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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.59,0:00:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought Craig said,\N"Come do a TED Talk for my students,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.51,0:00:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought, Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.10,0:00:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a professor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.40,0:00:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get paid to talk for 50 minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.43,0:00:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the hell am I only going to be able\Nto talk for 15 or 18?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.34,0:00:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought, "I'll give it a go."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.01,0:00:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "What should I do?"\NHe said, "Talk about Shakespeare."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.92,0:00:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, "Why Shakespeare?\NWhy Shakespeare?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.32,0:00:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only answer I could come up with
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.08,0:00:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to plagiarize our gorgeous,\Nyoung Prime Minister
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.86,0:00:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Well, it's 2016."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.80,0:00:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a start.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.83,0:00:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's the easiest one
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.91,0:00:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because 400 years and 6 days ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.80,0:00:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on April 23rd,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.69,0:00:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare died.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.55,0:00:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prince died this week.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.16,0:00:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's had a lot of press.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.38,0:00:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he still have that press\N400 years from now?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.16,0:00:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.37,0:01:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will there be a press 400 years from now?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.43,0:01:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably not.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.48,0:01:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why? Why after 400 years?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.23,0:01:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2012, during the London Olympics,\Nlots of exciting things happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.85,0:01:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them we probably all remember\Nis the lightning man, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.99,0:01:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usain Bolt repeated it again, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.37,0:01:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Won all those sprint events.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.82,0:01:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of thousands of people\Nwitnessed something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.63,0:01:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Olympics match a sport with culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.73,0:01:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's always a Cultural Olympiad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.67,0:01:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2012, in London,\Nthey chose Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.48,0:01:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were over 100 productions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.44,0:01:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between April the 23rd\Nand the end of the event in November.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.84,0:01:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seventy of those took place\Nin the Globe Theatre.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.52,0:01:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They represented countries,\Nover 40 countries from around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.17,0:01:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were in 37 different languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.75,0:01:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.14,0:02:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of those countries\Nhad been colonized by the English.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.15,0:02:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having thrown off\Nall the shackles of colonization,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.74,0:02:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why had they kept Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.87,0:02:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why did they want to listen\Nto Shakespeare in their own language?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.89,0:02:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why, when they came to London,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.34,0:02:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did thousands of people living in London\Nwhose origins were in those countries
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.14,0:02:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come to listen to Shakespeare
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.58,0:02:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the language\Ninto which they had been born?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.89,0:02:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I want to talk\Nto you about today:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.14,0:02:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power of listening to Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.45,0:02:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I don't want a text up there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.29,0:02:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that would contradict me, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.90,0:02:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I'm glad\Nwe closed that book.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.20,0:02:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Shakespeare was first performed,\Nand for well over 200 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.08,0:02:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people wrote about going to plays,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.02,0:02:55.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they wrote about\Ngoing to a Shakespeare play or any play,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.67,0:02:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would write in their diary,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.34,0:02:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would write\Nin their commonplace book,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.98,0:03:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Last night I went, and I heard\NMidsummer Night's Dream."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.44,0:03:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Last night I went, and I heard Hamlet."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.24,0:03:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one ever wrote,\Nuntil well into the 19th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.76,0:03:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they saw a play.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.65,0:03:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because a play is about voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.83,0:03:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no one understood that\Nmore than Shakespeare did.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.80,0:03:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are there because it consoles us\Nto hear a human voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.74,0:03:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we want a voice to make\Nthe sounds of joy and sorrow for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.54,0:03:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what matters in life\Nis what we apprehend,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.14,0:03:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we seize,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.36,0:03:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what seizes us -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.59,0:03:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those things that make us terrified,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.56,0:03:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those things that make us joyful.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.47,0:04:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And theater brings us those,\Nand Shakespeare, no more so.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.61,0:04:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's curious -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.51,0:04:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not tragic, just curious -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.17,0:04:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when students\Ncome to me at university,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.72,0:04:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the majority of them say,\N"Oh, Shakespeare. I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.71,0:04:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was always so hard in high school."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.76,0:04:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some would say,\N"Oh, I loved it. I loved it."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.88,0:04:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd say, "What did you love about it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.72,0:04:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, the movies. There are\Nsuch great Shakespeare movies."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.46,0:04:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have to say, "Well, no, no, no, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.42,0:04:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare is not\Nabout watching a movie."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.16,0:04:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has to be a person there,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.61,0:04:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a person who is enduring the story for us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.25,0:04:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that in witnessing it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.19,0:04:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can be grasped and grasp in turn
