Understanding Shakespeare
Summary
TLDRDieses Video-Skript präsentiert William Shakespeare als einen der größten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller, der je gelebt hat. Es erklärt seinen Einfluss und seine Schreibweise, die sich an verschiedene soziale Schichten richtet, indem er Prosa und Versdichtung variiert. Shakespeares Werke, besonders seine Sonette, werden durch die Verwendung von Spiritualität und Sinnlichkeit in einer Gleichgesinntschaft dargestellt, was das Publikum von der tiefen Liebe zwischen den Figuren überzeugt. Das Video ermutigt dazu, Shakespeares Werke neu zu entdecken oder zum ersten Mal zu lesen.
Takeaways
- 🎭 William Shakespeare wird als einer der größten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller aller Zeiten angesehen und wird von seinen Bewunderern und Zeitgenossen als 'The Bard' bezeichnet.
- 👑 Shakespeare wurde von Königin Elisabeth I. und später von König James I. beauftragt, um Dramen zu schreiben, die die Linie ihrer Familien ehrt.
- 📜 Die Schreibweise Shakespeares reflektiert die Praxis des Globe Theatre, wo er sowohl für Adelige als auch für einfache Bürger schrieb und damit eine breite soziale Bandbreite ansprach.
- 🎨 Shakespeare verstand es, seine Schreibweise zwischen Prosa und Vers zu wechseln, um die verschiedenen Zuschauerreize zu berücksichtigen und eine ansprechende Darbietung zu bieten.
- 🤹♂️ Prosa wurde normalerweise für komische Rollen und Charaktere niedriger Stellung verwendet, um die Zustimmung der 'Groundlings' (Zuschauer im Pit) zu gewinnen.
- 🎭 Vers wurde für Charaktere höherer Klassifizierung verwendet, um die Zuschauer der höheren Schichten zu unterhalten, die eine größere Vokabelschatz und komplexe Charakterentwicklung schätzen.
- 📝 Shakespeares berühmteste Zeilen sind oft in Versform geschrieben, da sie für die Zuschauer der Oberschicht ansprechender sind und eine anspruchsvollere Sprache verwenden.
- 📚 Die Sonette von Shakespeare können durch ihre Reimschema, Rhythmus und Struktur identifiziert werden, wobei die meisten in iambischen Pentameter geschrieben sind.
- ❤️ In 'Romeo und Julia' nutzt Shakespeare Sonette, um die Liebe zwischen den Hauptfiguren darzustellen und gleichzeitig ein höheres, geistlicheres Bild von ihrer Beziehung zu zeichnen.
- 🔍 Die Sprache Shakespeares ist dichte und mehrschichtig, was das Verständnis erschwert, aber mit einem guten Verständnis der Erwartungen und Suche nach bestimmten Elementen wird das Lesen angenehmer.
- 📖 Shakespeares Worte waren nie für das Lesen gedacht, sondern für die Aufführung, und das Wissen um seine Schreibweise hilft, die Texte besser zu genießen.
Q & A
Was ist das Hauptthema des Skripts?
-Das Hauptthema des Skripts ist die Analyse von William Shakespeares Schreibstil und die Erklärung, wie er seine Werke für ein vielfältiges Publikum schuf.
Welche Bedeutung hatte Shakespeare in seiner Zeit?
-Shakespeare war in seiner Zeit hoch geschätzt und wurde als 'The Bard' mit einer Autorität verglichen, die ähnlich der eines Präsidenten oder einer Gottheit ist.
Welche Rolle spielten die Lord Chamberlain's Men im Leben Shakespeares?
-Die Lord Chamberlain's Men waren eine Schauspieltruppe, der Shakespeare angehörte und die das berühmte Globe Theater gründete, in dem seine Stücke aufgeführt wurden.
Was war die Herausforderung für Dramatiker während der Zeit, in der Shakespeare schrieb?
-Die Herausforderung bestand darin, ein Publikum mit unterschiedlichem sozialen Status zu unterhalten, das sowohl Adlige als auch einfache Bürger umfasste.
