Did a Drunk Scot Give Shakespeare The Idea For Macbeth?

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  • @EleanorMortonable
    @EleanorMortonable  2 ปีที่แล้ว +188

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      @kujasan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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      @GuntherRommel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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      @piccalillipit9211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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    • @mtpockets7352
      @mtpockets7352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you kidding
      Love you my lady

  • @kingbeauregard
    @kingbeauregard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +814

    I love that there's a reason Shakespeare refers to her simply as "Lady Macbeth".

    • @Wednesdaywoe1975
      @Wednesdaywoe1975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      I just don't see "Gruoch" catching on like "Portia" or "Rosalind".

    • @1ouncebird
      @1ouncebird 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Wednesdaywoe1975 Oh that killed me Elena. 👍 🤣 😁

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@Wednesdaywoe1975 I am astonished to realize that Mrs Macbeth really WAS named "Gruoch". Holy crap!

    • @sergiosaunier
      @sergiosaunier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I found that out just now!

    • @flamenco1961
      @flamenco1961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Wednesdaywoe1975 You might wanna write that down😅

  • @Lolo50000
    @Lolo50000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +262

    'Aw fuck did I mention that guy' is a perfect summary of MacDuff's introduction to the play

  • @beto6000
    @beto6000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    The best advise Shakespeare ever received "You should put funny bits in it too"! I'll say it again, Genius!

    • @UsefulClips
      @UsefulClips 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Knock knock!"

  • @BarnabusBarbarossa
    @BarnabusBarbarossa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    Plot twist: The drunk Scot was King Macbeth himself, having been made immortal through a pact with fairies and a gargoyle.

    • @Baalek1
      @Baalek1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not gonna lie, I'd watch that.

    • @jackheggarty1929
      @jackheggarty1929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Baalek1 You're in luck!
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(TV_series)

    • @guanyu8539
      @guanyu8539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think Marina Sirtis would be a great choice to play Macbeth! She was Counselor Troi of Star Trek: Next Generation for anyone who is unfamiliar with her.

    • @OneWhoDreamsAwake
      @OneWhoDreamsAwake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      God I love that show. Literally all I can ever think of when I think of Macbeth (and like 50 other random historical places because of the Avalon World Tour).

  • @louthegiantcookie
    @louthegiantcookie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    What's always fascinated me about Macbeth is just how different Shakespeare's version is from the real historical guy. Who was apparently a very well loved and kind ruler. People talk about his character assassination of Richard III - but Richard DID do some sketchy stuff - Macbeth meanwhile is turned from a good and respected King to a dude who goes on a killing spree because...reasons?

    • @TadeuszCantwell
      @TadeuszCantwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Because he came from a different historical line then King James 6th of Scotland/1st of England so it was to big up James' family line.

    • @grumpycato8314
      @grumpycato8314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Because of his wife

    • @stiofanloingsigh351
      @stiofanloingsigh351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Propaganda fan-fiction.

    • @UrsahSolar
      @UrsahSolar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Well, Macbeth's legacy is safe because all this time I thought he was fictional.

    • @randomobserver8168
      @randomobserver8168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Yeah- I suggest MacBeth the King, a novel by Nigel Tranter. Only major fictionalized version of the true events of which I am aware. Can be hard going, but a good book. supposedly MacB had three claims to the throne- as representative of another branch of the main royal line from a couple kings earlier, as representative of a separate northern royal family that had long ago alternated on the throne, and as husband of his wife, who was also an heir to the throne. Plus his succession would have been plausible under previous succession rules his predecessors had altered. That and Duncan was killed in battle, not murdered, and was a young soldier type, not a kindly old man.

  • @garyhyndman1105
    @garyhyndman1105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    As a drunk Scotsman who spends a lot of time with other drunk Scotsmen that was pretty much bang on. LOL

  • @fullmetalguy8357
    @fullmetalguy8357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    I was Banquo in a sort of "modernized" version of Macbeth and I can confirm, we used empty alcohol bottles as props for the play. Who emptied those bottles remains a mystery, but we were told our drunken encounter with the witches was "very convincing".

