The History of English - Shakespeare (3/10)

This video shows us that Shakespeare invented over 2000 new words and phrases like eyeball, anchovy and puppy.

(Part 3 of 10)

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[HeatherWalt]

There needs to be a shakespear to english translation service like this!

[tgwn]

Big Bad Bill!!!! this is why i have so much respect for him. and putting his phraseology into iambic pentameter is just the icing on the cake.pure genius

[tarorave]

I need to study this entire series. But I don't care because they are awesome. Greating from Belgium :)

[andvoid]

My personal thanks for including a transcript link

[robkunkel]

True … Shakespeare’s “invention” of words was probably just the use of contemporary expressions. But he used them so well.

[AmberTheFangirl]

we watched this in English about 2 weeks ago and our homework is to design a leaflet about Shakespeare xD

[s]

Great video! Thanks for uploading this!

[msolg.]

Love this and the other nine. They are great, charming, fast, frenetic and funny and many other things for which I do not have a word

[UniqueLanguagesLondon]

Great video. I saw the world record made yesterday at Middle Temple in London. All the words were recited in under nine minutes. It is probably best to avoid the word "invented" though as most of them were probably around before Shakespeare had written them down.

[apollocobain]

Lewis Carroll: 2000? Hold my beer....

Twas bryllyg, and þe slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in þe wabe:
All mimsy were þe borogoves;
And þe mome raths outgrabe
Etc.

[tomorrowneverknows]

I love Shakespeare, he really did know how to use the English language beautifully. I know this has been said many times before; I just figured I'd throw my own two, unoriginal cents in on my favorite author.

[dwilmer]

Most people pretend to like shakespeare just to impress everyone else pretending to like shakespeare. Honestly, who would read his crap if it wasnt required reading?

[DjonnxNeller]

Invented about 2000 words and phrases
He may have heard them, and then written them down
Opened a lot of tea rooms in Stratford

[imcustomized]

@SWEDISHnFINNISH It's not that he "couldn't" spell it; it's simply that spelling was more fluid -- less codified -- at that time.

[EverythingShakespeare]

Fun series to watch. Thanks for posting!

[Fjesilva]

The Tempest. This is the literary
testament of Shakespeare 403 years later. That I have deducted in one
night.




I do not know why the Shakespearean
experts speak of the island as an imaginary place, or the Bermuda
Islands, and another hypothesis. The island of The Tempest, Is
England. The tests are here.




Shakespeare wanted, and prayed, for
Spain to invade England, and Catholics to be liberated. Although he
feels very English. Nobody wants to imagine that Shakespere, the most
universal English, wanted Spain to invade England, because England
builds its national identity remembering the year 1588. But this is
the truth:




Precisely because Shakespeare secretly
practiced Catholicism, and his family had been recused and
impoverished, he wrote the Tempest to vent, because of the Protestant
intolerance against Catholics. It was the last play, and he risked
reprisals and left the theater. The tempest that disperses the ships
(not the English action, because later there were more invincible
navies, 2nd and 3rd, of 1596 and 1597, dispersed by storms). But the
tempest could also bring an army to rescue the Catholics of the
island. Who lives on the island of Shakespare's Tempest? They had
lived Sycorax before. Look for Sycorax in Wikipedia, for example: "An
especially odd and early guess at a meaning by one critic was sic or
rex, a Latin homophone alluding to Queen Elizabeth's pride".
Elisabeth Sycorax only appears in the named text. She is described as
a ruthless witch who has already died. Now there is Caliban, which is
a cannibal transformation. Caliban is the son of Elisabeth (who
brought Protestantism again after the death of Maria Tudor).
Protestant cannibals are "eating" Catholics. Shakespeare is
very cruel to Caliban, who is a deformed being, "like
Protestantism then?" But who lives abandoned on that desert
island of the Tempest? (It can be deserted if they kill us all,
thinks Shakespeare). Live Miranda (María Tudor), "daugther"
of Prospero, Duke of Milan (Felipe II of Spain was Duke of Milan, and
before King of England, and the great protector of Catholicism in
Europe) Who commanded the invincible army of 1588 ?: Alonso Pérez de
Guzmán (who was captain general of Lombaría, Milan). Who commanded
the navy in the text of Shakespeare? a man named Alonso, king of
Naples. Always Italy, where the Pope is, and always Spanish
territories in Italy. Who is the greatest traitor in Spain in
history? Antonio Pérez, who betrayed Felipe II, and traveled to
England to ally with Elisabeth. Shakespeare met Antonio Pérez.
Shakespare makes a caricature of Antonio Pérez in "Lovers of
Verona", and called him Mr. Armada. Who is the greatest traitor
in the Tempest? Antonio, who has stolen Prospero (Felipe II) the
title of Duke of Milan, has usurped the name of Spain.




The daughter of Alonso (head of the
real and fictitious army) is called Claribel. How could Spain invade
England? Taking troops from the Netherlands, to embark them in the
army. Who was the Spanish sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands,
daughter of Philip II, king who sent the army? Isabel Clara Eugenia.
Isabel Clara Eugenia was proposed to be queen of France. The King of
France rejected the proposal, but in return he made France Catholic.
"Paris is worth a Mass". Shakespeare was thinking that this
was a solution for England, a wedding like that of Philip and Mary,
an invasion, or the solution that there was in France, to bring
Catholicism to England. In addition, Claribel comes from Tunisia,
where the uncle of Isabel Clara Eugenia, had just left the Moors
expelled from Spain by infidels. Sycorax (Elisabeth) fue expulsada de
Argel, por hacer brujería, era menos cristiana que los argelinos.
Who is the servant of Prospero and Felipe II: Ariel, the wind, who
has a childish spirit, and does not always obey Prospero. But
Prospero reminds him of Ariel, that he rescued him from Sycorax.
When? When Philip II of Spain was king of England he brought
Catholicism. So in The Tempest, Ariel brings the ships to England.
Shakespare could not go further without discovering his intention.
The text of the Tempest is full of much more subtle allusions, almost
on each page, showing the suffering and relief of Shakespare. The
text talks about the barrels of wine from Jerez (Spain) that the
fleet brings to fill the whole island, and that are hidden in a cave
(wine for Catholic Masses, which were hidden in the 17th century? )He
wanted what he thought was best for England.





What is the last sentence of the
Tempest, the farewell phrase of Shakespeare from the theaters? A
Catholic phrase.

[Larry]

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[naizaguy]

Probably he was not smart enough to be able to foretell that people would entertain such distasteful tendencies of monumentalizing the greatness. However, it is precisely due to this natural predisposition that his works were rendered immortal. Immortal yet dead concomitantly. What is a monument but a gravestone to remark upon the elapsed ebbs of greatness?

[chasch]

I know it's meant to be funny, but people didn't drink tea in England yet in the Elizabethan age!

@ihnlChiv Shakespeare would also change change words to make new ones, like the word "amazement" our of "maze"; as in, you're so confused that you feel like you're in a maze, which came to mean: in wonderment. People would understand the word from the context, and then start using them because it was fashionable to try new ones out!

[Contextcatcher]

Those new words had surely some 'woody' quality....
(See "The Monty Pythons best sketch ever"...in remembrance of Graham Chapman... alias Mansfield: "You can't beat wood" )