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ButNotTheRapper: Wait until he hears what Nahum Tate did to Shakespeare
BostonCamerata: Prof. Ellen Harris talks about the influence of Shakespeare's Macbeth on librettist Nahum Tate as he adapted Virgil's original story into the Dido & Aeneas we know and love today:
ClearShakes: Nahum Tate, the ChatGPT of Restoration England.
DrCisco: literalmente sim. Desde sempre. Por exemplo:
"In the 18th century, authors began to reinterpret and adapt Shakespeare's plays through text and performance, producing such intriguing versions as 'The Enchanted Isle' and Nahum Tate's 'King Lear'."
ErdmuteD: All those pearl clutching at the re writing of Dahl's stories should reflect that Thomas Bowdler in the 18thCent.Expurgated Gibbons Rise & Fall & made changes to Shakespeare. Even before then Nahum Tate Poet Laureate rewrote King Lear,for a happy ending.
HenryEOliver: This wasn’t a question of changing some of the words. They wholesale changed the plots and characters. The Nahum Tate version of King Lear is one of the books I hate most. He gave Lear a happy ending!
sarahchurchwell: Most Bowdlerized books also become very comical as a result of their outdated pieties.
My advice: read Nahum Tate's King Lear and give yourself a chuckle. You'll feel better about everything, except Nahum Tate's critical faculties.
davidfrum: In the comments, a reader corrects me that it was Nahum Tate in the 1680s, not the Bowdlers a century and a quarter later, who rewrote Lear with a happy ending.
NorthernEostre: 12 -
Come Ye Sons of Art (Ode For Queen Mary’s Birthday)
Henry Purcell, attributed Nahum Tate (1694)
hisson1: As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee
And Thy refreshing grace.
- NAHUM TATE (1652–1715) AND NICHOLAS BRADY (1659–1726)
GHAFES_Movement: GENERAL THANKSGIVING
It's the beginning of another week!!!
"Through all the changing scenes of life, in trouble and in joy, the praises of my God shall still my heart and tongue employ" - Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 | Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726
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JhonnyWhite69: "free andrew tate"
StokeyyG2: Andrew Tate: I Truly Believe They’re Gonna Try To Kill Me
“They’re either gonna try to put me in jail or they’re gonna kill me.”
Nlsbarza: Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: "When I am laid in earth" (Dido's Lament). Libretto by Nahum Tate. Annie Lennox with London City Voices.
IrishRealLifeKW: Fun fact - ‘While Shepherds watched their flocks by Night” was written by Irishman Nahum Tate back in 1692. Enjoy this version by Patrick Dexter!
BroadfieldCF: Sunday 18th December (1/2):
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Little Town Of Bethlehem: Phillips Brooks
While Shepherds Watched: Nahum Tate
Silent Night: Joseph Mohr
TheWarCryUK: ‘All glory be to God on high and to the Earth be peace’ – From ‘While Shepherds Watched’ by Nahum Tate
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efleischer: I don’t know whether or not it’s worth folding this into a larger piece at some point or whether this should be yet another example of tweeting and deleting, but don’t forget that Nahum Tate re-wrote King Lear so that it could have a happy ending.
DailyKosTrends: Of Shakespeare’s big four tragedies, one of them went unperformed for quite a long time when the theaters were reopened after the Restoration: King Lear. It was just too depressing on two many levels. Only when another writer, Nahum Tate, spiffed it up w…
LueYee: Only Tate you need is Nahum Tate of the Tate and Brady (‘New Version’) metrical psalter.
222corn: this nigga andrew tate dropped an hour long video explaining everything if i was him i woulda jus said “yall on my dick”
DavidGrayless: The Loyal General is a 1679 tragedy by the Irish writer Nahum Tate. It was first performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The prologue was written by John Dryden. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Theocrin, Henry Harris as King.
sixofweebles: omg they referenced nahum tate's King Lear
holland_tom: "This Method necessarily threw me on making the Tale conclude in a Success to the innocent distrest Persons: Otherwise I must have incumbred the Stage with dead Bodies."
Nahum Tate explains why he rewrote King Lear to give it a happy ending.
BaltimoreParade: 30 Jul 1715:
Nahum Tate died,
London, England.
The Dublin native served as
English poet laureate
from 1692 until his death.
Tate wrote the lyrics of
the Christmas carol
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks.
chattering_mags: Henry Purcell – Sound the Trumpet (lyrics by Nahum Tate)
chattering_mags: Henry Purcell – Strike the Viol (lyrics by Nahum Tate)
Aplm888Alana: The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when he sleeps in the dust.
