My English teacher said that I'll never be able to appreciate Shakespeare. This proves her wrong. I've been talking the Guy all my life. Gosh! This makes me so happy.

@stefanwasylyk1391

5 жыл бұрын

That's an awful English teacher!

@NoahSpurrier

2 жыл бұрын

Good on you!

@dragonsword7370

Жыл бұрын

The list of word and phrases coined by Bill the Bard are numerous. But you should check the list of the one's that didn't take off. It's hilarious and surprising.

@harvestcanada

Жыл бұрын

I remember trying to Watch the school and colleges Shakespeare plays, and they were the most tedious shit I have ever watched. Thank goodness for Upstart Crow

Shakespeare invents air quotes 1:07

This show is the best thing to come out of the BBC this century.

Origins of phrases - in a nutshell - modern meaning originated in 1800's from a different meaning pre-dating Shakespeare - neither here nor there - Arthur Golding 1583 translation of John Calvin - the world’s mine oyster - Shakespeare 1602. Slight change in meaning since - too much of a good thing - proverb predates Shakespeare, but first in print was Shakespeare 1600 - all of a sudden - Shakespeare 1596 - give the devil his due - proverb predates Shakespeare, but first in print was Shakespeare 1597. Slight change in meaning since - there's method in my madness - Shakespeare 1602 'Though this be madness yet there is method in it'. - a foregone conclusion - Shakespeare 1602, though as a double entendre - bedazzled - predates Shakespeare, but first in print was Shakespeare 1596 - in stitches - coined by Shakespeare in 1602, but likely reoriginated in 20thC - with bated breath - Shakespeare 1596, has lost some meaning recently - what the Dickens - predates Shakespeare - spotless reputation - predates Shakespeare - sleep one wink - likely predates Robert Manning 1303 - send me packing - predates Shakespeare - wild goose chase - modern figurative meaning possibly coined by Shakespeare 1597 - vanish into thin air - evolved in 19thC from Shakespeare's quotes - dead as a doornail - predates Shakespeare from 1300's

@MK_FRI13

5 ай бұрын

Thank you.God bless you

Ben Elton's best show since Blackadder.

God bless Shakespeare and his angry logic. And mad coining.

As an admirer of Shakespeare, I'm enjoying all these clips :-) I missed this show as I've lived in France a long time. Definitely one of the more entertaining things I've seen from British TV in recent years.

It's Yara Greyjoy!

@katycheeseburger

5 жыл бұрын

Der unwichtige Kanal Hi Yara.

I love this show!

Kate getting annoyed and yelling "Stop it!"killed me.

I love this guy. I have almost all of his books. People freck-out when read what he wrote. The true writer of all time. It's over 400yrs., and he stills kick ass. I thank you Sir. Rob.

@robinlillian9471

2 жыл бұрын

I think the word you want is 'plays'.

@afonsosousa2684

Жыл бұрын

@@robinlillian9471 Plays are most frequently published in the form of books. A book is an object, not a genre or a stylistic description. Shakespeare's narrative poems and sonnets were also published as independent books. No reason to be pedantic.

@joshuakohlmann9731

Жыл бұрын

@@afonsosousa2684 He's nit-picking. That's probably one of Shakespeare's too.

So well written in character as well it is like black adder for adults amazing and funny best comedy on BBC another series please

@excelents

Жыл бұрын

There is another episode of Upstart Crow where a female character is disguised as a boy and that character is called "Bob" and is played by Gabrielle Glaister who of course played "Bob / Kate" in the Blackadder episode, a nice bit of continuity.

@matthiasschulz3569

10 ай бұрын

@@excelents Unfortunately, Gloriana is not played by Miranda Richardson and does not behave like Queenie at all :/

@excelents

10 ай бұрын

@@matthiasschulz3569 Thank you for that but alas you may have misunderstood what I was trying to get across. In another episode of "Upstart Crow" the character of Kate meets a boy and they become friends and share stories about the theatre and acting etc to the point where the boy reveals his secret to Kate which is that he is really a girl in disguise and she / he calls himself "Bob" and that character is played by the actress Gabrielle Glaister who played the part of "Bob" in Blackadder (as well as other characters in Blackadder) It was Miranda Richardson that played the part of the Queen and not the character I was speaking about.

@matthiasschulz3569

10 ай бұрын

@@excelents No, I git that, but I was a bit saddened that they kept one link to Blackadder but not the wonderful Blackadder Queen Elizabeth

I really fancy Kate

it's amazing that David Mitchell actually look like Shakespeare

@heliotropezzz333

5 жыл бұрын

He has some prosthetic make up.

So good!

Absabloominlutely fantastic!

These comments leave me "Dazed and Confused". Haha 😆😆😲

I may be American by birth, but I'm BRITISH by sense of humour!!

@End-Result

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, there's no such thing as American humour so . . .

@MatrixWolf27

2 жыл бұрын

@@End-Result Watch a Squire video. You will find most of our humor comes in the form of tanks, over-bearing confidence , and paradoxical foreign policy...

I have to see this video because I'm getting graded for a worksheet on it.

@itsunay2442

4 жыл бұрын

same here bro

@krishnatekar5441

4 жыл бұрын

Sad life mahn

@itsunay2442

4 жыл бұрын

bahhhar AAAAA

@diva8099

4 жыл бұрын

same!!

@krishnatekar5441

4 жыл бұрын

Tu pehle AAA

Brilliant scene. This alone shows why Shakespeare deserves study in any English programme.

trop bien cette vidéo

I just counted seventeen idioms

I'd like everyone who says "all of _the_ sudden" or worse "all the sudden" to see this.

