Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #36

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  • @nodsmilebackaway
    @nodsmilebackaway 6 років тому +115

    "Oh woe is me! For the sea has taken everything I value", said the old woman TO HER DAUGHTERS

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 6 років тому +14

      Well if the sea don't want them, what value do they have?

    • @zombiehoe
      @zombiehoe 5 років тому

      Is this a reference to Riders to the Sea?

  • @tommurphy1153
    @tommurphy1153 6 років тому +158

    Thanks for avoiding all the annoying cliched jokes. Its nice to have our culture (our real culture) recognised! Thank you!

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g 6 років тому +1

      This is not our real culture, these writers are all English heritage writers, and in my opinion English not Irish.

    • @somethingsomething3818
      @somethingsomething3818 6 років тому +21

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g All Irish born and raised and considered themselves Irishmen (and women). I bet you're British. Shoo, now.

    • @charlottecatherinenolan550
      @charlottecatherinenolan550 5 років тому +6

      He did call Irish Gaelic though

  • @ashleykim1427
    @ashleykim1427 6 років тому +110

    Who else watches these on their own and not just in class?

  • @SlowToe
    @SlowToe 6 років тому +21

    Thanks Mike, you brought a tear to my Irish eye. Thank you also to CrashCourse

  • @cleoalexander7590
    @cleoalexander7590 6 років тому +14

    One of the things that I love about this series is that it makes you consider theatre from places that I never thought about before - that's what happened in the episode about Henrik Ibsen and Nordic drama and I am looking forward to learning about Irish drama.

  • @sivawright
    @sivawright 6 років тому +21

    Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  • @acushla_music
    @acushla_music 4 роки тому +6

    The funny thing about all Irish writing from this period is that if today you walk around the streets of Dublin you may say the faces of all of these writers, and others such as Joyce and Beckkett, postered in every bar and statued on every street however when they were alive much of their work was banned.
    Many of our best writers (and our best in other arenas) didn't leave the country but fled it. They wrote about Ireland as it was then without any decoration. The Irish saw themselves clearly and turned away not liking what they saw.
    'It's a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking glass of a servant'
    - Steven Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses

  • @IrishAndy855
    @IrishAndy855 6 років тому +39

    It's not that important but there is a small mistake at 1:57.
    The Abbey Theatre is still in the same location that it opened in 1904.
    There was a time from 1951 to 1966 were they had to move to a different building due to a fire until the theatre could be rebuilt.

  • @carpediem5468
    @carpediem5468 6 років тому +12

    Oh yes! I did my PG THESIS on 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST'.

    • @mrnobody-unowen
      @mrnobody-unowen 6 років тому +2

      How are you, my dear Ernest?

    • @cramerfloro5936
      @cramerfloro5936 6 років тому +4

      I played it last year with my theatre group
      It was really, REALLY difficult to translate the jokes into italian
      But it was a lot of fun

  • @Jaydoggy531
    @Jaydoggy531 6 років тому +32

    You're particularly fond of muffins? I prefer bread and butter myself, because cake is rarely served in the best houses.

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 6 років тому +2

      Cake is a lie!

    • @CapKITZ
      @CapKITZ 6 років тому +4

      @@DarkAngelEU Drat! You stole my joke.

    • @RedBear535
      @RedBear535 6 років тому +3

      Beware of butter on your cuffs.

  • @ms.rstake_1211
    @ms.rstake_1211 6 років тому

    Thank you for putting this up on time.

  • @ms.rstake_1211
    @ms.rstake_1211 6 років тому

    Thank you putting this up on time.

  • @JonBastian
    @JonBastian 6 років тому +1

    Amazing as always.

