Shakespeare was nothing more than a normal thinking man, imaginative and creative within the bounds of his understanding. Superior is transcendental knowledge wherein the understanding descends from higher authority rather than created from basic material building blocks.
Fascinating conversation! I found the comparison between Shakespeare and a Shaman to be very appropriate; the ability to fall into different perspectives breeds compassion and understanding, ultimately I think if more people embraced this the world might be a better place.
Tony Howard is a brilliant mind and teacher, knowledge comes alive when it's taken off the page and translated through a brain like his. It was very prudent and professional of you, Russell, that you let him speak to the extend that he deemed necessary. But the questions that you did level at him were also always on point.
Fascinating conversation! Interviews like this are few and far between. Thank you, Russell! I envy the fortunate students who get to have Mr. Howard as a professor. Please consider a podcast, Sir. Sharing this interview with friends. I swear, we could have lengthy discussions for weeks just covering five minute segments.
"Beauty brag but 'tis not she" For me, this Shakespeare quote shows he knew! We can't ever find happiness outside ourself because it's not really there, not really...
I live in a very nice home but my neighbourhood is becoming more deprived - recent high density homes built by Homes England and a private property developer on land that was previously garages which had fallen into decay - so that’s okay although we are all now overlooked and struggling for parking. We have a growing number of drug dealers coming into the estate and all the issues that go with that go with that - including young hooded guys beating up their customers with clubs and machetes. We have been dealing with a family involved in moped crime including robbery and drug dealing. We now have a developer who wants to turn the property attached to us into a seven room bedsit arrangement. It’s a regular 1969’s home - with a breeze-block partition wall. There is no parking, the property is not near the road and the only access is along a two slab path past my front window. The developer claims the occupiers of the seven bedsits with shared kitchens and sitting room will be professionals who will use bicycles- hence no need to consider parking just install a bike stand. I am an active member of a residents group, go out litter picking, talking to people etc. But this latest development feels like a burden and a living situation that I feel I can’t bear. I am distraught 😩. I am really trying to not to be consumerist or a nimby - but I am thinking of selling and moving away to somewhere less ‘hectic’ and ‘stressful’. Does this mean I’m a failed human being - not being able to handle change - not able to stomach the thought of being stuck with seven to fourteen potentially problem neighbours (professionals will not be living in bedsits outside of London) I know people need somewhere to live but this feels like overload. Why do I mention this here - because I feel a failed human being for wanted to escape this situation. But is it a failure-isn’t human instinct to want to be safe and calm?
Really loving this format - and this episode does not disappoint. Fabulous to grasp some eternal truths - I like that the interruptions were all on point (sometime it can be less so) - and the information was so fascinating and bridged ancient to contemporary so beautifully. Thanks - and even though Paul Robeson has long been a hero - I learned some stuff on him too. Brilliant
This is absolutely brilliant! For a change Russell Brand is using his intelligence to explore our common humanity using classic texts-an important undertaking. We need more of this on You Tube instead of the endless self-promotion that makes up most of the channel. More of this Brand- are you reading these opinions- let me hear back!
Great episode RB. Liked your book btw. Please, please convince Tony Howard to make a Shakespeare podcast. I love his insightful interpretations of the plays, and am sure a very many people would be enlightened and enriched by this. Surely such a podcast would be a great success now, and for the generations to follow. Prof. Howard share your gems sir! Kindest regards Charlie.
I think Howard is wrong about Shakespeare's focus being on romantic/marital love. It might seem that way, but it's symbolic of something much larger; a full-scale union of truth and beauty, which is actually polyamorous.
Por favor Russell Brand, podrìa todos tus Videos con Subtitulos en Español?...Te los Gradecerè.. Mi Inglès es muy poco aùn...Te Admiro siendo tan Jòven y tan Profundo tus Temas Existenciales...
Hi Russ, love all your stuff and I'm a big fan. I'd like to meet you someday preferably when City play West Ham and we absolutely hammer you guys. All the best with your podcast, I'm always locked in. Sending some positive love from Trinidad.
that was sly ol Russel who played in that 'film version' of the Tempest, but I'm still waiting to see RB play Caliban. Great subject once again on the Trews. But who is Shakespeare's Merlin? is Prospero supposed to be John Dee? Or what Ham is Francis Bacon posing as Shakespeare's Hamlet? We may never know, but keep up with your fascinating talk-show alchemy, Russel, -Tans the penman
I wonder what happens in those cut out moments... I assume Mr Howard is improving Russells knowledge, so the conversation would be more complete and understandable.
