Archeologists Discover The Birthplace Of Romeo & Juliet | Digging for Britain | Unearthed History

Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of the Tudor age, a time that saw momentous changes across all aspects of British life. Along the way, Alice visits excavations at Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch, where the Bard began his career and `Romeo and Juliet' was first performed. Alice also joins a team sifting through Shakespeare's rubbish at his last home in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
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[@kaloarepo288]

Shakespeare ultimately got the story from an Italian from Vicenza called Luigi di Porto - the villa he owned can still be seen on the outskirts of Vicenza - there is actually a place called Montecchio from which the name "Montagu" comes from. Shakespeare got a lot of his stories from fashionable Italian Renaissance writers that had been translated into English -Bandello was a favorite source for many tales. Indeed Shakespeare seems to have been so familiar with things Italian that a theory has been put forward that these plays were written by John Florio and Italian migrant(or son of a migrant) who wrote the first Italian-English dictionary. I remember reading also after Chaucer, Shakespeare and one or two others Florio coined more new English words than anyone else!

[@ContextShakespeare1740]

The policy of plays sought to elevate the English language to a language of the arts in renaissance Europe. There is no doubt that the writer behind the name Shakespeare loved Italy and spoke fluent Italian, as well as French, Latin, Greek and probably Spanish, perhaps a smattering of German. Allowing the pseudonymous Shakespeare to introduce new words into the English language. Possibly an Italian migrant although my money is on the man described as the Italianate Earl.

[@marlon1171]

Alice roberts is so gorgeous...

[@irishamericanpinupdoll]

Possible. I spent some time in Vacenza and it was such a fun place to live.❤

[@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo]

Did he have a Greek write the plays set in Greece, a Turk, a Dane, a Scot?

[@kaloarepo288]

If by Turk you mean Othello he was actually a Moor employed in the Venetian army who were fighting the Turks - Shakespeare got this story from an Italian writer as well. The point is that Shakespeare used so many plots set in Italy and derived from Italian authors that it is thought he had a special relationship with Italy or lived or visited there. The other settings are one of a kind -Denmark(Hamlet) Scotland (Macbeth) one or two rather vague Greek settings like Timon of Athens. There are a lot of English history plays however like the Henry IV's and 3/4 set in ancient Rome.@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo

[@167curly]

That perfect 400+ year old beer jug has also been found from a shipwreck now in Bermuda's National Museum.

[@vermontvermont9292]

Alice is so beautiful. Its amazing how much history there is in the uk. Most of you could dig a hole in your yard and find something. Unlike here in the states where there isnt much in the ground.

[@kevingreen3781]

Just brilliant narrated perfectly could watch all day Alice makes it very interesting keeps you captivated for the entire programme

[@maxartusy6378]

Very pleasant woman, moderator.Very warmly enthusiastic, about a cold subject.

[@Paleos1000]

Wow. Serendipity. A new theatre on the site of the Theatre, and in 2023. Thanks for the upload.

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

These shows are so interesting! Thank you for putting them here for all to see! You guys there keep digging, and we will keep watching!❤❤

[@MrTorleon]

Another brilliant episode presented by the ever astonishing and mesmeric Alice Roberts, now Professor Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham. I confess, I need to watch each episode twice, as I tend to be distracted by Alice, who has extraordinary capabilities as a knowledgeable and informed academic, to tease out fascinating details from each site she is presenting. As a retired academic myself, I have always been impressed at the depth and grasp of each subject, that Alice encounters in these episodes, and I recall, with much delight meeting Alice, albeit briefly at a number of her presentations in the past, at the RI and at Oxford. I would also highly recommend her books on archeology " Ancestors ' and ' Buried ", written with the same satisfying balance of deep research, intellectual comprehension and wonderful sense of fun that is always evident in this simply stunning series of English archeology - and thank you for uploading them to KZbin - thank you :)

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I remember being distracted by her on Time Team every time she was on. A young woman archaeologist was like a supermodel to a history buff.