  • @acetronautinspace_acm
    @acetronautinspace_acm 6 років тому +4

    And the thought bubble wasn't about The Importance of Being Earnest? What a missed opportunity for an awesome thought bubble moment

  • @fh9061
    @fh9061 2 роки тому

    Oh god. I've never been moved by a
    Summary of a play but all the drowning and the poetic lines. I have to read this

  • @daniellebreitstein6007
    @daniellebreitstein6007 6 років тому +23

    Oscar Wilde is my everything

    • @kashishkukreja5904
      @kashishkukreja5904 5 років тому

      The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” Can you explain this one quote in detail. I know the gist just looking for a detailed one.

  • @amelieniroibeaird526
    @amelieniroibeaird526 6 років тому +6

    Ok I’m Irish and those first thirty seconds were great I completely aprove 😂

  • @alonealien1474
    @alonealien1474 6 років тому +17

    Synge, Wilde and Shaw. What's not to like? Not enough Shaw, but that's alright.

  • @TomSistermans
    @TomSistermans 6 років тому +10

    YOS Dadaism and symbolism that's some good stuff right there!
    Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
    pögiff,
    kwii Ee
    Oooooooooooooooooooooooo,
    dll rrrrr beeeee bö
    dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö,
    rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö,
    beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää,
    bö fümms bö wö tää zää,
    fümms bö wö tää zää Uu.
    No I didn't go crazy, that's the beginning of the greatest tone poem ever, Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate

    • @cramerfloro5936
      @cramerfloro5936 6 років тому +2

      Comunque vada, comunque Dada!
      Al Cabaret Voltair!
      Comunque vada, resto comunque Dada
      Vedo una sola strada, comunque Dada
      Qualunque cosa accada, comunque Dada!
      Io metto in disscussione tutto
      proprio tutto
      Forse non sono Dada, ma sono un po',
      Dada un po', Dada un po'

  • @teucer915
    @teucer915 6 років тому +2

    I'm looking forward to seeing you cover Brecht.

  • @Full_Metal_Angel
    @Full_Metal_Angel 6 років тому +2

    Wow I am speechless

  • @amyamy1507
    @amyamy1507 6 років тому +3

    YESSSSSSSSSSS to the 'Irish culture deserves more than leprechaun jokes' intro! THANK YOU! Super tired of people (especially Americans in my experience) applauding our literature one minute and then being racist the next.

  • @KathyTrithardt
    @KathyTrithardt 6 років тому +2

    I've been to the Abbey Theatre - the newer location. It's grand.

    • @KathyTrithardt
      @KathyTrithardt 6 років тому +1

      I was actually there for the 100th anniversary of Playboy of the Western World, which was a treat.

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 6 років тому +7

    But if you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge
    For the love you brynge won't mean a thynge
    Unless you Synge, Synge, Synge, Synge

  • @nechma13
    @nechma13 6 років тому +8

    I really hope you talk about Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Becket with absurdism
    And Susan glaspell and Sophie Treadwell who are American women expressionist playwrights who have gone mostly limited their performance though their writings inspired many male writers

  • @brianudkwang8380
    @brianudkwang8380 6 років тому +3

    is that a kodama on the shelf during thought bubble??? (from princess mononoke)

  • @cathaldunne6741
    @cathaldunne6741 6 років тому +2

    Trust Crash Course to respect us for the culture we have

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g 6 років тому

      This isn't our culture this is English culture, read the names they are not Irish

    • @somethingsomething3818
      @somethingsomething3818 6 років тому +3

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g yeah, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde doesn't sound Irish at all. By the way, every one in Europe (and most of the world) is of mixed heritage, so I don't see what names have to do with it. By your logic, Irish isn't your culture, as you claim, since you don't have a traditional Irish name, not that it matters.

  • @DrWarman86
    @DrWarman86 6 років тому +1

    one of Oscar wilds quotes the one featured is vary similar to a quote from Hagakure. the quote from Hagakure was also featured in the film Ghost Dog.