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.33,0:04:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the emotions that are being experienced.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.03,0:04:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be afraid of Shakespeare, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.38,0:04:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of my students, many of you -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.01,0:04:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the reasons I thought,\N"Well, we'll do this,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.45,0:04:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because Craig said\Nthere'll be over 900 students here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.18,0:04:59.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're all going to be doing\NShakespeare at some point,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.100,0:05:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding their noses or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.38,0:05:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "What do they do?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.72,0:05:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, the usual things:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.11,0:05:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.50,0:05:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.94,0:05:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, "Great.\NWe'll get there. We'll see.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.14,0:05:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll talk about some of those."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.38,0:05:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of them probably also use\Nthe No Fear Shakespeare cribs,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.16,0:05:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that translate Shakespeare into English
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.87,0:05:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if it wasn't English to begin with.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.30,0:05:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Sparks Notes people\Nhave made millions of dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.78,0:05:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the backs of No Fear Shakespeare
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.54,0:05:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we shouldn't have feared him\Nto begin with, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.79,0:05:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Shakespeare\Nnever made a penny in his life
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.30,0:05:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off of the printing of his plays.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.08,0:05:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could not have cared less.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.22,0:05:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Folio came out,\Nseven years after his death,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.05,0:05:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it came out because the surviving partners\Nof his company wanted to make a memorial.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.91,0:05:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never cared.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.27,0:05:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were hundreds\Nof editions of his works;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.41,0:06:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he never made a penny on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.96,0:06:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it wasn't about reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.29,0:06:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what I want to focus on now.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.78,0:06:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to take a couple of scenes,\Nand I want to talk you through them,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.59,0:06:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to try to give you a sense
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.04,0:06:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what you can apprehend\Nwhen you look and listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.76,0:06:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I'm going to say to you now\Nand perhaps repeat in concluding -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.21,0:06:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have no idea where I'm going;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.72,0:06:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will depend on what we hear\Nwhen we listen to these texts -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.66,0:06:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't look for meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.72,0:06:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There isn't any.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.41,0:06:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't look for a thesis.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.98,0:06:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't hunt themes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.80,0:06:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't analyze metaphors.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.12,0:06:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't worry about what\Nyou're going to write your essay about.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.27,0:06:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.76,0:06:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And open yourself up as you listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.67,0:06:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And be very responsive to what you feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.66,0:07:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because apprehension\Nis far more important than comprehension,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.09,0:07:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Midsummer Night's Dream,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.76,0:07:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of Shakespeare's extraordinary\Nfigures, the Duke Theseus,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.10,0:07:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says precisely that\Nat the end of the play.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.44,0:07:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "One of the most interesting\Nthings about life is this."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.51,0:07:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Whenever we apprehend an effect,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.28,0:07:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we want to comprehend a cause."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.88,0:07:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.53,0:07:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially with theater
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.57,0:07:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and always with life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.61,0:07:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something happens to us,\Nand we want to know why.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.74,0:07:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the cause doesn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.31,0:07:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who knows what the first cause\Nof anything is?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.78,0:07:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was it God the Creator or the Big Bang?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.62,0:07:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're beyond my comprehension, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.52,0:07:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the moment of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.84,0:07:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I apprehend constantly\Nwhat it is to be living,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.10,0:07:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to seek meaning in that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.04,0:08:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than to simply swim
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.83,0:08:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the luxuriousness\Nof my own soul and heart
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.87,0:08:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems like an extraordinary\Nabandonment of the joy of living.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.10,0:08:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's look at Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.55,0:08:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll go through maybe just one scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.91,0:08:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The screen here tells me\NI've got nine-and-a-half minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.62,0:08:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll see what we can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.97,0:08:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That'll give us enough for one.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.50,0:08:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll give you a choice;\NI've got a few ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.60,0:08:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go for two\Nthat are big ones out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.86,0:08:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you haven't encountered them yet,\Nyou're going to in your high school years.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.62,0:08:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.06,0:08:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which one do you want?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.54,0:08:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Audience) Hamlet.\NRomeo and Juliet. Hamlet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.47,0:08:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.63,0:08:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Romeo and Juliet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.97,0:08:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Wrong? Craig?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.09,0:08:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I can stay - oh boy,\NI'm under nine minutes now.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.51,0:08:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if I can talk like the Bolt Man,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.80,0:08:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we can get through this scene,\Nmaybe we do a bit of Hamlet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.76,0:08:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe finish with a moment from Hamlet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.64,0:08:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we go.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.93,0:09:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm going to do with Romeo and Juliet