[@tashuntka]

Yeah....she's a serious hottie 😍

[@MrTorleon]

@@almitrahopkins1873 Yes indeed, and I am happy to say that Alice is as charismatic and approachable in real life as she appears in the various documentary series that she has hosted, Extremely well informed, balanced and well prepared, her live lectures are a genuine pleasure to attend. She has had her detractors in the past of course, not all senior academics or archeologists were willing to accept her viewpoints - but Alice was always strong on offering reliably firm evidence to support any given viewpoint. A great advocate for young up and coming female academics :)

[@cerdic6586]

Why don't you kiss her feet?

[@Chimer24-qs5wo]

I have to agree. Prof Alice Roberts is always enthusiastic and, using your term, mesmeric. Bright, intelligent and charismatic, following her journeys through archaeological documentaries is always a delight

[@scottlund4562]

Repect to Dr Alice Roberts and her countinuous contributions that have enhanced my need for reputable history over the years.

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

Professor Alice Roberts

[@scottlund4562]

@gwyngriffiths3669 PhD in 2008

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

@@scottlund4562 Professor at Birmingham University 2012

[@scottlund4562]

@gwyngriffiths3669 "Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young, which was broadcast from January 2007"

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

@@scottlund4562 So? The Alice Roberts that I think we are both referring to is now a Professor at Birmingham University. Yes she has a PhD and therefore holds the title of doctor as well. Professor Alice Roberts....the new David Attenborough

[@monicacall7532]

This is such a fascinating program. Alice Roberts always rocks. Thanks for making it available.

[@shirleynitka5030]

I love these episodes. I watch at least 1 a day!! Thanks for teaching a disabled old lay something new & interesting!!!!

[@marvellousmarvin]

Thank you, Dr. Alice for another awesome look into Tudor English history. 😆🤗

[@BrookeMonfort]

Yay! More engaging and fun science and history from my fav grrrrrl from the Time Team pits, Professor Alice Roberts! She bears a startling resemblance, even shares mannerisms, to my sister in law, (who my brother still cherishes after many decades of marriage 'cause she's gorgeous, smart and cool). Love these vids. Thanks for posting.

[@ChristaFree]

That's where I know her from! I knew I knew her from somewhere

[@BrookeMonfort]

@@ChristaFree She was on several digs, esp when there was an emphasis on graves and bone analysis.

[@alanatolstad4824]

I've never understood others' fascination with Shakespeare, but I like reading historical fiction, & watching documentaries like these, shows me just how much research goes in to making those fictions come to life in terms of the reality of those times being written about.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

Professor Roberts is as engaging as ever. An excellent dip into Shakespeare and Tudor England.

[@dthomp06]

Sad to think the Tudor theatre was covered over. One of my favorite places to visit as a child was a Roman house, in Dover, that had been preserved and covered as a museum in order for people to see it today.

[@neilfleming2787]

OMG...I recognise the guy digging at around 37:00...must have been way back during my digging years

[@giovanni5063]

Alice Roberts is a heart throb presenter but, Lucy Worsley is my fave hands down.

[@Canalcoholic]

Each to their own, I can’t abide Worsley, wish she’d stick to the story and leave the dressing-up box.

[@niallwildwoode7373]

​@@Canalcoholic I agree with you there. Dr Alice needs no artifice added to her eloquence and storytelling to engage her audience.

[@sabbyd1832]

This is a particularly good episode. Thankyou

[@kmanyrivers]

Love Alice! Also chuckle when they interview Americans that work in the U.K...they cannot help but pick up a bit of an accent!

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thank you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@tashuntka]

I'll be brief.. Great content, and she's amazing, I'll watch her read a phone book... 💖✨️✨️💖✨️✨️💖

[@gregedmand9939]

I'm smitten! Both by the lovely Doctor and the topics she brings alive. This is the type of content that I'd hoped to see on the resurrected Time Team... But sadly there's been far too few episodes.

[@arrivalsband9201]

I have to admit that I have been listening to these series of show on Archeology because they are entertaining and interesting but also because I believe that the presenter is so gorgeous.

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

beautiful photography, fantastic history and another wonderful video by Dr. Roberts and crew. Thank you for the video

[@sololobo5980]

Just recently watched your channel. Well done!

[@ianc.dawkinsmoore513]

A charming, insightful, and informative communicator. Thank you.

[@riaanshaigh1338]

Ahhhhh Alice.. U fed the soul.