Wie unterscheidet sich Prosa von Vers in Shakespeares Werken?
-Prosa ist wie heutiges normales Schreiben ohne Reimstruktur, während Vers Poesie ist, die normalerweise für Charaktere höheren Standes und komplexere Themen verwendet wird.
Welche Rolle spielte die soziale Stellung des Publikums bei der Art und Weise, wie Shakespeare schrieb?
-Shakespeare schrieb in verschiedenen Stilen, um sowohl die Adligen als auch die einfachen Bürger zu unterhalten, was sich in der Verwendung von Prosa und Vers widerspiegelt.
Was ist ein Sonett und wie wird es in Shakespeares Werken verwendet?
-Ein Sonett ist eine Form der Poesie mit 14 Zeilen, einem bestimmten Reimschema und einer Struktur, die Shakespeare verwendete, um Charaktere und Themen zu entwickeln.
Wie viele Silben enthält eine Zeile in einem Shakespeare'schen Sonett?
-Jede Zeile eines Shakespeare'schen Sonetts enthält 10 Silben und folgt dem Iambischen Pentameter.
Was ist die Bedeutung der letzten Zeile (Couplet) in einem Sonett?
-Das Couplet im Sonett dient normalerweise als eine Art Schlußfolgerung, die das Thema oder die Idee, das in den Quatrains erkundet wurde, zusammenfasst.
Wie unterscheidet man Prosa und Vers in Shakespeares gedruckten Werken?
-Prosa erscheint normalerweise als durchgehende Zeilen von Rand zu Rand, während Vers in engerer, linksbündiger Form erscheint, oft mit einem scharfen rechten Rand, der durch den Reim oder Rhythmus bestimmt wird.
Was ist die Botschaft hinter der Verwendung von spirituellen und sinnlichen Bildern in Shakespeares Sonett?
-Die Verwendung von spirituellen und sinnlichen Bildern in Shakespeares Sonett soll die tiefe und reine Liebe zwischen den Charakteren ausdrücken und gleichzeitig eine kontrastierende Wirkung erzielen.
Outlines
🎭 Shakespeares Schreibstil und die Bedeutung des Theaters
Dieses Absatz beschäftigt sich mit William Shakespeare, der als einer der größten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller aller Zeiten gilt. Es wird erläutert, wie sein Schreibstil und die Art und Weise, wie er Szenen und Charaktere schuf, von der Atmosphäre und der Struktur des Globe Theatre beeinflusst wurden, in dem seine Stücke uraufgeführt wurden. Shakespeare verstand, wie er zwischen Prosa und Verswechseln konnte, um sowohl die Aristokratie als auch die einfachen Bürger zu unterhalten. Er schuf so ein Gleichgewicht, das sowohl für die Aufführung als auch für die finanzielle Unterstützung der Aristokratie von Bedeutung war.
📜 Die Kunst der Sonette in Shakespeares Werken
In diesem Absatz wird auf die Verwendung von Sonetten durch Shakespeare eingegangen, die durch ihre besondere Struktur, Reimschema und Rhythmus gekennzeichnet sind. Es wird erklärt, wie Shakespeare diese Form nutzen konnte, um Charaktere und Themen in seinen Dramen zu entwickeln, und wie die Sonette in 'Romeo und Julia' als Mittel zur Darstellung einer tieferen, geistigen Liebe zwischen den Hauptfiguren dienen. Die Analyse des Reimschemas und der Iambischen Pentameter-Rhythmus zeigt, wie Shakespeare die Sprache und die Poesie genutzt hat, um die Emotionen und das Schicksal seiner Charaktere zu unterstreichen.
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Keywords
💡Shakespeare
💡Globe Theater
💡Pros und Verse
💡Sonette
💡Iambische Pentameter
💡Reimschema
💡Charakterentwicklung
💡Soziale Schicht
💡Dichtung und Wahrheit
💡Performativität
Highlights
Shakespeare is often referred to as The Bard, a term implying authority and headship in the world of poetry.
