The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #13

[@sadie2490]

"What you egg" *he stabs him*-Macbeth, scene 2, act 4, page 5

[@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026]

Sood Sood yaaaaas.

[@snoballuk]

"Excuse me, I'm looking for The Theatre." "Oh you can't miss it, it's right next to The Barn."

[@thriftyfreebies]

You should do a video just on Christopher Marlowe. Fascinating guy.

[@pancreasnostalgia]

I visited The Globe when I went to England years ago. It was such a neat place.

[@detergenthwachae]

I checked your channel like literally 5 minutes ago, because I need something covering Shakespeare. THANK YOU

[@michellestoaevertsson3830]

CrashCourse is a goldmine.

[@detergenthwachae]

Michelle Stoa Evertsson I KNOW, RIGHT?

[@wanderlustlovelace]

There's also Crash Course Literature, which covers some of Shakespeare's plays!

[@detergenthwachae]

Illyria Brejcha cool thank you!

[@LukeBunyip]

The Alchemist by Ben Johnson is one of my favourite plays. Was nice to get some historical context. Ta muchly Mike and Boney.

[@elimcneil676]

If anyone is interested, for clarity's sake, Christopher Marlowe receiving a "Master's degree" in this case means that he received a Master of Arts degree, which, while it is a degree with "Master" in the title, making the statement technically correct, a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge was and is an undergraduate degree. It is attained by essentially remaining an undergraduate for about three years after attaining the Bachelor of Arts, and is not considered a graduate degree in the way the majority of MAs are. This is the case not only with Cambridge, but with Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin.

[@SrValeriolete]

Gosh, after that tittle you don't even need to watch the play

[@TheKasimkage]

Billy Wiggleharpoon is a hilarious name and I want to use it everywhere now.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Much to do about nothing, so to learn or not to learn about Shakespearean plays and what muses plagued this man. Loved your lesson, Mike.

[@WhimsicalEloquence]

Christopher Marlowe didn’t “earn a Master’s Degree”. He took his BA after his undergraduate studies and then, a few years later, became eligible to (loosely speaking) convert that degree to an MA. This is still how MA degrees are awarded at Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin. In Marlowe’s case he was very nearly not allowed to proceed to his MA as the University believed he’d tried to become a Roman priest, but an intervention by the Privy Council (probably to indicate that he had in fact been spying for the Queen) allowed him to proceed to MA - a degree of status rather than achievement.

[@kayleedork6153]

I really hope that there will be a cc art history and a cc music history.

[@erindekker6121]

LOVE THIS!!!!! binge watching atm

[@talideon]

A curate isn't a priest's assistant, but the junior priest/vicar/rector in a diocese.

[@Biscuitsdefortune]

I heard "carrot" and I was really wondering.

[@PastPresented]

The "priest's assistant" definition is only a slight over-simplification for the situation in early Protestant England. Where the clergyman in charge of a parish was, for any reason, unable to fulfil all of the relevant duties, one or more curates would be paid to do the work (later, as population grew, the concept of the "perpetual curate," a vicar in charge of a parish which had been carved out of a larger historical parish, was created).

[@Peringon]

I would have really liked an episode on Ben Jonson and one on Marlowe (just to reinforce the idea that Shakespeare didn't came from nowhere)

[@trace1983charlie]

This was educational and entertaining just like the theatre. I loved it

[@chrisfox6780]

Um... its Shakesbeard and hes a famous pirate.

[@CaptainRiterraSmith]

A video illuminating the theater tradition that gave us Shakespeare, three whole episodes on the Bard himself? Oh what glorious wondrous news is this!

[@MKPiatkowski]

I've actually seen Gammer Gurton's Needle , done by Poculi Ludique Societas in Toronto. It's pretty funny.

[@s-idney]

I love how the skull represents both the part of audience that is dead as in a dead crowd and "dead" as in dying from laughter. It's makes his jokes seem like they're for Mike rather than the audience.

[@jezkeanuambrocio1472]

If we're going to do three episodes on Shakespeare, I think it's reasonable to do at least one full episode on Sondheim (although they probably have already filmed all episodes at this point)

[@becool365]

Seeing as I am specialising in Theatre design, early English theatres were definitely inspired by what the French call "The English Garden" . Or as we know them in the UK, Greens. These are usually square and form the courtyards of many buildings of the period. Britain itself had a lot of planned medieval settlements due to ferocious castle building and all those wars and the fact they carried on the building style from the Roman Villas. There was often a lot of participants in the English theatre and that was actually the most expensive seat you can get and the actors and plays were usually designed to be viewed from all sides. Something that is retained to this day in a lot of modern concert halls but rarely in theatre. As modern theatres are usually inspired by Greek and Roman designs with regards to the positioning of the stage and auditorium in relation to one another.

[@astarteswillum5259]

I could never have come up with such a creative name like The Theatre.

