Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #36

[@tommurphy1153]

Thanks for avoiding all the annoying cliched jokes. Its nice to have our culture (our real culture) recognised! Thank you!

[@user-sl8gg2zk3g]

This is not our real culture, these writers are all English heritage writers, and in my opinion English not Irish.

[@somethingsomething3818]

@@user-sl8gg2zk3g All Irish born and raised and considered themselves Irishmen (and women). I bet you're British. Shoo, now.

[@charlottecatherinenolan550]

He did call Irish Gaelic though

[@nodsmilebackaway]

"Oh woe is me! For the sea has taken everything I value", said the old woman TO HER DAUGHTERS

[@DarkAngelEU]

Well if the sea don't want them, what value do they have?

[@zombiehoe]

Is this a reference to Riders to the Sea?

[@ashleykim1427]

Who else watches these on their own and not just in class?

[@sivawright]

Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

[@IrishAndy855]

It's not that important but there is a small mistake at 1:57. The Abbey Theatre is still in the same location that it opened in 1904. There was a time from 1951 to 1966 were they had to move to a different building due to a fire until the theatre could be rebuilt.

[@SlowToe]

Thanks Mike, you brought a tear to my Irish eye. Thank you also to CrashCourse

[@cleoalexander7590]

One of the things that I love about this series is that it makes you consider theatre from places that I never thought about before - that's what happened in the episode about Henrik Ibsen and Nordic drama and I am looking forward to learning about Irish drama.

[@acushla_music]

The funny thing about all Irish writing from this period is that if today you walk around the streets of Dublin you may say the faces of all of these writers, and others such as Joyce and Beckkett, postered in every bar and statued on every street however when they were alive much of their work was banned. Many of our best writers (and our best in other arenas) didn't leave the country but fled it. They wrote about Ireland as it was then without any decoration. The Irish saw themselves clearly and turned away not liking what they saw. 'It's a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking glass of a servant' - Steven Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses

[@Jaydoggy531]

You're particularly fond of muffins? I prefer bread and butter myself, because cake is rarely served in the best houses.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Cake is a lie!

[@CapKITZ]

@@DarkAngelEU Drat! You stole my joke.

[@RedBear535]

Beware of butter on your cuffs.

[@carpediem5468]

Oh yes! I did my PG THESIS on 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST'.

[@mrnobody-unowen]

How are you, my dear Ernest?

[@cramerfloro5936]

I played it last year with my theatre group It was really, REALLY difficult to translate the jokes into italian But it was a lot of fun

[@alonealien1474]

Synge, Wilde and Shaw. What's not to like? Not enough Shaw, but that's alright.

[@daniellebreitstein6007]

Oscar Wilde is my everything

[@kashishkukreja5904]

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” Can you explain this one quote in detail. I know the gist just looking for a detailed one.

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Thank you for putting this up on time.

[@fh9061]

Oh god. I've never been moved by a Summary of a play but all the drowning and the poetic lines. I have to read this

[@nechma13]

I really hope you talk about Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Becket with absurdism And Susan glaspell and Sophie Treadwell who are American women expressionist playwrights who have gone mostly limited their performance though their writings inspired many male writers

[@ariannamonson4092]

And the thought bubble wasn't about The Importance of Being Earnest? What a missed opportunity for an awesome thought bubble moment

[@TomSistermans]

YOS Dadaism and symbolism that's some good stuff right there! Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu, pögiff, kwii Ee Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, dll rrrrr beeeee bö dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö, rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö, beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää, bö fümms bö wö tää zää, fümms bö wö tää zää Uu. No I didn't go crazy, that's the beginning of the greatest tone poem ever, Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate

[@cramerfloro5936]

Comunque vada, comunque Dada! Al Cabaret Voltair! Comunque vada, resto comunque Dada Vedo una sola strada, comunque Dada Qualunque cosa accada, comunque Dada! Io metto in disscussione tutto proprio tutto Forse non sono Dada, ma sono un po', Dada un po', Dada un po'

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Thank you putting this up on time.

[@JonBastian]

Amazing as always.

[@teucer915]

I'm looking forward to seeing you cover Brecht.

[@amyamy1507]

YESSSSSSSSSSS to the 'Irish culture deserves more than leprechaun jokes' intro! THANK YOU! Super tired of people (especially Americans in my experience) applauding our literature one minute and then being racist the next.

[@lakrids-pibe]

But if you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge For the love you brynge won't mean a thynge Unless you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge

[@amelieniroibeaird526]

Ok I’m Irish and those first thirty seconds were great I completely aprove 😂

[@brianudkwang8380]

is that a kodama on the shelf during thought bubble??? (from princess mononoke)

[@cathaldunne6741]

Trust Crash Course to respect us for the culture we have

[@user-sl8gg2zk3g]

This isn't our culture this is English culture, read the names they are not Irish

[@somethingsomething3818]

@@user-sl8gg2zk3g yeah, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde doesn't sound Irish at all. By the way, every one in Europe (and most of the world) is of mixed heritage, so I don't see what names have to do with it. By your logic, Irish isn't your culture, as you claim, since you don't have a traditional Irish name, not that it matters.

[@Full_Metal_Angel]

Wow I am speechless

[@KathyTrithardt]

I've been to the Abbey Theatre - the newer location. It's grand.

[@KathyTrithardt]

I was actually there for the 100th anniversary of Playboy of the Western World, which was a treat.

[@TheBibliophiliac]

Once again, An Ideal Husband is snubbed.

[@justusloy4546]

Mike?

[@MKPiatkowski]

And Saint Joan.