Queen Elizabeth I commissioned Shakespeare to write plays honoring her family's lineage, including Richard III and Henry V.
Shakespeare's writing style had to cater to a diverse audience, including both nobility and commoners, in the Globe Theater.
The Globe Theater's structure, with its three tiers of galleries and a pit for commoners, influenced Shakespeare's playwriting approach.
Shakespeare alternated between prose and verse to appeal to different social classes within the audience.
Prose was used for comedic relief and characters of lower stature, making the plays accessible to commoners.
Verse was utilized for characters of higher class, engaging the nobility with complex vocabulary and themes.
Shakespeare's plays needed the approval of both the audience and the financial support of the nobility to succeed.
Many of Shakespeare's most famous lines are written in verse, showcasing his mastery of the form.
The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet includes three quatrains and a couplet, with a specific rhyme scheme.
Iambic pentameter is the predominant rhythm in Shakespeare's sonnets, with each line consisting of 10 syllables.
Shakespeare's use of sonnets in plays like Romeo and Juliet signifies a higher form of love and partnership.
The spiritual and sensual imagery in Shakespeare's sonnets creates a contrast that adds depth to the characters' relationships.
The call and response pattern in the sonnet spoken by Romeo and Juliet indicates an equal partnership in their romance.
Shakespeare's writing is dense and multi-layered, offering a rich experience when read with an understanding of its context.
Shakespeare's works were meant to be experienced through performance rather than just read on the page.
The Norton anthology of Shakespeare's complete works is recommended for those interested in exploring his poetry and plays in depth.
Transcripts
[Music]
if I profane with my unworthiest hand
this holy Shrine the gentler sin is this
my lips two blushing pilgrims ready
stand to smooth that rough touch with a
tender kiss good
Pilgrim you do wrong your hand too much
which manly devotion shows in this for
Saints have hands that Pilgrim's hands
do
touch and palm to Palm is the holy
Palmer's kiss have not Saints lips and
holy Palmer too I Pilgrim lips that they
must use in prayer oh then dear Saint
let lips do what hands do they pray
Grant thou lest Faith turn to despair
Saints do not
move though grant for prayer sake then
move not while my prayers effect I take
through childhood past schooling and
into adulthood we've been told time and
time again that William Shakespeare is
perhaps the greatest English-speaking
writer to ever live after all his
admirers and peers would refer to him as
The Bard Bard meaning poet and that's
Bard with a capital B implying Authority
and headship similar to the way
presidents of clubs or universities are
lower case compared to the president of
the United States or how Norse and Greek
gods are lower case compared to the
judeo Christian God Shakespeare was so
highly regarded in his time that he was
commissioned by Queen Elizabeth the to
write plays that honored her family's
lineage including the famous histories
of Richard III and Henry V it's even
rumored that he was commissioned by
Queen Elizabeth's successor King James I
6 during production of the King James
Bible to reconstruct and lyze the Psalms
so we've seen Shakespeare's continued
influence throughout history but when we
sit down to pour over the text ourselves
it feels almost impenetrable like it was
written in another language in order for
us to better understand the nuances of
Shakespeare's complex writing styles we
must first acknowledge the context in
which these Works were created in the
late 16th century Shakespeare wrote and
performed as a part of the Lord
Chamberlain's men a troop of actors that
established the famous Globe Theater on
the outskirts of London and it's when we
examine how the globe practically
functioned as a theater that we begin to
understand Shakespeare's writing style
and the reasoning behind it the Globe
Theater was one of the first playhouses
constructed in London it consisted of
three tiers of galleries overlooking the
stage below and a standing area on the
ground surrounding the stage called the
pit or yard nobility sat in the
galleries which consisted of wooden
benches and roofs to protect from
inclement weather while the commoners
would occupy the pit below that was the
hardest task for playwrights at the time
you had to entertain a single room
consisting of vastly different ends on
the social status Spectrum there was
always the fear that either nobility
wouldn't endorse the play or the
commoners would openly Mock and Heckle a
play during the live show that's where
