Shakespeare Summarized: Twelfth Night

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  • @INTPTT
    @INTPTT 7 років тому +4004

    "That's ridiculous, no girl could be *that* in love with me."
    Self burn.

    • @kupaakaleo137
      @kupaakaleo137 5 років тому +70

      me on a daily basis

    • @DemiDragonQueen
      @DemiDragonQueen 5 років тому +91

      it's actually more about misogyny. He thinks women are just inherently not able to love the way he "loves" Olivia.

    • @yourpalbryan1442
      @yourpalbryan1442 5 років тому +62

      @@DemiDragonQueen accurate, but since I'm actually studying the play lemme specify. He specifically says that their hearts lack retention and they simply can't endure the beating that love gives him and that their love is more appetite and easily satiable. He also takes the chance to compare his passion and love like the ocean in all its vast infiniteness and instatiability

    • @DemiDragonQueen
      @DemiDragonQueen 5 років тому +10

      @@yourpalbryan1442 I studied the play too, I just didn't think it was worth going into detail over. Thanks for elaborating tho ~~

    • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
      @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 5 років тому +13

      Those are rare

  • @cameroncurtis8052
    @cameroncurtis8052 6 років тому +2877

    "'I DONT LIKE GIRLS!!!" "Smoothly done,'" i love it

    • @snakewithapen5489
      @snakewithapen5489 5 років тому +35

      i wonder what the actual dialogue was lol

    • @jennifershay8980
      @jennifershay8980 5 років тому +44

      Fun Fact: Everyone at my school thought I had a crush on this one guy (even though I didn't) and contemplated telling people that I'm gay to keep them to stop. A few months later I realized that I'm bi.

    • @yourpalbryan1442
      @yourpalbryan1442 5 років тому +34

      @@snakewithapen5489 it was actually much more serious than what red is making it seem to be, like they have a full argument and then she confesses in a very dramatic way by swearing on the roses of spring and stuff like that and viola/cesario rejects her confession with an equally as dramatic reply using tricolon to emphasize a singular totality that she is governed by no lover and no one but her own her heart (ironic cuz she loves orsino) and it ends with Olivia asking him to come back by saying maybe she'll be convinced to like orsino
      So it was a pretty serious situation despite how funny red made it seem, make of that what you will

    • @paxshmitz2665
      @paxshmitz2665 4 роки тому +2

      Respect wamen

    • @m4rtina.
      @m4rtina. 4 роки тому +7

      Change girls with dudes and that's literally how i came out to a guy who had a crush on me, poor guy

  • @MadameTamma
    @MadameTamma 7 років тому +6184

    Imagine how much more confusing this was when all actors had to be men

    • @haeilsey
      @haeilsey 6 років тому +889

      Gruff bearded man with deep voice - FOR I AM A WOMAN!

    • @spacetrashpile7199
      @spacetrashpile7199 6 років тому +93

      OMG

    • @Jillybean711
      @Jillybean711 6 років тому +171

      +TransHailey I NEARLY CHOKED ON MY SODA

    • @SpiderkillersInc
      @SpiderkillersInc 6 років тому +97

      TransHailey We are in the presence of a mildly entertaining genius!

    • @blue-eyedfangirl8760
      @blue-eyedfangirl8760 6 років тому +299

      so, for Viola's character it would be: a man playing a woman who's pretending to be a man

  • @netnet_in_a_sweater9351
    @netnet_in_a_sweater9351 5 років тому +778

    I love how this plays boils down to "bisexual screaming and confusion"

  • @PerovNigma
    @PerovNigma 8 років тому +2508

    In this film, I actually think that Viola is quite a convincing male.

  • @flamingghottea
    @flamingghottea 7 років тому +1925

    Woah. The new season of the Host Club looks great.

    • @mariar.4893
      @mariar.4893 7 років тому +79

      Feli Vargas correction: very, very old version

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 6 років тому +4

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @narwhalninja1216
      @narwhalninja1216 5 років тому +2

      YAAAAS!

    • @Cool_Beansiest
      @Cool_Beansiest 5 років тому +2

      Aren't you that one character who played a woman "Charley's Aunt"?

    • @possums154
      @possums154 4 роки тому +2

      Oh my god, this is one of the best comments I’ve ever seen

  • @ixxEnchantedLuvxx
    @ixxEnchantedLuvxx 7 років тому +1437

    "OH SO NOW MY AWKWARD MAN CRUSH MAKES SENSE!"
    im lajughingngks;

    • @Cool_Beansiest
      @Cool_Beansiest 5 років тому +9

      r/ihadastroke

    • @BFedie518
      @BFedie518 5 років тому +69

      See also: Mulan.

    • @vigilantsycamore8750
      @vigilantsycamore8750 4 роки тому +22

      In the National Theatre Company's 2017 production Orsino literally yells "OH YESSSSSS!!!!" when he finds out Cesario's really a woman

    • @Minister_for_Grass
      @Minister_for_Grass 3 місяці тому

      @@Cool_Beansiest👍

  • @noraamel2124
    @noraamel2124 5 років тому +328

    "Love bent lines they keep trying to pass as love triangles." THANK YOU!!! SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!!!

