Nice lesson, very interesting

Excellent work. R&J, written early 1594, has a passage (4:4) where 'logs' are spoken about in rather a strange way (as if to draw attention). Napier was developing the first logarithms at exactly that time - what are the chances? "I have a head, sir, that will find out logs"

He proves by algebra that hamlet is his own grandfather

CASSIDY hope you are doing well. Did Shakespeare wear a codpiece? Nearing completion of my own custom Shakespeare costume, and wondered if I had to include one. From what I can gather, they went out of fashion in the 1570s, so little Will would have not have been old enough, and by the time he was a young man codpieces would have been out of style. What do you think?

I'm sorry, but Shakespeare was not quite a gentleman (although he paid to make his father one). He doubtless would have carried a dressy dagger, but sumptuary law and customs would not have permitted him to carry a sword. I know that Shakespeare owned a swept hilt rapier, very fancy with encrusted silver, which he bequeathed in his will. However this does not mean he wore it as not only would it indicate he was comporting himself as somewhat above his station, it would quite possibly provoke unwanted aggression from young London gentlemen who were frequently intoxicated and had the benefit of years of formal training in the lethal use of a sword. Shakespeare's humble beginnings were not likely to include this kind of upper class instruction. Carrying a sword would imply a man's ability and willingness to use it.

This is a great video! we loved it. Very well researched. We just had some things to add which may be of interest though: 1. John Shakespeare's social and financial downfall had very little to do with religion or religious laws but had everything to do with the fact that he illegally lent money (loan sharking). Moreover, he was also terrible at it! so not only did he get tried in the very court he presided over as judge at the time, but he also lost all his money, as he seemingly lent to people who could never pay it back. The social downfall of this was catastrophic to the Shakespeare family, and he lost his position in the town council (he was the equivalent of mayor). His position came with free school places for his children, which he then lost when he lost the title, and didn't have the funds to further William's education due to the bad loans, so William had to leave. Tragically, the schoolroom shares a wall with the court and, in the quiet of the schoolroom, young William would have heard every word when his Father was read the riot act for his crimes. 2. The schoolroom in which William attended is part of the Guildhall. The Guildhall is the space in which travelling players would have performed in front of the council to gain a licence to perform in the town (it was a form of censorship). It is likely that John Shakespeare would have invited the boys into the adjacent room to watch the plays. So not only did Shakespeare read the plays, he also would have regularly seen professional actors perform them (which isn't typical of Tudor education). As you mention in the video, anyone can still come and see his Schoolroom and even the desk on which he learned to write! A Goddon - Operations Manager - Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall

Wow AMAZING opening music! 😂👌🏼🎷🎶 I have no doubt Billy boy will have lobbed his inkwell & quill over his left shoulder at hearing this, danced around for a while juggling at least 3 pencils, before discovering a dismayed looking family member in the doorway holding a tray of food for him covered in ink. Whereupon he leaps to his writing desk and scribbles a great new idea in graphite! Thanks for the cool research. Love the way you called around 👌🏼 Research worthy of such music. P.s I really want to know who/what this music is so I can do exactly the same as Shakeyboy as above. Possible to share here? Or PM very welcome, pretty please 🙏🏻 Grateful - like as to when a harsh surface bearing sufficient friction, dost travel upon fellow surface of exacting same disposition, forcefully and rendering all filled up with such phenomena. Yet in my sense, as opposed to this, for me most pleasing be it. In advance, thank you.

excellent, insighrful and well informed video - agree 100 % you should have a higher following. Kudos to you for showing the Bard to the world.

I feel the non publication was primarily due to commercial reasons. No copyright laws meant literature was rife for filching. Any possible repeat of an old Shakespeare play during his lifetime would be rendered otiose if other companies were performing his old plays and merely adding their name to the title page (there are examples of this). Self preservation was the principle motive. We know Shakespeare was keenly aware of the literary business model by his various shareholdings and other financial manoueverings in the theatre. Shakespeare knew the written word wasn't lucrative without performance so maintaining his position as the writer of performed pieces exclusively shown in HIS space must've been a primary concern. He had an interest in the whole business: the best actors, the best space, and the highest quality writing that must be confined to a box office he had an interest in. He was an extremely shrewd businessman who knew that selling his text once to an acting troupefor a small stipend was a sure way to the poor house. His invesment portfolio shows that he was no mug in the business world. Actors were deliberately only given their lines to learn rather than full copies of a play for this reason. They couldn't have the complete product. This explains, imo, the difficulty in piecing together complete faithful texts both during his lifetime and posthumously. Giving the actors and others in the vicinity of the theatre a copy of a full, complete play - that is essentially owned by nobody - would mean you'd rendered up a huge opportunity to make a few quid for any unscrupulous person who was willing to sell the latest talk of the town to the local booksellers. It's the modern day sneakinga camera in the cinema and then selling the discs on the market. Dickens was absolutely livid about American publishers stealing his work in the nineteenth century, and he was a wealthy individual. We do have examples of Shakespeare getting his long narrative poems and Sonnets published during his lifetime.I believe his first serious publication was published by a man from his home town, which imo implies that Shakespeare probably initiated this transaction. This probably happened in the various periods when Shakespeare was shielding from the plague: box office concerns would no longer be on the immediate agenda so any small cash injection for extra curricular writing would've been welcome. Oh yes, here we are: www.stationers.org/news/archive-news/literature-in-lockdown-2

I read somewhere that 18/37 plays in first folio weren't published before that, then what''s the exact figure that was published during his lifetime (before 1616)? 19 plays?

The humble pencil can be the vehicle for genius. Plays, novels, symphonies can be written with a mere graphite stick, thus I like this theory very much.

