An evening with Sir Mark Rylance: Tales of Shakespeare, stage and screen

Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance charmed a packed audience at Brunel University London on 27 April 2017 sharing stories from across his glittering career.
The evening was part of Brunel's series of public engagement events - free for members of the public to attend. Details of how to register for our next event are available on our upcoming events page: bit.ly/brunel_events

[@milantomasevic3965]

Rylance’s ability to project innocence and aloofness to hide a cunning intelligence is beautiful.

[@kevinlayne8129]

He is of age but looks young. It's that child like quality he possesses. It keeps him playful and exuberant. Wonderful talent.

[@inamorata966]

Before Bridge of Spies, I had not ever seen Rylance is anything, Never heard of him. But I couldn't take my eyes of him in that movie. Just a marvelous performance.

[@jeannec1154]

I just discovered him. Amazing man. I could listen to him talk all night. You see one performance and you then seek out everything you can.

[@vb8428]

Real nice that Spielberg finally convinced him to star in films regularly.

[@lilbun444]

Saw Don’t Look Up and loved him then saw Phantom of the Open and loved him even more. With another of his films coming out soon “The Outfit” I am completely excited to see this man perform again. Something very endearing about him.

[@Tk1NE]

Such class and integrity by Sir Mark Rylance(the people had knighted him so long before the Queen did) Sir Mark, despite the host’s passive aggressive micro hostilities, imbued by envy for sure; remained the talented humble gentleman he always is. Love this Brother

[@patrickcerra5356]

I saw him recently in London in Jerusalem and had the pleasure of meeting him. As successful as he's become over the years, there's no Hollywood snobbery. He's wonderful!

[@jas.jadama5186]

He really is! I hope to meet him one day

[@jas.jadama5186]

I agree. I had the pleasure of meeting him twice recently after watching Jerusalem, and he is without doubt one of the kindest most down to earth people I've ever met!!

[@fmulder1989]

Ever since Wolf Hall i´m a fan of his work.

[@Graenolf]

This man is wonderful. What an imaginative actor. Ever since Bridge of Spies I’ve had to go and see his other films and madly KZbin whatever theatre performances are available online - and I feel confident in saying he truly is one of a kind. Another good upload.

[@jessica5497]

me too, and he has this energy...

[@kellymulderino7156]

he sucks - SLy deserved the oscar

[@Retrostar619]

@@kellymulderino7156 Ok Frank.

[@kellymulderino7156]

@@Retrostar619 My nombre Kelly

[@NaliniKluth]

@@kellymulderino7156 I completely agree. What a nice man and great actor!

[@DansFilmFiles]

Mark Rylance’s laugh is so infectious it makes me get the giggles 😂 I worship this actor so much!

[@janawall3306]

YOU SHOULD NEVER WORSHIP A PERSON.

[@fabiengerard8142]

@Jana Wall *So, let’s just worship the anonymous genius known as The Bard, and enjoy this most remarkable comedian, who also happens to be a wonderful person - a very rare human being. 🤗

[@jpkatz1435]

M. R. is, of course, HUGELY ingaging in his unafraid personal autheniecity, and it is a little easy to lean towards enthrallment which may be confused as worship. A marvelous mind of understanding evolved by exploration within the greater backround of of infinite possibility.

[@RalphOK]

That's unfortunate. You shouldn't worship anyone.

[@rachfatcat]

I've been a fan of Mark's TV and film work for some years now but only last month did I finally get to see him act on stage, and I still can't get over how good he was. I doubt I'll ever see anyone better, at least at Shakespeare. Completely mesmerising.

[@minastaneva6901]

He is so lovely. Just knowing that there is someone like him out there, so genuinely kind, humane, dreamy, but most importantly kind, gives me a sense of safety and peace. Lovely human being.

[@fabiengerard8142]

👌

[@7yenaline]

what an artist..!! One of the best actors of our time..!!

[@sarosch]

I am so glad he is an Oxfordian - willing to stand up for a new look at the plays & how different it all is when you know how close to his life the playwright’s stories were - are.

