What would Shakespeare think of us? | Dan Poole & Giles Terera | TEDxMadrid
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0:10 - 0:11(Video)
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0:11 - 0:14[Shake-spism]
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0:14 - 0:15Giles Terera: Shakespism.
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0:15 - 0:16Dan Poole: Shakespism.
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0:16 - 0:18GT: Have you had Shakespism?
DP: Um ... -
0:18 - 0:22GT: Are you suffering from Shakespism now?
DP: Many suffer from it in their lives. -
0:22 - 0:24GT: Shakespism is ...
DP: Um ... -
0:24 - 0:26GT: You know when you -
DP: It can destroy people. -
0:26 - 0:28GT: It's a bit like being constipated.
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0:28 - 0:31DP: My mum suffered
from Shakespism for many years. -
0:31 - 0:33GT: It can be like indigestion,
only with Shakespeare. -
0:33 - 0:37DP: We've all suffered from it,
one of those difficult things to explain - -
0:37 - 0:40school, secondary school,
university, teachers, kids, adults. -
0:40 - 0:41GT: The OED definition is:
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0:41 - 0:46"an extreme and irrational,
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0:46 - 0:48to Shakespeare and his works."
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0:48 - 0:49DP: Uh.
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0:49 - 0:51GT: On the bus,
you pass the theater, it says, -
0:51 - 0:54"Shakespeare, Richard III, Shakespeare."
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0:54 - 0:56It's that feeling.
That feeling you had then. -
0:56 - 0:59DP: The problem with Shakespism
is it can be contracted. -
0:59 - 1:00It's an irrational response.
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1:00 - 1:03I can literally pass it on
to somebody else. -
1:03 - 1:08GT: I first found out that I was suffering
from Shakespism when I was about 16. -
1:08 - 1:11Our teacher said, "Next term,
we're going to be doing Macbeth." -
1:11 - 1:13All of a sudden, I just felt really sick.
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1:13 - 1:15This went on the whole term.
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1:15 - 1:16We started to read the play.
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1:16 - 1:19I went to the doctor who said,
"You've just got Shakespism." -
1:19 - 1:20So then, I felt fine.
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1:20 - 1:23DP: Two people in the room -
four, you've got four people. -
1:23 - 1:25One likes Shakespeare.
That's why Shakespism's bad. -
1:25 - 1:27It becomes about class ...
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1:27 - 1:29GT: Tell people about it,
they need to know. -
1:29 - 1:31DP: Shakespism's something
that we can solve. -
1:31 - 1:33Um ...
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1:33 - 1:36Shakespism will kill you
if you let it, so don't. -
1:36 - 1:38GT: You could be 2 years old
or 80 years old, -
1:38 - 1:39and you could suffer from it.
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1:39 - 1:41It's the silent killer.
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1:41 - 1:42DP: We can conquer it together.
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1:42 - 1:44GT: If I say the word to you now -
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1:44 - 1:45Shakespeare -
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1:45 - 1:48there that's that,
that feeling, that's Shakespism. -
1:49 - 1:51[shakespearefilm.com]
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1:51 - 1:54(End of video)
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1:54 - 1:55(Applause)
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1:55 - 1:56GT: Gracias.
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1:56 - 1:58(Applause)
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1:58 - 2:01Now, first of all, we've got to say
that we also didn't fly here, -
2:01 - 2:03we didn't take the plane either.
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2:03 - 2:04GT and DP: We drove.
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2:04 - 2:06GT: At least, we didn't take the plane.
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2:06 - 2:08Vale! So gracias, gracias.
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2:08 - 2:09(Laughter)
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2:09 - 2:15Now, a long time ago,
in a country far, far away, -
2:15 - 2:16(Laughter)
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2:16 - 2:20William Shakespeare got up one morning,
young William Shakespeare, 20 years old, -
2:20 - 2:24and he decided he wanted to leave
his nice quiet home in the countryside, -
2:24 - 2:27and he wanted to go to London
because he wanted to become an actor. -
2:29 - 2:32DP: 400 years later,
we did exactly the same thing. -
2:32 - 2:33(Laughter)
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2:33 - 2:36Now, Shakespeare was a man ...
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2:38 - 2:40He was a man that wrote great plays,
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2:40 - 2:43unless you choose
to believe that, you know, -
2:43 - 2:45someone else helped him write,
but that's not important to us. -
2:45 - 2:50What is important to us is to say
he shouldn't be put on a pedestal. -
2:50 - 2:51He's not a god.
