Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Nicol Williamson): start of play

[Psunfire]

Man this shit sucks ! Fffff uuuu Mr.collins ! Imma so gonna fail tomorrows test ...

[JudyGarlandRulez152]

We are watching this in class.

[TheQuintillionaire]

Thumbs up if you were born of woman.

[PJcollie]

im doing this play for school. I play a witch XD

[neverSAYnevarh]

thumbs up for procrastination. :)

[TRex19]

Did A Rap about Macbeth To "Headlines"

You're gonna wanna hear this...

/watch?v=rNwG-mGk5Ko

[MyMusicIsEpic]

Ton of views for 240p.

[1mimkid]

It stupid becuz I have to write a report as me being a lawyer to clear Macbeth of the evil he did : (

[hczxp91]

A very good decision to place the Callanish Stones in the background to evoke their sense of mystique. I don't like the decision, however, to have the Weird Sisters split the final line of 1.1.

[soberchimera61]

They don't sound very Scottish.

[ChadmannPHEA2]

@rojblake: indeed it is.  That quality is one of the things that makes it so interesting. Lady Macbeth's statement in Act I of braining the infant that suckles her is one of the most horrifying in all of literature.

[ChadmannPHEA2]

Don't blame Macbeth for failing your exams. That responsibility lies on you. If your post is any indication of the effort you put forth in your writing then I can see why you are struggling.

[rojblake82]

@ChadmannPHEA2 Macbeth is a blood thirsty paly, I saw it once at the theatre but I did not like it at all.

[hczxp91]

@rojblake82 I think that he's not bloodthirsty, but that he is so ambitious that murder is somehow less evil than is the failure to achieve his goals. So while he would prefer not to kill anyone (and therefore does not thirst for blood), he feels that if it comes down to killing someone and failing, he'd rather the former.

[rojblake82]

@hczxp91 I did Macbeth at school, and I did not like the story.

[sweety1991ism]

all over DARKNESS PREVAILS ....

LOLZZZZZZZZ :P.....TRAGEDYY!

[mspriyarocks]

thanks a ton for d video....

i m gonna fail in my english exams bcuz of fking macbeth

[ThrobnWood]

'Ask good MacDuff & Donalbain, so many good ideas are slain by those who would dare not step out of line'... ^_^

[Mousepie999]

That's D.I. Frank Burnside as the Captain!

[178metallica]

dont ever ever ever ever ever ever ever say the name of the play in a theatre bad things happen

[borkmcfink]

Hot potato,off his drawers, pluck to make amends!

[blondbassist]

Lasy fuckers, aint updated they're English lesson structure since the fucking 1700's

[ChaasFrozen]

WTF is this im a gamer not a gaylord XD

fucking video XD

[TheFluffysaurus]

Fully empathize with stanleyk's view. The language barrier can seem unsurmountable, and I have teenage friends who wanted to quit studying Literature when they first started studying the Bard. Yet after getting used to the language, they love his ability to clearly articulate what they themselves cannot express in their hearts but feel very strongly about.

Don't say 'I don't understand it, therefore it has nothing of value.' Good things take effort to achieve.

[2mUch4yEw]

where the countinued part of this?

[neptuneanduranes]

there are always ones who find it easier to doubt than to believe. To believe one has to step out of their comfort zone( ignorance). Believing requires bravery, something americans used to have. Better start getting it back soon. The world is a marble in the palm of your hand.

[oSPARTANxD]

i jus got back from school doing this play :)

[nutshell911]

IF YOU HATE IT SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH THEN WHY WATCH IT YOU IDIOTS!!!!

I am in a theater school and I loooooove Shakespeare!

[859able]

Why am i whatching this?!?

[nostromoau]

I have a feeling that in a thousand years time there will still be people wondering why they need to 'waste their time' studying Shakespeare...

[stanleykubrick98]

CURSED!!!!!!

[jkrunrmc]

Shakespeare is soooo OVERRATED.

[stanleykubrick98]

@jkrunrmc On the contrary, he is dangerously underrated!

[jkrunrmc]

@stanleykubrick98 underrated? I only hear about him all the time at school. Romeo and Juliet this, Macbeth that...blah blah blah. Why don't we just read and study something that isn't so difficult to read? I think people just say he's so great because-

1.) They want to feel correct and go with the flow of everybody raving about him.

2.) He throws a bunch of useless words in what he writes..

I'm not saying he's bad, I don't think he's underrated though.

[stanleykubrick98]

@jkrunrmc I agree with you that he can be difficult to read, but you have to understand that he set the stage for English language theater. Also, about vocabulary, the English language was simply different back then. The words he uses made perfect sense back then. I mean, you didn't expect him to say lol and idk, did you?