  • @AllMelina
    @AllMelina 8 років тому +4824

    "If Twelfth Night were written today, Olivia and Viola would've hooked up."
    Yes.

    • @booboo8675
      @booboo8675 7 років тому +42

      +MrColuber haha

    • @IRONMAN36000
      @IRONMAN36000 7 років тому +24

      hell ya

    • @IRONMAN36000
      @IRONMAN36000 7 років тому +15

      that would tots happen

    • @thepreshgaming7006
      @thepreshgaming7006 7 років тому +6

      IRON MAN360 *totes

    • @Tang-qi6zw
      @Tang-qi6zw 7 років тому +100

      It's not even a controversial thing to have the gay accidental romance hook up. The end of "Some Like it Hot" (one of the best comedies ever, and came out in 1959) has the old man all but marries one of the guys who disguised themselves as women to avoid the mafia.

  • @MyPisceanNature
    @MyPisceanNature 7 років тому +1258

    I, definitely, wouldn't turn down a marriage proposal from Helena Bonham Carter.

    • @eyeball_freak
      @eyeball_freak 4 роки тому +14

      I wouldn’t...*blusing intensifies*

    • @nemtudom5074
      @nemtudom5074 4 роки тому +8

      Lucky for you, she likes dating younger guys

    • @eyeball_freak
      @eyeball_freak 4 роки тому +12

      @nem tudom ah yes... I’m a male, totally don’t have the lady parts heh heh eh...

    • @nemtudom5074
      @nemtudom5074 4 роки тому +2

      I mean, i said that to the original comment, but, i get what ya mean, there are men who confuse my straight ass too.

    • @Naharu.
      @Naharu. 4 роки тому +15

      I am a very sthraight female and l would like to marry her.

  • @Cartoonicus
    @Cartoonicus 6 років тому +1012

    Don't forget that in Shakespeare's day all the female characters would have been played by men so the two may actually have looked very similar.

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 3 роки тому +13

      The Version I have seen had Orcino played by a woman ^^

    • @theangrypotato1525
      @theangrypotato1525 3 роки тому +11

      So, you’re saying it would be EVEN MORE G A Y

    • @charliefarmer4365
      @charliefarmer4365 2 роки тому +10

      Some of the actors might have been “Very good friends’

    • @Silverwind87
      @Silverwind87 5 місяців тому +2

      The irony was NOT lost on Shakespeare.

  • @snackleggg7802
    @snackleggg7802 4 роки тому +164

    Olivia when sees the two twins: THIS IS THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE

  • @rachelpetherbridge3294
    @rachelpetherbridge3294 4 роки тому +297

    Are you telling me that “She’s the Man” starring Amanda Bynes was just the 21st century version of Twelfth Night THIS WHOLE TIME

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 2 роки тому +13

      Yes, yes it is

    • @fiendishlybilly
      @fiendishlybilly 2 роки тому +12

      Viola does say in drag: "I AM THE MAN!"

    • @rmsgrey
      @rmsgrey 2 роки тому +12

      The more folk tales you learn, the more plots you recognise in more modern works - it may not be entirely true that there are only half a dozen basic plots, depending on where you fall on the lumper-splitter scale, but folklorists have lists of hundreds of plot types, so even if you want to recognise relatively subtle distinctions, there's still plenty of scope for a given story to be recognisably a reworking of one that's much older than you think.

    • @agenttheater5
      @agenttheater5 2 роки тому

      basically yep

    • @FaustsDemon
      @FaustsDemon Рік тому

      i just realised that after your comment

  • @leirawhitehart1236
    @leirawhitehart1236 6 років тому +812

    To be honest, I think the twelfth night has to be my most favorite Shakespeare play, because for once, nobody dies, and it's also really funny. Even today.
    Plus the consept is very interesting. :)
    So yea. I think I like it better than pretty much anything else that was written at that time.
    Even by Shakespeare.

    • @elizabethbeck4071
      @elizabethbeck4071 6 років тому +4

      my favorite is tempest but this one is my second favorite one.

    • @raspberrycrowns9494
      @raspberrycrowns9494 4 роки тому +9

      Yeah
      This is also my favorite ( next to A midsummer night's dream of course )
      The plot was actually really good
      And the ending was wholesome
      The play started with one of the cutest lines I've ever heard

    • @uelrindru
      @uelrindru 4 роки тому +1

      Seeing this play performed live made everything make sense. Its SO good and one of my favorite plays

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 3 роки тому

      My favorit did not get a happy ending while everyone else did . . . .

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 3 роки тому

      True

  • @beneteus3833
    @beneteus3833 7 років тому +1320

    why did i had to read romeo and juliet instead of that? this sound way better.

    • @thomaskirkness-little5809
      @thomaskirkness-little5809 6 років тому +18

      I agree.

    • @ahappyjackolantern
      @ahappyjackolantern 6 років тому +14

      It is. I recently read it for AP Composition.