~ Nahum Tate & Nicholas Brady
GailyRobyn: While Shepherds Watched by Nahum Tate
Witney_Antiques: Sarah Aldwin stitched this lovely sampler in the mid-18th century. The verse, beginning "Happy the Man, whose tender care...," seems to have been first published in 1721 in Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady's A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches
danfalk: 2/2 And I know you were kidding about King Lear -- but in the 1680s a guy named Nahum Tate re-did the play with a happier ending (Cordelia survives!) -- and audiences preferred that one for the next 150 years or so! (Then we switched back. ¯\ (ツ) /¯ )
BreslerAlex: "Dido's Lament
Soul Music
Dido's Lament is a popular name for a famous aria, 'When I am laid in earth', from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, with the libretto by Nahum Tate. Mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly talks about why she finds the piece..."
arguello_israel: "All glory be to God on high,
and to the earth be peace;
goodwill henceforth from heav'n to men
begin and never cease."
“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
Nahum Tate, 1700
JenniferEValent: My soul with patience waits
For Thee, the living Lord:
My hopes are on Thy promise built,
Thy never failing Word.
My longing eyes look out
For Thy enlivening ray,
More duly than the morning watch
To spy the dawning day.
-Nicholas Brady & Nahum Tate
PlanetSlade: Reminds me of Nahum Tate's infamous 17th century rewrite of King Lear to give it a happy ending. In Tate's version Lear regains his throne, Cordelia marries Edgar and everyone lives happily ever after. New Fight Club ending looks equally unconvincing.
rafmnk: Fear Him, ye saints, and you will then
Have nothing else to fear;
Make you His service your delight,
Your wants shall be His care.
- Nahum Tate
docrualaoich: The lyrics for this, by the way, were composed by Nahum Tate who was Poet Laureate. He also reworked King Lear and Romeo and Juliet to have happy ending so that’s what we are working with here.
vivs1man: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
All seated on the ground
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around
"Fear not", said he, for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind
"Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind"
-Nahum Tate, 1700
UsLadies: Today in History for 23rd December 2021: Historical Events
1692 - Nahum Tate is appointed the third Poet Laureate by English monarchs William and Mary
1917 - 3 British warships come close to Holland
1930 - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien…
TroyLKrause1: "While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground, an angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around. 'Fear not," said he for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind. 'Glad tidings of great joy I bring to you and all mankind.'"
Nahum Tate
bermicourt: "But what about Nahum Tate?” you say. “What about him” I say? He wrote the words for ‘While shepherds watched’ back in 1700 & as we all know the words are ‘While shepherds watched their flocks by night’. So now we have:
Flocks. Plural. But no advance on a single field.
9/16
kevinh75051: In 1696, Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate collaborated on a new edition of hymns, some of which focused on the birth of Jesus. Initially, their revisions met with resistance, but gradually they gained acceptance.
TheWarCryUK: ‘Glad tidings of great joy’ – From ‘While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks’ by Nahum Tate
israelsgospelic: Through All the Changing Scenes of Life; Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, (Text: Nahum Tate, Tune: WILTSHIRE), url loaded...(hymn music video)
VioletGweny: extremely petty and like not someone with a body count (just wrote a shitty re-write of Shakespeare) but : Nahum Tate
VioletGweny: Gwen with time machine : I'm going to make sure Nahum Tate never writes a word
LAWSONLaws17: 1. "Through all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726)
LAWSONLaws17: 2. "Of His deliverance I will boast,
Till all that are distressed
From my example comfort take,
And charm their griefs to rest."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726)
LAWSONLaws17: 3. "O magnify the Lord with me,
With me exalt His name ;
When in distress to Him I called,
He to my reçue came."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726)
LAWSONLaws17: 4. "The hosts of God encamp around
The dwellings of the just ;
Deliverance He affords to all
Who on His succour trust."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726)
LAWSONLaws17: 5. "O make but trial of His love ;
Experience will decide
How blest they are, and only they,
Who in His truth confide."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726)
LAWSONLaws17: 6. "Fear Him, ye saints, and you will then
Have nothing else to fear ;
Make you His service your delight,
He'll make your wants His care."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 ;
Nicholas Brady, 1639-1726).
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish-born poet Nicholas Brady (October 28,1659), author of “New Version of the Psalms of David” (1696) (with Nahum Tate).
sadcypress: Had QUITE the shock when I realized how the libretto of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas differs from Virgil’s version… and then I saw the librettist was Nahum Tate and it ALL MADE SENSE.
madworldtweets: I am Nahum Tate, the Optimist! Shakespeare’s fun-loving co-writer. What kind of wordsmith are you?
nguyenhdi: Just watched again the Don Warrington "King Lear".
Here's my blog post about staging "King Lear", Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Maynard Mack, & the 2016 production.
