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Theyre alive and they should be alive and they shouldnt be presented as things pickled in aspic. they should be presented as something that speaks to the world right now. thou marshallst me the way that i was going, and such an instrument i was to use. mine eyes are made the fools o the other senses or else worth all the rest... ..i see thee still. the reason shakespeare is still performed and is tenacious is because he had a particular sense of what it is to be a human that he managed to write ...

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. the reas...

About that. he just had a way of expressing the human experience, what it is to be inside a brain that allows us all to connect and to see ourselves reflected and to understand each other. so, its about humanity and empathy. and he just had an ability for that that was unique. your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. yeah, i sanudi dench said, "any human emotion, go "to shakespeare, youll find it there." yeah, its true. and whenever you do these plays, they reflect t...

Of course, in the time he wrote — as we understand it, he probably wrote it to order because king james liked a witch and he was new on the throne, so he thought, "ill write a play about "witches for him. "thatll cheer him up. "thatll get him on my side." and he, you know — "hubble, bubble, toil and trouble," its all — you know, that comes from macbeth, the idea of witches dancing around a cauldron. shakespeare invented that. all: the weird sisters, hand in hand... - whats difficult about ...

But thats our job. you leave that to us, so that when you come to the theatre, dont worry about that. let us know what were telling you and the meaning — youll receive the meaning if its a good production. if were doing ourjob halfway properly, you shouldnt have to worry about understanding every syllable. but you will be taken by it. you will be transported by it. 0h, be happy, lady, foryou are like an honourable father. if signor leonato be her father, she would not have his head on her shou...