    • @elphieb3538
      @elphieb3538 6 років тому +46

      I agree. I actually just finished reading Romeo and Juliet, and I think that the whole mess of the two of them dying could've been avoided if they just made their marriage public.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 6 років тому +2

      Lucky for me we did this instead of romeo and juliet

    • @ahappyjackolantern
      @ahappyjackolantern 6 років тому +4

      NeostormXLMAX my school did both.

  • @roanokebeilschmidt
    @roanokebeilschmidt 6 років тому +157

    I once got to play Viola in a production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The great thing about playing her was that I only had to wear a hot, sweaty dress for the first scene. It's such a fun play, especially for whoever gets to play Orsino, because he's just so ridiculously over the top. This is just my favorite Shakespeare play ever don't mind me I'll stop now.

    • @narwhalninja1216
      @narwhalninja1216 5 років тому +6

      Amber Hawkins It’s also fun to play Maria, Sir Tobi, or even Malvolio because you either get to make a fool out of yourself, or you Hager to watch someone do it.

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 5 років тому +1

      I would die to be in this play, but also you don’t have to stop, in fact I’m quite curious, got any funny stories from being in the production?

  • @fanboyistransboy5089
    @fanboyistransboy5089 7 років тому +422

    KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE

  • @jessiemeg2376
    @jessiemeg2376 8 років тому +598

    a minor correction: Sir Toby and Sir Andrew aren't Olivia's servants. Sir Toby is her uncle, never fully explains why he lives with her but Sir Andrew is a friend of his who he brings in to try and win Olivia's heart. Other than that very accurate and clearly tells the story.

    • @AimanIqbal
      @AimanIqbal 7 років тому +5

      exactly

    • @sarahshepherd2559
      @sarahshepherd2559 7 років тому +7

      Yes! that was annoying me!

    • @Graycata
      @Graycata 7 років тому +3

      I thought Toby was her cousin

    • @sarahshepherd2559
      @sarahshepherd2559 7 років тому +31

      They sort of refer to him as both, it's weird
      *pulls out old Twelfth Night script*
      Looking at it again, Toby and Andrew refer to her as his niece, and Maria and Olivia refer to him as her cousin. No one else really cares, so I guess the tiebreaker is Fabian, one of Olivia's servants, who calls her Toby's niece. So...

    • @cOmAtOrAn
      @cOmAtOrAn 7 років тому +16

      I think that at some point they talk about how Sir Toby drinks all of his money away, so he had no choice but to rely on his much more prudent family.

  • @jojothetc
    @jojothetc 9 років тому +649

    Orcino is Shang from Mulan, closeted gay who realized they can marry the guy that they like because he's a woman

    • @timy9197
      @timy9197 8 років тому +77

      Lol Finally someone makes the Mulan connection

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 5 років тому +104

      I’m just gonna say this one more time
      SHANG 👏 LIKED 👏 MULAN👏 BEFORE 👏 HE👏 KNEW 👏 SHE 👏 WAS 👏 A 👏 WOMAN👏

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 5 років тому +72

      @@warrenrobinson527 BI 👏 SEXUAL

    • @ambersioux
      @ambersioux 4 роки тому +28

      Shang is a bicon

    • @helloill672
      @helloill672 4 роки тому +10

      @@ambersioux And now it's all gone. Thanks Disney

  • @heyitsemmi123
    @heyitsemmi123 5 років тому +50

    “If you were in love with me, what would you do?” “I would SHOUT REALLY LOUDLY!”
    I’ve read the play, and I can confirm that this is literally what happened.

  • @Baton793
    @Baton793 7 років тому +207

    I am gonna call my next team "The comic relief squad"

  • @hithedragon7842
    @hithedragon7842 9 років тому +623

    Funny story: when I first started watching this channel (this video, in fact) I was like "huh, I'm kinda surprised that I haven't heard of this girl before, I mean they have to be pretty famous if they're this funny" but then I saw the subscriber list and that was back when she only had like 350, so I flipped out and immediately subscribed.
    go overly sarcastic productions!

  • @alenazhang8629
    @alenazhang8629 7 років тому +671

    Dammit, now I don't know who to ship

  • @alexandraboyling148
    @alexandraboyling148 5 років тому +47

    "viola is a pretty cool instrument" is the most sarcastic remark in the vid

  • @katrinasweet5973
    @katrinasweet5973 5 років тому +63

    "Who wouldn't accept a marriage proposal from Helena Bonham Carter?" MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

  • @sanityplusmilkshakes
    @sanityplusmilkshakes 4 роки тому +55

    I call the het-centric "love triangles" love boomerangs instead. The shape works, they tend to be disappointing in execution, and there is a very good possibility all the people involved will get hurt.