Is there an archived recording of Paul Robeson on the radio broadcast? Also Tony actively ignored Ira Aldridge. Here he is though talking about the amazing Ira Aldridge: www.historyextra.com/article/culture/ira-aldridge-shakespeares-black-othello
Russell, have you completed Fire and Fury yet? If not, you must put it on the top of your list. I just finished my copy and I can't help but feel a bit of nostalgia as I reminise on grand-dad behind the wheel of the family station wagon slobbered drunk playing slolam with the neighborhood mailboxes...god help us all, he has the nuclear codes!
That old adage about if Shakespeare was alive and working today he would be a script writer on Eastenders is just not true. He would be writing beautiful plays which would be performed in The West End and On Broadway!!
Are those the best chairs you can come up with? I find your studio quite rude. And, your posture, OMG! LOL Otherwise, loved the interview. Did I miss it, or did you say anything about Trinculo, or even Helen Mirren when Howard was talking about women doing Hamlet or other male roles?
As you can hear listening to this gentleman, Shakespeare is just mental masturbation, a convoluted literary miasma which will not help you avoid the real problems of life, viz: birth, death, disease and old age. For this you need to study transcendental literature, for instance Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srimad Bhagavatam, etc.
Question is did Shakespeare actually write Shakespeare the modern belief is probably not and that those works were probably written by committee with Francis bacon,Christopher Marlowe and william stanley being more likely to of had the experiences, travels and knowledge needed to write such diverse stories it does seem unlikely that a fairly uneducated man could have written such things . Those works would have needed a wiki type knowledge of the history,politics and science of the time.
Actually, his plays show he was rather ignorant of the foreign places he wrote about. He had people set sail from Milan and Verona (both landlocked) and not once mentions the canels of Venice in a play set in Venice. He has ancient Egyptians playing billiards and clocks in ancient Rome. He gets historical chronology wrong, sometimes hundreds of years out.
Felix Harvey (interesting name there for a sceptic...those in the know will know why ; )) Hardly a group with limited knowledge - many of these people are absolutely obsessed. And there are a good number of well respected actors and professors in this group, too.
Just a middle class conspiracy theory because they resent that the greatest playwright of all time came from the working class stock that tbh most of the world's best talents come from ie sports stars and artists and actors
Ahh, Shakespeare aka Francis Bacon who added 20000 words to the English Language, the universal world language which has been carefully scripted as a form of control, in which we unknowingly and unwittingly contract ourselves to a hidden world, where our names are owned by the papal see througha constructive trust under the cestui que ve act 1666 and the papal bull of 1301 and many words give the game away that we are on a world stage, as actors representing and acting for our names, which are not owned by us. With the capitalisation of the English language we enter a world of fictional entities and corporate dead entities and we act as if we are the names, just as you are the keeper but not the owner of your vehicle. Capitus Maximus denotes you as a dead entity with complete loss of rights, as on a gravestone. ie The corporate entity has died under admiralty law of the sea and you go to a wake of a ship that has passed. The tyranny and facism so long tried and failed around the world has been carefully replaced by Bacon (aka Shakespeare) into a world where we consent without knowing it through many other words in the English Language.
Why do you keep ignoring questions regarding television, Russell? You claimed to be "woke" and started exposing television for what it really is. Why are you now featuring on a new show airing on Comedy Central - a television station that plays a big role in dumbing down the people?
Seems to have principles and voices them. Not preachy at all. We all live in a capitalist state. Does speak to boost ego....as we all do. Lets not clutter the ideas with irrelevant content.
Shakespeare was nothing more than a normal thinking man, imaginative and creative within the bounds of his understanding. Superior is transcendental knowledge wherein the understanding descends from higher authority rather than created from basic material building blocks.
Well done Russell giving us isolated yet intelligent people access to uni level depth even in Australia in a tiny village dieing in a drought.
Fascinating conversation! I found the comparison between Shakespeare and a Shaman to be very appropriate; the ability to fall into different perspectives breeds compassion and understanding, ultimately I think if more people embraced this the world might be a better place.
