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Michael York On Shakespeare New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael York on the user-friendly bard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael York: Michael York, OBE is an English actor. An early career with the National Youth Theater, Oxford University Dramatic Society, and University College Players led him to the National Theater in London. After acclaimed roles in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968), Cabaret (1972) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), he is more recently known among mainstream audiences for his role as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series of comedy films. Classically trained, Michael York wrote a handbook "A Shakespearean Actor Prepares." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: York: You have to acknowledge that Shakespeare was one of the primary inventors of the language that we use today. He was a fountainhead of phrases and words and so on that we now take for granted. Of course the other great shaper of our language is the King James version of the bible. But it has a paltry vocabulary compared with Shakespeare's fountain of, explosive fountain of words. So he did you know, in terms of you know, just giving us the means to communicate, he's our godfather. I think he's acknowled

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