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plays like 12th night... what kind of man is he? ..the tempest... our revels now are ended. ..julius caesar... friends, romans, countrymen... ..and macbeth. stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. these plays would all have been lost had it not been for the first folio. do you want me to do a clap? i am the bbc�*s culture editor, katie razzall, and i caught up with david during his rehearsals for macbeth and asked him about the role shakespeares first folio has played in his life...

fellow actors seven years after his death. it includes 18 plays that had never been printed before. plays like 12th night... what kind of man is he? ..the tempest... our revels now are ended. ..julius caesar... friends, romans, countrymen... ..and macbeth. stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. these plays would all have been lost had it not been for the first folio. do you want me to do a clap? i am the bbc�*s culture editor, katie razzall, and i caught up with david during his...

was 400 years old this year. to celebrate, the king and queen played host to an original copy and theatre�*s royalty, many of whom can thank the folio for their most memorable roles. chatter will these hands neer be clean? the collection of plays was put together by two of shakespeares fellow actors seven years after his death. it includes 18 plays that had never been printed before. plays like 12th night... what kind of man is he? ..the tempest... our revels now are ended. ..julius ...

what does the first folio mean to you? well, i mean, it contains so many of the plays... ..that are the reason why shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is. he simply wouldnt exist... ..as part of the kind of national conversation in the way that he does without the first folio. those... we would have lost so many of those plays. you know, im sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play thats been in performance now for over...

You know, theres obviously particularly famous lines from macbeth, as there are from any play. mm. are those lines harder to say, or is it — you know, because we all know them, or do you get to that bit where youre like, "im going to say this now"? how does it work? its a bit of both, isnt it? theyre sort of the greatest hits so, of course, theres a thrill in being able to deliver that but at the same time, you have to sort of dispense with the idea that the audience might be chanting them alo...

The play today, you hear things in a way that you probably wouldnt have heard them three weeks ago. as i perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on. that you, at such times seeing me, never shall, with arms encumbered thus, or this headshake, or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as, "well, "well, we know," or "we could and if we would," or such ambiguous giving out, to note that you know aught of me! the late, great david warner, i had the pleasure of talking to him...

Shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is. he simply wouldnt exist as part of the kind of national conversation in the way that he does without the first folio. those — we would have lost so many of those plays. you know, im sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play thats been in performance now for over 400 years, but it wouldnt exist. we wouldnt have a copy of it. and even those that we did have, that we do have other sources fo...

Lets take just macbeth. what would it have meant if macbeth, wed never come across macbeth? stammers its hard to compute, isnt it? because... ..because we didnt. so, its there. and there are shakespeare plays that we have lost. theres at least two. theres cardenio and loves labours won, which some people would say was actually a different title for much ado about nothing. who knows? we know these plays were performed and existed and they didnt make it into the first folio for whatever reason. so...

About it in the way that they talked about it. and i dont know that i necessarily understood that when i — i mean, macbeth was the first play that i studied for 0—levels. i got bits of why it was important, but its... these plays exist to be experienced as a member of an audience, to be heard, to be taken on a journey by performers. and its a hard ask, to be inspired. listen, my teacher was great, and i — i got a lot out of it but its almost a shame that the first experience of shakespeare...

You know, theyre not — theyre 400 years old and theres vocabulary that we dont use any more and its in verse. it doesnt immediately — you know, it takes a bit of taming. you have to wrestle with these words a little bit to get on the right side of them, so that you are in charge of them rather than them being in charge of you. it is the bloody business that informs thus to mine eyes. thou sure and firm—set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy very stones prate of my ...