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2:51 - 2:56He is a man that wrote great stories,
and I love a good story. -
2:56 - 2:57GT: I love a good story. We all do.
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2:57 - 2:59DP: We all love a good story:
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2:59 - 3:01Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth,
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3:02 - 3:05Romeo and Juliet in love,
dangerous Macbeth. -
3:06 - 3:08And that's where our story started -
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3:08 - 3:10with a story.
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3:10 - 3:13And I grew up in the north of England
in a small mining village. -
3:13 - 3:15GT: And I grew up in the south.
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3:15 - 3:17DP: And Shakespeare
was sort of somewhere over here. -
3:18 - 3:23And, when I was younger,
I had quite a few issues with Shakespeare. -
3:23 - 3:26When I was 11, I was studying
Romeo and Juliet, -
3:26 - 3:29and I didn't really
understand it, you know. -
3:29 - 3:31I sort of got, at the end,
that the two lovers, they die, -
3:31 - 3:33and I got that there was a sword fight,
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3:33 - 3:37but the other stuff, I didn't really
understand, and I didn't get it. -
3:37 - 3:40And I felt that - actually let
me explain - if I'd go back. -
3:40 - 3:43My English lessons when I was 11 years old
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3:43 - 3:45normally started off
with me being punched in the face. -
3:46 - 3:47I was very bullied by a guy.
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3:47 - 3:50Every week, on a Wednesday,
he'd punch me in the face. -
3:50 - 3:54So we've read the play.
This day, we're going to watch the film. -
3:54 - 3:57So my teacher says, "Go get it,
Dan, go and get the TV," -
3:57 - 4:00so already I'm kind of like,
"Well, when's the punch coming?" -
4:00 - 4:04So I go into the TV room, get the TV,
and bang, straight in the face. -
4:05 - 4:08So the first 15 minutes
of Romeo and Juliet on film, -
4:08 - 4:10I kind of missed, to be honest,
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4:10 - 4:13but when we then started watching it,
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4:14 - 4:19it felt like this gray outdated film
that wasn't really about me. -
4:20 - 4:26It was a 1960s or a 1970s
BBC version of the film -
4:26 - 4:29which had been filmed
like a theatrical performance. -
4:29 - 4:31So it didn't speak to me.
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4:31 - 4:35It was cold, it was stoic,
and you know, that's the thing, -
4:35 - 4:40it's like, if you're going to do it,
don't teach someone Shakespeare that way. -
4:40 - 4:44And also, don't ever tell someone
that if you're not clever, -
4:44 - 4:46you won't understand Shakespeare.
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4:46 - 4:50GT: Those are pretty bad ideas,
but the reason that we're all here today - -
4:50 - 4:52us, you,
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4:52 - 4:54and we've come here
to this beautiful building, -
4:54 - 4:56we've driven all this way -
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4:56 - 4:57is because of TED.
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4:57 - 5:02Now, the motto of TED
is "Ideas Worth Spreading." -
5:02 - 5:05"Ideas Worth Spreading."
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5:05 - 5:06Now, we think that's great,
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5:06 - 5:10but we also think that there's some ideas
that are not worth spreading. -
5:10 - 5:11(Laughter)
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5:11 - 5:12For instance,
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5:12 - 5:14when we were about to finish
our drama training -
5:14 - 5:16to become actors in London,
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5:16 - 5:19this big director came
into our drama school ... -
5:19 - 5:20DP: Gordo!
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5:20 - 5:21GT: He was huge.
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5:21 - 5:22(Laughter)
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5:22 - 5:24to help us with our audition practice.
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5:24 - 5:27The idea was we would do
our audition speech, -
5:27 - 5:28and he would give us advice.
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5:28 - 5:33Now, I had just discovered Hamlet,
and I loved Hamlet. -
5:34 - 5:38I really understood Hamlet.
I think I understood Hamlet. -
5:38 - 5:42He was young and he was angry
and he was missing his father -
5:42 - 5:44and he didn't trust anyone around him.
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5:44 - 5:48So I did my speech, "To be or not to be,"
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5:48 - 5:51and when I finished, the big director
stopped me, and he said ... -
5:51 - 5:54DP: "OK, OK, I think
we should just stop there ... " -
5:54 - 5:56GT: Wait, wait, wait there.