[jkrunrmc]

@stanleykubrick98 That's exactly my point. It made sense back then..but now, not so much. Btw, I don't support sayings like lol and idk.  They ruin the English Language. Anyhow, why not give the American Children in school, something a little more understandable rather than a play from the early 17th century.

[KellyRuleszzzz]

wth is this crap? I just dont understand why schools force us to learn shakespear. I mean these english teachers are just in denial that shakespear plays are boring as hell. Why watch boring plays that make no sense when you could watch intense dramatic Korean dramas.

[ThePurelogic]

i love the use of contemporary use of atmospheric music,

it is not of the time, but it fits with the dark mood of macbeth

[WilliamEGD]

"You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so!" XD

[froasties]

We are doing macbeth in school and i love how they speak and i think the witches are really creepy !!!

[pamiecute]

nice, i love the role of the three witches.LOL

[bluffgrad07]

Hahaha, I remember seeing this three and a half years ago in my English class my Senior year of highschool. Good memories. The witches here in the beg scared the fuck out of me though. I thought one of the knights (when they are confronted by the three witches) was going to take one of the witches behind a rock and fuck her good. That would've been amusing. Amazing staging!

[ryverwillow]

I love this!!!! Things are not always as they seem!!!! But fate is in the hands of the 3 witches, the spinners of fate????, that turn fair into foul ~ what was thought fair is exposed as wrong, and turn foul into fair ~ the wronged shall be justified and the truth known?????? or even the reverse if they, the witches so deem

[kespec]

i love the old language. tho i dont understand anyshit.

thee suck, yes.

[polymath7]

If you don't understand the language off the cuff it's not your fault.

English has changed a lot in 400 years and there's just no way -at first- you can be expected make sense of the archaisms and mythological allusions without annotation.

In some cases words have even come to mean the very opposite of what they once did. For example when Hamlet says "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!", "let" means "get in my way ". When he says "I doubt some foul play" he means "I *suspect* foul play.

[WillingToPooNvm]

@polymath7 is there anyway i can understand and "take" in what they say completely? i'm very interested in the plays and poetry that shakespeare has made

[polymath7]

@WillingToPooNvm

I.

Not at first, no. No matter how smart you are you must first accustom yourself to Elizabethan English and the rhythms of blank verse, and there is going to be a somewhat tedious learning curve that must be got over before you can really begin to appreciate the plays.

However this is nowhere near as difficult as learning an entirely new language, and moreover is *well* worth the effort. And once this is done, the *content* of Shakespeare is actually...

[polymath7]

II.

...for the most part very accessible and easy to understand.

I'll tell you what; if there's any passage you're having trouble with, ask me and I'll be happy to explain it for you.

[WillingToPooNvm]

@polymath7 ok, so to understand, i must study and get used to Elizabethan English?

[polymath7]

@WillingToPooNvm

Well, yeah, but I don't mean intensively study Elizabethan English directly, apart from the plays themselves.

Most editions of the plays have annotations that, with a little effort on the reader's part, should make things clear enough.

The best annotated volumes of Shakespeare that are widely available are, in my opinion, 'The Pelican Shakespeare', with 'Signet' a close second.

Either should be available any Borders or Barnes and Noble, and in paperback are dirt cheap.

[WillingToPooNvm]

@polymath7 oh ok, thanks a ton man, you've been of great help.

[ghbutler]

The Porter is the best Shakespearean character ever.

[13musicalkitty]

this is one of the better versions i have seen

[myfriendfreckle]

thanks for the post!

[Madyet1999]

we r doing this in class so it helps a lot

[indiaonline100]

Well well well....finally i have found the full length movie thats free to view !! hope it proves helpful to the helpless students of Mr. Shakespeare..

[adandinhosheckler]

@indiaonline100 where did you find it?

[DONZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]

fantabulous

[TheSamallam]

love the first part when shall we tree meet again in thunder,lighting,or in rain am the lady macbeth the funny part when the hurlyburly done what the hurlyburly mean some one tell me

[accessit01]

chaos !

[accessit01]

@TheSamallam ....chaos

[approvedandfaxed]

can i save this to a cd?

[zinazina11]

the witches say "fair is foul and foul is fair" and then macbeth goes "so foul and fair a day I have not seen" LOL some kind of hidden meaning there? hmm

[R3KAB3J]

"I just got done with Macbeth in school. We had to make a video and if you want to see it, it's on my channel."

[themrbalz]

lol

[kealyc]

Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition, that one does never speak the name, of the Scottish play.

[kingstowngalway]

@kealyc

You just mentioned one of my favorite "Blackadder" scenes!

[JustinandEric1]

My friend and I made a song about Macbeth for an english project. The class liked it so much, that they told us to put it on youtube. Well, we did. You should check it out on my channel =)

[KingOystar]

This is a great play!

MacDuff is my favorite character.

