This makes Hamlet look like a Disney movie. Wait a minute...

@HiBuddyyyyyy

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think Disney has incorporated any other Shakespearean stories into kids movies?

@MrEducator58

Жыл бұрын

@@HiBuddyyyyyy Romeo and Juliet > Lion King II; Hamlet > Lion King

You have no idea how helpful this was! Engaging all throughout but still with plenty of detail, you’ve earned my sub!

It's the surrealism that does it for me. The strange humor about the horrible things that are happening creates such a bizarre feeling.

Really enjoying these, Tim. I'm a third year English & American Literature student at the University of Kent, struggling through an "Early Shakespeare" module since September. I picked it because I thought it would be wrong of me to get a degree in English and never once study Shakespeare! Your videos are relaxing, easy to digest and put my mind at ease before I hunker down for those white-knuckle research assignments!

I was reading the play and saw this video whilst scrolling by chance, now I’ve finished it and the pie thumbnail makes perfect sense haha! I Had to come back and watch it, great great video, you explained everything so eloquently.

The pie made the video lol. Outstanding job!

I have my final exam tomorrow morning for Shakespeare I and am binge-watching all of your discussion and summary videos for the relevant plays to prepare. They're super helpful!!

@Nancenotes

8 ай бұрын

Glad I can help! Good luck on the exam!

I really appreciate this video. It helped me with an assignment for my Literature class. Haha. It was interesting to watch because you are really cute; that made it go fast. Hehe. Thank you for doing this!

I actually came across this play from the anime Psycho-Pass. The villain of the first season literally quotes it a few times. Anyone else here from Psycho-Pass? "So, now go tell, an if thy tongue speak who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee. So, now go try to tell what happened-if thy tongue of yours can speak it, say who cut out your tongue and raped you. Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, an if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe…"

@zachhecita

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, listening to Makishima got me to start reading these classical literary works. Just finished Titus Adronicus, and it's soo over-the-top, that the gore comes off as silly rather than horrifying.

When I was watching and listening to this talk about Titus Andronicus, I swear the wind was bringing up the smell of a pastry or pie being baked through my window.

The pie thing was a great bit. XD

@Nancenotes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I really just wanted an excuse to eat a whole pie.

All that pie.... watching you has given me a stomach ache. Apparently you lived to edit the footage, though. Nice summary and unpacking. Thank you for the lovely video. Just what I was looking for.

Thank you for this! I was hoping you might go into some of the animal imagery & symbolism, but this is still probably the best video summary I've come across.

Love the pie thing

Aaron does not die in this play. He survives the play. And if the play continued, I am sure he would escape.

@Nancenotes

Жыл бұрын

He and Iago can hang out, I guess, if Iago wasn’t such a racist.

@HannaHsOverInvested

Жыл бұрын

@@Nancenotes I feel like Aaron is such an underrated character. After reading this, it really felt like it was his revenge story on a bunch of white rulers and their families. I have yet to find a review that looks at him as more than just a side kick of Tamora. He is easily the most intelligent person in this play. Even as he is about to be hanged, he manipulates Lucius into letting him live longer, giving himself a chance to escape. For me, he escapes, gets his son, and lives happily ever after. One day, I will write a play called Aaron, The Moor, and it will be TA from his perspective.

@bossybuddha

11 ай бұрын

Aaron finds himself deep in the abode of Pluto which is symbolic of him being buried up to his neck. The face that we see is the remnants that is surface but his body is deep beneath crucified and allegorizes something of reflection about the figure of Christ. Said another way, we see the intellect of Aaron and praise his cunning and worthiness yet we do not reflect upon his heart or his belly which was cruel and loved only treachery which is the outgrowth of the revenge of Tamora. Where there is no balance of reason, which Titus says that equally in battle or war both sides takes their casualties equally, but she extends her understanding no further and takes to passion only after her fortune turned to Empress. How is it that Titus having inherited the crown still remain pious yet not Tamora, having suffered many sons?Aaron having suffered really nothing takes to it as catalyst because his heart is cold like the tears of Lucifer that turns to ice in the deepest caverns of Dante’s description of the abyss. This speaks more importantly about how Shakespeare wishes us to reflect, otherwise what bard would humanity’s best have been if he did not have a golden heart?

Nice to be greeted with “Welcome back” at literally the first video I watch of someone I had no idea existed until 1.5 minutes ago

Remember, NEVER have your enemy cook your dinner.

Compared to this, Hamlet is just kids playing with toy lightsabers.

oh the humanity

Getting some strong A Ghost Story (2017) vibes

@matthewrocca4197

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When I was an undergraduate, I accidentally took the Shakespeare for non-majors class. In it, we read three plays: Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, and Lear, Lear, Lear. (To this day, I still can't heave my heart into my mouth about Lear.) All I remember about Titus Andronicus was the scene when Lavinia held the basin with her bloody stumps to catch the dripping blood. In my quest to read the rest of the Shakespeare that I have never read, I actually didn't need to reread this play since I had read it though many years ago, but I was curious to see if it was as bad as I remember. It was worse. Your pie was a nice touch (I knew what was coming, so I thought it was pretty funny.) The blood splatters coming from off-screen were appropriately gross. I thought you did a good job attempting to make excuses for Shakespeare having written such an awful play, but, nope. I can't think of any excuse for this play. I watched the BBC production, and it was a couple of hours of Woe is me, woe is me, woe is me. It was dreadful. By the way, I probably won't eat dinner tonight. Well, on to Timon of Athens. I am curious about renewing my acquaintance with that one too. The Wives send their best. Detroit got her head stuck in the oatmeal can last night. She's not the snappiest flag in the breeze.

