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They're alive and they should be alive and they shouldn't be presented as things pickled in aspic. they should be presented as something that speaks to the world right now. thou marshall'st 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 down. he was — he was a genius. we just have to kind of use that word because he finds ways of...

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 shakespeare's first folio has played in his life. the reason that shakespeare is the cultural colossus that he is is because that book was published. you kno...

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, it's 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, you'll find it there." yeah, it's true. and whenever you do these plays, they reflect the moment that they're being performed in, somehow. how does that work with your macbeth, then? w...

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, "i'll write a play about "witches for him. "that'll cheer him up. "that'll get him on my side." and he, you know — "hubble, bubble, toil and trouble," it's 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... - what's difficult about that now is he invented it so successfully, it's almost a cliche. this is where the cliche bega...

But that's our job. you leave that to us, so that when you come to the theatre, don't worry about that. let us know what we're telling you and the meaning — you'll receive the meaning if it's a good production. if we're doing ourjob halfway properly, you shouldn't 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 shoulders for all messina, as like him as she is! i wonder that you will still be talking, signor...