As You Like It (Lecture 1 of 2)

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

I live in Stratford on Avon. Not in the town itself, but in the district. The town is even now surrounded by rural countryside. Warwickshire/Oxfordshire; this is is also Tolkien's country also of course. I have cause to work in London occasionally and I feel entirely our of my comfort zone. Actually I hate that place. I describe myself as a hobbit who belongs in the shire, not the city. So I entirely identify with W.S. in feeling like a bumpkin. _How do we keep them in the farm when they have seen Paris?_ Well I'll choose the farm all day long.

[@annademenok1824]

”As You Like It” only starts on the 26th minute

[@joycesalome39]

Thank you.

[@gustavojc]

26:00

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

The first 26 minutes do give context though.

[@imogen.magenta]

Very insightful clear and helpful. Thank you

[@brendoncampbell6457]

Enjoyed the lecture very much. Thanks for posting. But must take exception to the speaker's dismissal of the 1936 movie as being not very good. The actress playing Rosalind is wonderful (Elizabeth Bergner?). Missing some scenes from the play, but I thought the film really rather good. Check it out on YT.

[@nativevirginian8344]

It’s not the best version available, keep looking!

[@brendoncampbell6457]

@@nativevirginian8344 Thanks. Yes, I will :)

[@Twentythousandlps]

BBC TV version with Helen Mirren is preferable, on Internet Archive.

[@brendoncampbell6457]

Thank you. I will check it out. :)@@Twentythousandlps

[@nativevirginian8344]

I just watched the Olivier version, I thought it was pretty bad too, and I have not even read the play. I have better taste than I thought!

[@TheWhitehiker]

Paul on the beam!

[@martind349]

49:56 These are both Will

[@sukrucetin9677]

sukruuspeare yea it's me :)

[@jamesduggan7200]

Listening to these out of order it was confusing which play is discussed before the lecture on AYLI. I have some disagreements with what I heard respecting R&J, but i'll write those down in the appropriate comment section. The most I can say here now is that we shouldn't automatically accept as true self-serving speeches.

[@sumzypissa4999]

37:44

[@sumzypissa4999]

1:06:16

[@charlespeterson3798]

The measure of this man's greatness is his irrelevance. Things change fast.

[@MrGoogster]

Who, Cantor or Shakespeare?

[@andrea-kb9zb]

I respect your insights but the comment about the speaking ability of the actors Rosalind wasn't appreciated.

[@diogenes3300]

Her accent is clearly distracting and she frequently doesn't seem to understand what she's saying. He wasn't making an insensitive comment; it was obviously a bad casting decision.

[@nativevirginian8344]

Get the chip off your shoulder and learn to think critically. I only had a passing acquaintance with the play, & thought the same thing about the Rosalind in the Olivier version. She was French & her reading of Shakespeare was pretty bad.

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

I know right.... because speaking ability in a relevant language is the last thing we should look for in an actor.

[@provideme1000]

the lecturer's sometimes decent insights are diminished by his privileged and cheerful insularity. for many too many people, world wide, the world is horrible, and more than horrible, not just because of the vicissitudes of the natural world but because of the brutality and inhumanity and malice of politics, i.e., the manipulation of power without regard to people.

[@TheWhitehiker]

please!

[@antonbruckner7329]

Edgy goth bro

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

Seems to me he acknowledges all this stuff. He can hardly help it, since the theme is often taken up by Shakespeare.

[@lioragal5219]

He was such a humble, knowledgeable, and endearing man. He made Shakespeare exciting and relevant.