  • @samweltan3353
    @samweltan3353 8 років тому +728

    Is that Dolores Ambridge and Bellatrix Lestrange?! :O :O

  • @olliepaige9317
    @olliepaige9317 4 роки тому +202

    My parents: Whatever you do don’t be a lesbian!
    Also My Parents: Let’s name her Olivia, after the character that famously falls in love with a woman.
    Me: *confused lesbian silence*

    • @nameslesss
      @nameslesss 3 роки тому +8

      Technically Olivia thought viola was a man

    • @ellymyths
      @ellymyths Рік тому +8

      I was born in national lesbian day-
      ITS NOT MY FAULT WOMEN ARE HOT

  • @samuelcorsie7866
    @samuelcorsie7866 4 роки тому +48

    “Viola is a pretty cool instrument”
    Someone get twoset on this

  • @BelatedBlade
    @BelatedBlade 7 років тому +84

    "Most wonderful" omfg and no I won't get my mind out of the gutter lol

  • @minanathans6005
    @minanathans6005 Рік тому +72

    I love the idea of a world where Olivia, Viola and Orsino could all sit down, chat shit out, and end up in a very happy and fulfilling poly relationship while Sebastian ends up with the sailor who saved him.

    • @amansinghrollno-7167
      @amansinghrollno-7167 8 місяців тому +2

      Shakespeare is turning in his grave reading ur comment

    • @laraschroeder5195
      @laraschroeder5195 6 місяців тому +3

      @@amansinghrollno-7167yeah, from the fact that HE should’ve thought of that!

    • @amansinghrollno-7167
      @amansinghrollno-7167 6 місяців тому

      @@laraschroeder5195 Can we please leave his work alone? Not everything has to be inclusive

    • @laraschroeder5195
      @laraschroeder5195 6 місяців тому +2

      @@amansinghrollno-7167 I know. Sorry if my joke came across as aggressive I didn't mean to ^^,
      I love this story as it is and I don't see any reason to change it. It's already hilarious and very fun. While I disagree that inclusivity is overrated, I love this story a lot as it is and I'm not at all saying it should be changed ^v^

    • @PixelPower0615
      @PixelPower0615 6 місяців тому +2

      I would love a rewrite with this plotline. Give me a month, and I will have something drafted.

  • @nicolekaren123
    @nicolekaren123 9 років тому +204

    The "She's the man" movie! hehehe! amazing!

    • @nicolekaren123
      @nicolekaren123 9 років тому +8

      +Karen Caparoso sebastian and olivia!

    • @jayblade2000
      @jayblade2000 7 років тому +2

      yeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss

    • @spacetrashpile7199
      @spacetrashpile7199 6 років тому +11

      Yeah it's just a thinly veiled modern version

    • @gamestation2690
      @gamestation2690 6 років тому +10

      She's the Man was written by the same duo that wrote 10 Things I Hate About You.

    • @xenophacilus5895
      @xenophacilus5895 5 років тому +3

      Are you talking about Mulan? :D
      Surely I jest : P

  • @marsupialmole3926
    @marsupialmole3926 5 років тому +53

    This is straight up my favourite Shakespeare play. I feel like it could work just as well now as it did then because even if all the romances are ok, it doesn't mean they're inherently compatible
    You could totally make the twins really identical though and it would work fine, male or female

  • @NormalWinterFox
    @NormalWinterFox 7 років тому +115

    It's called Twelfth Night because it refers to the 12th night after Christmas day which is basically the day for the 3 wise men (the ones that give incense, gold and mirth to baby Jesus) I don't know how the title refers to the play though but hey that's how it's called. I hope I made sense

    • @ardisgrooten176
      @ardisgrooten176 6 років тому +8

      NormalWinterFox its a fest that is supposed to be very irreverent, of many things... time being one. this play is about using time wisely among other things

    • @Deinareia
      @Deinareia 5 років тому +1

      It is translated as literally "The eve of the 3 kings" to other languages.

    • @lunarfloure
      @lunarfloure 3 роки тому +3

      12th night celebrations involved cross dressing

  • @purplecatloverrandompizza
    @purplecatloverrandompizza 4 роки тому +42

    So I had the callback auditions today, where we did different roles with different groups for a bunch of scenes
    And first they had me read for Fabian
    But then I read for Viola for the rest if the scenes i read
    Which was a lot
    And the director asked me if i can memorize long lines
    Keep in mind I'm a FRESHMAN
    I was just going for a role in general, probably small
    BUT IT SEEMS KIND OF LIKE IM GOING TO GET THE LEAD!
    CAN SINEONE ELABERATE
    Edit: I GOT VIOLA

    • @vanguardbreaker8826
      @vanguardbreaker8826 Рік тому +3

      I'm three years late, but yay for you!

    • @ceridwenaeradwr8105
      @ceridwenaeradwr8105 Рік тому +2

      I know this comment is now 3+ years old, but CONGRATS! 🎉

    • @purplecatloverrandompizza
      @purplecatloverrandompizza Рік тому +5

      @@ceridwenaeradwr8105 thank you! That was my first show in highschool, after that I was in EVERY show since then and I got 2 other lead roles my junior and senior year!
      Junior year I got the role of Eurydice in the show Eurydice, and this past year for my last show I played Beth in Little Women the Musical
      Now I'm getting a theatre transfer in community College and I'm planning on going into props design!