@heliotropezzz333

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who says 'all the sudden' is just getting the expression 'all of a sudden' wrong.

@andrewd4890

Жыл бұрын

They can’t read, so never will, “more’s the pity”.

"What the Dickens?" From Shakespeare?

@neilgerace355

Жыл бұрын

16th century minced oath for "devil"

How does this translate into other languages I wonder?

Hi

Hub hi and yes

What the dickens was before Shakespeare, isn’t it?

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. Sydney J. Harris (1917-86)

BBC such a large and famous network presenting works of an author famous for his words. Here's a word for you: "DEINTERLACE".

"What the Dickens" (1:19). Did Charles Dickens not come later?

@Lord_Skeptic

4 жыл бұрын

The phrase what the dickens has got nothing to do with Charles. Shakespeare did actually use it in one of his plays.

@tealsoda

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lord_Skeptic holy shit. I learned something today.

@heliotropezzz333

4 жыл бұрын

I think Dickens was a form of the name Richard, often shortened to Dick.

Hi from Russia 🇷🇺

That's the last from game of thrones

@katycheeseburger

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Henderson Last what?

@heliotropezzz333

5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean 'lass'?

Theresa may VS Michel barnier

Wont, not won't !!

@livrowland171

Жыл бұрын

It's pronounced like won't

You murded. Macduff, get it murder in the Scottish play

Crack cocaine in language form

Great laugh syphilis brought from America instead of from Englandl, keen eye comady from Ben Elton

@heliotropezzz333

3 жыл бұрын

It was not from England originally. Do some research.

@carolinegooder7091

Жыл бұрын

They found a Bishop's bones that proves both Europe/UK and America had syphilis, but the variety from America was so deadly due to no herd immunity. Watch "Secrets of the Dead".

@Mexcoatl819

Жыл бұрын

@@carolinegooder7091 If the Americas had syphilis, you can bet it came from Europe

Whos Here Cuz of CUrro

The idea that Shakespeare is indisputably the greatest writer that ever lived can be entertained only by an Englishman ignorant of any other language and literary production, which means most Englishmen.

@the_Giovanni_Jian

2 жыл бұрын

I am curious, could you name someone, I'd like to explore their works

@uffa00001

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_Giovanni_Jian In Italian: Dante, Petrarca, Tasso, Boiardo, Ariosto, Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni to start with. In French: Ronsard, Corneille, Racine, Verlaine, Hugo just to begin with. I cannot really read German and Russian but, if you can, I would certainly explore Schiller, Goethe, Pushkin, Gogol. You must read in the original language (and have a very good understanding of it, of its "music") to understand poetry in a foreign language. Translations kill most of the magic! Englishmen, being typically not very interested in studying foreign languages, read foreign writers only in translation and, therefore, think Shakespeare is so incomparably great.

@colindayo

Жыл бұрын

I read yer list. Nah.

@joshuakohlmann9731

Жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone can be "indisputably" the greatest writer who ever lived, since that is largely a matter of opinion. Facts can be indisputable, but the issue of "greatness" really can't be.

@livrowland171

Жыл бұрын

Not sure about that, I know he's admired in France (I'm British, lived in France for 16years, did a degree in French and Italian language and literature). The thing is he not only coined masses of phrases and words, but wrote top-notch plays in several genres, and also beautiful and memorable poetry. In France the famous writers I know are usually known for one main thing, like comedy or tragedy, or poetry, or novels etc. Same in Italy. He's also known for the individuality of his style and way of telling a story. He didn't restrict himself to writing according to certain conventions and rules (and a fairly standardised vocabulary and lofty register of speech) as the famous French tragedy writers tended to, for example. I think Molière is closest to him in French writers, but then he only did comedy (having said which, I think he's a bit funnier than Shakespeare) and although he's admired in France he didn't contribute to modern French (with new words and phrases etc) to anything like the same extent as Shakespeare did for English. But it's not perhaps surprising the French refer to English as the language of Shakespeare, and French as the language of Molière. Shakespeare's claim is also added to by the sheer influence of English in terms of how many people speak it, as a first or second language and the influence of English-language culture and media of all kinds. So, inevitably the greatest writer in English will have had more impact than the most amazing writer who wrote only in Breton or Albanian.

Like Blackadder but shit. Well done BBC!

Canned laughter is so out-dated now. Bad choice.

@regmunday8354

5 жыл бұрын

I'm too busy laughing to notice or care. Why do you automatically assume it's canned laughter just because you can't see an audience ? I seriously doubt your assumption, particularly for a quality series like UpstartCrow.

@heliotropezzz333

5 жыл бұрын

It's recorded in front of a live audience. The laughter is not canned.

@johnking5174

4 жыл бұрын

It was filmed in front of a live studio audience

@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking

3 жыл бұрын

The whole show's kind of vintage. That's its style

This show is absolutely awful

Canned laughter sounds stupid, and not the funny kind of stupid.

@QuinchGaming

6 жыл бұрын

S Franz It's actually a live audience but the studio is pretty small for international standards so perhaps that's why it sounds different

@QuinchGaming

6 жыл бұрын

Love this, just wish I could rewatch the 1st series on iPlayer

@regmunday8354

5 жыл бұрын

'm too busy laughing to notice or care. Why do you automatically assume it's canned laughter just because you can't see an audience ? I seriously doubt your assumption, particularly for a quality series like UpstartCrow.

@johnking5174

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet God, why does this come up time and time again - Canned laughter has not been used. I take it this must be an American thing, where people assume it is canned.