[@markperrault5678]

Fantastic

[@FatManWalking18]

Dr A could make the history of phone directories interesting.

[@dthomp06]

A complete Batman jug! Wow!

[@Javaman92]

I have to say I was thinking that this must have been filmed a long time ago, that she couldn't still be that beautiful today. I was wrong. She presented the series, Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, in June of this year. She is as amazing in all ways as ever.

[@tashuntka]

She doesn't age 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️💖✨️✨️💖

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

I have a friend who hates Shakespeare. The day she told me this I was surprised, because I can't imagine anyone not appreciating the beauty and depth of Elizabethan theater. At the first opportunity that arose, I gave her a gift, a DVD of the beautiful film version of Romeo and Juliet made by director Franco Zeffirelli. She looked at me with those flaming eyes of hatred saying without words "You know I hate Shakespeare." And I, with a calm and innocent gaze, replied "I don't really understand why you're looking at me like that." A typical comedy of errors, mistakes and deceptions... 😂😂😂

[@helenamcginty4920]

Probably had an awful teacher like the one we had 1st 2 years of grammar school. (Back then, pace Mr Gove, a degree was all our older 'teachers' had. No teacher training. And it showed).I loved literature but this harridan read a passage. Then went over it word by word. Then got group to read each character. I was one of the usual readers so wasnt quite as bored and switched off as the rest of the class. I wondered why anyone thought Shakespeare was good. Then we got a trained English teacher. The world opened up.

[@kimberlypatton205]

She’s just not in “ that place “ yet…give her time… I was 40 before I realized how much I love Moliere and Shakespeare (Thanks to Kenneth Branagh as “Hamlet”) and Opera (Thanks Pavarotti and Ki Tanawa!) .

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

Time Team did a Special about the Shakespeare house dig in 2012. It is interesting to compare the two in terms of tv production and archaeology.

[@ChristaFree]

They just did one last week. Has Tony and Phil in it

[@raphaelbernard7954]

@@ChristaFree saw that looked to see when it was first broadcast, 2012.

[@Blessings.429]

The Bardmen,Bradman Do Jugs get their name from the Bards Theatre Shakespear’s Bar ? Just one more thing I need to know 😂😂😂😂

[@freyatilly]

Thank you. Fabulous layout of discovery. Well pressented. Beautiful photography. Though Columbus didn't discover America. He did find some Islands and killed most of the inhabitants.

[@giovanni5063]

It seems that the dissolution of the monasteries was to take advantage of a failing institution. Henry was in need of cash and there was little that the monasteries were contributing to the national good. What was an absolute monarch to do?

[@ContextShakespeare1740]

Well done Alice for a great presentation of the archaeology of Tudor life. Although it is misleading to say that little is known about Will of Stratford, over 70 documents have been found relating to his life and business dealings. He was a very successful business man, a shareholder in the theatre, and he may have acted on the stage. Perhaps you were alluding to evidence about his life as a writer. There is absolutely no evidence that he was a writer. In fact no one during the coarse of his lifetime or in the years closely following his death said he was a writer, even though there are notebooks left from his son in law and a poet who lived at New Place, who comment on their admiration for poets of the age, who make no mention of Will of Stratford being a poet or writer of any sort. If you want to find the real Shakespeare the Tudor courts and the theatres are a good place to start, but you are on a path to nothing if you look in Stratford upon Avon. Nothing truer than truth.

[@philipr1567]

"no one during the coarse of his lifetime or in the years closely following his death said he was a writer" Are you sure? Shakespeare died in 1616 and the title page of the First Folio published in 1623 (only seven years later) refers to "Mr William Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies" (as well as including his name at the top of the list of principal actors).

[@ContextShakespeare1740]

@@philipr1567 of course you are right I said in his lifetime and the years closely following his death. Closely as in a couple of years, or a few years. There was no great outcry at his funeral. Francis Beaumont who died a few months earlier was buried with great acclaim at Westminster Abbey. Will died in obscurity with no obituaries in the year of his death. The most acclaimed writer of his day and no-one said a touching goodbye. Mr William Shakespeare is a pseudonym used on the title of his works. You can by a box set of John le Carre's works. Or the ultimate compendium of Mark Twain's quotations. Who has ever heard of Green eggs and ham, or the Cat in the hat by Theodor Geisel. Mary Westmacott, wrote a series of autobiographical books, quite different from her usual genre. The novelist Robert Galbraith struggled to be published, despite being the best selling author of the 21st century. There is nothing new under the sun, "Our English Terrence" an allonym for a noble writer. Why is it so difficult to accept that William Shakespeare was a pseudonym or allonym. If you look at the original documents of Will of Stratford and his father John there is no "Shakespeare" among them. Please let me know if you find one.