@Nancenotes

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting combo! I think I would have done an outlier in history or comedy as well, if the goal was to really surprise or shock the students. Maybe Measure for Measure and King John? Anyway, that does sound like quite a class. Thanks for liking my pie gag. I’m one of those people who enjoys his own jokes without worrying too much about whether or not the audience does-maybe that’s just 15 years of teaching? Anyway, I thought it was hilarious, and also a good excuse to eat pie. Thanks for enjoying it as well! I did like Timon for a few reasons this past read through (I was feeling a little misanthropic after a series of life frustrations when I read it, and I also love plays that sorta reflect the writing process), but it also fell during the slump when I couldn’t make videos (see also life frustrations from 2020), so I haven’t put it up here yet. I like it, but I also get people who don’t. Tell the ladies hello!

@dianeallen5803

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nancenotes I was going to ask you what plays you would have taught for such a class. I have no idea what her motives were for teaching only three plays in a semester and those two plays among them. In fact, I'm not sure she had a motive, other than she was obsessed with Lear. I can dutifully recite that the macrocosm reflected the microcosm, but that's all I got out of the class. (Talk about cheating me out of my tuition.) Anyhow, I think I would have selected one play from each of the received genres - one of the Henrys perhaps (I love Henry V), a comedy, a tragedy, though not R&J because anyone who has survived 9th grade has read it. I think I would have tried to acquaint my non-majors with the most well-known plays - Midsummer, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet or Macbeth or Lear -- you know, the plays that everyone ought to at least know about if not know. The ladies said hello to Uncle Tim and want to know if he wants some eggs. Just as Sir Joseph has sisters, cousins, and aunts whom he reckons up by the dozens, I have eggs, eggs, eggs which I reckon up by the dozens, dozens, dozens.

Aaron the moor is the greatest antagonist in my opinion.

After watching the movie with Anthony Hopkins twice in a row tonight, I wanted to see if the written story would say what happened to the baby at the end...? Found this... you're very funny! You made a lot of good comments. You need some vanilla ice cream with your pie! ;-)

@Nancenotes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I’ve only seen clips from the film, but it looks appropriately horrifying. How do they deal with the baby?

@changarookitty6920

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nancenotes Hello! I was surprised to hear from you! Thanks! The movie: "Historic movie: TITUS" was uploaded to YT 2 days ago. Read my comment here. There's another Titus movie also on YT. I want to read the play now, this movie isn't as gory as the book may be. I highly recommend it! Watch it and then you can do a commentary video. Place it next to this one. Take care! Nancy

@Nancenotes

3 жыл бұрын

@@changarookitty6920 Thank you!

If it's not too much, can you go over Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? Or Gulliver's Travels?

@Nancenotes

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe eventually? I have a pretty full plate right now.

@wayneigoe6722

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nancenotes cool. Do you think after all that was done to Lavinia, she was happy in the end?

@Nancenotes

3 жыл бұрын

Happy? Not a chance. Okay with dying/glad for revenge? Maybe. I think the director/actor could play it either way. It’s horrifying no matter how you play it, though.

@wayneigoe6722

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nancenotes An interesting take... I ask as that was the question that was posed by the villain in the anime that brought me here. He was asked this by a student he was teaching in class, and he seemed to believe she was at the very least relieved to be free. I did love this video, it helped me understand the play more than the anime or reading it ever did. You shoudl try Psycho-Pass, the main villain in the first season quotes poems and plays every time he makes a kill, and each time he does, the play or quote he uses almost directly explains his intentions and motivations. Almost like he's justifying his actions with them. It helped me create a large summer reading list, including this play, first folio, heart of darkness, gulliver's travels, ortega, and others

50% of the video: PIE 50% of the video: Discussion

are not you tired of handing a pie?

@Nancenotes

Жыл бұрын

Not when it’s a delicious cherry pie that I’m devouring!

The killing of Lavinia by her father was inspired by one of the Canterbury Tales (Phisician's tale), which was inspired by several accounts from ancient literature.

I don't see the fly scene as a look into madness. I see it as a nod to the hypocrisy we each commit everyday all day.

It plays like life. Every person on Earth has lived Titus Andronicus at one point or another. Just look at American politics. The one that's hated the most is the best guy for the job. The one who is most greatly attacked is the one who most greatly stands by the people and their future. The one who is liked the most and hailed as the nice guy is the greatest enemy. The people, the players.

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the pronunciation of bassianus :((

A n d …. Ohhhhh the snood imperialist cau casity of Mr bad manners guy: Referencing the infant character as “it” repeatedly! 🤢🤮

You don't need the pie gimmick. Your content is good without the bring that guy who eats a whole pie.

@matthewrocca4197

3 жыл бұрын

The pie is a darkly humorous nod to the cannibalism in the climax. I thought it was well done! 🥧