William Shakespeare - Brief and Naughty!

[HomeOfGameplay]

My class thought this was a troll

[GothicCool2]

Lol watched this in English yesterday :)

[ThomasJProductionz]

check out the poetry on my page much like his work i promise

[JohnBleakSpeaks]

Follow this user being naghty with william shakespeare you won't regrest it and it's highly educational

[ShakespeareChannel]

Very funny. Thanks for posting James.

[timelessnugget]

nice. this would've been very funny and informative in sixth grade.

[IwantParacord]

HAHA i watched this video today for english class lol its funny

[skiflutefieldhockey]

My English teacher showed this to my class the other day because we are starting Hamlet. This is awesome! We never expected this...a bunch of us were ready to take notes and then when the Black Eyed Peas came on, our jaws dropped.

What's the name of the song after "Hey Ya"?

[kyo221]

R.I.P. William Shakespeare

[TheHumanFiction]

Shakespeare didn't want us to know much about him, or about his views, hence how balanced his viewpoints on characters tend to be. This video really has absolutely nothing to do with the reason why people still read Shakespeare, or the significance of his works. I fear for our children.

[jamesdhogan]

Hey gang -- I've launched a new, HD-version of Shakespeare: Brief & Naughty under on my new Teach Kids Productions site. Click on the annotation link at the beginning of this film to check it out!

[monsterbuster45]

did any of you watched the epic rap battle of history?

[crazyhead217]

wats the song at 2:20??

[BlargVison]

i herd hes a sick rapper

[georgiegirlgeorgia]

Watched this today in English class we are bout to start reading The Scottish Play.

[Haloblue7]

Warrwick Castle in the opening shots! I miss that place

[humaira1998]

thought it was gonna be borin but the oppisit

[humaira1998]

i watched dis in my english class 2day

[eminem3314]

My teacher showed this to us in class anyways what the song. C:

[georgiegirlgeorgia]

@eminem3314 The song is Hey Ya! by OutKast. took me ages to find it lol

[Aesthir]

@KatzRulez4EVA No, you clearly didn't. Feel free to highlight this further.

[tigermki]

i also saw this in english class and couldnt help but laugh

[Aesthir]

@KatzRulez4EVA Your response leads me to believe you did not understand what he said.

[ShadowMilk23]

I showed this to my science teacher and she said that Shakespeare was a personification of the way of life at that time.

[Aesthir]

@ShadowMilk23 A man named William Shakespeare existed, he was a businessman and landowner who definitely was significantly involved in theatre and the arts and was involved with both public and royal performances. This is known- however the extent of his true authorship is not truly confirmed. Google the 'first folio', it's probably the strongest evidence.

[ShadowMilk23]

WOW! I wish i could be an actor/singer/songwriter like shakespear some day

[danielacoolpepe]

i have a quiz of this video tomorrow!! agh!! jajja...loved the video though! :D

[silentblad]

that was my class i bet :)

[vemu333]

pathetic

[bananacockroach]

i got a spear you can shake. hehehe

[crystalguada24]

did you know that theres a secret code in the last 14 lines in hamlet in which shakespeare states he is a homosexual

[1955Brummie]

The music absolutely SUCKS

[akhdaramaqueen]

i'm going to beg my math teacher to play this video tomorrow in class because he's the only one cool enough to let us watch something like this!

Thanks for posting this video i'm going to use it for my research project

[BugsyandTux]

What is the picture at the end? The naked boy sitting on the piano bench.

[FuckinFirstRecon]

i learned something.

[SueEGenaris]

Lame. It might make me want to learn about making you tube vids--but Shakespeare? No Way!

[Damienf77]

Combine the idiotic with the fascinating and what do you get? A perfect way to teach the youth of today without them thinking they're learning. *sigh*

[KawaiiStarberry]

We saw this when we were reading Juilus Caesar! We all loved it, very funny!

[xgenereet]

My friends talked about it and apparently all of my English 2 classes loved it that day we all watched it. Pretty funny and informative. Impressive

[alex9492313]

awesome lol

[pjs723]

I LOVE this video. I can't wait to show it to my students! Nice job!

[MegaFinnyboy]

myenglish teacher showed us this and we laghed our heads off

[Alzthegr8]

My teacher showed us this in class as an Introduction to Shakespeare and I loved it!!! I love shakespeare anyway but this just sums him up in 8 minutes! Genius

[SushSnakies]

IM SURROUNDED BY TEACHERS!!!!!

[billallman]

OUTSTANDING! Shakespeare as artist, not museum piece. Your summaries of the tragedies were particularly excellent (and would have saved me HOURS had I been able to watch this 30 years ago).

[strangersxcandy]

i didnt like the animal abuse but the rest was funny, i can read about shakespeare and its still interesting, but this just lays it all out lol!