[@philipr1567]

@@ContextShakespeare1740 I don't think we will ever be 100% sure unless hitherto undiscovered documents are found. The indisputable facts are: a William Shakespeare was named in the First Folio and there was a man of that name who died in Stratford seven years earlier; these two facts are suggestive but fall short of absolute proof. Known contemporary documents naming William Shakespeare of Stratford on Avon do not provide supportive detail connecting him to the theatre and the parish register and memorial in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford on Avon are not helpful. As far as I know there is no solid evidence in the years immediately after 1623 for anyone challenging the naming of WS as writer and actor in the First Folio or claiming authorship. There have been various hypotheses about the author of the plays but so far absolute proof has not (as far as I know) been found. It is quite possible that, when talks turned to publishing the plays the actors and/or author(s) decided to use an alias and either invented a name or decided to use the name of a dead man - I just don't know.

[@Koolarrow1987]

In Texas on every journey of heavy vegetation and dry spell affect even from the ground I've uncovered this method of discovery! Mapping creeks of dried bed state.

[@jp-um2fr]

2B or not 2B, that is the pencil.

[@Koolarrow1987]

To truly lock this area of Discovery out greatly go to a low tide setting in the corridor for a seasonal spell or two and you could start seeing the top vegetation above stone that has soil.

[@gemellodipriapo]

Romeo and Juliet was based in Verona ... Verona is beautiful and the architecture is still mostly from the Renaissance period ... so much better than a water blogged hole in Shoreditch which will undoubtedly be covered over with a modern tower block in the coming months. Please don't don't suggest that the latter is where they were born ... although there is a theory that the story was based on a teenage couple from Essex who had eloped. Anyway the long and short of this is if you want to see where Shakespeare's star crossed lovers lived go to Verona ... the local Roman amphitheatre still doubles up as a theatre. In fact go to Italy to see what Cinquecento culture was all about as it certainly isn't in some hole or sunken ship, Moreover the Tudors were second rate players with f all culture bar a few playwrights and some composers of marginal importance ...

[@wendymortimer6862]

Angry much?

[@gemellodipriapo]

@@wendymortimer6862 Honest

[@PeachysMom]

The title of this episode isn’t meant literally….

[@lulubelle0bresil]

the automated (?) subtitles and transcript show "cessation" monastery instead of Cistercian Monastery

[@lianefehrle9921]

There should be a way to not cover it over. 😢

[@charlotteowens4644]

Did I miss the name of the excavated theater?

[@Koolarrow1987]

It's like bell and the beast.

[@Mycretanlife]

Well when I was at school we never did anything on Shakespeare. I know nothing about him.

[@ludovica8221]

I am a descendant of the Stedman family of Strata Florida

[@samuelgarrod8327]

I'm having steak for dinner.

[@Koolarrow1987]

I'm not sure if we had a written record of the years or amount due to the massive kills started on both parties.

[@manuellubian5709]

It's ashamed in a way that: a) Developers and or city managers only give archeologists and or, experts a short period of time to dig, research and collect precious items. 2) Even sadder still that whatever special areas that are found are simply just covered back over w/ yet another construction to be had. Unlike a lot of places in the U.S. for example, the U.K. relatively speaking still has a lot of undeveloped areas. Once a historic location is found why not discontinue or disallow further contruction altogether and go and build in an unoccupied or unincorporated piece of open land? That would make more sense to me. IMO, so much potential archeology is lost by doing things the current way.

[@ElizaPurest]

😊❤

[@Koolarrow1987]

How about the trail ends of Mark Twain and Edgar Allen poes families grounds.

[@Koolarrow1987]

Look for land rights he had in a form of ledger.

[@Luddite1]

Why cover over all that Tudor archeology why aren’t the builders making a feature of the first theatre Shakespeare played in ???