  • @danielma1874
    @danielma1874 8 років тому +562

    This is like the anime "Ouran High school host club" Where a girl has short hair, and all the girls like her because she looks like a guy, and then all the guys like her because they all know she is a girl. It's the same, just that the guys know the girl is a girl

    • @seanmoore4017
      @seanmoore4017 8 років тому +30

      I love that anime

    • @alecia5275
      @alecia5275 7 років тому +57

      I don't know if you didn't notice, or she left the picture up for to brief a time for you to notice, but when Red mentioned cross dressing, she put up a picture of OHSHC

    • @rainbowkitty9247
      @rainbowkitty9247 7 років тому +14

      aaacktualtrash Viola is secretly Haruhi and Orcino (I can't spell, sorry) is secretly Tamaki confirmed!

    • @awsomesaucekirby
      @awsomesaucekirby 6 років тому +3

      Daniel Ma one of the very few in the harem archtype that I enjoyed

    • @dogsforever5707
      @dogsforever5707 6 років тому +2

      Daniel Ma I love ouran!

  • @Threeezzz
    @Threeezzz 7 років тому +130

    A few thing.
    1. I had to read this play in all it's Shakespearian English glory. Still loved it.
    2. The ending song, when sung in the right melody/rhythm is absolutely amazing.
    3. Just found your videos through Blue's History series, but I've come to love Red's English/Myth/Tropes videos.
    4. Olivia and Viola would not have hooked up. Olivia/Viola could still just be straight. But I'd like that version anyways.

  • @wilhelmsarosen4735
    @wilhelmsarosen4735 7 років тому +95

    And remembering that females were played by young boys at the time this play was published -- genderception!

  • @jasonpaige06
    @jasonpaige06 6 років тому +74

    Most of the vid I was just wondering how did Shakespeare write this without getting confused

  • @williamdragon9415
    @williamdragon9415 7 років тому +63

    4:39 Oh Red, you are so awesome. I love how you say "love blend lines".
    Fun Fact: Recently BBC celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, which also might be his birthday.

  • @griffinauroria4592
    @griffinauroria4592 7 років тому +94

    Is it just me or are Viola and Olivia's name's spelled with the same letters in a different order?

    • @sabrinamcclain162
      @sabrinamcclain162 7 років тому +23

      Olivia has an extra i

    • @petermarsella6537
      @petermarsella6537 5 років тому +18

      @@sabrinamcclain162 no it doesn't, V I I O L A, Viiola. Olivia. Same letters

  • @psychronia
    @psychronia 7 років тому +16

    This is honestly the only proper comedy by Shakespeare to really make me laugh. Your narrative definitely helped, but I think this whole scenario, while aged, remains lightheartedly hilarious enough.

  • @mymybirdie
    @mymybirdie 7 років тому +79

    I played Viola in my school's Shakespeare play!😂

    • @haeilsey
      @haeilsey 6 років тому +4

      IgotTHEmusikNme so did I. Maybe cause I'm mtf and the whole thing was me coming out XD.

    • @sophiasteadman3456
      @sophiasteadman3456 6 років тому +2

      I played Sebastian... We're practically twins

    • @ZZRose-xk9ss
      @ZZRose-xk9ss 5 років тому +1

      when i was in high school we did the play. i was malvolio!

    • @narwhalninja1216
      @narwhalninja1216 5 років тому

      I played Maria in my 6th grade play. Only four or five people actually memorized their lines (including me, Malvolio, Feste, and the people who only had one or two lines in the entire play.)

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 2 роки тому

      Lucky you

  • @hypedmaniac8444
    @hypedmaniac8444 5 років тому +34

    8:07 - 8:11
    And I gave Romeo and Juliet flack for getting married so quickly

  • @CompanionCarli
    @CompanionCarli 7 років тому +7

    This is legit my favorite Shakespear play just because it's one of the few with a happy ending (I'm usually a sucker for them) and the comedy makes me roar with laughter.

  • @dinonid1234
    @dinonid1234 7 років тому +103

    This play sounds awesome. Why isn't this required reading

    • @The1Dragonprincess
      @The1Dragonprincess 5 років тому +1

      Dinonid123 It is If you take a Shakespeare class for English.

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 5 років тому +11

      Probably because of that 𝓙𝓾𝓲𝓬𝔂 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓢𝓾𝓫𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 that’s not allowed in a lot of schools

    • @narwhalninja1216
      @narwhalninja1216 5 років тому +1

      I read and acted out this play as Maria in 6th grade, but it was a sign and didn’t rhyme as much.

    • @Altair584
      @Altair584 3 роки тому +1

      @@warrenrobinson527 Stupid. Shakespeare works are mandatory in every english literature class. Nobody cares about the homoeroticism.

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 3 роки тому +2

      @@Altair584 You’d think so, but I’m sayin that the parts of Shakespeares work that includes homoerotic subtext isn’t explored on or taught even though we covered a lotttt of heterosexual subtext within Shakespeare and otherwise, specifically because of underlying homophobia in public education, I asked my English teacher about the connection between Hamlet and Horacio being romantic and he said “That’s an assumed thing with their relationship, and it makes sense, but I’m not really supposed to tell you that.”
      Can’t speak for everyone but this happened to me a lot while discussing Shakespeare, but my educators went out of their way to avoid that part of Shakespeare because they weren’t really allowed to explore incredibly famous writings as possible homoerotic texts lmao

  • @spencersonnefeld
    @spencersonnefeld 3 роки тому +6

    Shakespeare: "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills..."
    Red, summarizing: "I'd shout really loud!"