[@abrahamel-gothamy6472]

Hey, i love the series that you guys are doing. Also, I have a request; when you do talk about Shakespeare, can you please explain why he's so famous for theater? I've always wondered why he was that one playwright that stood above all others. I had one professor praise him as genius. Yet, another professor said he's only popular because of high school English.

[@blasterjosh]

I think part of that is that Queen Elizabeth enjoyed his works so that upped his status

[@NoelleMar]

1) Well, part of it is personal taste. By popular opinion, his plays have "stood the test of time" and are still loved today. So the idea that he's a genius has some standing, especially considering some people who hated him in English loved him as they encountered him on the stage. 2) A lot of plays from the time were lost, and Shakespeare was one of the most successful playwrights of his time. So we have a huge percentage of his plays in comparison to many other contemporary playwrights. He also had the very unusual "honor" of having most of his works saved by his friends in a folio, after his death.

[@rileypetrando]

Don't listen to your professors biases, you need to tune that out. Facts only

[@rileypetrando]

Make your own opinions

[@TheRachaelLefler]

Well, I think it's that his plays have more universality to them. They touch on themes important to all people, whereas some lesser-known stories of this time might be considered only of interest to the people of that time. This also happened with Shakespeare himself, his most successful plays at the time were history plays, which are cool but they don't teach them in high school because they're gruesome and because they don't want to bother teaching the history, I guess? But at that time the English wanted a sense of their own history. Now, we teach plays like Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet, I think, because these ones touch on more universally applicable themes. Concepts like love, grief, lust, revenge, friendship, family duty, etc. And these are what makes Shakespeare last when other playwrights did not.

[@BlueTyphoon7]

Did I ever tell you of the Tragedie of Darth Plagues the wise?

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Nay

[@jamiee7367]

I thought the like. 'Tis not a storie ye Jeday would tell thee. 'Tis a legend of ye Sith.

[@toffeeFairy]

I just clicked on an random video from crashcourse and who doo I see? The guy from Idea Channel, great made my, well night

[@gunnarradtke9372]

GET THEE TO A NUNERY!

[@HeleenvdD]

Billy Wiggleharpoon. Genius.

[@Galebreth]

Omg! I missed you!

[@katiemoss7578]

You can still go to a reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe which perform plays in the way as we're played back then

[@salpivartivarian1615]

I'm doing some light studying of Renaissance (or "early modern") British theater, and I saw Ben Johnson mentioned elsewhere. Is there a reason he was omitted in this video?

[@jordynstern8137]

My kingdom for a dedicated Marlowe episode!

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

And The Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare. The Globe.

[@quiroz923]

From now on I will refer to good ol Billy Shakes as Billy Wiggle Harpoon.

[@jeffreybernath6627]

Last episode I was CERTAIN that Yorick's skull was added in post-production. Now I am impressed by how neat and tidy his arrival is.

[@sammibeth0182]

I love this series. I'm a drama teacher so this is soooo helpful!

[@mustardsfire22]

The Needle play sounds hilarious, but then again, I'm fond of slapstick.

[@MKPiatkowski]

If you get a chance, see it.

[@cleveque]

This is packed with jargon and offhand references to concepts that aren't explained and I expect won't be understood by the uninitiated, like me.

[@aby3702]

great video! love it 😂

[@bublezzsanchez5297]

Why isn't any video about lope de vega or the Golden century in Spain?

[@MKPiatkowski]

It's coming.

[@vsmash2]

*grumbles in german* Faust huh?

[@bananana611]

Just a random thought but is Hank still on crash course?

[@varana]

He does the History of Science course that's going on at the moment.

[@Beryllahawk]

This was a great video! Love me some Marlowe.

[@bloodstock66]

Why is Henry the VII holding euros ?

[@pattiwilling6504]

Love this channel! Thank you! 👏

[@vrixphillips]

here's hoping there's an episode on the French writers Corneille, Moliere, and Racine

[@varana]

In the end, it's an Anglo show. Looking at how ridiculously important Shakespeare in the English-speaking world is, three episodes seems about right.

[@abbyfarquhar5552]

A good gift from the crash course gods

[@dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd]

can you do a history about yugoslavia wars. can you add niko bellic from grand theft auto 4 because in the game he fought in the war

[@marccohen1335]

Would have been funnier to say that the needle in Gammer Gurton's Needle is found when the servant gets not stabbed but PRICKED in the butt. That just sounds a lot funnier. Great video. I learned a lot.

[@AvidFire]

Nice thing with the skull

[@hudamushthaque614]

Lovely!