[@colinb9148]

Dr Alice Roberts, such an allure, highly intelligent, my soft spot BUT just realized... Drives a crappy VW ?? Excellent content & presenting, not so excellent choice in cars.

[@franc9111]

When they go into the Protestant church, saying how different it would have been to the Abbey church, I don't agree. A Cistercian abbey church wouldn't have been very ornate, that was the whole point of what the Cistercian Order was about. It was and still is a strict contemplative order, so normally in their churches, decoration is kept to a minimum. Monasteries in the Middles Ages were rich because the nobility either endowed them or left land to them in the hope that that would help them get into Heaven. That meant that the Abbot had to become an expert estate manager and probably left the day to day task of leading his religious community to someone else. The metalworking would have been carried by lay-brothers or workers employed by the Abbot. The monks wouldn't have participated in metal working, as that took place beyond their monastic boundaries and anyway it wouldn't have fitted in with their strict religious life.

[@eilrobichaud]

You often, throughout the series, talk about research that has been published. Can I suggest that you actually give a link to the research or at least titles of the papers so that we can look them up?

[@cherylkurucz8852]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimclarke1108]

🥰

[@Koolarrow1987]

Not local homestead but shipping orders

[@Koolarrow1987]

Some kingdoms hydrated master animals as respect to there title earned a for of Egyptian mummification

[@garyproffitt5941]

The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and thank you Alice Robert's.

[@ljmrecords2564]

The most beautiful women ❤ the most beautiful brain ❤

[@Koolarrow1987]

Sailing was involved with foreign overseas exchanges that lead to the Mayan Inca nation. We help create gold coins.

[@Koolarrow1987]

Was the TG steel Cannon symbol of cricket a indication of a crop grower worst bug image the community symbols as hes symbol of trade.

[@danecrude]

how old do graves need to be before someone can digging them up .

[@victorialopez807]

Romeo and Juliet is a fictious love story?

[@pollyg562]

was that the BitCoin logo on the lead ingots???

[@Koolarrow1987]

The Mayan Inca Aztec tribes created massive animals of dinosaurs creatures once.

[@257rani]

❤🦗

[@zuzuspetals38]

Sad tht they uncover only to cover with a contemporary structure

[@Minecraft-pj4hm]

It is sad that Shakespeare is venarated as a God to the exclusion of so many equally good poets and playwrights of his era. His real and overiding claim to fame is that his mates immortalised his works in the Fist Folio - without that his works would not have emerged from obscurity : they provided a rich proffusion of performances for which no playwright had to be paid, all ordered conveniently in genres. The reason why there are so many alternate author theories ( perversely for those who suggest them ) is that with base reserch material ( Holingsheds Chronicles, older plays, and stories etc) , a willingness to plagiarise , a basic education , and a knowledge of the theatre ,a super abundance of people could have written them : they are good solid commercial plays like Coronation Street and Eastenders, not world view altering, mind opening, plays of cosmic importance - the Tudor censors would have stopped that. They are morality plays - no more.

[@gobstoppa1633]

still in love after all the years, what a perfect women.

[@dcollins4679]

Ruined by ads very 5 mins.

[@1028dianemarie]

Dr. Alice Roberts asks if lower class people went to the bear and dog baiting as opposed to the theater. I guess she doesn’t know that Elizabeth I herself enjoyed bear baiting.

[@rachelhenderson2688]

If they were lower class, they couldn't afford bear baiting!

[@lancelawrence7825]

Oye, u again?)) flash on that shore,( 11 minutes Inn)) Imagine A. Hath-@-way in fine white summer shift more than dress. Strolling alone in front of that Place...."Who is that striking Woman" 1 Queen asks of that other one? " OOOh finally get to meet her. Bring her to my room"! Tis the Birth of Shake n Speare plays in Queen Elizabeth Bedroom. Actual 2 Authors, n 1$t play Inn Play thing? "Merchandise o' Venice' They pawned gift jewels she can live without ere! Having to where!!)) +1 ❤️

[@Koolarrow1987]

Check the local church and look for natural details in books of high tide low tide any thing in the oldest edition of date published is the year. There could be details in-between the Bible of name that will match the stories of adventures the kingdom was invented in with full discretion of animals. the navel book is the life's events of the people.