Nlsbarza: Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas Z. 626: Act III, Thy hand, Belinda / When I am laid in earth. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Dido), with Nicholas McGegan conducting the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Librettio by Nahum Tate.
israelsgospelic: Through All the Changing Scenes of Life; Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, Text: Nahum Tate | Tune: Wiltshire, url loaded (hymn music video)
PierrotdelaLun1: Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest,
More I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a welcome guest.
When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
(Nahum Tate)
BaltimoreParade: 30 Jul 1715:
Nahum Tate died,
London, England.
The Dublin native served as
English poet laureate
from 1692 until his death.
Tate wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks.
thepainterflynn: Today in 1715 Nahum Tate is born in Dublin, the first Irish-born poet laureate of England. Playwright and hymn writer, his best known work is While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
FeldmanAdam: One wild thing about this summer's crop of free outdoor Shakespeare in parks is how deep the cuts are. No Midsummer, no Macbeth, just The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VI Part 1, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Nahum Tate's happy-ending version of Lear
ClearShakes: Guys, they're doing the Nahum Tate ending! Lear and Cordelia survive! It basically turns a tragedy into a late romance. Definitely recommend checking this out in NYC. Truth and virtue shall at last succeed!
FreedenOeur: thinking on race & childhood at the turn of the 20th cent. It uses "sturm und drang" to trace currents of desire & dissonance, and family & intellectual genealogies. The essay thinks with writers including Nahum Chandler, Claudia Tate, Katherine McKittrick, & Kamau Brathwaite 2/3
IsobelGlenelg: I see far too much in the current climate that reminds me of Nahum Tate - seems we're now in an age of performative puritanism.
King Lear doesn't have a happy ending.
WesleyStace: Wesley Stace *and* Nahum Tate!
T2Conline: Free performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear Paired With Nahum Tate’s “happy ending”
wlwverine: nahum tate can join the sir orfeo writer in my group of people who were just writing fix-it fics
sadmattyh: Love that when Nahum Tate wrote the libretto for dido and Aeneas he said “yeah the Aeneid is cool but you know what it needs? Witches”
lambontheshore: Nahum Tate 1652-1715, Irish poet, hymnist, lyricist, Poet Laureate, of Puritan clerics.
Nicholas Brady 1659-1726, Anglican divine, poet, dramas, sermons. Great grandfather Hugh Brady, first Protestant Bishop
MaryaHart15: "Georgia Lee," by Tom Waits
VioletGweny: this is a Nahum Tate Hate account
VioletGweny: Fan-Fic isn't Shakespeare adapting the stuff on King Lear in Holinshed's Chronicles it's Nahum Tate turning King Lear into a play with a happy ending
EACH_UK: 1. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel. 2. Don’t Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks. 3. Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys. 4. Hello Earth / Mother Stands For Comfort - Kate Bush. 5. When I Am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas) - Henry Purcell & Nahum Tate.
EricGrode: How do we feel about the fact that David Garrick started playing King Lear when he was 24? (In Nahum Tate's happily-ever-after version, but still.)
sccenglish: And Nahum Tate rewrote ‘King Lear’ with a happy ending, a version that superseded Shakespeare’s for 150 years.
patrickdextervc: Dido's Lament from Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'. First performed on this day in 1689, it is one of the first ever operas written in English but the words were written by Nahum Tate, an Irishman
Guided_Walks: Nahum Tate is hardly a household name, but he wrote one of our oldest and most popular Christmas carols and has connections with Southwark. Read Stephen's blog post:
GoldieElaine1: “All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace.
Goodwill henceforth from heav’n to men
Begin and never cease.”
–Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
jwmpulpit: While shepherds watched their flocks
In Bethlehem's plains by night,
An angel sent from heaven appeared,
And filled the plains with light.
"Fear not" he said, for sudden dread
Had seized their troubled mind.
“Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind."
Nahum Tate
UnasVeritas: “All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace.
Goodwill henceforth from heav’n to men
Begin and never cease.”
–Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
platospupil: All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace.
Goodwill henceforth from heav’n to men
Begin and never cease.”
–Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
shmepshmein: Nahum Tate can't do Shakespeare but he can sure do Charlie Brown Christmas any time!
OccultFan: “All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace.
Goodwill henceforth from heav’n to men
Begin and never cease.”
–Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
LAWSONLaws17: 1. "While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715)
LAWSONLaws17: 2. "Fear not ! said he ; for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind :
Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715)
LAWSONLaws17: 4. "The heavenly Babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,
All meanly wrapped in swaddling bands
And in a manger laid."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715)
LAWSONLaws17: 6. "All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace ;
Good will henceforth from heaven to men
Begin and never cease !
Amen."
(Nahum Tate, 1652-1715).