[@lorenzo-kc9og]

He's a Baconian

[@edward311]

I remember seeing him all those years ago at the RSC.....Arden Of Faversham...The Tempest etc and even then he had that undefinable "it" quality. I think he is an astonishing actor and his performances of Shakespearean roles are some of the best I have ever seen. I hope he decides to play Malvolio one day to add to the list.

[@adamgharmonica4659]

This is just an incredibly wonderful video - a moving genius, every inch a king

[@missmaryhdream6560]

Yes, there's reasonable doubt, indeed. Lovely to hear, what the answers, could be. Fascinating.

[@15Candles]

He was brilliant in Bridge of Spies. He truly stole the show even from Tom Hanks, that's saying something already. SK glad he won the Oscar, he deserved it

[@julieblackstock8650]

I love him.. and his thomas cromwell .. just brilliant

[@khi590]

what an amazing performance disguised as an interview - thanks soooo much for sharing...my imagination flies above memories, dreams - towards kind of happiness I thought was lost with childhood...

[@pitchforkcustom]

once in rehearsals for much ado about nothing he was writing beatrice a love letter and had the line my cheeks are stuffed with paper.. screwed up the love letter and ate it and there were his cheeks stuffed .. was a pleasure to watch a genius bringing shakespeare to life in the room

[@gianaepps5229]

I love him so much. Thank you for this conversation with this lovely, brilliant human.

[@MsESilverFox]

Absolutely extraordinary - I loved hearing about Mary Magdalene and the ancient reading of the myth of St George. Fascinating and deeply moving.

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

What a great evening. Thank you Brunel for posting. I'm nearing the end of my life. Why were we not exposed to all this at the beginning of our lives ? Why were we not, us children, taught to ask and to think and explore. To enrich ones self and those around you. To understand our inheritance. Looking back it was almost as if this wasn't for the likes of you. I was very lucky. Many Adults volunteered to teach us. Sunday school, Bible English, Tyndale and Bunyon. The beauties of the English language. Scout Masters that took us on walks exploring old London City. Teachers that taught us music spirituals and folk songs. (Choir). I was blessed. My very best wishes to you all. Thank you for posting.

[@bruneluniversity]

Wonderful insights Henry; you're welcome.

[@BenMoranFilms]

I love you for writing this, Henry. What an insight. Thank you.

[@HitchcockBrunette]

Beautiful, Henry. ❤

[@jonathantwort6980]

Wonderful, wonderful, thank you very much! I feel uplifted and inspired!

[@marilynworth997]

Rylance blows my brain. His definition of who or what our dragon is greatly nourishes my own philosophy. Great acting requires great minds!

[@neerajamb]

Such a brilliant actor- grateful to have watched the best most hilarious portrayal of Lady Olivia in the Twelfth Night!!

[@sound536]

Dear Sir Mark Rylance ... amazing :)

[@joemachunda]

Wolf Hall was magnificent because of Mark Rylance

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

It would have only been a single episode had any other actor portrayed Cromwell.

[@costeris35]

I absolutely loved the book and can’t help but feel that the series would have been great regardless but I’m now unable to imagine anyone else in the role. He was just magnificent. So subtle and deep.

[@TheBritishActingCoach]

Marvellous, thank you so much for sharing.

[@isobelclark1218]

Mark Rylance is extraordinary! He seems without ego despite his great success! I’ve seen him on the stage and in films. He’s quite the most skilled actor, and genuine person! What a pity this seemed more about the interviewer! I wanted to hear from him not the academic!

[@leoquesto9183]

I recall the first time I saw Rylance. It was on the screen, when Angels & Insects was released, and I didn’t know anything much of the story. However, I was a student in Paris and daily watching mostly French and Italian films, and dropped into A&I to relax, perhaps nap before getting back out into the city, and instead I was overwhelmed by his onscreen presence. It was obvious that he was major actor and have sought him out ever since. Shortly after that initial discovery, it was a greater thrill to learn that he was an intense Shakespearean actor. What a gift that immersion has been. Thank you, Mark Rylance.