Tony Howard is a brilliant mind and teacher, knowledge comes alive when it's taken off the page and translated through a brain like his. It was very prudent and professional of you, Russell, that you let him speak to the extend that he deemed necessary. But the questions that you did level at him were also always on point.
Fascinating conversation! Interviews like this are few and far between. Thank you, Russell!
I envy the fortunate students who get to have Mr. Howard as a professor. Please consider a podcast, Sir.
Sharing this interview with friends. I swear, we could have lengthy discussions for weeks just covering five minute segments.
"Beauty brag but 'tis not she" For me, this Shakespeare quote shows he knew! We can't ever find happiness outside ourself because it's not really there, not really...
Rupert Spira speaks eloquently on this quote here - ua-cam.com/video/FW7O_K24tiQ/v-deo.html
Thanks so much to both Russell Brand and Tony Howard and to William Shakespeare.
I watched this twice when it came out 5 years ago and have come back again to rewatch it a third time. It's an amazing conversation.
I have now watched this 4 times.
I live in a very nice home but my neighbourhood is becoming more deprived - recent high density homes built by Homes England and a private property developer on land that was previously garages which had fallen into decay - so that’s okay although we are all now overlooked and struggling for parking. We have a growing number of drug dealers coming into the estate and all the issues that go with that go with that - including young hooded guys beating up their customers with clubs and machetes. We have been dealing with a family involved in moped crime including robbery and drug dealing. We now have a developer who wants to turn the property attached to us into a seven room bedsit arrangement. It’s a regular 1969’s home - with a breeze-block partition wall. There is no parking, the property is not near the road and the only access is along a two slab path past my front window. The developer claims the occupiers of the seven bedsits with shared kitchens and sitting room will be professionals who will use bicycles- hence no need to consider parking just install a bike stand. I am an active member of a residents group, go out litter picking, talking to people etc. But this latest development feels like a burden and a living situation that I feel I can’t bear. I am distraught 😩. I am really trying to not to be consumerist or a nimby - but I am thinking of selling and moving away to somewhere less ‘hectic’ and ‘stressful’. Does this mean I’m a failed human being - not being able to handle change - not able to stomach the thought of being stuck with seven to fourteen potentially problem neighbours (professionals will not be living in bedsits outside of London) I know people need somewhere to live but this feels like overload. Why do I mention this here - because I feel a failed human being for wanted to escape this situation. But is it a failure-isn’t human instinct to want to be safe and calm?
Really loving this format - and this episode does not disappoint. Fabulous to grasp some eternal truths - I like that the interruptions were all on point (sometime it can be less so) - and the information was so fascinating and bridged ancient to contemporary so beautifully. Thanks - and even though Paul Robeson has long been a hero - I learned some stuff on him too. Brilliant
Wonderful. So enjoyable to listen to intelligent people talk about Shakespeare.
This is absolutely brilliant! For a change Russell Brand is using his intelligence to explore our common humanity using classic texts-an important undertaking. We need more of this on You Tube instead of the endless self-promotion that makes up most of the channel. More of this Brand- are you reading these opinions- let me hear back!
Russell getting cultural? Educating the masses on abstract ideals,thanks Russell I feel so free thinking and intellectual.
Human ElectroMagnetic Psych. I'm not surprised.
Great episode RB. Liked your book btw. Please, please convince Tony Howard to make a Shakespeare podcast. I love his insightful interpretations of the plays, and am sure a very many people would be enlightened and enriched by this. Surely such a podcast would be a great success now, and for the generations to follow. Prof. Howard share your gems sir!
Kindest regards
Charlie.
Thanks so much Russell for making such beautiful little places to learn something more about life. xo
I love his enthusiasm. Cool multi-domain expression of timeless ideals and the far reaching influence of art..
"O for a muse of fire" indeed! Infinitely fascinating Tony and Russ. Thank you for firing my imagination with this Shakespeare fix.
OMG, I had just run out of things to watch, right on time, Russ.
Ally Jay you must still be looking
Ally Jay. That's weird. Me too 👍
Loving this episode, Tony is so eloquent.
Wow! I am more interested in Shakespeare now. Thank you.
I love this! And love you! And love Tony! I was spell-bound! Most blessings on the whole team!
