Thank you so much for this explanation, Erin. I first learned about this painting from you some 12 years ago, when you spoke at the Cosmos Club Shakespeare group that I co-chaired. Artistically, it captures the covert deification of the relatively uneducated Shakespeare, which seems to have begun after the Stratford Jubilee some 20 years before Romney painted this. The flute probably alludes visually to John Milton's famous reference to Shakespeare "warbling his native woodnotes wild." The OED tells us this was the first usage of "woodnotes," defined as "a natural untrained musical note or song."

If it helps to read as you go along you can go to the description then hit transcription 👍

reading the play is still another option....

This is an incredible rendition, my deepest respect to the theater staff, tech-theatre teams, and actors.

Loved the porter!! Great actor

Sophomore English teacher here... Been showing this for the last 3 years when we read it... BEST production I've ever seen of the Scottish Play! Thanks for making this available!

Interestingly, a loose adaptation of Timon of Athens was written by G. Balasubramanian and it was made into a Kannada movie (A South Indian language/film industry) called 'Kasturi Nivasa'. The movie is considered a classic and is still revered by people. The interesting observation is how the ethos of 'give and don't take' is considered an innate Indian value that we kids while growing up were taught, often through the movie. Great watch. Phenomenal music. Unforgettable performance by the lead Dr. Rajkumar. I doubt you'll find it with subtitles though. But to see a Shakespeare play travel to a South Indian state, and then be made into a film by another state (both have different languages), is so endearing.

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That’s My Green Lantern! 💚

The book talks about the theory of human evolution in certain parts, the theory is that we came from plants as the drawings in the book show us, the story says that a great wizard wrote this book and...

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Because the Weird Sisters speak in verse, I believe that in the play's OP "heath" and "MacBeth" should rhyme. I think they should be pronounced with the long a vowel as in "hate". I Googled around but couldn't find any direct confirmation of this. On the heath, grows heather--which should be pronounced as "hey there".

This was an awesome production - I am so glad to see it again. And these comments are so off the mark it's insulting - this is a perfectly legit take on Shakespeare and these young actors are giving it all the energy this moment needs.

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miss your face. crazy to find it on youtube randomly. FIk/ from Dell

Thankyou so much I remember this video i watched in 2013. Changed everything. None of my english teachers or drama teachers taught this at school. So valuable for those left behind. Please never delete. Thanks.

I never knew what that building was , i used to pass it when I worked in the city for years, thanks for the info

22:55 monologue

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It's a hint.

So proud of my lil cuzzo, doing big things. Always been talented from a child, glad he is realizing some of his dreams and goals! Auntie Denise loves you and what your doing!!!

The sisters need a record deal immediately

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This is very funny, but 'Fermat' is mispronounced throughout. It is 'Fer-Maa' with 't' silent.

I took a Shakespeare course at Cal with Steven Justice in the late 90s and he mentioned that The Winter's Tale was his favorite Shakespeare play... weird, the things one remembers.

This is so magnificent and beautiful. I've watched it multiple times. What does pantaloone mean on the stain glass window of a man's life cycle? The arts? It looks like my life except I wasn't that wealthy.

Wow! Thank you kindly, Dr. Akhimie for outlining so clearly what is at stake in our modern reading(s) of Othello, and its echoes with a non post-racial world. And thank you for illustrating so brilliantly how to do close readings for an audience who might not be familiar with the play. Make it plain!!

MacDuff’s chuckling, snickering, at some of Malcolm’s self-reproach in Act 4, Scene 3……good God! One of the most serious, important, heavy scenes in the whole play, and the actor playing MacDuff decides to go full on “junior high” production. How did the director not stop him dead in his tracks? How was this allowed?. I’d have grabbed him by the balls, literally, and squeezed with all my strength every time he slipped into such bafoonery. & Malcolm, not much better. Dude is laaaaaaaaaaaboring over his lines in this scene, really indulging himself….. rather than communicating what Shakespeare’s given him here. Oy-VAY!! 🤡🙈😱🥸

This isn’t bad, an above average production, to be sure. Minor criticism- the script editing(omissions) was highly ill-advised, as the play is short enough to begin with and gathers steam(pace) as it moves forward. Also, some of the actors consciously PUNCHING certain words smacks a bit of pandering , of amateurism….and some others seem to’ve never heard of a fourth wall, and ought to try it sometime, as that’s what creates real life, real human beings actually interacting, rather than making speeches to the audience….🙏🎭

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So lovely, thank you!

4:20 My father, sitting beside me, quickly turned to look at the screen to see what that was about. 💀

Robert Richmond was one of the greatest directors of Shakespeare in the US. A genius at making the plays accessible, visceral and vibrant. A titan of modern Shakespeare. We'll never see the like again.

Hopelessly flawed and terribly outdated scholarship. It's proven this is not the author's face AND that this insulting portrait makes a "FIGURE" or CLOWN of this person (never is he called "author") who has 2 right eyes, in a doublet w/ left arms mismatched to right shoulders. The whole this is a mashup of wrong & ill-fitting pieces. Just read what Ben Jonson wrote about a man no one noticed had died for 7-years.

I want to watch the play of the way of the world completely

beautiful commentary!

My anxiety thanks you for this video!

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help, i did not think the witches would be this creeeeepppyyy😰😭

this is awesome! thanks for uploading it and especially for the captions!!

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Very helpful glimpse into this part of Shakespeare's history. Thanks!

I believe, like many scholars, that it is a hoax created by Edward Kelley, the scurrilous, fraudulent, spiritual medium and magical assistant of the great English mystic, Sir John Dee, who was Queen Elizabeth the First's spymaster and astrologer. Kelley's character is shown by his claim to Dee that heavenly, not fallen, Angels had given a holy dispensation for them to swap wives (!). It is believed the manuscript was sold to Ferdinand V (1596-1632) the Elector of Bohemia, a Calvinist Prince who wanted to be the Holy Roman Emperor - who was fascinated by alchemy and other hidden arts (not witchcraft) of the ancient Greek Neo-Platonic magical traditions. It is theorised that when John Dee and Edward Kelly were travelling in Europe in 1613, to facilitate an English- Bohemian Protestant alliance, cemented by the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish King James the First of England and Frederick V. Scholars believe he faked the manuscript, probably fooling even John Dee with his hoax, selling it to Frederick V, as a genuine grimoire, for a great deal of money.

Love the witches song ❤❤

Iconoclasm is...using critical thinking skills and an evidence-based approach to interrogate who the real Shakespeare was, during what scholar Marcy North has called a golden age of anonymous (including allonymous) authorship? No?

Very excited to watch, and I was thrilled to see accurate captioning on the video! Thank you for that.

Amazing staging - WOW

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