[@saradecapua3264]

Oh, that voice. Oh, that hair. This is a man I would love to meet.

[@wundurra24]

Superb! Thanks so much for sharing.

[@adamharley2262]

That interpretation of the dragon and the maiden is absolutely wonderful.

[@loriwatters8661]

Sir Mark is wonderful,!

[@cuthbertgeorge]

Notice how silence and pauses assist the words to speak. Channeling Shakespeare.

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

william sutton as well as Pinter too-

[@MrMartibobs]

​@@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740 Yes. Pinter. A child born of humble craftspeople who went to a grammar school. And they're trying to convince us that he wrote those amazing plays! Nonsense! So ... who was the REAL Harold Pinter?

[@mogomarkas3187]

The voice teacher that Mark Rylance mentions that they worked with at The Globe is Stewart Pearce.

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

BRILLIANT!and a Great Tribute to Sam Wanamaker!

[@louisemyles4971]

What a beautiful man.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Such a unique VOICE as well. The more I listen to him, the less I do stand the childhood memories I still had of Olivier’s monologues in ‘Hamlet’. Definitely too much ego in that Golden Age generation.

[@sageryan5819]

Mark is fabulous. Is it not possible numerous records were lost in the London Fire regarding Shakespeare. Even in our small towns records were frequently destroyed by floods and fires. It does seem after a generation has passed anything can be written to detract from a previous hero.

[@user-hy9nh4yk3p]

A light nah .... FB is the key - enough proof - there be. One has to work deeply - for such a subject. May the modern human not be lazy but courageous and persistent and may the truth of so many things - envelop you. Good luck.

[@Brada988]

This man is a legend

[@v.e2035]

Exquisite....

[@michaelflomer8348]

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, 'Nothing Truer than Truth', Spear Shaker

[@downtonviewer]

Gilded Helmet

[@nickwyatt9498]

Trouble is, if you read Edward de Vere's poems published under his own name...they're rubbish. Something to ponder on.

[@user-hy9nh4yk3p]

Done some intense research - FB makes me so happy - what a genius, in such broad field. Hope he engenders - at least respect. May he grow and grow - in our estimation - to his eventual status. Thank you.

[@justanothergoogler6436]

Mesmerising

[@freethought1947]

That concept of magnetism and the womb is much like the idea of the law of attraction... that interviewer clearly didn’t understand the concept and whenever rylance began to dive deep into it like at 1:19:58 he dismisses the idea!

[@ShiningEyeBrigade]

Yes! I would have loved to hear him speak about that other things as long as he wanted to. And I have seen this from other interviewers too: Mark would start to go deep, exploring ideas more fully, but they cut off and move on. I guess it’s a sad reality of an agenda and limited time of such events. But I would I love to see an interview where they could go as deep as Mark wished.

[@normanmendoza315]

The best 1:44:00 of my life.

[@lancelotdufrane]

Angels and Insects... so powerful, yet rarely mentioned. Mark Rylance debut, for me.

[@blairribeca5858]

Yes,indeed.The film is on the top of my list.Thank you for mentioning it.As for the Shakespeare question:Diana Price's book settles the issue for me.

[@blairribeca5858]

P.S. Prospero's Books is where I first saw Mark Rylance.It worthy of your attention.

[@lancelotdufrane]

Thank you! I just watched Diana Price give a lecture on Shakespeare. Excellent! I really appreciate your tips! I will continue and enjoy, my voyage of discovery! Best to you, Kind, Friend.

[@blairribeca5858]

@@lancelotdufrane Thank you for your friendship.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@blairribeca5858 Too bad you didn't fact check Price. If you had, you would discover that she's a charlatan.