[@ChristaFree]

I like how theft is described as wealth redistribution lol

[@Koolarrow1987]

That's part India China cathedral homestead

[@257rani]

Ceylon for Tea and Cinnamon ❤Earl Gray❤

[@LeslieAB30]

When will they discover William Shakespeare was not a playwright, and never claimed to be? He was channeled by a brilliant medium in the 1950s and he said "I acted in the plays and I produced some of them, but I never wrote them!".

[@ContextShakespeare1740]

Ha Ha! Yes are you talking about Percy Allen? Serious scholar until the death of his twin brother, which led him down the path of talking to spirits, revelations published in "Talks with Elizabethans" 1945.

[@LeslieAB30]

NO, I am talking about a real and very advanced Master of Yoga ...@@ContextShakespeare1740

[@christinehodgson7948]

The only problem with this episode is that Romeo and Juliet is not a romance, it is a tragedy.teen suicide is not romantic!

[@richardtalley821]

long lingering shots of people with only glimpses of the subject.

[@Koolarrow1987]

Don't go towards Merlin's grounds.

[@benwilson6145]

Bit of English propaganda, The Protestant Church does not have the head of State as head of the Church. This is an English only church and not Protestant.

[@philipr1567]

There is not just one Protestant church, just as there is not just one nonconformist church or one Orthodox church. The Church of England is one of many Protestant churches.

[@benwilson6145]

@@philipr1567 The one with the head of Sate as Head of the Church. The one that did not reform, the one that still has Archbishops, bishops and all he hangovers from the Church of the Vicar of Rome! Not a true Protestant Church!

[@philipr1567]

@@benwilson6145 So "not Protestant" in your first post becomes "Not a true Protestant Church" in your second post. It seems you are redefining the word Protestant to suit your own views.

[@benwilson6145]

@@philipr1567 Maybe do your own research into what the reformation was about! You may find out what the failure to reform lead to! The abuse of children in the Anglian Church is the same as that of the Roman Church. I take it that is some thing you are defending! You are a great Christian!

[@philipr1567]

@@benwilson6145 So, because I express an opinion on the original definition of Protestant you assume that I defend the abuse of children? That is not a convincing argument.

[@Koolarrow1987]

The same with every kingdoms of earth! We have branches of every community that involves sexual relationships with animals creating a hybreed of humans don't mix snake or crockes. With birds of eagle nest we can create Merlin's adventure

[@lancelawrence7825]

Colonel Obvious we have been X-pecting thy call. About the Hei$t of an Entire Theater in midst o' Night? On streets of a European Capital..@$$-if No one will notice! Create a Kid tested...Mother approved theater! What's the problem with that..take it up with those 2 Queens???)+1 ❤️

[@lancelawrence7825]

Funny thy POV that more comfort in idea of 1 Superman doing what avg man can not? n Women need not apply?)) in u final arc u hit nail on head not the Bear?)) who ere controls the Narrative writes "Hi$-$tory" $tate $ponsored Safe! Bloodless! Play things oer other forms of Entertainment)) Will? The Hubby?)) Completely Innocent of all Charges..."men in tights" and "etc, ETC, ETCETERA by any other Thespian o' Our-$tory?(Yul B.) Top Box office draw then too. All plays P.T.A. approved+1 ❤️

[@OCRay1]

Seems really wrong to cover it over and build a new building. Definitely don’t like that

[@lancelawrence7825]

Example '$ Galore') "Quality o' mercy is ne-er strained.." Sayeth breast feeding women! Not Beer bottle goggles! The History Theme' plays written by Pro Court hired writers. The Female centr-i-c Playing "P"lays on Words? ....OOOh up to a Major Obvious now. Saxon!+1 ❤️

[@Koolarrow1987]

Ostrich eagle graffiti Cam snake kangaroo any animal cross breeding can Merlin's adventure

[@Koolarrow1987]

Merlin's adventure ended with a full male beast boy fully haired head to foot! That's why i choose not to go in his kingdom.

[@AsoloTV2310]

Too much evidence now points to Shakespeare being Italian

[@geofflewis8599]

..''Really''?, ''Back in the Day'' - Americanisms..