[@ADEYENO]

why did you not make this when I was doing my hw I regret taking most of the info from the internet

[@lexeousaol661]

They should do a crash course on music theory, because that stuff is really confusing

[@BuangeLana]

Dudn't James Burbage firs owned pub Red Lion and later on with more finances build The Theatre? Great videos :D

[@epsereth]

Billy Wiggleharpoon is going to destroy me, Mike

[@nanalove6984]

PLLLLEAAASSSEEE put all of your CRASH COURSE VIDEOS ON A DVD FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO BUY IT. It is beautiful that you give away thins information for free, and we are so grateful but God forbid your channel or videos ever got deleted, or youtube ever were to shut down it would be awesome if we could have it in a dvd to have this informative lessons forever. And maybe you should also even your own website if you do not have one yet to also have another platform to put this on.

[@anythingagency8516]

Look. I get it. You're tired of William Shakespeare.

[@MisterDrBob]

Oh thank god, you mentioned John Lyly. I was about to get real mad if you didn't. I just wrote an entire thesis on his influence on Shakespeare.

[@robodragonn9506]

"Billy Wiggleharpoon" had me in stitches

[@ericvilas]

Cambises deserved a Homestuck joke in this episode :P

[@francoislacombe9071]

How many ways can someone pronounce "curtain"?

[@Zeldarw104]

good job.👈👍

[@whydoilike]

I have to do this for school. *sigh* *big, big, big sigh*

[@awizardintraining]

Was hoping for more Marlowe. Oh well

[@LeVar98125]

Here I thought this was a video about Shakespeare being an actor and a guy named Francis Bacon being mistaken

[@jamestang1227]

will we eventually talk about Molière and other European play writes

[@josephyml]

whoa, voldemort wrote meter?

[@phoebemurtagh3059]

Eye poking? Such violence!

[@eugenio5774]

why henry VII holds euros in his hand?

[@zolacnomiko]

BILLY WIGGLEHARPOON

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@JimBob4233]

Is he saying 'Tudor' or 'Tutor'?

[@lilyharrell4037]

2020 club

[@GamerGoingGrey]

That's a lot of Thomases

[@staratara98]

Can crash course do a religion series?

[@maemae1531]

WHERE MY SOMETHING ROTTEN PEOPLE AT?

[@Udontkno7]

Mae Mae AYO

[@disneyintrovert517]

HEYYYY

[@maemae1531]

stickysyrupboi Willy Shakespeare

[@bellasgonemissing9705]

when he said someone called Shakespeare an 'upstart crow' I was like is this Nick Bottom talking

[@maemae1531]

bellasgonemissing omg same!!! i saw a game at the store that was called "bards dispense profanity" and I have a feeling Nick,Nigel,Portia,and Bea would gather round and mock Willy with the game...

[@mustang6172]

I didn't hear any Ben Jonson in there.

[@matrinoxtm]

How ironic that Shakespeare is the thing most of our schools teach...

[@sugami82]

Upstart Crow is a funny show, think it's on Netflix :)

[@bellavincent528]

That dude and Christopher Marlowe look kinda similar lol

[@SpacemanSam13]

Ralph Roister Doister makes me Moister than an Oyster

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

Get thee to a cloister!

[@bibiking164]

Who's this guy? He's cute AND witty :)

[@antivanti]

Fried Bacon?

[@paineoftheworld]

Je compterai le temps jusqu'au Bard.

[@ajg4109]

The Game

[@jasoncromwell4206]

That’s not a play name that’s a Wikipedia entry or Fiona Apple title.

[@wizardgherkin]

Fried pig trotters git yer fried pig trotters 'ere!

[@rob1728]

hi

[@theordinary8526]

M-M-Macbe-e-e-----

[@Nihilnovus]

I loved old English and still use it today

[@Daruqe]

That's Early Modern English not Old English.

[@lsamaknight]

Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote in Early Modern English, not Old English. Beowulf is in Old English and that's nearly 900 years before the Bard.

[@popebaad6015]

lsamaknight screw using BC, use BTB (before the bard)

[@Udontkno7]

Shakespeare was Early Modern English. You wouldn't understand old English. Most wouldn't anyways.

[@sorayacatfriend]

lsamaknight Beowulf is Middle English, not Old English.

[@TheRachaelLefler]

I want "master of revels" on my Linkedin.

[@carlottafitchett3197]

*theatre

[@Firegen1]

Kit Marlowe is my senpai.

[@yusefedwardsproductions2148]

hi😀 HI

[@hemalatabhat9497]

👍👌👌👌

[@siddhivinayakmisra9423]

Please bring back John Green

[@rainydaylady6596]

Now I understand what the British show Upstart Crow is based on. Good to know it's not something someone made up. 😃

[@JimCullen]

Darcy Kahler Upstart Crow is an amazing show with so many little nuggets of real history! Like Marlowe being a spy is used as a running gag, and the stuff about William trying to get a Shakespeare coat of arms for his dad.

[@cholten99]

Indeed - and Shakespear secretly writing all of Marlowe's plays when it's often been mooted the other way around.

[@sunoosdimples]

God, I hate Shakespeare. Okay I said it - something rotten

[@BuzzKiller]

No Shakespeare is good Shakespeare.

[@isaiahborcsa5177]

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