  • @kramermariav
    @kramermariav 6 років тому +1

    I ❤ Wilde

  • @eanna773
    @eanna773 6 років тому +6

    Táim i mo chónaí in Éirinn agus ba bhreá liom é sin.
    * Im Irish and im in love with this video♥️🇮🇪

  • @ThainaYu
    @ThainaYu 6 років тому +2

    It might be too late but I think the crash course opening theme song for Crash Course Theater should be revised to orchestra version

  • @TheAmbientMage
    @TheAmbientMage 6 років тому +1

    There really is excellent whiskey and knitwear out there.

  • @TheBibliophiliac
    @TheBibliophiliac 6 років тому +10

    Once again, An Ideal Husband is snubbed.

  • @joewarren5248
    @joewarren5248 6 років тому

    COYBIG!!!
    Also just realised that to "crack on" with something is not a common saying

  • @hisbigal
    @hisbigal 6 років тому +9

    You left out Sean O’Casey.

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g 6 років тому

      Sean o casey is actually Irish, the rest are all English ex pats. That is why they are so good and o Caseys plays are not mentioned

    • @jimbobjimjim6500
      @jimbobjimjim6500 5 років тому +2

      @@user-sl8gg2zk3g They are Anglo Irish whose families had lived in Ireland for centuries.

  • @zoeheffernan1096
    @zoeheffernan1096 6 років тому +3

    ‘Cathleen ní Houlihan’ ?

  • @Caoimhin1909
    @Caoimhin1909 4 роки тому

    YEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOO 🇮🇪

  • @Pferdesuppe
    @Pferdesuppe 6 років тому +1

    I tried to find the actual source of the Shaw quote at the end of the video, but was unable to do so. A couple of essays and papers quote it, but none of them state where they originally got it from. Only that it's supposed to be a quote by Shaw. I would love to include this quote into a thesis of mine that I'm writing about fin de siècle drama, but without an actual source, this is somewhat difficult unfortunately. Do you happen to remember where you came across the quote?

  • @Directionless.Sponge
    @Directionless.Sponge 6 років тому +2

    Bruh you said Yorrick might come back with a sheleighli but how he gonna carry it without hands he just gon bite it

  • @BulaGuy
    @BulaGuy 6 років тому +1

    Where's Phil and his outer space episodes?

  • @megancerys7260
    @megancerys7260 6 років тому

    Oooooooooooooh yes thank you

  • @MKPiatkowski
    @MKPiatkowski 5 років тому

    Saint Joan isn't worth even a mention? I've directed it and it's powerful.

  • @undead8883
    @undead8883 6 років тому

    do not said my name oscar is my name do not said it

  • @tbotnoblett
    @tbotnoblett 6 років тому +31

    I am Irish

    • @bobdickweed
      @bobdickweed 6 років тому

      Im real Irish..thats why i say the sunny southeast its a irish saying for where i live in Ireland...
      @Essie

    • @airigid
      @airigid 6 років тому

      @@bobdickweed you are not Irish, clearly Mexican.

    • @AmandaFromWisconsin
      @AmandaFromWisconsin 6 років тому +1

      *Essie* When an American says, “I’m Irish,” they’re more or less saying they’re of Irish descent. They’re not saying they’re just as Irish as Irish people who were born an raised in Ireland.
      I’m German. ;)

    • @claspe1049
      @claspe1049 6 років тому

      @@AmandaFromWisconsin Iam too but when I'am drunk I kinda feeel irish ….

    • @wannabe0rockstar
      @wannabe0rockstar 6 років тому +1

      Is maith liom caca milis

  • @habibikebabtheiii2037
    @habibikebabtheiii2037 6 років тому +2

    Where is the Jameson?

  • @CMichaelEH
    @CMichaelEH 6 років тому

    CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

  • @OlanKenny
    @OlanKenny 6 років тому +1

    Irish drama? You mean most of the 20th century?

  • @itiswhatitis9705
    @itiswhatitis9705 5 років тому

    I feel like Conor Mcgregor was inspired by Oscar Wild.

  • @marjanghazanfar44
    @marjanghazanfar44 6 років тому

    Can you make a video about the roman gladius/sword?