[@mjc5509]

IVE SEEN MARK IN MANY PLAYS JERUSALEM AND TWELFTH NIGHT WERE MAGICAL..HIS REMARKABLE TALENT DOSN'T TRANSFER TO SCREEN WELL. YOU NEED TO SEE HIM PERFORM LIVE

[@melaniejoseph1993]

What a shame ... rather how shameful is William Leahy's envy of Mark Rylance in this event ... it's so uncomfortable to watch him preen and insinuate himself over and over into his own success and accolades ... and that he's so unconscious of his doing so makes it ever more uncomfortable. And it's maddening to watch him attempt to cut down Rylance, to undo the marvelous space that Rylance creates with his contemplations. But you can't take this remarkable artist down -- Rylance is too mellifluous and transparent in the ways he shares his thoughts with his audience -- in the conscious desire to be with us LIVE and honestly. This all to say: FAST FORWARD THROUGH LEAHY and take this ride with Rylance, it's splendid

[@MrDavey2010]

Melanie Joseph I absolutely agree with you. William Leahy obviously feels out classed by Sir Mark and so over-compensates for his insecurity by being bombastic. In fact his presence on the podium with Sir Mark is excruciating. He is almost trying to undermine him.

[@janetsavin9669]

Very perceptive remarks about Leahy. With the audience Q-A he doesn't seem capable of understanding or appreciating the richness of Mark Rylance's responses. I agree, they are contemplations.

[@TSCStag]

❤️🔥⚡️

[@viercanacs3940]

Your Highness,Mr Cromwell😊

[@donaldreed2351]

He does a marvelous parody of Shakespeare in Henry V.

[@booksteer7057]

If Mark's wife was my mom, she'd be rushing on stage to comb his hair. 😄

[@francissullivan6366]

He’s the Jacob collier of acting

[@fuadsflkas]

Truth,,

[@marshsherrif2824]

and erm. english literature at its best

[@EccentricaGallumbits]

A long time ago I wondered how Mark, whom I admire greatly, could take the crackpot authorship question seriously. So I examined the evidence. Boy am I glad I did! Viewing the plays as written by someone steeped in classical philosophy, literature and esoteric knowledge opens up ever more layers of beauty and complexity. Now, I actually feel sorry for those professors who have made the Bard their life's work, yet think the author had limited access to texts in their original languages.

[@HitchcockBrunette]

The Bard could easily have written the plays he did in fact write, in my opinion as a lifelong scholar of Shakespeare. To say otherwise is to deny the power of the human Imagination.

[@user-hy9nh4yk3p]

I am sooooo happy - learning about FB. No one has ever evoked this - in me heart. He is also called Master Bacon and is so beyond any other candidate to be called Master - in the West. The East has some Masters - mostly in the spiritual realm. The quest - to bring both spheres together - goes on constantly and hopefully we humans - learn well. @@HitchcockBrunette

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Should the Head of English at Brunel be using a phrase like "very unique"........?

[@Dwbron]

My god. When Rylance gets interrupted at 1h19m when he's talking about the most profound ideas in acting, with a joke about Sylvester Stallone from that idiot facilitator. You just couldn't make it up.

[@jespermayland571]

💕🤗🙏🌻🙌❤️

[@JeremyHelm]

1:29:59 the context of biography on interpretation

[@MegaJw99]

Rylance, Ry-likes-bants more like!

[@johnryskamp2943]

Probably it's actors and some audience members who suggested lines or improvements to lines. The best guide to how others may have participated in writing Shakespeare's plays, is to look at how new plays are rehearsed and the first performances. Particularly popular plays and musicals, rather than serious plays. Also operas, which were always rewritten under a variety of influences. In short, it's probably inaccurate to see Shakespeare's plays as having made their way into print from a manuscript he wrote alone in a room, with no intervening changes.

[@30piecesofsilver64]

de vere released poems in his lifetime please quote a single line withouth googling

[@MrDavey2010]

The interviewer is so patronising and so intent on devaluing the remarkable talent and achievements of Mark Rylance that the interview is imbalanced. The interviewer constantly tries to make the interview about him rather than the interviewee and it is fatal to the whole affair.