He was Scottish. -
5:56 - 5:57DP: Oh yeah,
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5:57 - 5:59(Laughter)
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5:59 - 6:00GT: Go ahead.
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6:00 - 6:03DP (With Irish brogue): "OK, OK,
I think we should stop right there. -
6:03 - 6:08Ah, you're never going to play Hamlet.
In fact, it's just not your casting." -
6:09 - 6:13GT: I'm never going to play Hamlet.
He said I'm never going to play Hamlet. -
6:13 - 6:15I loved Hamlet, but as I left the room,
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6:15 - 6:17I started to think
maybe the big director was right, -
6:18 - 6:20maybe I shouldn't play Hamlet,
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6:20 - 6:24and this little idea
started to work its way up my arm -
6:24 - 6:27and onto my shoulder
and whisper into my ear, -
6:27 - 6:31this little worm of an idea,
a head worm we call them, -
6:31 - 6:34that whispers in your ear
and says, "Psst. Psst. -
6:35 - 6:38You can't do Shakespeare.
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6:38 - 6:42Shakespeare isn't for you.
Shakespeare is for someone else. -
6:42 - 6:44You can't be Hamlet.
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6:44 - 6:47Hamlet isn't black, estúpido."
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6:47 - 6:48(Laughter)
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6:48 - 6:50DP: What! He's not black?
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6:50 - 6:51GT: Eh.
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6:51 - 6:54(Applause)
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6:54 - 6:58And this director
had infected me with his idea. -
6:58 - 7:00It was Shakespism at its worst.
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7:01 - 7:03And I was listening
to this head worm and believing it, -
7:03 - 7:06and I knew that if I didn't get rid
of this idea immediately, -
7:06 - 7:09it was going to work its way
into my brain and eat me. -
7:09 - 7:14So I remembered something,
a line that Hamlet says in the play, -
7:14 - 7:18and we thought of this line this summer
when we were watching the Olympics, -
7:18 - 7:21those incredible athletes in London.
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7:21 - 7:26Hamlet does not say,
"What a piece of work is a white man." -
7:27 - 7:30DP: And he does not say,
"What a piece of work is a poor man." -
7:30 - 7:34GT: "What a piece of work is a rich man."
DP: "What a piece of work is a big man." -
7:34 - 7:37GT: "What a piece of work
is an old man or a young man." -
7:37 - 7:39He says, "What a piece of work is a man.
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7:40 - 7:45How noble in reason.
How infinite in faculty. -
7:45 - 7:50In form and moving,
how express and admirable. -
7:50 - 7:55DP: In action, how like an angel.
In admiration, how like a dog." -
7:55 - 7:59GT: Those are ideas worth spreading.
Those are ideas worth spreading. -
8:01 - 8:05DP: So, school, drama school.
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8:05 - 8:06What happens when you leave?
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8:06 - 8:08You're down a job if you're lucky,
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8:08 - 8:11and some of us were lucky,
and some of us did work, -
8:11 - 8:12but what's interesting is,
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8:12 - 8:15if you never get an opportunity
to study Shakespeare -
8:15 - 8:17in performance after you've left,
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8:17 - 8:19it becomes this thing.
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8:19 - 8:23The Shakespism thing becomes a big deal,
like an elephant in the room. -
8:23 - 8:26Can I do it? Can I not do it?
Am I being haunted by - -
8:26 - 8:31Does Shakespeare maketh the actor?
Does Shakespeare maketh the man? -
8:31 - 8:33And, you know, I was in a position
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8:33 - 8:35where I wasn't really fortunate
to get opportunities. -
8:35 - 8:38So, I'm there, going,
"Can I do it? Am I good enough? -
8:38 - 8:42Should I be speaking Shakespeare?
Should I even be here on the stage? -
8:42 - 8:43What can I - "
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8:43 - 8:44GT: You're fine, you're doing well.
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8:44 - 8:45(Laughter)
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8:45 - 8:48This is what TED's all about,
ideas worth sharing, -
8:48 - 8:49DP: (Hoots)
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8:49 - 8:50(Laughter)
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8:50 - 8:52Without him, I am nothing.
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8:52 - 8:54GT: Ah, without him, I'm nothing.
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8:54 - 8:55DP: So what do you do?
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8:55 - 8:58OK, we decided we need
to look at why people are scared, -
8:58 - 9:01why people are intimidated
and put off by the language. -
9:01 - 9:04And the interesting thing is
when you live your life, -
9:04 - 9:09anything that happens to you
emotionally, physically, psychologically -
9:10 - 9:12happens to all
of Shakespeare's characters. -
9:12 - 9:16They've lived it before us.