  • @diamondshard4407
    @diamondshard4407 7 років тому +87

    So was that Bellatrix lestrange and Umbridge???

  • @kukukk13
    @kukukk13 5 років тому +8

    I read this play in high school and freaking *loved* it. My teacher was really great about making things like Shakespearean plays fun and actually understandable for everyone. We watched the movie and also she's the man because of course we did, and it remains one of my favorite plays to this day.

  • @katiemyers8478
    @katiemyers8478 8 років тому +314

    I ship Olivia and Viola

    • @ChiyaPyon
      @ChiyaPyon 7 років тому +9

      Who doesnt

    • @terry2788
      @terry2788 6 років тому +2

      I can't believe I'm not the only one

    • @lucimonvet
      @lucimonvet 6 років тому +1

      Katie Myers same

    • @lucimonvet
      @lucimonvet 6 років тому +2

      I ship the duke and Sebastian

    • @owenjane754
      @owenjane754 6 років тому

      Katie Myers
      Same

  • @RS-ux2kq
    @RS-ux2kq 7 років тому +34

    So this is the play reffered to at the end of "Shakespear in love"!
    And I just realized that "She's the man" is totally copyed from this 😂😂👌

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 5 років тому

      Papillon Clair except that movie is garbage

    • @alienmae1231
      @alienmae1231 5 років тому

      Jay Lazarus hey don’t shit on the movie that had Channing Tatum stick a tampon up his nose 👃 it’s a a classic 😂

  • @sarcasmprophet2423
    @sarcasmprophet2423 Рік тому +4

    We are reading this in English literature class rn, and we have to act out every scene tbh I'm literally crying of laughter each time. Basically we don't understand a single thing about the lines we're saying, then our teacher explains all the sexual innuendos and all the words we don't get and make us re-do the parts, it gets so hilarious.

  • @vampman87
    @vampman87 5 років тому +7

    This play was featured in one of my favorite movies, "Wicker Park." The antagonist of the movie, Alex, spends her nights rehearsing a play that I now see was "12th Night." She plays the part of Olivia, and there's a great scene where the director berates her performance because he doesn't believe that she could be in love with a person who is in love with another woman. Well, it turns out she fits the character almost PERFECTLY... two years prior, she had fallen for the protagonist of the movie, Matt, but was too shy to say anything upon first seeing him. She gets a pep talk by her best friend Lisa to go and ask him out, but right when she arrives at his work he sees Lisa and falls in love with her. He and Lisa start dating, much to Alex's heartbreak, and, when she gets an opportunity to sneakily break up the relationship, she does. (Lisa goes on a dance tour for the month, giving Alex a note and Matt's key so he'll know where she is. Alex keeps the note, sneaks into Matt's apartment, deletes Matt's messages on his phone, and then calls Lisa and tells her that she caught Matt cheating on her. Lisa is too heartbroken to confront Matt about this, so she extends the tour and, in Matt's eyes, just vanishes without a trace.)Two years later Alex sees Matt again when he is on a quest to find Lisa after seeing her from a distance at a restaurant and, since they never met, Alex claims to be A Lisa after he sneaks into her (Lisa's) apartment (Note: Matt is pretty much a stalker in his own right until the climax of the movie.). She successfully seduces him, but, after he shows up at her play (the guy Alex is dating prior to the start of the movie, Luke, is Matt's best friend and invited Matt to see the play in an effort to try to get Alex to like him.) Alex has a montage of herself in mental anguish with the director's voice explaining Olivia's role in the play and puts on such a stellar performance that it impresses Matt and bewilders Luke. And, since Alex was wearing weird mime makeup during the performance, Matt doesn't put it together that Luke's girlfriend is the woman who seduced him and ruined his relationship with Lisa two years ago.

  • @JH-xc6en
    @JH-xc6en 4 роки тому +4

    Red:Viola is a cool instrument
    Musicians:WHEEZE

  • @hades2596
    @hades2596 10 років тому +17

    10/10, would watch again if given the opportunity.

  • @asherkahtan3914
    @asherkahtan3914 5 років тому +2

    The reason Twelfth Night is called that is because it was written to be performed on the “twelfth night” of Christmas, which is when they take down their decorations.

  • @avalondog9652
    @avalondog9652 7 років тому +31

    I saw this play in Oregon and when malvolio (or however you spell it) returns the ring he flipped sicerio(viola) off (the audience was in between them) and then chucked the ring but didn't throw it hard enough and som random guy caught it and threw it the rest of the way

    • @warrenrobinson527
      @warrenrobinson527 5 років тому +1

      AvalonDog omg this is awesome, would have died to see that

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 2 роки тому

      @@warrenrobinson527 I was about to say that

  • @cOmAtOrAn
    @cOmAtOrAn 7 років тому +30

    Twlefth Night is the absolute best.

