My Folio Shakespeare! (Well sort of)

[@lindajeancountrymusic]

The world of online and downloadable books is so ugly when you look at the beauty of a book.....and the smell of the years between the pages as you turn them and discover the delights within.

[@lindajeancountrymusic]

...."our little life is rounded with a sleep".......beautiful.....wonderful to hear you read this excerpt!

[@AmericanImperium2112]

There’s nothing better than the fresh smell of a new book.

[@HillyHonka]

I agree. There’s nothing like the sensual experience of feeling the texture of the pages and taking in the scent as you turn the pages of a physical book. Ebooks take away from the value of that beautiful experience

[@lindajeancountrymusic]

Very well put! @@HillyHonka

[@julialuminasalsa]

Love this

[@bgfd1]

What a wonderful video. Makes it worthwhile trawling through KZbin for something really decent to watch.

[@gordonmonsen6556]

As you sit in Prospero’s cell the poetry of WS elevates my thoughts from earth to heaven. Thank you.

[@RamblinJan]

So fun to see all the gadgets in your room! The vast amount of pipes is eye catching.

[@Cole1966]

I have the collected works of william Shakespeare from the 1930s it has notes written in it which I think adds to its charm

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

yes I always enjoy reading other people's notes and think it enhances rather than spoils a book. Coleridge was a great annotator of books

[@aletheuo475]

I quite agree. Anyone can possess a copy of a famous book or an ebook, but only I have the specific mixing of thoughts particular to this book.

[@sharilewis4533]

During these Grievous times, you continue to be a source of light hope and Humanity. Thank you

[@jeffreybrooks4061]

Such a lovely video! Thank you. Wonderful content.

[@reaganwiles_art]

The only books I've ever bought within a slip case were my three volume set of the Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Indeed important (to me).

[@danielplantagenet8385]

Thanks Malcolm, a wonderful video! God bless you and your family! 🙏

[@jamesmcquaid8187]

What a great celebration of Shakespeare and the printed word. This really brings the words to life! Makes me want to re-read The Tempest!

[@raza5757]

Thank you Dr. Guite

[@MarcusBarnabassisSystersSonne]

Cheers, thank you, Father! Yes, that bit about Heaven to earth, earth to Heaven is so philosophically and theologically dense.

[@Jackman1006]

Thank you Sir. I’m blessed to have the knowledge and time to enjoy your videos. Ryan

[@yusufsayed1583]

Good Afternoon 😊 Awesome video 👍🏼 Thanks for the content 👏🏼 Have a great day & Greetings From South Africa 🇿🇦

[@allfields]

More Shakespeare please

[@MadHatter42]

A curious quirk of the First Folio is that the famous opening sonnet (“Two households, both alike in dignity” etc), is cut from Romeo and Juliet. One wonders how many other differences there are between the standard received texts of the plays and this reverted original. Thanks for sharing!

[@aletheuo475]

Interesting. My edition of Shakespeare (which seems once to have been won and never opened by a schoolboy in 1941) is ordered the same way yours is, beginning with the Tempest. I hadn't realised that was unusual.

[@micheleshave323]

I love to hear you read either from Tolkien or poetry. I wonder if you would consider doing more videos of readings? And I also enjoy hearing you talk about what you are about to read to us. Thank you for the wonderful readings you have given us so far 🙏🙏🙏🦢🐉🕊

[@jimgordon6629]

Was it Gods gift to the world that the folio was put together and saved when so many other enterprises went awry? Most of the Third Folio was burnt up in the Great Fire of London. What if that had happened to the first? Then there would have been no second through fourth, and most of the great plays would have been lost? There could have been no greater good fortune than seeing the First Folio sailing safely through. Thanks so much for your videos!!

[@StDavidpipes]

Well done, always enjoy your channel.

[@jeffcokenour3459]

Thank you!

[@andrewhill8168]

Thank you

[@reaganwiles_art]

To The Reader by B.I., that's Ben Jonson.

[@tonywhite383]

The bad quarto Hamlet does include the To be of not to be soliloquy. It's a slightly garbled version of what is the accepted version, but it is there.

[@mSchwippy]

Excellent and inspiring as always, Malcolm! Is there a place to see when and where your next visit to the states would be? Id love to attend a lecture or sermon in person!

[@stevenlight5006]

Cheers

[@bwpm1467]

When you mentioned "not very good poetry", were you referencing the opening rhyme? Vowel sounds were different in Elizabethan/Jacobean England, so a pairing like "cut" and "put" would likely be a closer rhyme than we now hear it as being.

[@thomassimmons1950]

This should be exhibit A in the defense of Shakespeare as the true author of the plays.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

absolutely!

[@brightbeginnings5134]

I respectfully disagree. I have the pleasure of also owning this exact folio facsimile and most often, of late, have found myself using it as a reference when following along the analyses of Alexander Waugh. In my opinion, Mr. Waugh, very convincingly, demonstrates how parts of it, support De Vere as the true author.

[@davidjames5517]

​@brightbeginnings5134 Emphatically. Alexander Waugh's KZbin channel is a wonder, a delight, the source of truth about the actual author of the plays.

[@moorshound3243]

Who is the fellow who does the filming.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

my wife!

[@hosephanerothe1440]

​@@MalcolmGuitespell this did make me chuckle, our thanks to the camera lady

[@DanielKellyFolkMusic]

He was a bit good indeed! What a fabulous book. Alas I have no skill for acting, when I auditioned for 'Much Ado about Nothing' at university I was given the role of Balthasar and asked to play songs between scenes. I tried to re-create one of the songs here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYbIdICZidFmptE

[@StephenGrew]

Quite is an unusual surname, is it a Hugonot name?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

yes it's Huguenot, via Yorkshire!

[@StephenGrew]

Mine also...Grew, via Lancashire, originally from Rouen.🙂

[@adrienyo6124]

😮🙈🙉😻

[@YouarethinkinglikeAlbertFish]

Is that your former residence, Ayodeji, or have you just doxxed yourself?

[@cmasailor]

Enjoy my works but, buy it first; perhaps something of an anti-piracy notion I wonder?

[@edmilner]

I live in Stratford upon Avon. I'm not a conspiracist but almost certain that William Shakspeare'(Note the absence of 'c') is not the man who wrote the plays.

[@TheFriendoftheFunk]

Why?

[@abcdefghijklmnnopqrstuvwxy2312]

Of course he has a pipe.