It's there for you. -
9:17 - 9:18So,
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9:18 - 9:20we decided we'd make a film.
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9:20 - 9:22Now, it sounds a really easy thing to say,
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9:22 - 9:24and it was actually easy to say,
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9:24 - 9:29but the actual fact of making
a film is fraught with problems, -
9:29 - 9:31like money for a start.
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9:31 - 9:33How do you make a film
when you've never made a film? -
9:33 - 9:37And we decided, actually,
we'd just get out there and do it. -
9:37 - 9:41And there's a line that Macbeth
says to Lady Macbeth. -
9:42 - 9:44He says, "And if we fail?"
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9:45 - 9:47And she says,
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9:47 - 9:48GT: "We fail ... "
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9:48 - 9:49(Laughter)
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9:49 - 9:55"but screw your courage
to the sticking place and we'll not fail." -
9:55 - 9:57DP: Well, that's what we needed.
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9:57 - 10:00So we screwed our courage
to the sticking place, and off we went. -
10:00 - 10:01GT: Now, that was Macbeth,
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10:02 - 10:05but you could apply that to any
single situation that you can think of. -
10:05 - 10:07Screw your courage to the sticking place,
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10:07 - 10:09and we'll not fail.
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10:10 - 10:13Shakespeare is universal.
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10:14 - 10:20Ben Johnson, the famous English writer -
he was Shakespeare's amigo - said ... -
10:21 - 10:23When Shakespeare died, he said,
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10:23 - 10:28"Shakespeare was not
of an age, but for all time," -
10:29 - 10:33and we'd like to think that Shakespeare
was not just for a few people, -
10:33 - 10:35but he was for all the world.
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10:36 - 10:42Because we've all been young,
we've all been in love, right? -
10:42 - 10:43Yeah, right?
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10:44 - 10:47Sí, sí, sí! We've all been in love.
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10:47 - 10:51We've all wanted what someone else had.
We've all questioned life. -
10:52 - 10:53We've all wanted to murder someone.
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10:53 - 10:54DP: What?
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10:54 - 10:56(Laughter)
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10:58 - 11:00GT: Sí, sí, sí!
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11:00 - 11:02We've all wanted to murder someone.
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11:02 - 11:05DP: I haven't, actually,
wanted to murder anyone. -
11:05 - 11:06GT: Oh please!
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11:06 - 11:09You're telling me, on all our adventures,
you haven't wanted to kill me once? -
11:09 - 11:13DP: Oh, oh look, yeah you - yeah, yeah.
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11:13 - 11:14GT: One or two.
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11:14 - 11:16Muhammad Ali said,
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11:16 - 11:19(GT shadow-boxing) Grr, grr, grr.
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11:20 - 11:22"I'm the Shakespeare of the boxing world."
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11:23 - 11:28And JFK said, "Ask not
what your country can do for you." -
11:28 - 11:30And Nelson Mandela,
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11:30 - 11:34when he was in prison for those 27 years
on Robben Island in South Africa, -
11:34 - 11:37kept one line of Julius Caesar
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11:37 - 11:38as his motto.
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11:39 - 11:40You know what that line was?
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11:41 - 11:46"Cowards die many times
before their deaths. -
11:46 - 11:49The valiant never taste
of death but once." -
11:51 - 11:53Charlie Chaplin - that's true.
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11:53 - 11:56(Applause)
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11:59 - 12:01GT: Ah, hola.
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12:01 - 12:02(Applause)
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12:02 - 12:03DP: Hola!
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12:04 - 12:08GT: Charlie Chaplin dreamt,
he dreamt of playing Hamlet. -
12:08 - 12:10Can you imagine what
a great film that would be? -
12:10 - 12:13You see, the thing is
that Shakespeare knew -
12:13 - 12:17that an artist is able to illustrate
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12:17 - 12:20exactly what it is
that you're feeling and thinking. -
12:21 - 12:22Cervantes could do it.
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12:23 - 12:24Bob Dylan could do it.
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12:25 - 12:26Michael Jackson could do it.