[Saoirsecuteza]

i am donig dis in skwl

[ryanhendrix]

you sound just like shakespear the way you write

[eric8rays]

check out my macbeth rap, it's pretty funny

[girlzzzzzruleee1234]

I love Mcbeath =) its amazing well now that i understand it xD

[FrozenHonors]

I am a narrator. Its so cool

[mtta07]

my school is doing mecb and i am in it as caithness i cant wait =)

[mthaw101]

i hate this fucked up language

[azurelikeit1]

When you're taught Shakespeare at school it takes away some of the entertainment but it lends itself to English because it's construction of words is like how maths is construction of musical rhythm

[itznaveencherian]

i am trying to stage macbeth at ma school and found the video to be really helpful

[ALEXFARIASSILVA]

I love Macbeth

[EnmaAi1]

i dont like the starting where the bloody man starts talking! he wasted 3 minutes of my life!

[kealyc]

Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition ... that one does never speak the name ... of the scottish play.

[Music2myEarsAllDay]

so drama. so exasarated

[eireste]

wow

[zigimaru1]

wow ! wow !! wow!!!

its electrifying

[nightwaterangel]

I love shakespeare, though i could never understand it before my english teach translated it and after a while i got the hang of it. XD i went to see the play a midsummer's night dream and it was amazing, i'd like to see this too.

[edwardcookiecutter]

We watched this in Lit. This is so cheap. Surprisingly, Macduff looks alot like Billy Mays!

[fadi97310]

macbeth is a beast lol

[kayonahotgurl]

this helped me alot...thnx

[CurtiBurty94]

I HATE THIS HAHA

[KogasxGal]

oh thank you so much. this was so helpful with my part in the play. we're preforming this one soon so... gott'a know how to preform it so it makes sense!

thanks again!

[CrazyJelle007]

There is no "proper" way you can interpret the play anyway you want.

[KogasxGal]

yeah, it just sounded kind'a funny so I needed suggestions. use some, throw some away. you know?

[Shaz1194]

sooo I am cursed now?

[MSLI]

We had just started reading the plays :(

[soundlikeFabian]

we finished the book now, and I think its not my favorite play---äähmm no, but there are a few cool scenes, know we have to read "dead poets ssociety", thats cool!!

[iorixs]

i hates witches

[themskins]

f@#$ macbeth i might fail english because of it son of a b!@#$%

[SjoerdReligion]

@themskins Hey, don't be sad..

We must watch this stuff while English isn't our native language :(

I'd rather read it; since I think in images and the screen we look at is really crappy...

And 99% of the time the book is better..

[pretyjessica]

@themskins me too though.



[Oukro]

I'm going to see Macbeth today. The other Highschool is putting it on, and my bf gets to be in the cast =)

Fun Fun Fun, I love this play.

[yfried4awesome]

I was macbeth in a school play good for me! but the play was edited for younger kids so I dont know what half these lines are.

[soundlikeFabian]

We read it in our English lesson, boahh horrible...

[zanda101]

haha same

[skaternick1993123]

Thanks for posting it mate :) I need to do some C.W on it

[HmR91]

love it. its so genius

[texasdallasbill]

Thanks for showing us this. Each interpretation gives me greater insight. It was a wise choice -- thanks again.

[UndergroundSkytrain]

i play ross and angus mixed together, can u post a clip of their parts???

[pdlbean]

I'm in this play right now. I play Angus, I love the part I got.

[T3MK]

I am half way through practices at a local playhouse...I am Malcom...so happy I live!

lol

[GJC1995]

My school is doing macbeth Im playing Lennox

[jest843]

continue uploading shakespeare's tragidies. . .it's so useful.

[sanjaymohanlal]

lovely play .... one of the best plays ever written ......

[perthwayz85]

i hav to go and watch the play its so fucked up

[Scroobily]

Far out.

[Shuffleboy34]

crap i hav 2do this at skool how GAY!!!

[roguenun]

Hmmmm you're so right "shuffleboy34" YOU are sooooo gay...

[3lo0osha]

ooh.....i am doin this play in skool as well....i am the first witch....but our stupid teacher wants it in another way...with laughter and wickedness.....i will kill her soonn lool

[MostHauntedCharmedG]

Nicol Williamson is seriously awesome what ever happened to him though

[Perculsor]

LOL The bloody sergeant is Chris Ellison - aka DI Frank Burnside from The Bill!

[LunedeFiel]

RIP James Hazeldine (Chocky)

[Pandadude18]

Shakespeare = greatest playwright to ever live!

[Donatelloxx]

I was in this play for my school.

Macbeth is one of my favorites.

I love shakespeare.

[yaja2007]

im doing this play in my schoool thats why im watching this to understand it cause i dont get nothing from it

[Horizon211]

cool.