[@dongill9718]

Who cares is it any less amazing literature

[@dndjcjdkddmdm7466]

The BFG giant

[@jow265]

BFG in real life. Omg!

[@JeremyHelm]

1:21:34 sharing about George & the Dragon, re comfortable…

[@eilidh771]

Edward de Vere

[@30piecesofsilver64]

good actor but thats where it ends the best evidence is that the man from statford wrote the plays end of discussion

[@ducdejoyeuse]

To understand the cypher that is William Shake-Speare it is essential to use the hyphen, it is there for a reason. So W-I-LL-I-AM Shake-Speare, as L is Roman numeral for 50, then 50+50= 100 and the gematria for Francis Bacon is one hundred. Then we need to know who the Dark Lady is, in 1573 in the constellation of Cassiopeia a supernova appeared , Francis was thirteen having just walked out of Cambridge University with the words " I have had enough of an Aristotlean education system." Then the Dark Lady is Cassiopeia as she is the W in the heavens, the whole cypher reads W Cassiopeia Dark Lady I Francis Bacon I Am Shake-Speare. With Shake-Speare we find the anagram of Seak H Reap Six. In September 1581 at the Autumn Equinox at the Louvre ( R U Love ?) then later at the Chateau Duc Anne de Joyeuse, at Coiuza , France, Anne Hatha -Way, removing the H we find Atha Irish for Father, each candidate in masonry is given a new Father and Irish is Francis key into the plays for example Miranda in The Tempest is from the Irish Mir Anfa meaning Portion of the Storm and that is exactly what Miranda observes she is the first to witness the Portion of the Storm. If you would like further evidence Google the wedding Duc Anne de Joyeuse, in the painting can clearly be seen Francis Bacon at twenty giving the Alef sign

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

You had me going for a moment there.

[@namelesswon]

The evidence points to Devere as Shakespeare.

[@namelesswon]

@John Osman do your independent research don’t listen to me, or what your told at school . Don’t rely on the stats quo to do your work for you either. It’s an interesting incredible journey and is pretty self evident once you delve a bit deeper than the junior text books.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Every lady bit of evidence I've ever seen points to the actor and gentleman from Stratford. Take your own advice and look at it for yourself, and not what someone tells you it says.

[@namelesswon]

@@Jeffhowardmeade I doubt it. The actor from Stratford is the default elementary starting point. It’s what you believe, it’s what I used to “believe” having been indoctrinated at school by teachers regurgitating lies and half truths and made up exaggerations from people who were and are not historians or people who have a passing interest in Elizabethan culture. Once you look beyond what you think you know and actually research then you will understand. Until then you are part of the starts quo. The child mediocrity propping up the house of cards and Stratford industry lie.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@namelesswon I have looked over the evidence. I have read every last bit of it myself. I can name at least twenty contemporaries of Shakespeare -- many of them his close friends and all of them literary insiders -- who identified the poet as the actor and gentleman from Stratford. He published all of his poetry through a kid he grew up with in Stratford. He inserted people, places, and events from his youth in Stratford into his plays. He theater company had exclusive right to perform his plays, which were performed in his theaters. He was given top or near top billing in said company, despite not being one of the lead actors. How many Hamlets have you ever heard of, besides the fictional character? Shakespeare was associated with three of them in Stratford, and personally named one of them. The only schoolboy is all of Shakespeare's works is named William. His family motto "Non sans droict" translates to "not without right", which is homophone for Naught Without Write. His peers referred to the poet as not having a great deal of education. "Small Latine and lesse Greeke" as Ben Jonson said, is precisely what one learns in a grammar school. His works are conspicuously lacking in the Greek classics then taught in university. Shakespeare came from precisely the same middle-class background as nearly all other poets, except Beamont and Fletcher (sons of a knight and bishop, respectively). The rest were all sons of merchants and tradesmen. When Shakespeare died, they erected a memorial over his grave describing him as a great poet. There isn't a single bit of evidence, as the world defines the term, which points to anyone besides William Shakespeare, the actor, gentleman, and poet from Stratford-upon-Avon. Go ahead. Prove me wrong.