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12:26 - 12:29And Shakespeare could do it
better than anyone else. -
12:29 - 12:31And so everyone came
to see Shakespeare's plays. -
12:31 - 12:34The King and the Queen
came to see the plays, -
12:34 - 12:38and the thieves and the beggars
and the prostitutes came to see his plays, -
12:38 - 12:41and everyone in between
came to see his plays, -
12:41 - 12:43and they're still coming to see his plays.
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12:44 - 12:49In New York or in the UK or in Japan,
in Paris, in Madrid, -
12:49 - 12:51everyone comes to see Shakespeare's plays.
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12:52 - 12:54In fact, we were thinking this morning,
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12:54 - 12:55"What would Shakespeare think
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12:55 - 12:59if he could see us, all of us now,
here, this afternoon, -
12:59 - 13:01talking about his plays,
talking about his life, -
13:01 - 13:04talking about his words,
his characters, his work?" -
13:05 - 13:09We think it would blow
his little bald head. -
13:09 - 13:11(Laughter)
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13:11 - 13:12DP: Bald?
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13:12 - 13:13(Laughter)
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13:13 - 13:16GT: Sí. Bald, bald. Shakespeare was bald.
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13:16 - 13:17DP: He wasn't bald.
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13:17 - 13:18GT: He didn't have hair.
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13:18 - 13:21DP: No, he had it all here.
It's almost, it's just - -
13:21 - 13:23GT: No, no, no,
this is the bald bit, this is - -
13:23 - 13:25Let's move on, let's move on.
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13:26 - 13:27Vale!
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13:27 - 13:31DP: Anyway, anyway, what we did was
we got in our car, we got our camera, -
13:31 - 13:32and we traveled the world.
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13:33 - 13:37We spent five years,
and we've been to nine countries, -
13:37 - 13:41and we've been to prisons,
we've been to schools, -
13:41 - 13:42GT: universities, colleges.
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13:42 - 13:44DP: We've spoken to lots of people,
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13:44 - 13:49actors from Jude Law to Ewan McGregor
to Sir Ian McKellen -
13:49 - 13:52to young people who are studying
to the person on the street -
13:52 - 13:55to the person that fills
your car up with gas. -
13:55 - 13:56We've spoken to everybody.
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13:56 - 13:59And what's fascinating to me,
in this five-year journey, -
13:59 - 14:04is just one core piece of information
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14:04 - 14:05which is ...
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14:05 - 14:09well, we can't really tell you right now
because our film isn't finished, -
14:09 - 14:14but what we can share with you
are four key points -
14:14 - 14:16which have informed the rest of the film.
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14:16 - 14:18GT: The young man that we met in prison -
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14:18 - 14:21There's a Shakespeare company
that takes Shakespeare into prisons, -
14:21 - 14:23and we went with the company,
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14:23 - 14:25and we met this young man
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14:25 - 14:29who spoke a piece of Shakespeare
so beautifully to us, -
14:30 - 14:31and we thought it incredible,
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14:31 - 14:35but everyone else in the prison was amazed
because, up until that moment, -
14:35 - 14:39that young man had not spoken
one word in five years. -
14:41 - 14:44DP: And then we spoke to Ewan McGregor,
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14:44 - 14:48who had just finished working
on Othello, playing Iago, -
14:48 - 14:52and he sat down and candidly spoke to us
and told us how difficult he found it, -
14:52 - 14:54how very difficult he'd found it,
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14:54 - 14:57and the fact that he actually had to go
and have hypnotherapy -
14:57 - 14:58to deal with his fear.
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14:58 - 15:00He was suffering from Shakespism.
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15:01 - 15:03GT: There was a woman
that we met in Denmark, -
15:04 - 15:06and there was a production of Hamlet.
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15:07 - 15:09She was going to see
this production of Hamlet, -
15:09 - 15:13and what she thought was so moving
and profound about the play Hamlet -
15:13 - 15:17was that Shakespeare had managed -
he was an Englishman - and he'd managed -
15:17 - 15:23to encapsulate perfectly
the Danish spirit and mindset. -
15:24 - 15:25DP: We spoke to Mark Rylance.
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15:25 - 15:29Mark Rylance is the founding artistic
director of the Globe Theatre in London, -
15:29 - 15:31and Mark spoke about fear,
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15:31 - 15:35and about the idea of Shakespeare
being surrounded by fear, -
15:35 - 15:38and the issue for us, really,
was that, what was spoken about -
15:38 - 15:41was this idea that,
if you can't teach it well enough, -
15:41 - 15:44in a way that doesn't scare people away,
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15:44 - 15:45you shouldn't teach it at all.
