Love and Friendship in Hamlet: David Bevington Harper Lecture

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• BE

  @bellringer929 · 4 years ago

  Some professors have a habit of cracking jokes even when talking about tragedies....and they deserve our appreciation for that

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• MR

  @MrGreencheetah · 7 years ago

  At seventy-three years of age, I can now really enjoy listening to such a distinguished professor - not so much when I was actually a student at Chicago.

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• SH

  @shyi1242 · 7 years ago

  He absolutely seems to be a very prestigious English scholar, but I really don't know what I have learned from this lecture...

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• XM

  @xmaseveeve5259 · 4 years ago

  Wonderful.

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• BE

  @bellringer929 · 4 years ago

  A long serious talk dies early.

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• AV

  @avellopublishing5851 · 10 years ago

  The current Avello Publishing Journal call-for-papers is December 1st 2015.

• CO

  @ContextShakespeare1740 · 5 years ago

  Everything seems to be problematic, if he only changed his perspective. He describes a chronology which is speculation, as fact. If he put the plays in the proper context, with the correct author the problems would disappear.

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• TH

  @TheWhitehiker · 4 years ago

  mumbling hard to follow--drop speed for better listening.

• NU

  @nurulahad3162 · 6 years ago

  what&apos;s the word he says @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcINjKluVB8&amp;t=840">14:00</a>

• MA

  @mauve9266 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcINjKluVB8&amp;t=480">8:00</a>

• FJ

  @Fjesilva · 7 years ago

  The Tempest. This is the literary<br>testament of Shakespeare 403 years later. That I have deducted in one<br>night.<br><br><br><br><br>I do not know why the Shakespearean<br>experts speak of the island as an imaginary place, or the Bermuda<br>Islands, and another hypothesis. The island of The Tempest, Is<br>England. The tests are here.<br><br><br><br><br>Shakespeare wanted, and prayed, for<br>Spain to invade England, and Catholics to be liberated. Although he<br>feels very English. Nobody wants to imagine that Shakespere, the most<br>universal English, wanted Spain to invade England, because England<br>builds its national identity remembering the year 1588. But this is<br>the truth:<br><br><br><br><br>Precisely<br>because Shakespeare secretly practiced Catholicism, and his family<br>had been recused and impoverished, he wrote the Tempest to vent,<br>because of the Protestant intolerance against Catholics. It was the<br>last play, and he risked reprisals and left the theater. The tempest<br>that disperses the ships (not the English action, because later there<br>were more invincible navies, 2nd and 3rd, of 1596 and 1597, dispersed<br>by storms). But the tempest could also bring an army to rescue the<br>Catholics of the island. Who lives on the island of Shakespare&apos;s<br>Tempest? They had lived Sycorax before. Look for Sycorax in<br>Wikipedia, for example: &quot;An especially odd and early guess at a<br>meaning by one critic was sic or rex, a Latin homophone alluding to<br>Queen Elizabeth&apos;s pride&quot;. Elisabeth Sycorax only appears in the<br>named text. She is described as a ruthless witch who has already<br>died. Now there is Caliban, which is a cannibal transformation.<br>Caliban is the son of Elisabeth (who brought Protestantism again<br>after the death of Maria Tudor). Protestant cannibals are &quot;eating&quot;<br>Catholics. Shakespeare is very cruel to Caliban, who is a deformed<br>being, &quot;like Protestantism then?&quot; But who lives abandoned<br>on that desert island of the Tempest? (It can be deserted if they<br>kill us all, thinks Shakespeare). Live Miranda (María Tudor),<br>&quot;daugther&quot; of Prospero, Duke of Milan (Felipe II of Spain<br>was Duke of Milan, and before King of England, and the great<br>protector of Catholicism in Europe) Who commanded the invincible army<br>of 1588 ?: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (who was captain general of<br>Lombaría , Milan). Who commanded the navy in the text of<br>Shakespeare? a man named Alonso, king of Naples. Always Italy, where<br>the Pope is, and always Spanish territories in Italy. Who is the<br>greatest traitor in Spain in history? Antonio Pérez, who betrayed<br>Felipe II, and traveled to England to ally with Elisabeth.<br>Shakespeare met Antonio Pérez. Shakespare makes a caricature of<br>Antonio Pérez in Love&apos;s Labour Lost, called him Don Adriano de<br>Armado. Who is the greatest traitor in the Tempest? Antonio, who has<br>stolen Prospero (Felipe II) the title of Duke of Milan, has usurped<br>the name of Spain.<br><br><br><br><br>The daughter of Alonso (head of the<br>real and fictitious army) is called Claribel. How could Spain invade<br>England? Taking troops from the Netherlands, to embark them in the<br>army. Who was the Spanish sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands,<br>daughter of Philip II, king who sent the army? Isabel Clara Eugenia.<br>Isabel Clara Eugenia was proposed to be queen of France. The King of<br>France rejected the proposal, but in return he made France Catholic.<br>&quot;Paris is worth a Mass&quot;. Shakespeare was thinking that this<br>was a solution for England, a wedding like that of Philip and Mary,<br>an invasion, or the solution that there was in France, to bring<br>Catholicism to England. In addition, Claribel comes from Tunisia,<br>where the uncle of Isabel Clara Eugenia, had just left the Moors<br>expelled from Spain by infidels. Sycorax (Elisabeth) fue expulsada de<br>Argel, por hacer brujería, era menos cristiana que los argelinos.<br>Who is the servant of Prospero and Felipe II: Ariel, the wind, who<br>has a childish spirit, and does not always obey Prospero. But<br>Prospero reminds him of Ariel, that he rescued him from Sycorax.<br>When? When Philip II of Spain was king of England he brought<br>Catholicism. So in The Tempest, Ariel brings the ships to England.<br>Shakespare could not go further without discovering his intention.<br>The text of the Tempest is full of much more subtle allusions, almost<br>on each page, showing the suffering and relief of Shakespare. The<br>text talks about the barrels of wine from Jerez (Spain) that the<br>fleet brings to fill the whole island, and that are hidden in a cave<br>(wine for Catholic Masses, which were hidden in the 17th century? )He<br>wanted what he thought was best for England. <br><br><br><br><br><br>What is the last sentence of the<br>Tempest, the farewell phrase of Shakespeare from the theaters? A<br>Catholic phrase.

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• NE

  @neilbrennan5766 · 5 years ago

  Can&apos;t speak coherent English. &nbsp;Has little to say. &nbsp;Does a poor job not saying it.