[@namelesswon]

@@Jeffhowardmeade haaaaaaaa. Default. Status quo. You need to look beyond what you have been taught. I was like you and The Works were one dimensional. You have so much more insight to look forwarded too. I envy your naivety.

[@ryanmills4678]

1:07:50

[@ryanmills4678]

1:21:58

[@suziewheeler6530]

I have come to question how a man with no books or letters had a vocabulary of 20,000 words...how the compilations have masonry numbers and crytograms of which he had no knowledge...in fact invented many english words we now use...at least the man from avon had no knowledge. It is clear to me that the author has mason connections, he had knowledge of the law, medicine, travel, languages, court life and several of subjects that the man from Stratford could not have had.. thank u for ur lecture...

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

A: How do you know he had no books? The portion of his will where he would have itemized those has been lost. B: Ben Jonson, who had much better literary connections than Shakespeare, leaves only two letters, and those both to government officials begging to be let out of prison. No private letters survive. B: Freemasonry didn't exist in Shakespeare's day. The cryptograms are a load of rubbish. Everyone manages to find one that points to his or her anointed candidate. Of course, when you are the one providing the key, you can find whatever you like. C: 20,000 words was about average for poets of the era. Shakespeare didn't invent words. He used existing words in ways they had not before been used. He didn't invent the word "pickle", for example. He invented the word "pickle" in the sense of being in a troublesome situation. It would be silly for someone writing plays to use words the audience couldn't understand. He was often one of the first to use a particular word in print. D: Shakespeare was the son of a justice of the peace. His daughter married a prominent physician, after which time medical terms show up more frequently in his works. The school in his home town was taught entirely in Latin, after which, French, Italian, and Spanish are easy. There's no evidence he traveled, which would explain why he made several geographic blunders. His first patron was the Queen's cousin, and her Lord Chamberlain, the Baron Hunsdon. His second patron was King James. He had access to everything he needed to write the works of Shakespeare.

[@divert4abitsanders187]

@@Jeffhowardmeade great answer

[@divert4abitsanders187]

@@Jeffhowardmeade love the answer

[@divert4abitsanders187]

@@Jeffhowardmeade thank you

[@MrMartibobs]

There's some bad french in Henry V, a few Latin tags, and a Latin lesson in Merry Wives. That doesn't mean Shakespeare had to be a linguist. Name a scene, a line, a play, a poem, that could not have been written by a bright kid with a grammar school education.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

How long did that Authorship MA program at Brunel last? Two years? Three?

[@khi590]

did anybody know Prof Hammerschmidt-Hummel's research there, Shakespeare and family were Catholics, thus his education-history had to be hidden, and agreed with Fbrt Shakespeare back to London (after public school in Flanders changed to Italy, and legal studies in Bologna) had connections to Francis Bacon and group of intellectuals... a mystery, but please, as Mark says, do not offend the real Shakespeare...

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

+khi590 She also insists the a particular death mask is of Shakespeare in spite of no provenance at all. It's amazing what passes for scholarship these days. Addressing her hypothesis directly, Shakespeare's works demonstrate a strong reliance upon standard grammar school texts, English translations where available, and he was frequently described by his contemporaries as not being highly educated. Shakespeare is not famous for the depth of his learning, but rather for his insight into his characters, his unconstrained poetry, and his knack for stealing all the best plotlines. Today you have to go to college in order to understand Shakespeare, so it's natural that some highly educated people will assume the author must have done, but in his day, all you had to do was understand English and pay a penny at a public theater.

