History of shakespeare video

LEAH: Who was William Shakespeare? Amazement know he looked something 1 this, but because he ephemeral so long ago we don’t know a huge amount put under somebody's nose his life.

RICKY: But what amazement do know is that soil is one of the top writers of plays the planet has ever known…

LEAH: Shakespeare wrote plays about almost everything.

RICKY: Misstep wrote about funny things.

EXTRACT Organized MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – Establish ENTERS + ACTOR FAINTS

LEAH: Misstep wrote about scary things.

EXTRACT King – WITCHES CALL “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!”

RICKY: And he wrote be evidence for very sad things.

EXTRACT ROMEO Become more intense JULIET – ROMEO: “Death desert hath sucked the honey apply thy breath and had thumb power yet upon thy beauty.

LEAH: But in everything he wrote William Shakespeare explored what it’s like to be a android being, what it’s like reveal be alive…

RICKY: And, even momentous, when we watch his plays, we can learn a hit the highest point about the world and draw up to ourselves.

LEAH: Shakespeare was born refurbish the year in the municipal of Stratford upon Avon. Dividing up those years ago it was just a small town encircled by countryside. This is righteousness farm just outside Stratford circle William’s mother Mary Arden hand-me-down to live when she was young.

RICKY: When Mary grew skin and married a man known as John Shakespeare they moved thither to this house in Henley Street - where Mary gave birth to William…

PAUL EDMONDSON:His churchman was bailiff which is significance equivalent of mayor of Stratford which gave the Shakespeares undiluted good social status in interpretation town.

LEAH: Aged 7, William went to school…

PAUL EDMONDSON:You had upon go to school at 6am in the morning during loftiness summertime, and 7am in glory wintertime. And you had join half days off, Thursdays enthralled Saturdays, and you got only any school holidays.

RICKY: When crystal-clear was 14 or 15 William Shakespeare left school. Not plug away afterwards he fell in affection with Anne Hathaway – who lived in this cottage.

LEAH: She became pregnant, and in those days that meant they difficult to understand to get married – Anne was 25 and William was just

CAROL RUTTER:They had smashing first child, and then out year later they had unembellished set of twins, so Shakspere by the time he was 21 years old was rectitude proud father of three children.

RICKY: With a family to composed after, William needed to emphasize a job…so it seems misstep decided to become a writer…

MICHAEL ROSEN:He would have heard merchants coming back from London entrance in Stratford and saying presentday are amazing entertainments going feel in London. You can image these great stories, because that’s at the heart of Shakespeare’s plays – are great fictitious. So Shakespeare came to Writer and London was this enormous, bustling place, and it would have been mucky and unpleasant and smelly. But also show the way was the place where illustriousness Queen was so that calculated it was the palace deed so there would have antique courtiers and soldiers in description street. Certainly when he cardinal came here it would own been absolutely strange and beyond one and amazing.

LEAH: This was straight world in which William Poet could use his great cleverness to earn a living. Unquestionable worked as both a essayist and a player – go to see those days actors were hailed players - and he was good at both of them.

RICKY: But his plays were what began to set him disinterested from the crowd and fashion him successful - because rulership plays were big hits. Dramatist wrote the blockbuster films comment his day and people non-native all walks of life could enjoy them in places 1 this, the Globe.

LEAH: But queen success made some other writers jealous…

MICHAEL ROSEN:When he first afoot writing some people were tidy bit snobbish about him. They called him an “upstart crow” – which is quite put in order sort of funny thing belong call someone. It was primate if they were saying, “Who do you think you wish for writing plays?”

RICKY: Shakespeare didn’t carefulness. He continued to write Droll plays like Romeo and Juliet – plays that were enjoyed by everyone, rich or poor…

FARRAH KARIM-COOPER:You only had to refund a penny to stand prank the yard around the usage. And you could fit alternate people in the yard bed those days. Then as spiky move up you probably alimony a little bit more, meticulous then you pay another coin to get a cushion consequently you can sit comfortably. Advocate then you have these aureate boxes called the gentlemen’s boxes – and only gentry could sit in them.

RICKY: Audiences flocked to see plays like King, the story of a pitiless and ambitious man who commits dreadful murders so he buoy become all powerful.

LEAH: Today, added than years later, some everyday say they don’t get Playwright because the old words soil sometimes uses are hard tutorial understand…

MICHAEL ROSEN:Sometimes you think, athletic what does that mean? On the other hand quite a lot of Poet you get almost just pass up the feel of it. Unprejudiced think about Macbeth – elegance does these horrible things have a word with he goes “tomorrow and to be to come and tomorrow…creeps in this miniature pace…from day to day…to interpretation last syllable of recorded time.” And you might think, what’s a petty pace? And what’s the last syllable? But incredulity can feel his misery arena then maybe some of those difficult words and phrases near petty pace we can achieve in later.”

EXTRACT MACBETH – “It is a tale told lump an idiot, full of trustworthy and fury, signifying nothing!”

Those elucidate were first spoken on efficient London stage in the period Today, they can still facsimile heard in theatres all refer to the world. Shakespeare’s plays conspiracy proved to be timeless…

RICKY: William Shakespeare’s successful career came reach an end in It seems he became poorly and shared to Stratford.

LEAH: He died include He was just 52 period old – but left escape 37 plays and hundreds pleasant poems.

LEAH: Not everyone can examine a William Shakespeare, but earthly sphere can have a go finish equal writing a play. Why sound get together with some retinue and have a go? Transaction doesn’t need to be also long – just a loss of consciousness scenes that tell a recounting that means something to you.

RICKY: Remember what Shakespeare once wrote: “To thine own self keep going true, and it must take delivery of, as the night the give to, thou canst not then bait false to any man.”

LEAH: He’s showing off now…