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And this is why you should see the damn plays instead of just reading them. They were meant to be performed in front of an audience.
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In which Sharky fails at being a motivational speaker. Like he does with most things in life.
(Source: pursuedbyabear.net)
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The Bard's Blessing
”I’m convinced that anyone who says “I can’t understand Shakespeare” would change their mind if they sat down with someone and learned to read it correctly. I’ve done this with my brother, who struggles with learning disabilities and trouble focusing. I make it interactive. I read him the lines, to help him understand the intonation and nuance, and have him read them back to me. Immediately, he relates. At age 15, he knows what Shakespeare was trying to say through his character’s voice. And I think that is something truly magical.”
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David Tennant as Malvolio in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Or What You Will.)
[Reads]
‘If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I
am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon ‘em. Thy Fates open
their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;
and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,
cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be
opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let
thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into
the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee
that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art
made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see
thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and
not worthy to touch Fortune’s fingers. Farewell.
She that would alter services with thee,
THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.’
Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is
open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,
I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross
acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.
I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade
me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady
loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of
late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;
and in this she manifests herself to my love, and
with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will
be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and
cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting
on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a
postscript.
[Reads]
‘Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou
entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;
thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my
presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.’
Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do
everything that thou wilt have me.— Twelfth Night, Act II.5
(Source: plays.pursuedbyabear.net)
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Adrian Lester as Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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Maggie Smith and John Justin in William Shakespeare’s Richard II.
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Twelfth Night RSC 2012
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- Imogen
False to his bed! What is it to be false?
To lie in watch there and to think on him?
To weep ‘twixt clock and clock? if sleep
charge nature,
To break it with a fearful dream of him
And cry myself awake? that’s false to’s bed, is it?
- Imogen
I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,
Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;
Thou then look’dst like a villain; now methinks
Thy favour’s good enough. Some jay of Italy
Whose mother was her painting, hath betray’d him:
Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion;
And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,
I must be ripp’d:—to pieces with me!—O,
Men’s vows are women’s traitors! All good seeming,
By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
Put on for villany; not born where’t grows,
But worn a bait for ladies.
- Imogen
True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,
Were in his time thought false, and Sinon’s weeping
Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity
From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,
Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men;
Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured
From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:
Do thou thy master’s bidding: when thou see’st him,
A little witness my obedience: look!
I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit
The innocent mansion of my love, my heart;
Fear not; ‘tis empty of all things but grief;
Thy master is not there, who was indeed
The riches of it: do his bidding; strike
Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause;
But now thou seem’st a coward.
(Source: plays.pursuedbyabear.net)
- Imogen
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David Tennant and Alexandra Gilbreath as the title characters in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Richard Burton stars and Sir John Gielgud directs William Shakespeare’s play of the Danish Prince. This is a “Hamlet” acted in rehearsal clothes, stripped of all extraneous trappings, so the beauty of the language and imagery could shine through. Filmed during an actual Broadway performance, to be shown in movie theaters for two days only, the prints were contractually ordered destroyed, but Burton sent one to the British Film Institute, and kept one print at home, located by his widow Sally in 1988; here then is the complete Burton “Hamlet” in all its vocal power and glory.
ALL THREE GLORIOUS HOURS.
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Kevin Spacey: lack of theatre access for young people is “embarassing”
“It is the single most embarrassing thing about being in the theatre, that it has become an exclusive club. I am embarrassed by the fact that there is such short-sightedness on the heads of producers and theatre directors. What happens when this generation that is currently going to the theatre passes on to the great theatre in the sky? Who is going to replace them? If we don’t make theatre accessible then you force producers to always have to have big names in plays and you don’t give young people an opportunity to experience something that, if they get it and if they love it, they will come again.”
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Bingo, starring Sir Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare
The glory years of London behind him, William Shakespeare (portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart) finds himself in an overwhelming moral dilemma. Like his greatest creation King Lear, he has to decide: what shall he do with his money and his power?