[@khi590]

Prof. H. has written a very detailed book on the history of Catholic hidden education of young Catholic noble youngsters in Jesuit college at Flanders that changed to Italy, please argue not with offences but details, which is only possible after having read, thanks (we were not talking on the death mask showiing the eyelid tumor of Shakeseare seen on many pics also)

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

khi590 Okay, he fathered a child in Stratford at age 18, by which time he would already have matriculated to a university. Even if he were running late, what Jesuit school is going to take a married man with a child? And if quoting Shakespeare's contemporaries who all claimed he was uneducated is not arguing with details, I don't know what is.

[@khi590]

The beauty of Sh.work is independent of whom we think the author is as Mark said, but knowledge of the wisdom teachings, Renaissance knowledge circlating at that time is rather an addition to understanding the plays, see eg interpretations by Peter Dawkins (interpretation with Kabbala, Rosicrucian, Frreemasons knowledge that wanted to overcome the religious wars and elevate life), wonderful, enlightening (also Mozart and Goethe works etc were influenced by those traditions..)

[@robertcampbell9879]

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[@andremccree8937]

he will only be remembered for his work with Spielberg. although he was hugely miscast in Ready Player One

[@breezingby2611]

He’s already remembered for other projects without Spielberg and he was perfectly fine in Ready Player One

[@thoutube9522]

So sad that after five years, less than 5000 people worldwide have signed the declaration of reasonable doubt. In spite of the backing of Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, only this pitiful number of people can be bothered to sign up. We may be faced with the idea that most people don't find any difficulty in believing that a person from Stratford can become a poet and playwright. Shocking.

[@myrvamontes6854]

MR RYLANCE AS HUMBLE AS YOU ARE THARZ HOW BEAUTUFUL & HUMBLE YOUR SMILE. ?ARE YOU MARRIED? AM DIVORCE FEW YEARS AGO . BUT AM READY TO MARRY AGAIN TO YOU .LOVE YOUR TENDER EYES YOU SOFT SMILE AND ALL YOU. MR. MARK RYLANCE

[@monicacall7532]

Myrva Montes Rylance is married to Claire Van Kampen who is in charge of the music at the Globe Theater in London. She supervised the music for the TV version of “Wolf Hall”. I agree about his eyes. His eyes told the whole story in WH. He says that he learned how to use his eyes only to tell a story without saying a word after seeing Brad Pitt in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. I bless Brad Pitt! I hope and pray that he will return to play Thomas Cromwell in the final TV installment of “Wolf Hall”. Rylance didn’t play Cromwell. He WAS Cromwell. Ditto for “Bridge of Spies”. When he’s on screen you don’t think “Oh that’s Mark Rylance acting as so and so. Isn’t he great?” Rather you find yourself thinking, “Wow! I wonder what Cromwell’s going to do next.” .

[@beniteztheconman]

Those flashing tv screens were almost as annoying as the bloke in the suit.

[@MrDavey2010]

Stanley13 William Leahy is deeply irritating!

[@sislertx]

Anyone.who.cant not.address questions about shackspur and only does ad hominem attacks has no business giving any talk to anyone about it.

[@Eudaimonia88]

Yes, ok, we all know you're a Shakespeare "scholar", and that you have a PhD. Do we care? NO. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Sir William Leahy appears to crave a spot in the limelight and cannot manage without humble-bragging, self-referencing and, for an academic, delivering remarkably myopic comments (and I do not mean the authorship question... Leahy is more orthodox than not anyhow). He entirely misses the profundity of some of the comments that Rylance makes and replies in ways that make the great actor look away in embarrassment on at least two occasions. The first 8 minutes of this interview are soaked in utterly forgettable navel-gazing boredom. Mark Rylance was the one and only star on the Brunel firmament that night, somewhat held back by the text-book style questioning on the part of an academic who is sadly disconnected from his subject.

[@MrDavey2010]

CirceEnchants I totally agree with you. Leahy is outshone by Sir Mark but puffs himself up so much at the start that he’s almost trying to compete with the talent about to be unleashed and in so doing, makes a fool of himself. A bit of modesty might have been more appropriate in the presence of a major actor.