Thank you, miss; you have clarified an interesting thing in the history of Shakespeare.

Awesome video, coming up with cool ideas for a small start-up producing my own ink

This is very helpful thank you!

Great video Cassidy. Thank u. Where would you suggest newcomers to Shakespeare start? Film/play recommendations?

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Is it possible that Susanna Shakespeare also had a son by the name of John Hall?

What an excellent idea for a youtube channel!You deserve more viewers.p.s.the original game of football is still played in Derbyshire and there are youtube videos of it.Thanks from an Englishman.

Thank you to everyone that watched live with me! This was fun to play.

love your videos, keep up the good work!

Loved this video, Cassidy! I am somewhat new to Shakespeare and really hooked - your videos are great! Love what you do :)

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Bernard and Bernerd would have been pronounced the same in Shakespeare's dialect, and let's remember those spellings are a lot closer than the various ways we know the Bard spelled his own name.

Printing in 1590 - 1623 London was not that casual. There was no "public domain" in printed works and understanding of the dynamic of how printing was controlled will help us understand how the Shake-speare works get printed and reprinted. Formed in 1403 and given royal charter in 1557, the Stationers' Charter codified its legal monopoly on book production in England to ensure that once a member had asserted ownership of a text or "copy" by having it approved by the Company, no other member was entitled to publish it, that is, no one else had the "right to copy" it. Censorship is also rolled up in this stationers' monopoly which is aka "Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers" and located next to St Paul's. Jonson goes to prison for performance of Isle of Dogs for example, so no one would be in any hurry to print works which put them at legal risk of libel or alleged lewdness. The way to avoid such problems was to go through the printing monopoly (which seems to be what Jaggard did between 1619 and 1623). The Stationers were legally empowered to seize "offending books" that violated the standards of content set down by the Church and state; its officers could bring "offenders" before ecclesiastical authorities, usually the Bishop of London.

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I really really enjoyed this, Cassidy!! Thanks for the video!

I'm SO EXCITED I found your channel Cassidy! I'm a big Shakespeare nerd myself. And your intro video is STUNNING!!! 😍🙌 You have a new subscriber. Looking forward to watching your videos!

First video I watch from your channel and I love the passion you put on it :) I'm one of the people that believe that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's works, but I will explore your channel. Saludos from Chile

There's absolutely no evidence that he wrote in pencil and no reason for you to conclude that he did, other than you want to.

He wouldn't have written in graphite for the simple reason that it would have been too easy for someone else to correct his pens. Iron gall ink is permanent. This would have been the case even though he was writing working scripts for actors and these would have changed during rehearsals etc.

Interesting. The mini-series, Shakespeare (1978 British tv), with Tim Curry as the bard, suggests that Shakespeare apprenticed with Christopher Marlowe - and that the English history plays were among the first he wrote. The series can be found here on YT. Thanks!

my teacher wanted me to look that up, very interesting thaanks 😊

6:55 for y’all looking for the answer

thx for history

That’s so cool! And I saw my name. 💕🖋

Shakespeare was an A-Grade plagiarist. There's a number of old history plays floating around that Shakespeare looted wholesale - The Troublesome Reign of King John, King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and The True Tragedy of Richard III. Romeo and Juliet was taken from Arthur Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet. I don't hold it against him, of course. He was a genius, just one with a tendency to build on what was already there.

Secret patron? They did give her private performances at her palace I think? Great topic.

One of my great relatives married one of Shakespeare’s daughters. His name was Thomas Quiney

Excellent video!

Update! It's actually $180/year for an all access pass to Masterclass. Still a great deal, but I said that wrong in the video :)

Ok try this one. According to the same source you cited The UK Independent Large parts of Henry VI parts one and two are attributed to Christopher Marlowe and as was stated in the article "They do not believe it was a collaboration" all of that was available at the time you made this all over the place rant. You should do more research before misinforming people. Also there is a difference between borrowing and adaptation. Marlowe's Faustus was an adaptation of a popular German story. Ben Johnson's Volpone was a direct copy paste plot and story for Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta there is again a huge difference between derivative and intellectual theft. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is almost the exact same type of intellectual theft from Marlowe's The Jew of Malta. There is almost no difference between Shylock and Barabas. Same situation same moral, but with a less tragic ending. That's so blatant all the word jumbles you can throw at it will just fall off like Teflon. The method of gauging old literature for clues to author and plot origin come from a discipline called "Stylometry". It measures word usage, styles, frequency of terms used, sentence structure, rhythm, emotional dialog, and special features (Coined phrases, Iambic Pentameter, ect). It's not roping eight or nine words to form an opinion. It can not be dismissed for the prejudices of hero worship.

Twelfth night!

Love that mug! Hope I'm the lucky one to get it :D

The record at Holy Trinity is actually a copy made about 1600. The original records are lost. In it, John Shakespeare is identified as "Johannes" instead of the proper Latin "Johannis".

I absolutely agree with you on how we cannot study authors without any regard for historical context. No one is free from economical, political, religious, historical, personal etc. influence. And you don't even have to go back to the 17th century for that. Charles Dickens's books are full with references from his time. And some of them are quite tricky.

Impressive. Special note of mathematics in the plays, as noted in your studies, and in general. Be watching Part 2 tomorrow. Thank you.

Loved watching this one as well. Even though I already knew that the bard didn´t go to College, there were few aspects you´ve shared that I was unaware. Thanks for sharing all this videos, Cash!

Hey, Cassidy! Whenever possible, I try to watch your videos on Shakespeare. It´s been fun and useful to increase my knowledge on our dear friend from Stratford! Congrats for the nice job!

But how did he get away with naming the bad guy in Othello "Iago" (español for "James") without offending His Majesty?