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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 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 publishe...

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 rehearsals for macbeth and asked him about the role shakespeare's first folio has played in his lif...

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 ne'er be clean? the collection of plays was put together by two of shakespeare's 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...

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 wouldn't 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, i'm sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play that's been in performance now for over 400 years. but it wouldn't exist. we wouldn't have a copy of it. and even those that we did have...

You know, they're not — they're 400 years old and there's vocabulary that we don't use any more and it's in verse. it doesn't 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 whereabout. i go and it is done. as i start rehearsals, i would hope i know what everything me...