses to guide us to the truth about our own mortality. Hamlet is important, not because of what happens but what it teaches us about the inner struggle we all face, all of the time. To me, the plot is irrelevant. The objective of the drama is explained by an interaction with Rosencrantz (Act II, Scene 2), when Hamlet says '...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'. AA is just not as clever as he thinks he is.
@JosephStealin
@JosephStealin Жыл бұрын
Who is Shakespeare? Just kidding I’m not a zoomer
@fredbloggs5902
@fredbloggs5902 Жыл бұрын
Now do Macbeth
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