Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Ian McKellen) "Tomorrow and Tomo...

Ian McKellen "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow "

from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company

G. Fletcher ("Studies of Shakespeare", 1847):

There is no want of physical courage implied in Macbeth's declining the combat with Macduff. He may well believe that now, more than ever, it is time to 'beware Macduff'. He is at length convinced that 'fate and metaphysical aid' are against him; and, consistent to the last in his hardened and whining selfishness, no thought of the intense blackness of his own perfidy interferes to prevent him from complaining of falsehood in those evil beings from whose very nature he should have expected nothing else.

There is no cowardice, we say, in his declining the combat under such a conviction. Neither is there any courage in his renewing it; for there is no room for courage in opposing evident fate. Bu the last word and action of Macbeth are an expression of the moral cowardice which we trace so conspicuously throughout his career; he surrenders his life that he may not be 'baited with the rabble's curse'.

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[adolfolicious]

his face looks like it was delicately chiseled out of the marble foyer from space mountain

[threestoogesfan2]

Wow, if I didn't love Ian McKellen before, I certainly do after seeing this.

He could read from the phone book and it would sound poetic and awesome.

[DearestCaitsie]

I FUCKING LOVE IAN MCKELLEN. HE CAN DO NO WRONG. NO. WRONG.

[megashani1991]

I THINK HE SOUNDED THE SAME AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH MAN what an epic voice

[Pahjx]

He sounds the same as he does now.

[pjcasabuena]

I got a perfect score on a recited test because of this. Bravo Ian McKellen!

[Mursilia]

Gandalf is.. is.. is that you?!

[notedown1010]

00:12

[jjm121]

I can't understand half the word's he's saying... I mean, I just can't HEAR them.

[dakessi1]

Ian McKellen is a one in a trillion ... I just love him.

[Geezyk]

amazing performance