Shakespeare's Brilliance begins to show
he knew how to effectively alter his
writing style from character to
character and scene to scene in order to
resonate with the diverse audience he
would accomplish this by fluctuating
between pros and verse Pros is what we
would consider normal writing today made
up of sentences and paragraphs without
any rhyming structure whereas verse is
poetry Pros was usually attributed to
the comedic relief characters as well as
characters of lower stature this allowed
the audience specifically the
Groundlings in front of the stage to be
quickly entertained in such a way that
they could understand what was being
said by the actors on stage that way
they were invested in the story
throughout which kept them from growing
restless and bored and actively booing
and throwing food on the stage verse was
usually attributed to the characters of
higher class which would entertain the
audience members of higher stature due
to the greater working vocabulary and
complex character development and themes
they would enjoy seeing characters on
stage that resembled themselves
ultimately Shakespeare understood that
he had to please the miners in the
immediate for the individual performance
but he also knew that without the
approval and finances from nobility the
entire play itself would collapse and
fail that's why a vast majority of his
best lines are written in a form of
verse now is the winter of our
discontent to be or not to be that is
the
question oh Romeo
Romeo with four of the room you you
won't find a constant standard for when
Shakespeare switches between pros and
verse in his works because we're now
reading a format that varies from book
to book based on that particular book's
editor but in every book there's usually
a visual cue for the audience telling
them when the style of writing is
Shifting since Pros is plain speaking
it's common for those lines to run
continuously from margin to margin while
verse is usually made up of narrower
lines all aligned on the left creating
Jagged right- hand edges determined by
the end Rhyme or rhythm depending on the
editor they might also indent every
other line of poetry to align the end
Rhyme now verse encompasses many sub
genres of poetry but the main genre that
Shakespeare utilized is sonnets sonnets
can be identified by three attributes
rhyme scheme Rhythm and structure this
14line rhyme scheme is broken down into
three quatrains followed by a coulet
here the couplet serves a vital role
usually arriving in the form of a grand
conclusion to the theme or idea explored
in the quatrains in this example Romeo
and Juliet build a flirtation towards
the couet conclusion of their first
kiss the rhythm of these sonnets are
predominantly written in I Amic
pentameter in this style each sonnet
line consists of 10 syllables divided
into five pairs referred to as I AMS or
I Amic feet an AM is a metrical unit
made up of one unstressed syllable
followed by one stress syllable an
example of this unique Rhythm would be a
heartbeat
beat and that Rhythm sounds like this if
I profane with my unworthiest
hand now Shakespeare isn't only using
sonnets to appeal to the higher class
audience members he's also establishing
character and story elements the use of
poetry between Romeo and Juliet tells
the audience that this isn't a childish
lusting but true love this is a higher
faded love and what's unique about this
particular Sonet in the long list of
Shakespearean sonnets is that it's
spoken by two people there's a call and
response pattern that signifies that
this romance is an equal partnership
notice the spiritual imagery Shakespeare
uses throughout the sonnet words like
holy Saint prey sin and Faith are
contrasted with the imagery of Sensual
Body Parts such as hands and lips which
can be used for both praying and kissing
if we look at the next quatrain
immediately following this sonnet and
their first kiss the word sin is used
four times in immediate succession
perhaps foreshadowing that this romance
is doomed from the very
beginning Shakespeare's writing is dense
and multi-layered which can make it
extremely difficult but it helps to know
what to expect and look for when reading
however remember that Shakespeare's
words were never meant to be read on the
page they're to be experienced through
performance good
Pilgrim you to wrong your hand too
much which manly devotion shows in this
for Saints have hands that pilgrims
hands do touch and palm to Palm is Holy
Palmer's kiss have not Saints lips and
holy Palmer too I Pilgrim lips that they
must use in
prayer well then dear Saint let lips do
what hands do I pray Grant
thou lest Faith turn to despair
Saints do not move go grant for prayer
sake then move not while my prayers
affect I
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