[kyliefan4life]

we watched this last week in english. i was the only one who laughed!! my clas has no sense of humour, i had the tears rolling!! sure brillance :D

[brain0wizz]

I'm a student and my English teacher showed us this. It was absolutely GREAT and so fun to watch! Totally encouraged us to learn about him! :)

[JustSayin07]

they tricked us into learning

[JustSayin07]

bad quality

[joeyyyxxx]

you're vids are awesome man.. come teach english at my school!

[daver852]

A few problems with this. We don't know if William Shakespeare of Stratford ever attended school at all; there's some evidence that he may have been illiterate. We don't know when he moved to London. Nor is there any real evidence that Queen Elizabeth asked him to write "The Merry Wives of Windsor." It is clever, though.

[Speedzx3]

lol we watched this vid in English class, this rocks!

[twilolive1]

this is soo incredibly hilarious! i that u can put humor into education!!

[vampiressluvsblood]

my theater teacher showed us this like twice... he is sooooo weird but i guess pretty cool

[lunaria94]

i kind of wish you hadn't put that stupid scene with romeo and juliet in there, but other than that this was great!! =D we watched it in english today

[marcelwo4jedynki]

what music is at the ending?

[ShukakuTheCrazy1]

2:42 make that walmart and a trailer park

[DreadfulSolemnity]

William Shakespeare was not a real personage who actually lived, wrote, performed, and died; His name is merely a clever, ingenious play on words.

Shakespeare means to Shake a Speare (Wand) like that of a Magician. Shakespeare was the Magician who brought the modern English language into being. Straford Upon Avon too is but another play on words. Avon is Nova spelled backwards, Latin for "New". Statford is Straight Ford (Cross). Literally "New Straight Cross."

[ldhummingbird]

So how do you explain that there is an actual city called Stratford, on the Avon river?

[DreadfulSolemnity]

Shakespeare is the affable playwright, Christopher Marlowe, baptised first in 1564, the same year as his posthumous pseudonym, the Spear Shaker.

[heliotropezzz333]

Dreadful Solemnity. who is this man then, who had recorded parents, and bought a lot of proprty in Stratford-on Avon as well as London,who is recorded as living in "silver st, in London, who beqeathed money to fellow actors in his will, whom Ben Johnson and others attested to as a playwright and who buried his youngest brother in St Saviour's (now Southwark Cathedral)? Gosh, someone went to a lot of trouble to "create" this person and get everyone else to go along with the "fiction".

[EmoKikio1]

my teacher showed us this to day it was the fun way to learn he said but then again he loves to make us laugh!

[miaufusi]

this is brilliant!! :)

[stormynightinga]

when i first saw this in school.. i laughed my butt off!! i love it!!ts sooo funny!! hahaha you have to keep making funny vids about him!

[AMCrook16]

wtf not bad touch its "heya"

[summerrocks2013]

We watched this for my English class! My teacher is so kool

[Stepmaniac27]

Same here!

[iamjohndillinger]

Dude, same! OMG!

[Ste0wnz]

@summerrocks2013

"(K)ool" really?

[LotjeBabe]

it sould wok

but this video is really good and many people love him but i dont but i have to see it for my class project. this fillm is very funny do a nother one of these. graet job people bye bye

[VINVEEZY]

wats the name of this song?!

[ab0rtion]

Bad touch - bloodhound gang

[LupusAries]

Too funny! I like shakespeare very much but thats i like to see it with humor.^^

[edgar893]

great video thanks

[Gvanillavodka]

shake-a-sphere

[sexycruelladevil]

lol.awesome!but still very strange but verrry groooovy

[fredmatthews]

Hello All, I am currently conducting Academic Research into the highbrow and lowbrow of Online community groups- In one word, if you like (eg Highbrow or Lowbrow) how would you rank yourselves as users of this site? Are you discerning over the content and communities you take part in and consume online? Has this video above got higher cultural value than a video of, say, a cat on treadmill...not that that exists on Youtube(that I know of...)

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

[christyhorror10]

I no all this. My class read about him! This was so funny!

"Ahh! Were all dead!"

LOL!

[heliotropezzz333]

(conitnued) A fellow playwright, Christopher Marlowe was probably a spy and was killed in the company of spies in a tavern. Shakespeare's company was nearly caught up in the fallout of the rebellion of the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Essex, and they were questioned as suspect traitors but managed to avoid trial and execution unlike the Earl himself. (This was because they had played Richard II at the Earl's request, just before the rebellion. It concerns the dethroning and death of a monarch)

[heliotropezzz333]

This could have included some more interesting information, though it is hard to say much about Shakespeare as there aren't many known facts.I think Shakespeare kept a low profile deliberately. He lived in dangersous times. His family were catholics at a time when catholics were persecuted if they did not "conform" by attending the church of England. Ther's evidence his father was "fined for this" Also playwrights and poets were often used as spies by the government. (see more)

[sofiiluchii]

amazinggg!

it helped me a lot! thanks!=)

[NerdAni]

Great video!!!!