[@MrMartibobs]

Yes, he's good. I just find it odd that the man who played the part of a statesman who made the astonishing ascent from Blacksmith's son to Chief minister should think it impossible that a middle class boy could write some plays. Cromwell's rise has many, many parallels, and among dramatists of the time, Shakespeare's progress is nothing unusual.

[@jessica5497]

because its not a matter of inteligence or talent...its an opinion,hes open to more than one, just that...

[@MrMartibobs]

@@jessica5497 Yes but an opinion should be based on EVIDENCE. And if you look at the evidence it's obvious that a young man from Stratford, who had been educated by Oxford graduates at a grammar school got the right breaks and became a writer. I would load all the contemporary references to Shakespeare AS A WRITER on this column But they wouldn't fit. Because they are legion. Page after page of documentary evidence and eye-witness testimony. And if you doubt the boy from Stratford, then you are you're not just accusing Shakespeare of being a fraud. You're accusing Ben Jonson of being a liar. You're accusing John Webster of being a liar. You're accusing Edward Tilney of being a liar. You're accusing Leonard Digges of being a liar. You're accusing Francis Meres of being a liar. You're accusing Hemmings and Condel of being liars. I could list more. And you want us to believe that there were queues of aristos outside the Globe at dead of night, with scripts full of knob-gags stuffed down their galligaskins. What a pile of runny excrement. It is palpable nonsense, and everyone I have discussed this with turns out to be totally IGNORANT of the actual works. But presumably they're such desperate snobs that they hate the idea of a nasty common boy writing sublime poetry. So you believe a grammar school boy can be Chancellor (Wolsey) or chief minister (Cromwell) but couldn't write some plays and poems? Nonsense. I will ask you what I ask all Shakespeare deniers. What line, what scene, what play, could not have been written by a bright boy from Stratford with a grammar school education? If you answer this, you'll be the first.

[@PetraPuppy]

The difference being that we have loads of documentary ( and pictorial!) evidence for the life of Thomas Cromwell- whereas we have practically zero such evidence for the life of Mr Shakspere of Stratford !

[@PetraPuppy]

@@MrMartibobs First off, what evidence is there for the fact that Mr Shakspere went to Stratford Grammar at all? Or any other place of learning?

[@MrMartibobs]

@@PetraPuppy Only circumstantial evidence, but still compelling: 1 He was an actor and therefore literate, so must have had schooling. 2 He was entitled to free education at the school 100 yards from his door as his father was a burgess. 3 It's not that he's absent from the records. The records are absent. Other Stratford men (also not on any records) had careers that show they were educated. 4 He was the child of a well-connected family, with considerable wealth. It would be odd if his father didn't send him to school It would be great if we had the records of the school. But we don't. Jonson isn't mentioned on the records of Westminster school, but we are pretty sure he went there. Wolsey PROBABLY went to school in Ipswich, but the records don't survive. So a 'best guess' is the best we can do. And if you don't like that I suggest you stay away from the study of history. We can certainly say that there was no reason at all why WS should NOT have got an education that would have been more than adequate to enable him to write plays.

[@John-xk2sd]

Surprised Mark accepted a Knighthood, pretty left wing leaning guy.

[@barrettzbrowning]

The ‘Who wrote the plays of Shakespeare’ argument is my least favorite pet peeve. How’s that for scholarship? “Who wrote the plays of Shakespeare?” Shakespeare!

[@BrendanJohnDoherty]

The gentleman introducing Mark throws way too many er's and um's into the talk. Somewhat off-putting.

[@martinhargan4068]

Introduction tedious sigh

[@donaldreed2351]

Francis Bacon was far too well educated to write the Shakespeare plays. Too limited.

[@lorenzo-kc9og]

sirbacon.org/downloads/The_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_A_Bacon.pdf

[@diegopisfil614]

The male Winona Ryder

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Complete pratt ! And full time Virtue Signaller ! He's an actor ie. someone who dresses up and pretends to be someone else .He didn't develop a cure for cancer !!

[@selu1363]

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[@selu1363]

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