  • @katipunanball4799
    @katipunanball4799 5 років тому +9

    Wait, you missed the best part! Cross-gartered yellow stockings!

    • @Grumplebumple
      @Grumplebumple 5 років тому

      That can be a special treat for those who read the whole thing and/or see it on stage or film

    • @lissaquon607
      @lissaquon607 3 роки тому

      To this day - no matter the context yellow stockings make me laugh. Then again the stage production my high school did the dude hammed that part up insanely.

  • @sampdesigns
    @sampdesigns 4 роки тому +6

    Everytime we get to the "Most...wonderful" part, I laugh hysterically.

  • @theressmthinthestatic
    @theressmthinthestatic Рік тому +4

    I'm currently in tech week for a production of this, and both our actors for Sebastian and Orsino were out for the say, so after the last scene (with no "husbands" in sight) I (Olivia) finally got the win she wanted and escorted "Cesario" off stage ;)

  • @tripticool9881
    @tripticool9881 9 років тому +35

    it was very helpful for my exams...
    thanxxx

  • @harriett9810
    @harriett9810 3 роки тому +2

    I did this play last year in school and played Olivia. There is this awesome scene where Olivia just GOES OFF at sir Toby and it was just the most fun ever.

  • @kalahne
    @kalahne 6 років тому +6

    Hook, line, and sinker, Red. All in literally the first three seconds. Overly Sarcastic rules!!!!

  • @jennyn990
    @jennyn990 3 роки тому +3

    I read this in class for freshman year, and by god did I love whenever I got to read as Olivia, Viola, or Feste! We got to switch often, and I never thought my first high school English teacher would hate Shakespeare so much, she would make us read a play that wasn't Romeo and Juliet. This play was so much fun to read in class!

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence8365 6 років тому +24

    Yes Olivia and Voila would have looked up. But I was really shipping Antonio and Sebastian. Both characters seemed more convenient than anything else... But it was they are so cute!

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 3 роки тому +2

      Antonio is a total sweethart, was a very gay pirat in the production I have seen. I was realy mad that he did not got a happy end

  • @Grinhold
    @Grinhold 11 місяців тому +1

    About to cast 'Raise Dead' on this comment section BUT-
    LOVE our videos btw OSP! I have been diving into the mythos and history vids, and have only recently been sampling through the story summaries which has brought a rather interesting thing to my notice....
    Each time I keep clicking on to a new video I swear the 'years ago' marker keeps getting bigger. 6 years ago? 7 years ago? 8?! 9?! YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR NINE YEARS AND I AINT BEEN AWARE?! How dare I. Love your vids, old and new, and I look gratefully towards more to come!

  • @debixent995
    @debixent995 4 роки тому +2

    "But I like viola better because that is a pretty cool instrument"
    Ling Ling laughs in the distance while playing flight of the bumblebee backwards at 15 notes per second

  • @aneragobuulolo8525
    @aneragobuulolo8525 7 років тому +26

    lol suddenly Ouran High school Host Club pops in 😂😂😂

  • @snakewithapen5489
    @snakewithapen5489 4 роки тому +8

    A real love triangle will always be just a little gay

  • @thimblepunk7359
    @thimblepunk7359 5 років тому +6

    12th night is one of my fave shakespeare's honestly. Also this seems like possibly the best place of the internet to put it so here is a playlist i've made for twelfth night: new rules - dua lipa, blame it on the girls - mika, in the middle - dodie, logical song - supertramp, girlfriend - christine and the queens, honey - emma mcgrath, girls/girls/boys - panic!, somebody told me - the killers, i'm not your toy - la roux, I go crazy - orla gartland, remember your a girl - kaiser chiefs, only you - yazoo, lovefool - the cardigans and finally rain - mika. Thoughts?

  • @ZZRose-xk9ss
    @ZZRose-xk9ss 5 років тому +11

    if feste the depressing clown were alive today he'd be a memelord

  • @kampei7440
    @kampei7440 8 років тому +76

    My English teacher actually played part of this in class to kind of explain the book. Thank You for translating that language Shaksepear calls english!!!

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 5 років тому +9

      Shakespeare spoke early modern english. We speak modern english today and pronunciations and grammer rules have changed a lot.

  • @stellar3746
    @stellar3746 7 років тому +14

    So hopefully this helps me not fail my exam monday XD Thank you so much for making this!

    • @henryviii267
      @henryviii267 7 років тому +4

      ella casterwill my exam is monday too

  • @marloesleijser2792
    @marloesleijser2792 7 років тому +1

    You've saved my life with these videos so many times. Thanks a lot! Keep it up, all the best from Holland

  • @MJ-rw1ow
    @MJ-rw1ow 5 років тому

    How do I know this is one of thee best videos you’ve made? In the first 3 seconds you show OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB!! I also just love this story!

  • @gabeslist
    @gabeslist 6 років тому +5

    Yo can we stop for a sec and just take a moment to appreciate how cool the Illyrian uniforms are?

