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

first three scenes: witches, King Duncan's camp, then Macbeth meets with the witches.

The witches are filmed with the Callanish Standing Stones, in the Western Isles, as the background.

Brenda Bruce ... First Witch
Eileen Way ... Second Witch
Anne Dyson ... Third Witch
Mark Dignam ... Duncan
James Hazeldine ... Malcolm
Christopher Ellison ... Captain
John Rowe ... Lennox
Gawn Grainger ... Ross
Nicol Williamson ... Macbeth
Ian Hogg ... Banquo
David Lyon ... Angus

(filmed 1983 for TV)

W. Leighton writes (from "Robinson's Epitome of Literature", 15, April, 1879--via Variorum Shakespeare):

It has been often remarked how wholly his own are Shakespeare's witches. comparing them with Middleton's, which are able creations, we comprehend more fully the majesty and weirdness that belong to the tempters of Macbeth. May it not be that the dignity and peculiar interest that clothes them is greatly due to the fact that they are, indeed, the outcries of sinful desires in the human heart, and that intuitively we feel something of this, however little we analyze the poet's art?

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[manu201082]

has to do this stuff in school :(

[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.

[adandinhosheckler]

@indiaonline100 where did you find it?

[rojblake82]

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

[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.