[@benwilson6145]

Bit disappointed In Alice Roberts, Columbus did not discover America in 1492, the land had been discovered by the Vikings 400 years earlier!

[@allangibson8494]

Columbus never landed in the continental Americas until 1505 - he pottered around the Caribbean instead.

[@kevinroche3334]

Even the Vikings agreed, the Irish were thee before them.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@kevinroche3334 Welsh, but there is absolutely no evidence of it whatsoever to support the tale. The Welsh sailors may have only gotten to Iceland before turning back.

[@benwilson6145]

@@kevinroche3334 Maybe give your source, would be interesting

[@wendymortimer6862]

Who cares? The Viking landings were not big news in the 15th century but Columbus’ voyages would have been well known.

[@leonthompson3433]

Time Team is much better:-)

[@michaelbiggs1254]

Romeo and Juliet didn't exist.

[@1Independentrider]

No but the play did and that’s where it was originally performed. So it’s the birthplace of the play.

[@paulkelly2701]

Not wonderful. Heretically iconoclastic.

[@rayg4360]

Hasn't she got very level teeth. Even the canines

[@joeblues2000]

To not even mention that Shakespeare was a pseudonym for a ghost writer is extremely disingenuous.

[@helenamcginty4920]

That idea was invented by 19th century snobs. A "common" man couldnt possibly think great thoughts. I have read a book written in the 1960s whose author claimed that people not educated enough to have a learned vocabulary cannot experience deep emotions. So an ingrained idea. Of course Shakespeare would have been proficient in reading Latin and ancient Greek from his years at the local grammar school. And as many curious people do, will have continued to read throughout his life. Shakespeare's contempories like Johnson, the dictionary compiler, knew who he was and that he wrote the plays. No the snobs of later centuties with their newly fangled RP to separate themselves even more from the hoi poloi just couldnt stomach that England's greatest playright was not a grand lord.

[@ContextShakespeare1740]

@@helenamcginty4920 Oh! Of course he could have. You are too harsh He was not such a common man, he was the son of an alderman and died wealthy, possible upper middle class by todays standards. But there is no evidence that he had an education not even at the grammar school. He probably learned his trade at the school of life, wheeling and dealing, buying and selling. Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe was from humble beginnings, but his talent was recognised and he gained a scholarship. Ben Jonson was from a more humble background that Will of Stratford, but he excelled himself and became one of the greatest writers of his age, there is tons of evidence for his life as a writer. Ben Jonson makes clever allusions to the real writer behind the pseudonym, he absolutely knew the real Shakespeare. He did not compile a dictionary that was attributed to Dr Samuel Johnson 100 years later. Will of Stratford wrote nothing, and that is not because anyone is being snobby about it, it is just that there is no evidence, absolutely none, zilch that he ever wrote anything at all

[@wendymortimer6862]

Please get over yourself. Who cares.

[@dareekie2074]

William of Stratford left not a single book in his will, not even a Bible. The entire family were illiterate including his two daughters. How could this have been the greatest literary genius of all time?

[@patriciahenderson2096]

Absolutely not true. Shakespeare's mother Mary was in fact her father's exuctrix of his will. Meaning she had to have know how to read as well as write. Shakespeare's first teacher was in fact his mother. From all accounts she herself was a great story teller. As for his will, he may have given his library away beforehand or as a whole to his daughter Susanna before his death.

[@BunyipToldMe]

These documentaries make me feel so excluded from my country's past! Every character featured is white while England is incredibly diverse. Such a shame.

[@wendymortimer6862]

Do you want them to distort history so your ‘race’ is included? History is history, not something to be played with to make you feel good. The history of your ‘race’ in Britain is undoubtedly written somewhere, perhaps you could look for it.

[@1346crecy]

So why don't you volunteer to help on an archaeological dig , I've done a few they're great, or do a degree in archaeology, become an expert and make a contribution to a documentary like Onyeka Nubia.

[@BunyipToldMe]

@@1346crecy So why don't you understand?

[@1346crecy]

@@BunyipToldMe I understand. I've given you a solution it's up to you. I have no responsibility to you because I'm white.

[@BunyipToldMe]

@@1346crecy Go dig up an ancestor then!