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.99,0:09:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is go to the scene\Nwhere we first meet Juliet
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.09,0:09:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it tells us something\Nabout Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.06,0:09:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare's great at women.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.65,0:09:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's great at listening to women\Nand making us listen to women.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.75,0:09:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's a reason for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.18,0:09:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in his lifetime,\Nno woman was ever on the stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.01,0:09:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No woman ever acted on the English stage
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.08,0:09:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until 1665.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.84,0:09:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So men always played the parts of women,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.50,0:09:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.01,0:09:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were men in the company
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.40,0:09:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who spent their entire career\Naging through female parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.31,0:09:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this scene, we first meet Juliet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.58,0:09:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have Juliet, and we have the Nurse,\Nand we have Lady Capulet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.44,0:09:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three principal women from the play.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.52,0:09:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've not met Juliet yet;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.34,0:09:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's Act 1, scene 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.10,0:09:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nurse is sitting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.24,0:09:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lady Capulet we've met,\Nand she comes in and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.74,0:09:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where's my daughter?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.53,0:10:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We met Lady Capulet in Act 1, scene 1,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.60,0:10:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the men were all fighting,\Ncausing all that difficulty -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.90,0:10:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Montagues and the Capulets\Nwrestling with one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.89,0:10:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men drawing their swords,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.65,0:10:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all demonstrating their masculinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.68,0:10:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excruciatingly funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.56,0:10:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lady Capulet knows that,\Nand she mocks her husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.63,0:10:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says to him, "Why bother\Ngetting your sword out, old man?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.80,0:10:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no point to it."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.77,0:10:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's a strong woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.91,0:10:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she comes in, and she says,\N"Where's my daughter?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.35,0:10:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Nurse says, "Oh,\Nby my maiden head these last 12 years,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.68,0:10:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she says, "I called her; she didn't come."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.73,0:10:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says, "I swear by my virginity at 12,\NI've been calling her.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.99,0:10:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know where she is,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.32,0:10:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then she gets up,\Nand she says, "Juliet," -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.53,0:10:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, no, I don't want that.\NI don't want anything up there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.25,0:10:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we just kill that? Is it impossible?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.92,0:11:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I kill those screens? Great -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.18,0:11:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she starts calling her:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.58,0:11:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ladybird. My dear one. Where are you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.49,0:11:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In most productions,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.10,0:11:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Juliet's on the balcony\Nor she's not on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.71,0:11:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the text says, "Enter Juliet."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.74,0:11:21.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always, in the original printings,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.17,0:11:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they say, "Enter,"\Nwhen the character speaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.56,0:11:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's already there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.86,0:11:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything the Nurse is saying,\Nif you listen - right? -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.17,0:11:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what you do when you're playing\Nwith a small child.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.72,0:11:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must have all done that,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.32,0:11:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an aunt or an uncle or parent\Nhas done that with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.25,0:11:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joey, Joey, where are you, Joey?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.78,0:11:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My goodness, Joey.\NWhen are you going to come?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.27,0:11:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My, what am I going to do with you, Joey?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.78,0:11:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where's Joey the whole time?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.71,0:11:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right there. Right behind you,\Nand you pretend you don't see him.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.41,0:11:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where Juliet is
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.60,0:11:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we really are listening\Nto what the Nurse is doing there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.70,0:12:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ladybird. My dear one. Where are you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.78,0:12:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lady Capulet is standing, watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.90,0:12:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And eventually Juliet says, \N"Here I am. Who wants me?" -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.29,0:12:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing with the Nurse.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.45,0:12:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nurse says, "Your mother."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.30,0:12:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lady Capulet says to the Nurse,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.07,0:12:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Will you give us a minute?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.37,0:12:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something\NI need to tell my daughter."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.53,0:12:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Nurse begins to leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.03,0:12:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Lady Capulet says,\N"No, come back. Please, come back."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.89,0:12:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what she needs to tell Juliet is,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.67,0:12:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your father has decided\Nthat you're going to be married now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.18,0:12:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're going to meet tonight\Nthe man you're going to marry."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.83,0:12:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what's crucial in this scene,\Nif we are listening and looking,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.60,0:12:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what Lady Capulet's doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.68,0:12:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because always in Shakespeare
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.42,0:12:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in crucial scenes\Nwhen he wants us to listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.08,0:13:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a listener on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.80,0:13:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here it's Lady Capulet,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.33,0:13:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening while her daughter\Nplays with the Nurse,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.66,0:13:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the Nurse tells a long story,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.97,0:13:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a comic story
