The Merchant of Venice - 'To bait fish withal...'

[@finitudeimperial8930]

This is honestly the best recitation of this monologue that I've ever heard, coming second only to Pacino. Absolutley outstanding !

[@BeattieIndependent]

That’s quite an honour, thank you! ☺️🎭

[@finitudeimperial8930]

@@BeattieIndependent You're most welcome! Thank you for giving life to this wonderful monologue . All the others I watched were f ing shite. Yours soared.

[@tenda1234567890]

I've watched 5 of these today. This one was heads and shoulders above the rest sir. Exceptional!

[@BeattieIndependent]

tenda1234567890 many thanks 😊

[@themischeifguide]

Great work, I could immediately feel Shylock's frustration, at 1:40 it was boiling over.

[@AndyHutton1969]

Fantastic!

[@earnsxs2518]

To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies-and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute-and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

[@amandavolpenhein6441]

Very moving. Nice work breaking the fourth wall to include us in the hypocrisy of it all, and vocally beautiful!

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

The best way to fight off racism / discriminations.

[@latacards4287]

I've watched a lot of Shylock's monologue and this is one of the better ones. Most are just yelling. This seems more natural and realistic than the others that appears more like they are "acting." This has more felt emotions.

[@DavidBoycePiano]

Wow, superb!

[@shamsingh6280]

You are awesome ☺️ amazing performance.

[@gaash8439]

Great acting...

[@kiaguy47]

That was really good. Great acting!

[@shakespearaamina9117]

you nailed it

[@naveedhossain6605]

Oh my God that was brilliant!

[@kainpabesh2146]

I like your interpretation

[@ysabelmoreno5017]

That was beautiful and masterful! I absolutely loved your interpretation. Well done!

[@BeattieIndependent]

Lorena Wilde thank you 😊

[@drymant]

Great job. You took your interpretation, followed through with it and I believed everything you said. Different actors will have different approaches, leading to different deliveries but from an acting perspective, your performance was absolutely spot on. Not bad, nor ok, but good. Unfortunately you will always get your crtics who believe their way is better, or that their way is the right way but they would never back it up with a public performance posting of their own, so I wouldn't even give them the time of day.

[@cryptof7513]

A good one !! U nailed it

[@erickahype6829]

your voice sounds like the voice of gru in despocable me 😍😂😂

[@BeattieIndependent]

Ericka Hype 😳😂

[@BeattieIndependent]

Thank you 😊

[@ananyakshirsagar3950]

Steven K. Beattie u overacted in the speech

[@ozdealbreit]

Excellent! Well done!

[@ianeldred841]

Brilliant

[@jackfletcher1000]

This is so relevant today, as much as it was when it was written.

[@BeattieIndependent]

Jack Fletcher definitely, i think a lot of Shakespeare is, remarkable really.

[@jackfletcher1000]

@@BeattieIndependent Hi Steven, greeting from stormy Ireland, I must ask why "remarkable" to love The Bard.

[@BeattieIndependent]

Jack Fletcher Hello in Stormy Ireland. Sorry, i meant remarkable that it was written about 420 years ago and still relevant in todays society (especially with events we’ve seen over the last few months).

[@diegoborges1348]

Very well done

[@alexless3550]

Magnificent rendition!

[@sangitayeul743]

Superb👌

[@joeking5353]

Superb!

[@nihaljain246]

Nailed it in the end! :)

[@sangitayeul743]

Great!

[@GerryBolger]

Great interpretation bro..

[@jonah9236]

Bravo Bravo i love this steven i follow you on twitter. Im just telling my friend in the US about you because she is a POE fan. Xox

[@BeattieIndependent]

Leah Dee 🙈 (blushing lol) thank u. Hope you’re well. A Poe fan? I tell my publisher, they are out there 🤣🤣 x

[@jonah9236]

Steven K. Beattie Im well thank you hun. Hope you okay too. Do you have any new shows coming up x

[@BeattieIndependent]

Leah Dee no shows that i’ve written, working on two at the moment that i might get on stage in the next 12/18 months. I’m acting in ‘Nell Gwynn’ in June though. 😊 x

[@jonah9236]

Steven K. Beattie arrh right fantastic. Well..let me know when your local and i will pop by too support 🎥

[@BeattieIndependent]

Leah Dee Nell Gywnn is local hun, Stoke Rep 12th-16th June. If ya can make it 😊

[@mr.anonymous7767]

Good Video. 😀

[@dinahserdena471]

Okay I was about to call the police with that threat.

[@sunshineyancha6675]

Wish I can have confidence and talent too

[@debdipdutta4848]

overreacted....you should watch Al pacino's one

[@BeattieIndependent]

I’ve seen Al Pacino’s many times, two completely different approaches, and i think you mean ‘overacted’. I’d ask how you think I ‘overacted’ and where, but I have found most who comment like this can’t actually back that statement up 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@debdipdutta4848]

@@BeattieIndependent I have typed one 'r' extra by mistake....By the way coming back to the point...You have not analysed the mental condition of Shylock...If you had understood then the expression would not have been this dramatic...It should be more real and more serious..that's just an opinion...i'm also a 10th cls student from India practicing this speech for my oral and came across this video accidentally...its just an opinion nothing more serious than that

[@BeattieIndependent]

@@debdipdutta4848 I’d argue you need to relook at the text, because if you think Shylock would not be ‘dramatic’ at this point, you haven’t understood the text. He is justifying revenge, that’s not dramatic???

[@debdipdutta4848]

@@BeattieIndependent Then you explain what's the difference between yours and Al Pacino's one

[@BeattieIndependent]

@@debdipdutta4848 the difference is the delivery, not the understanding. That’s an acting choice; the choice of choosing various inflections. What you stated was a lack of understanding of the text, which I find difficult that you can assume that from the video. Shylock is justifying everything he’s doing, years of persecution and knowing full well that this would all be different if he had a different religion. In this instant it’s not being dramatic it’s being passionate. From an acting perspective being less dramatic doesn’t make it more real. Every interpretation will be different, that’s called acting, but states that any price is overacted because a lack of understanding of the text, that’s an assumption not a critique.

[@ananyakshirsagar3950]

You overacted

[@BeattieIndependent]

Ananya Kshirsagar fair comment....can you elaborate??

[@sheller0257]

Nah - this was well done. It's a highly emotional speech, one of those types of speeches that pretty much can't be overdone. I think Mr. Beattie gave a good reading. Well done.

[@f.s.m-youtube7900]

I WAS GOOD U SAID THE SPEECH CORRECTLY BUT YEA IT WAS LITTLE OVER ACTING CONTROL YOUR ACTING