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15:45 - 15:49So from that, we had this wonderful idea,
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15:49 - 15:51and we felt like the universal ideals
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15:51 - 15:53which we'd spoken about
with all these people -
15:53 - 15:54belonged somewhere.
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15:55 - 15:57Can you just roll the video for us please?
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16:01 - 16:04(Video playing while onstage speakers
quote lines from Henry V: Act 2 Prologue) -
16:06 - 16:09(Dramatic music)
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16:15 - 16:17DP: "Now all the youth
of England are on fire, -
16:18 - 16:21And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies.
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16:22 - 16:25Now thrive the armorers,
and honor’s thought -
16:25 - 16:27Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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16:27 - 16:30They sell the pasture now
to buy the horse, -
16:30 - 16:32Following the mirror
of all Christian kings -
16:32 - 16:35With wingèd heels, as English Mercurys.
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16:35 - 16:38For now sits Expectation in the air"
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16:39 - 16:44GT: "O England, model
to thy inward greatness, -
16:44 - 16:47Like little body with a mighty heart,
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16:48 - 16:51What might’st thou do,
that honor would thee do, -
16:52 - 16:56Were all thy children kind and natural!"
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16:56 - 16:57(Video ends)
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16:58 - 17:00Now the interesting thing about this
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17:01 - 17:03was when the BBC
and all the news reporters -
17:03 - 17:07asked those young people why
they were doing what they were doing - -
17:07 - 17:10"Why are you doing it?
Why are you doing it?" - -
17:10 - 17:11they all said the same thing,
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17:11 - 17:14"Because our voices are not being heard.
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17:15 - 17:18All we want is our voices to be heard."
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17:19 - 17:23So when people turn around and say to you
that you can't feel something -
17:24 - 17:30or you shouldn't think something
or enjoy something or love something, -
17:30 - 17:33whether it's Shakespeare
or whether it's anything else, -
17:34 - 17:37we think that you should be
the ones to decide that. -
17:37 - 17:39That's your choice.
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17:40 - 17:41DP: And when we went into prisons,
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17:41 - 17:43we went in with a guy
called Dr. Bruce Wall, -
17:43 - 17:46and he does a lot of rehabilitation
with young prisoners -
17:46 - 17:49and prisoners across the board,
across the whole world, -
17:49 - 17:53and one thing that he gives them
and makes them repeat -
17:53 - 17:56is, "We have the tools" -
what's the phrase again? -
17:56 - 17:59GT: "Give us the tools
and we will do the job." -
17:59 - 18:02DP: "Give us the tools
and we will do the job." -
18:02 - 18:04And that for us is everything about it.
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18:04 - 18:06If you give the tools to the right people,
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18:06 - 18:08you'll have people who understand,
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18:08 - 18:11people who connect to the world
in a very, very different way. -
18:11 - 18:14You know, Shakespeare
definitely isn't for everybody. -
18:14 - 18:15Of course, we understand that,
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18:15 - 18:17but for those who want
to find out about him -
18:17 - 18:19and know about him,
it should be accessible. -
18:20 - 18:23He was just a man, after all.
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18:24 - 18:25GT: Gracias.
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18:25 - 18:27DP and GT: Muchas Gracias.
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18:27 - 18:28(Applause)
- Title:
- What would Shakespeare think of us? | Dan Poole & Giles Terera | TEDxMadrid
- Description:
-
Dan Poole and Giles Terera explain "Shakespism," a sort of sickness that prevents us from loving and truly understanding Shakespeare. We should cure ourselves because Shakespeare is as relevant today as he has always been, and he was just a man.
Dan Poole has performed at the Globe Theatre, the Royal Court, Theatre Royal Haymarket, the National Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival. He has been the director of Timebomb Pictures for over seven years and has produced several commercials, documentaries, and theatrical production. He also writes comedy and acts in film, television, and voiceovers.
Giles Terera has worked extensively in theatre at the Royal National Theatre, West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Young Vic, West End, Shakespeare's Globe, Chichester, Crucible Sheffield, West Yorkshire Playhouse, and Edinburgh Festival. He also works in film, radio, and television. He is a musician and composes music for theatre and film.
The two friends, who met in drama school, decided to create the Muse Of Fire project as a result of experiences they had while growing up and training. Their five-year adventure around the world has sought to discover what Shakespeare means to us in the 21st century.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 18:35
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