[@ThainaYu]

It might be too late but I think the crash course opening theme song for Crash Course Theater should be revised to orchestra version

[@DrWarman86]

one of Oscar wilds quotes the one featured is vary similar to a quote from Hagakure. the quote from Hagakure was also featured in the film Ghost Dog.

[@eanna773]

Táim i mo chónaí in Éirinn agus ba bhreá liom é sin. * Im Irish and im in love with this video♥️🇮🇪

[@TheAmbientMage]

There really is excellent whiskey and knitwear out there.

[@hisbigal]

You left out Sean O’Casey.

[@user-sl8gg2zk3g]

Sean o casey is actually Irish, the rest are all English ex pats. That is why they are so good and o Caseys plays are not mentioned

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

@@user-sl8gg2zk3g They are Anglo Irish whose families had lived in Ireland for centuries.

[@joewarren5248]

COYBIG!!! Also just realised that to "crack on" with something is not a common saying

[@zoeheffernan1096]

‘Cathleen ní Houlihan’ ?

[@kramermariav]

I ❤ Wilde

[@Directionless.Sponge]

Bruh you said Yorrick might come back with a sheleighli but how he gonna carry it without hands he just gon bite it

[@Pferdesuppe]

I tried to find the actual source of the Shaw quote at the end of the video, but was unable to do so. A couple of essays and papers quote it, but none of them state where they originally got it from. Only that it's supposed to be a quote by Shaw. I would love to include this quote into a thesis of mine that I'm writing about fin de siècle drama, but without an actual source, this is somewhat difficult unfortunately. Do you happen to remember where you came across the quote?

[@Caoimhin1909]

YEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOO 🇮🇪

[@BulaGuy]

Where's Phil and his outer space episodes?

[@megancerys7260]

Oooooooooooooh yes thank you

[@MKPiatkowski]

Saint Joan isn't worth even a mention? I've directed it and it's powerful.

[@undead8883]

do not said my name oscar is my name do not said it

[@elperroreggae]

Your thumbnails should Change, they're pretty bad, I mean they don't generate attention

[@CMichaelEH]

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

[@tbotnoblett]

I am Irish

[@bobdickweed]

Im real Irish..thats why i say the sunny southeast its a irish saying for where i live in Ireland... @Essie

[@airigid]

@@bobdickweed you are not Irish, clearly Mexican.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

*Essie* When an American says, “I’m Irish,” they’re more or less saying they’re of Irish descent. They’re not saying they’re just as Irish as Irish people who were born an raised in Ireland. I’m German. ;)

[@claspe1049]

@@AmandaFromWisconsin Iam too but when I'am drunk I kinda feeel irish ….

[@wannabe0rockstar]

Is maith liom caca milis

[@OlanKenny]

Irish drama? You mean most of the 20th century?

[@itiswhatitis9705]

I feel like Conor Mcgregor was inspired by Oscar Wild.

[@171QA]

Who else saw the kodama? :D

[@cianhorgan4824]

“GROSS INDECENCY”

[@eugenmoscalenco6266]

What happend to crash course kids

[@habibikebabtheiii2037]

Where is the Jameson?

[@StephaneBura]

This series has been great so far but scones are not muffins!

[@MordredsGirl]

I'm pretty sure those are English muffins, which while not *actual* muffins, are at least still called muffins.

[@StephaneBura]

I can't abide things pretending to be other things in a video about theater.

[@cdw2468]

I thought it said “Irish Resistance” and this was a random video about terrorism

[@MrAkshatmahajan]

🤣

[@marjanghazanfar44]

Can you make a video about the roman gladius/sword?

[@DuranmanX]

Is Seinfeld dadaism?

[@advisingeconomics2179]

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[@emilyr6510]

SECOND

[@avatarmary]

why don't these people just learn how to swim

[@xxiao5156]

Not enough potatoes in this.

[@loyalt_3421]

First

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Im pretty sure it's called the anglo irish revival

[@talideon]

I've never seen it referred to as that. That might be a British thing.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Keith Gaughan well this video focus on yeats, sygne, wilde, its the anglo irish revival while the irish language revival is the gaelic revival this is history in irish schools

[@talideon]

@@mikeoxsmal8022, they themselves might've been of Anglo-Irish decent, but you can't really separate them out from the Gaelic Revival itself, which involved Irish people of all backgrounds, regardless of their ancestry. I don't believe any of them did. They were part of the same milieu as the Young Irelanders, Seán O'Casey, Arthur Griffith, Joseph Plunkett, &c., and we're pointedly participating in a revival of Gaelic culture, albeit though the medium of the English language, but a uniquely Irish form of that language.

[@talideon]

@@mikeoxsmal8022, also I'd like to point out that I am actually Irish, went though that same education system, and never once recall hearing it referred to as the 'Anglo-Irish Revival'. I recall it being called the 'Celtic Twilight', the 'Irish Literary Revival', and a few other things, but never qualified with 'anglo-'.

[@user-sl8gg2zk3g]

Was it gaelic revival ? I'd like to think the real Irish would have something to say about that. Our whole culture spearheaded by Protestants with English names. Our culture is Gaelic written in Irish by the Irish. This is why I maintain the Irish cannot write plays or poetry only the English can do it well enough. But we can write and play music, and tell stories better than anyone, and that to me is true Irish art, not the works of Yeats Wilde or shaw.

[@larousian9254]

I bet CrashCourse will never pin this comment

[@jojololo9157]

....my calculations say it is unlikely but physically possible to occur.

[@PhoenixoftheGays]

Pearl Hates the Irish If you understood that referance then you are Gid Tier

[@advisingeconomics2179]

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