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.79,0:13:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Juliet growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.47,0:13:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Juliet's mother listens,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.46,0:13:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that she's about to tell\Nher daughter childhood is over.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.93,0:13:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's she feeling while she's listening?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.42,0:13:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does any parent feel?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.67,0:13:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.79,0:13:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commonly in tv ads -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.04,0:13:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you give your child\Nthe keys to the car for the first time?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.25,0:13:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you leave them\Nat their university residence?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.25,0:13:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When their probation officer\Ncomes and takes them away?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.30,0:13:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.45,0:13:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever the point,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.99,0:14:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you realize,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.13,0:14:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened to my child?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.75,0:14:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did I miss that?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.97,0:14:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're listening,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.20,0:14:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what's happening in that scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.74,0:14:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most productions miss that\Nbecause people are reading,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.26,0:14:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they ignore Lady Capulet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.17,0:14:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An extraordinary thing happens\Nwhen the Nurse is talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.99,0:14:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're trying to figure out\Nhow old Juliet is,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.60,0:14:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her mother says, "Oh, you know,\NI don't think she's 14 yet."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.22,0:14:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Nurse is, "Oh, no, no.\NIt will be two weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.70,0:14:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember because my Susan,\Nmy daughter, and her
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.16,0:14:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were born at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.29,0:14:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My Susan, who God took from me
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.91,0:14:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she was too good for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.55,0:14:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nurse's daughter died\Nin her infancy, and Juliet lived.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.85,0:14:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nurse says that, looking at Juliet,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.17,0:14:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Lady Capulet is looking at Juliet,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.21,0:15:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two daughters are dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.87,0:15:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we're not listening, we miss that.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.10,0:15:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nurse tells us, "My Susan died\Nalmost 14 years ago."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.04,0:15:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lady Capulet is thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.43,0:15:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My child will be lost to me in two weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.89,0:15:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she marries Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.82,0:15:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and away she goes to live with him."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.85,0:15:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when the child I remember playing\Njust disappears, is gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.94,0:15:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the crucial thing about listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.82,0:15:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got two minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.01,0:15:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll very quickly tell you something\Nabout Hamlet and then tie this up.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.17,0:15:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of Hamlet,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.69,0:15:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when all the swordplay is going on\Nand the poisoning,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.80,0:15:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a dozen people\Nare going to be dead on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.09,0:15:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's going to be full of spectacle,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.97,0:15:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it turns into a real guy flick, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.89,0:15:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a chick moment in there\Nthat's powerful, and it's about mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.09,0:16:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gertrude says nothing but three lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.21,0:16:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first of them is, "Hamlet,\Nlet me wipe your brow.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.21,0:16:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take my napkin," she says,\N"and wipe your brow. You look so tired."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.98,0:16:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the start of the play, she'd wanted\Nto touch him, and he wouldn't let her.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.61,0:16:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never lets her touch him;
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.97,0:16:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he pulls away because he's angry at her\Nfor marrying his uncle, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.31,0:16:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare gives her\Nas her second-last line,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.26,0:16:30.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let me wipe thy brow,"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.100,0:16:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she takes her handkerchief\Nand wipes the sweat off her son's brow,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.21,0:16:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just the way your mother,\Neven when you're 62 like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.02,0:16:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a cold day, will tighten up your jacket
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.18,0:16:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or call you at university and say,\N"Is it snowing? Wear your mittens."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.92,0:16:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we don't listen in life,\Nwe miss the small things.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.98,0:17:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In literature, listening is crucial\Nto getting those things too.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.95,0:17:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why Shakespeare matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.93,0:17:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because we should read him,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.06,0:17:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because we should be listening to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.62,0:17:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the beginning of Hamlet,\Nthere's a man who's all alone on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.03,0:17:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Francisco,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.10,0:17:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting to be relieved by Bernardo.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.48,0:17:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can be out there alone
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.19,0:17:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as long as the director\Nwants to leave him there,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.88,0:17:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.24,0:17:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernardo comes, and Bernardo says,\N"Who's there?" because it's dark.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.29,0:17:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Francisco says, "Nay.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.92,0:17:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Answer me. Stand]\Nand unfold yourself," he says.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.97,0:17:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open yourself up to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.71,0:17:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.98,0:17:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfold yourself when you read Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.99,0:17:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close the book,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.25,0:17:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open yourself up,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.71,0:17:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apprehend,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.02,0:17:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you won't worry about the meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.03,0:17:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfold,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.53,0:17:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.95,0:18:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allow life\Nand literature to touch you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.51,0:18:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.61,0:18:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)