  • @eugenmoscalenco6266
    @eugenmoscalenco6266 6 років тому

    What happend to crash course kids

  • @171QA
    @171QA 6 років тому

    Who else saw the kodama? :D

  • @StephaneBura
    @StephaneBura 6 років тому

    This series has been great so far but scones are not muffins!

    • @MordredsGirl
      @MordredsGirl 6 років тому

      I'm pretty sure those are English muffins, which while not *actual* muffins, are at least still called muffins.

    • @StephaneBura
      @StephaneBura 6 років тому

      I can't abide things pretending to be other things in a video about theater.

  • @elperroreggae
    @elperroreggae 6 років тому +4

    Your thumbnails should Change, they're pretty bad, I mean they don't generate attention

  • @cdw2468
    @cdw2468 6 років тому +3

    I thought it said “Irish Resistance” and this was a random video about terrorism

  • @cianhorgan4824
    @cianhorgan4824 6 років тому +4

    “GROSS INDECENCY”

  • @DuranmanX
    @DuranmanX 6 років тому

    Is Seinfeld dadaism?

  • @xxiao5156
    @xxiao5156 6 років тому +1

    Not enough potatoes in this.

  • @advisingeconomics2179
    @advisingeconomics2179 6 років тому

    ig 牛逼

  • @emilyr6510
    @emilyr6510 6 років тому +2

    SECOND

  • @outlaw.f250
    @outlaw.f250 6 років тому +1

    First

  • @avatarmary
    @avatarmary 6 років тому +3

    why don't these people just learn how to swim

  • @mikeoxsmal8022
    @mikeoxsmal8022 6 років тому +1

    Im pretty sure it's called the anglo irish revival

    • @talideon
      @talideon 6 років тому +5

      I've never seen it referred to as that. That might be a British thing.

    • @mikeoxsmal8022
      @mikeoxsmal8022 6 років тому

      Keith Gaughan well this video focus on yeats, sygne, wilde, its the anglo irish revival while the irish language revival is the gaelic revival this is history in irish schools

    • @talideon
      @talideon 6 років тому +3

      @@mikeoxsmal8022, they themselves might've been of Anglo-Irish decent, but you can't really separate them out from the Gaelic Revival itself, which involved Irish people of all backgrounds, regardless of their ancestry. I don't believe any of them did. They were part of the same milieu as the Young Irelanders, Seán O'Casey, Arthur Griffith, Joseph Plunkett, &c., and we're pointedly participating in a revival of Gaelic culture, albeit though the medium of the English language, but a uniquely Irish form of that language.

    • @talideon
      @talideon 6 років тому +3

      @@mikeoxsmal8022, also I'd like to point out that I am actually Irish, went though that same education system, and never once recall hearing it referred to as the 'Anglo-Irish Revival'. I recall it being called the 'Celtic Twilight', the 'Irish Literary Revival', and a few other things, but never qualified with 'anglo-'.

    • @user-sl8gg2zk3g
      @user-sl8gg2zk3g 6 років тому

      Was it gaelic revival ? I'd like to think the real Irish would have something to say about that. Our whole culture spearheaded by Protestants with English names. Our culture is Gaelic written in Irish by the Irish. This is why I maintain the Irish cannot write plays or poetry only the English can do it well enough. But we can write and play music, and tell stories better than anyone, and that to me is true Irish art, not the works of Yeats Wilde or shaw.

  • @larousian9254
    @larousian9254 6 років тому +1

    I bet CrashCourse will never pin this comment

    • @jojololo9157
      @jojololo9157 6 років тому

      ....my calculations say it is unlikely but physically possible to occur.

  • @PhoenixoftheGays
    @PhoenixoftheGays 6 років тому

    Pearl Hates the Irish
    If you understood that referance then you are Gid Tier

  • @advisingeconomics2179
    @advisingeconomics2179 6 років тому

    ig 牛逼