This was an amazing discussion (yup, English teacher!)
This is such a profound and facsinating conversation
There is no Brand like Russell Brand !
I cried listening. we should be reading. more.
This is amazing, what a brilliant under the skin
listened again as its such a good podcast
Brilliant. 🙏🏾
The answer is YES!
You are fabulous russell Brand, you really lead out your guests , and choose excellent interesting guests. thank you.
I'd love to see a film adaptation of Tempest come out. Maybe in the style of Lord of the rings
Here in Toronto we always have progressive casting in our Shakespeare in the Park - has been like that for years
Quiet an inspiration you are to me mr brand, wish I could fathom your strength..
That was great. Cheers
Gave me new insights into The Bard. Thank you.
I think Howard is wrong about Shakespeare's focus being on romantic/marital love. It might seem that way, but it's symbolic of something much larger; a full-scale union of truth and beauty, which is actually polyamorous.
Your voice is so calming
Por favor Russell Brand, podrìa todos tus Videos con Subtitulos en Español?...Te los Gradecerè.. Mi Inglès es muy poco aùn...Te Admiro siendo tan Jòven y tan Profundo tus Temas Existenciales...
Those uncomfortable chairs tho
The Horde TV
H TV is correct:
RUSS GET YE COMFERTBLE CHAISES!
Is Under the Skin a movie, Netflix, or a book?
Spot on excellent work thank you very muchos gracias.
Very cool , thanks for the info , always loved Shakespeare , & I love you too ! :)
looks cold in there, chuck fifty pence int' meter. what a utterly wonderful video, totally passionate and engaging, cheers
Hi Russ, love all your stuff and I'm a big fan. I'd like to meet you someday preferably when City play West Ham and we absolutely hammer you guys. All the best with your podcast, I'm always locked in. Sending some positive love from Trinidad.
Love it, Rusty!
Happy New Year, well Twelfth Night, anyway, RB!
that was sly ol Russel who played in that 'film version' of the Tempest, but I'm still waiting to see RB play Caliban. Great subject once again on the Trews. But who is Shakespeare's Merlin? is Prospero supposed to be John Dee? Or what Ham is Francis Bacon posing as Shakespeare's Hamlet? We may never know, but keep up with your fascinating talk-show alchemy, Russel, -Tans the penman
Calling other people idiots and then immediately trying to mollify them by calling yourself one is not helpful. Or respectful. Book of changes
Brand is the professor/confessor here methinks.
Thanks Russelll
wow - glad I listened to this
Bloody amazing.......
Great Interview!
Good stuff. Loved you on Bill Maher
Great video .
That’s an interesting room set
7 minutes in and Russel has made the first reference to Trump I can actually agree with that doesn't sound politicized or copy and pasted, fantastic.
loved it Thanks
Great job
Read Sam Johnsons 'Preface to Shakespeare'.
I wonder what happens in those cut out moments... I assume Mr Howard is improving Russells knowledge, so the conversation would be more complete and understandable.
53:35 shout out to Eslanda Robeson
Read about the reception of that Robeson Othello: www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/03/theatre
Harold Bloom's Shakespeare; Invention of the Human
Is there an archived recording of Paul Robeson on the radio broadcast? Also Tony actively ignored Ira Aldridge. Here he is though talking about the amazing Ira Aldridge: www.historyextra.com/article/culture/ira-aldridge-shakespeares-black-othello
Where is this being filmed anybody?
he will always be.
Good. Show. Russel. Much. Love. Lasha. Artist. Visionery. Yellowbear. And. Healer. Berkley. Ca and. SANTA. CRUZ. CANADA.
Shakespeare = Saint Germain
Well read is also the relation of higher amd lower Self......
brilliant!!!!
does Russell say "cheers daddy" at the very end!?
Russell, have you completed Fire and Fury yet? If not, you must put it on the top of your list. I just finished my copy and I can't help but feel a bit of nostalgia as I reminise on grand-dad behind the wheel of the family station wagon slobbered drunk playing slolam with the neighborhood mailboxes...god help us all, he has the nuclear codes!
excellent
That old adage about if Shakespeare was alive and working today he would be a script writer on Eastenders is just not true. He would be writing beautiful plays which would be performed in The West End and On Broadway!!
