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

The Renaissance came to England late, thanks to a Hundred Years War that ran long and lasted 116 years, and then a civil war to decide who would be the royal family. BUT after all that, with the Tudors (relatively) securely installed on the throne, there was a flowering of humanism, science, and culture. Theater was a big part of it. Today, we're talking about the London theater scene and the playwrights that set the stage...ahem...for the main man of English Theater, William Shakespeare.

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[sadie]

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

[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.

[detergenthwachae]

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

[pancreasnostalgia]

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

[LukeBunyip]

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

[TheKasimkage]

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

[elimcneil]

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

[talideon]

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

[tracecharlie]

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

[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)

[camiloiribarren]

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.

[kayleedork]

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

[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.

[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!

[chrisfox]

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

[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.

[jezkeanuambrocio]

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)

[samr]

Lovely to finally see theatre spelt correctly