50. Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre, London
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 β’ 1K Ratings
ποΈ 3 May 2021
β±οΈ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast Neil takes us to a place where all our modern senses and sterile sensibilities are thrown into shock. London at the turn of the C17th was a major metropolis, a city teeming with life, where pestilence and poverty sat cheek by jowl with great wealth and riches. A major industrial centre it was ripe with every stink of animal and human imaginable, streets crowded and claustrophobic, some lined with the rotting body parts of dismembered criminals.
Striding into this world came William Shakespeare, a man who had the power to entertain the thongs. Conjuring and conceiving magical words and language he became one of the pillars of the English language. His plays and poetry, that have moved and shaped the whole world, were written, read and performed on Bankside at the Globe theatre.
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| 0:36.5 | week, videos which are packed with history, commentary and a whole lot more besides. |
| 0:42.4 | It's called Neil Oliver on Patreon and I would love to see you there. |
| 0:46.0 | In the meantime, here is the next episode of my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 0:52.0 | Kue the music. |
| 0:53.0 | Fours and fluxes and frenses and foul evils there was consumption |
| 1:05.6 | dysentery measles rickets scurvy and heaven knows what else in this podcast I'm going to try and take you to a place where all your modern |
| 1:17.8 | senses will be bombarded. A cesspit ripe with every stink animal and human. |
| 1:25.0 | Streets crowded with humanity and animal life, claustrophobic. |
| 1:31.0 | Some lined with the rotting body parts of dismembered criminals and traitors. |
| 1:37.0 | Sixteenth century London, the greatest industrial centre in the land. Strading into this world was a man who |
| 1:47.1 | entertained the throngs, conjuring and conceiving magical words and language that |
| 1:52.4 | have moved and shaped the whole world. |
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