  • @caseygray2328
    @caseygray2328 6 років тому +17

    this was actually pretty funny

  • @greenisbest6441
    @greenisbest6441 4 роки тому +2

    I played malvolio for my towns Shakespeare play and he was so much fun to act. I understand you had to cut his shenanigans because of time but the yellow stockings scene cracks me up every time.

  • @lizzyb.8009
    @lizzyb.8009 7 років тому +1

    this is my favourite Shakespeare play by far. Mdisummer's Night is such a distant second, that it took me a second to even remember, and i'd JUST WATCHED YOUR VIDEO FOR IT!

  • @scarletnakadegawa-lee5220
    @scarletnakadegawa-lee5220 4 роки тому +4

    Finally someone said something about most love triangles just being bent lines thank you!!

  • @Maninawig
    @Maninawig 6 років тому +9

    this is close the Black Adder season two...
    Speaking of which, please make a Black Adder summary... also The Holy Grail and Life of Brian

  • @natnuss98
    @natnuss98 7 років тому

    oh I love your Chanell so much already! I just found you today and I am through all the greek myths I could find on your Chanell. and we play this in in our theatre club! so much love to you!

  • @dantebanducci235
    @dantebanducci235 6 років тому +19

    “That kind of love officially didn’t happen.”
    Sure it did, and there are plenty of stories about it. The Middle Ages isn’t a monolith. There were times and places where they were against it sure, but generally no one gave a shit beyond making fun of you for being a genetic dead-end... Which is technically fair.

  • @vanessal8357
    @vanessal8357 7 років тому +90

    I wish I could Helena Bonham Carter!

    • @graceballard396
      @graceballard396 5 років тому +4

      Vanessa L I don’t know what this means, but I too wish I could Helena Bonham Carter

    • @Grumplebumple
      @Grumplebumple 5 років тому +1

      @@graceballard396 I too wish I could Helena Bonham Carter

  • @davidgold3nrose
    @davidgold3nrose 7 років тому +8

    Dude: the names are even the same in She the Man

  • @starlightyoongi7105
    @starlightyoongi7105 2 роки тому +1

    Our class was given about 15 minutes on stage for Shakespeare day hosted by another school. We played the comedy relief characters (the sword fight scene) I even brought a fake sword and a fake axe and we were all in silly little costumes, the whole getup, and I genuinely think we were the best stage that day, the other schools did dramatic bits from other Shakespeare plays that were less than impressive

  • @huttmuttbutt
    @huttmuttbutt 5 років тому

    I've never actually seen or read any Shakespeare plays/story's. But out of all the ones I've heard you summarize, this is my favorite!

  • @JoeskiX0451
    @JoeskiX0451 3 роки тому +3

    I saw this play at the globe theater a few years ago. It was hilariousness. If anyone is passing through London I highly recommend it.

  • @shakalksgamer7974
    @shakalksgamer7974 5 років тому +6

    This was so well scripted. Loved the video. I wish our English teacher would explain stuff like this. 😂

  • @alansunter2383
    @alansunter2383 5 років тому +1

    I'm a tiny bit surprised no one talks about how perfectly cast the late great Sir Nigel Hawthorne is as Malvolio. He has it all- the hilariousness, the pompousness, the proverbial stick up the bottom and even the underlying tragedy of the character.

  • @georgiacrouch6146
    @georgiacrouch6146 4 роки тому +1

    I'm on the floor laughing! Thank you for entertaining me while educating me!

  • @haydensizemore6069
    @haydensizemore6069 5 років тому +7

    For a love triangle to be complete someone must be gay or else it's just a live arrow

  • @LiaAwesomeness
    @LiaAwesomeness 7 років тому +22

    wtf so that movie with amanda bynes is based on shakespearean stuff

  • @Ray-dy4uv
    @Ray-dy4uv 3 роки тому +2

    4:55
    Damn, a self burn! Now those are rare.

  • @KuramaKyubi9
    @KuramaKyubi9 Рік тому +2

    It cannot be overstated how funny Malvolio's actions are once he falls for the trick and begins to act crazy.

    • @shreberry5164
      @shreberry5164 5 місяців тому +1

      Cross. Gartered. Yellow. STOCKINGS.

  • @SHLEE444
    @SHLEE444 3 роки тому +3

    this is giving me She's the Man and Ouran High School Host Club VIbes lmao

    • @justafallperson2108
      @justafallperson2108 3 роки тому +2

      She's the man was supposed to be a modern retelling of this, or at least inspired by it.

  • @felsclarith3377
    @felsclarith3377 7 років тому +3

    "...who wouldn't accept a proposal from Helena Bonham Carter?"
    Tru xD

  • @freakgamer7439
    @freakgamer7439 5 років тому +2

    The way you summarized was extremely hilarious 😍😂🤣

  • @wowcastle1468
    @wowcastle1468 6 років тому +1

    Hi!! I LOVVVE your videos. I have always been fascinated by myths and literature and you add this whole other spin on it. I would just like to attempt to help people writing essays and make it known that the name Twelfth night, comes from a festival of the same name that celebrated misrule and frivolity. Peasants became kings and vice versa and it was basically one big opposite day that happened either just before or just after Christmas.