[LilMissTA]

we watched this in english

[tmckee7]

I teach in an all-male juvenile prison and showed this to my students. They laughed and enjoyed the entire video. Thanks for sharing.

[werinthis]

this did not help me not at all i need it 4 a project u retard u suck no offence!

[Gvanillavodka]

go to a Library dip shit

[heyyitsnicki]

hahaha

that was hysterical!! loved it!!

[ABoleynFan1505]

lol that was awsome!!! Aww we're all dead!!

[ZedGamez]

our teacher showed it to us awesoem =D

[chontEEbaby]

my students love this video... where can i get a copy to keep?

[jamierourketen]

dost thou not understandith thou winsome knave.

[iMarc89]

Ironic that someone who professes to know so much about Shakespeare should mispronounce his home town. Avon is pronounced with the A sound as in the words 'day' and 'way'.

I think this was dumbed down a lot too. It's about time they brought back the cane.  Pay attention or I'll hit you. I wish they had used that when I was at school. Making tutorial videos which "appeal" to children is pointless. If they don't care, they don't care. No matter how "fun" you make it.

[WillShakespeare2007]

Think it is because he is trying to do an English accent. Calm down a little I think.

[iMarc89]

Well, either way he should still have pronounced it properly. Why calm down? It used to annoy me when people said simply, "I don't like it because I don't get it." I had to deal with it constantly.

If you actually think about it a bit, you'll get it. And dumbing down Shakespeare is a travesty. And this thing is one of the worst dumbing downs I've heard.

[heyyitsnicki]

You obviously havent gotten any lately to be so uptight over a stupid youtube video.

Chill out. It's funny and it doesnt matter how he pronounces some stupid name. haha. The point is that he made a mark and got people to laugh about it.

How do you know this wasnt just a total joke? Maybe he didnt intend for it to be taught in class. It just so happens though, that teachers came across it, laughed at it, and decided to share it with their own classes. I think you need to chill out a little.

[RedSkiesatDawn]

I love this our teacher showed it to us in class one of the funnier things I've seen on the site.

[afiegs]

As an English teacher, I thought the video was brilliant for kids. By making it accessible to teenagers with humor and pop culture, you really allowed my students to get into it. I loved it! Thank you for making teaching fun!

[FoolyFool]

i totally agree. i mean i love shakespeare for his works but for people and especially students who aren't really fond on reading shakespeare this video is really great...

[cookiechochipster]

no actually, his father was a glove maker and though an actual affair is not recorded he did write sonnets to "a fair youth" and also the elusive "dark lady" whom he calls his mistress so this guy is pretty right.

[blackwatches]

some untrue facts im afraid. shakespeares father was the mayor and a crook selling contraband goods (clothing) undercover, he stayed in grammer school until the age of 15. the idea that shakespeare had affairs outside of marriage is completely unknown as information on his life as we know it was all taken from signed agreements (wills, purchases etc.). your knowledge of shakespeare is truly dreadful, maybe you should 'pick up a book and read it'. such churlish behaviour

[britishshakespeare]

There is no record of Shakespeare eductation as all records are lost. So could have left 13could have left 15. Shakespeare's father was a glover.

[ramisia07]

diy sooner!

[Skipster4]

Awful!

[jemmer100]

Awe-full mebbe, as in like awesome?

[beighr]

Thank you!!!

[Jesterswords]

brilliant!

[enotes1]

Great stuff!

[mglngl2007]

Bogotá D.C.

Very funny thanks. I love Shakespeare and i have read all of them. In spanish and some works in english, but this video is very mmm nice.

[nicholemonade]

ever seen a shrew? here's one! OH MY GOSH I almost fell off my chair laughing.

[chopin65]

I feel so much smarter now.

[rockgirl68]

lol cool! ^-^

[ch0ney]

very useful!:>>:>>>

[JenniferXu]

omgg tatz about the funniest thing ive ever seen about tat man!

great jobb----

[creamofcardstv]

I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some old trading cards of famous people: William Shakespeare, Lord Baden-Powell of the scout movement, Winston Churchill, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Yuri Gagarin, Walt Disney....

[bubblebubbletat]

Shockspeare would be proud.

[mjhancock]

thank you....i learned a lot. mj

[walternigelboum]

i wanna have thissssssssssssssssssssssss :'(

[KickinKay]

Love it! Our teacher showed us this at school!

[fumala420]

i love the part around 4:00 where dave says "well, I think that's nice anyway" LOLLL

[fumala420]

THAT WAS AWESOME

[antnhec]

like the idea, well doen, check out Springer Shakespeare, a similar thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=Djxeu_u_Y8g

theres also a group set up, Shakespeare but not as we know it...for such vids

[littlegenius13]

hoagie did u do all the voices in this yourself too?!

[nitesho]

well done-