Wtf.editing in process but that's ok I'm here now my ear drums were falling to pieces the alert was sooooo loud
Wonder who that was
Hello Russell +
I thought you was doing one with Brian Cox next :/
Do you like Cox?
2nd3rd1st do you want my Cox?
So communists are saying Shakespeare was a communist... nope not buying it... and everything said was basically look at us we're the bourgeoisie...
3rd Russell.. .
Are those the best chairs you can come up with? I find your studio quite rude. And, your posture, OMG! LOL Otherwise, loved the interview. Did I miss it, or did you say anything about Trinculo, or even Helen Mirren when Howard was talking about women doing Hamlet or other male roles?
its like Shakespeare is an industry, not a real person
Do you think maybe you're an incarnation of Francis Bacon/ St Germain? Russell?
wow.
But what about Sir Francis Bacon??
As you can hear listening to this gentleman, Shakespeare is just mental masturbation, a convoluted literary miasma which will not help you avoid the real problems of life, viz: birth, death, disease and old age. For this you need to study transcendental literature, for instance Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srimad Bhagavatam, etc.
Othello...............ie Jungle Fever...... LOL
Was the idea of the tyrant relevant during the years of Stalin and Mao too?
OMG! Intellectual discussion on youtube! Lolz fail.FTW!
ther is a face on the wall
Seventh. What's going on with the ranking?
Dave Long Am not the one using vulgar language. A civilised person does not use profanity!
Dickey the 3rd = Trumpy the 1st
This is my favorite genre of porn!
Question is did Shakespeare actually write Shakespeare the modern belief is probably not and that those works were probably written by committee with Francis bacon,Christopher Marlowe and william stanley being more likely to of had the experiences, travels and knowledge needed to write such diverse stories it does seem unlikely that a fairly uneducated man could have written such things . Those works would have needed a wiki type knowledge of the history,politics and science of the time.
When you say "The modern belief is" you mean to say "A small group of people with limited knowledge about the subject have a theory"
Actually, his plays show he was rather ignorant of the foreign places he wrote about. He had people set sail from Milan and Verona (both landlocked) and not once mentions the canels of Venice in a play set in Venice. He has ancient Egyptians playing billiards and clocks in ancient Rome. He gets historical chronology wrong, sometimes hundreds of years out.
Felix Harvey (interesting name there for a sceptic...those in the know will know why ; )) Hardly a group with limited knowledge - many of these people are absolutely obsessed. And there are a good number of well respected actors and professors in this group, too.
His family crest is a tip. Shakespeare was a merchant?
Just a middle class conspiracy theory because they resent that the greatest playwright of all time came from the working class stock that tbh most of the world's best talents come from ie sports stars and artists and actors
Hey :)
Fancy this turning jnto discussion about gender and race. Who'd have thought....
Ahh, Shakespeare aka Francis Bacon who added 20000 words to the English Language, the universal world language which has been carefully scripted as a form of control, in which we unknowingly and unwittingly contract ourselves to a hidden world, where our names are owned by the papal see througha constructive trust under the cestui que ve act 1666 and the papal bull of 1301 and many words give the game away that we are on a world stage, as actors representing and acting for our names, which are not owned by us. With the capitalisation of the English language we enter a world of fictional entities and corporate dead entities and we act as if we are the names, just as you are the keeper but not the owner of your vehicle. Capitus Maximus denotes you as a dead entity with complete loss of rights, as on a gravestone. ie The corporate entity has died under admiralty law of the sea and you go to a wake of a ship that has passed. The tyranny and facism so long tried and failed around the world has been carefully replaced by Bacon (aka Shakespeare) into a world where we consent without knowing it through many other words in
the English Language.
Second!
Dave Long I was just mocking the guy who wrote First😀
6th
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Why do you keep ignoring questions regarding television, Russell? You claimed to be "woke" and started exposing television for what it really is. Why are you now featuring on a new show airing on Comedy Central - a television station that plays a big role in dumbing down the people?
Seems to have principles and voices them. Not preachy at all. We all live in a capitalist state. Does speak to boost ego....as we all do. Lets not clutter the ideas with irrelevant content.
jthmastermind and don't forget the arrogant shit stain has loved your comment.
Orange Hitler are you for real? Clearly you're a leftist, look how he spoke to farage.
fight fire with fire
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