Mark Rylance: Opening scene of The Tempest

[@m.h.6499]

Sir Mark Rylance, one of the best actors of our generation. What a fantastic clip. ❤

[@adamglasser-t1s]

Moving … wonderful as ever, Mark Rylance thank you

[@oajillbennett5934]

Dancing with words

[@jamessupplee7289]

Love the way he sets up the play as a situation where it's all open and has not happened yet. Very inviting!

[@monicacall7532]

Sir Mark’s reading of “The Tempest” is stunning. I did this play several times with 10-12 year old students, and the students loved the story and loved the language. Their interpretations of the characters and the story were fresh and always changing. Frankly, I don’t care who really wrote these plays. What I care about is the fact that these beautiful plays are ours to love, learn from and to enjoy.

[@6deste]

Wonderful man, what a fantastic event.

[@kebhMI]

He is so lovely!

[@harringtonday5319]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@hughbarton5743]

I have "acted", more or less, for about 40 years. In that tumblehome history, and had the great good fortune to do about 25 of his plays. You non-actors? Ever seen a play by Kit Marlowe produced? Nope.Hmm.... Any other contemporary work? Didn't stand the passage of time. This guy was special. Can I explain his volatile, searching mind? I cannot.

[@comiclover99]

Marlowe's work gets produced relatively often. You could compare to someone like Heywood or Greene or even Middleton and Jonson if you wanted, but Marlowe is a weird choice as Edward II and Dr Faustus get put on every few years by some company or another here in England. I agree that Shakespeare was special, an absolute genius for sure, but lets not denigrate the amazing achievements of his contemporaries. Even a bardolater like Harold Bloom would not go so far as to denigrate Marlowe to this degree.

[@thelexsoto]

he's rocking Shakespeare's hair style. modern bard

[@pchabanowich]

superb!

[@apokalupsishistoria]

3:36 If Rylance wants a synchronicity within a synchronicity, July 26 is Jung’s birthday.

[@ThomasSimmons-u5x]

Talent doesn't equate to common sense. Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare... fugghedaboudit

[@mikejohnson2638]

No he didn't.

[@comiclover99]

@@mikejohnson2638 Almost every academic in the field of Shakespeare studies agrees that he did. The authorship question is taken seriously by basically no one in academia. We have more primary materials on Shakespeare than basically any other non-royal/non-noble figure in 16th century England. He is one of the best documented figures of the period.

[@mikejohnson2638]

@@comiclover99 You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

[@comiclover99]

My job is literally the academic study and teaching of Shakespeare at a university.

[@mikejohnson2638]

@@comiclover99 Then you should know Shakespeare didn't write the plays and sonnets.

[@lyndabarron8548]

This authorship business is wearing a bit thin. It doesn't have anything to do with promoting that film in which two particular actors are featued, by any chance?

[@petervonberg2711]

The real author of Shakespeare was Lord Greystoke.

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

So written by Tarzan? Wow.

[@ThomasSimmons-u5x]

Kier Stammer wrote As You Like It... Perhaps Lizzo. Feels me?

[@KieranRobinson-zz6ug]

Interesting he didn't say from daddy and mommy. Is he her stepfather

[@mt.shasta6097]

He is/was the girl's stepfather. He doesn't name the daughter, though. Rylance lost one of his two stepdaughters in 2012, an event that devastated him. A terrible tragedy.

[@monicacall7532]

Yes.

[@mohamedkraria6647]

Imagine all these E T s Checking their Phone s2:07 Home

[@mohamedkraria6647]

NO NO NO! My ancestors

[@MAKOBITE]

Hard to believe anyone could doubt that Shakespeare was the author of his plays. It's just so stupid. And yet there are Rylance and Jacobi, among them. So many contemporaries attest to his being a great playwright and actor, owner of the theatre with Burbage, his whole life in Stratford documented, what is there to question? So ridiculous.

[@KieranRobinson-zz6ug]

Help me out I really want to believe it was William completely

[@MrGyges]

So ridiculous indeed.

[@DonWhisner]

You are misinformed.

[@burntgod7165]

​@@DonWhisner You have to elaborate on your assertion. The burden is on you.

[@marichristian]

Have Rylance and Jacobi gone soft in the head? I'm beginning to see the makings of a De Vere cult.

[@regmunday8354]

Ever since reading about Sir Henry Neville, I have considered him the strongest contender as the main author of the Shakespeare plays. Someone highly educated, wealthy and well travelled. Never liked the claims it must be an already famous writer/poet, like Marlowe or Bacon.

[@hellbooks3024]

DeVere didn’t know squat.

[@lorenzo-kc9og]

sirbacon.org/downloads/The_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_A_Bacon.pdf

[@duderama6750]

When entertainers get knighthoods you know the nobility is wasted on their own fantasy.