Politics? My play has nothing to do with politics. I-i-i-it's just a simple comedy. It...
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Ben Jonson:
Politics? My play has nothing to do with politics. I-i-i-it's just a simple comedy.
Earl of Oxford:
It showed your betters as fools who'd go through life barely managing to get food from plate to mouth were it not for the cleverness of their servants. All art is political, Jonson, otherwise it would just be decoration. And all artists have something to say, otherwise they'd make shoes. And you are not a cobbler, are you Jonson.
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Politics My play has nothing to do with politics
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It's just a simple comedy
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That showed your betters as fools who would barely get food
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from plate to mouth without the cleverness of their servants
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All art is political Jonson Otherwise it would just be decoration
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And all artists have something to say Otherwise they'd make shoes
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And you are not a cobbler are you Jonson
Clip duration: 24 seconds
Views: 168
Timestamp in movie: 00h 19m 35s
Uploaded: 25 March, 2022
Genres: drama, thriller
Summary: The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
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00:08 Your everlasting soul hangs in the balance not poems
00:24 Though our story is finished our poet's is not
00:06 All art is political Jonson Otherwise it would just be...
00:33 The whole bloody thing in verse
00:32 L am not worthy of this charge
00:11 Plays are the work of the devil
00:10 You were losing anyway
00:36 You your friends your blasphemous theater
00:24 Politics My play has nothing to do with politics