    • @subway830
      @subway830 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i would like this comment but it's 69 so i wont

  • @MagsPM
    @MagsPM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    I believe this 100% and will not be convinced otherwise

    • @KitagumaIgen
      @KitagumaIgen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Feels like a documentary, right?

  • @MrSmartComment
    @MrSmartComment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is too good, as a Macbeth geek I just keep coming back every day, I can't help myself!

  • @shinywarm6906
    @shinywarm6906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    And Shakespeare went on to use the drunk Scot as the inspiration for the character of Macbeth himself. "Fucken witches an' a'... is this a dagger or what?... o' cours I canna sleep, it's them SCORPIONS...wait! them trees is movin'. MOVIN' I tell ye...."

    • @theosprey7111
      @theosprey7111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you drink enough whisky the trees begin to move on their own…so did Tolkien get the idea of the Ents from Macbeth?

  • @AW-xc1xc
    @AW-xc1xc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Lady Macbeth's biggest secret is her first name, no one would allow her to be queen if they knew!
    I say this confidently as someone who wrote a seven page essay on how her character correlated with the values of the time.

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      True story: after watching a first season episode of "Better Call Saul", I had a dream in which Chuck McGill was Lady Macbeth and couldn't get the blood off his hands. That's when I understood Chuck's ailment, and was proven right the following season.

    • @roryross3878
      @roryross3878 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kingbeauregard It is an amazing series, I can't believe how much more I like it than Breaking Bad, which was pretty damn good.

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@roryross3878 Writing an even adequate prequel series is hard enough, but one that matches the original (which itself is considered a masterpiece) ... ? That's no easy feat.
      The series I wish they'd do would be like "Bill Nye the Science Guy", except it would be "Jesse P the Science B". The premise is straightforward: Jesse, Badger, and Skinny Pete do science demonstrations and explain scientific principles to kids. Every week they bring on a different guest, such as nerdy Walter White to show how vinegar and baking soda foam, or Gus Fring to explain the science of cooking, or Heisenberg to show how to make explosives out of ordinary household materials, or Hank Schraeder to demonstrate the wonders of mineralogy. (Of course he absolutely hates Jesse so Saul Goodman has to be present to make sure Hank stays 15 feet away at all times.)

  • @PredaConvoy
    @PredaConvoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The historical equivalent of "well known comedian in a cab, and driver says 'I've got a joke you can use'.." I'm pretty certain this would be exactly how it happened!

  • @d.f.4830
    @d.f.4830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I find myself oddly attracted, not so much to your charming self, as to the fictional Scottish men that you occasionally portray 😅

    • @triangleinformation5803
      @triangleinformation5803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s OK, D.F. SURE, you have sex fantasies about men wearing plaid skirts but that doesn’t mean you’re gay. Nope. Not at all.
      So D.K., how’s that collection of Oscar Wilde photos in the nude these days? Still in the attic or are they in the closet? Frankly I like the Aubrey Beardsley drawings better.

    • @d.f.4830
      @d.f.4830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@triangleinformation5803 It's an odd sort of joke, mostly because, like... wot? 😂
      I'm a painting of a drunk angel baby named D.F. Couldn't I be any gender? And, like... why am I defensive about being a gay guy in this joke???
      For the record, I'm a guy and I'm bi, so, like - yeah. Makes sense that I'd have the hots for Craig.🤔

    • @d.f.4830
      @d.f.4830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@triangleinformation5803 Thanks for turning me onto Aubrey Beardsley, though; I'd seen the drawings but never put a name to 'em. ^_^

    • @triangleinformation5803
      @triangleinformation5803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@d.f.4830 Damn. I never thought I’d have a positive impact on someone’s life. I’ll try to do worse next time.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Craig seems like a fun drunk.

    • @matthewwilliamlosure
      @matthewwilliamlosure 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This person cannae be Craig, they clearly give a f**k.

  • @Larstig81
    @Larstig81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I watch so many of your videos, my English voice in my head, when I reading English text, sound Scottish and I am Dutch.
    So thank you.

  • @ktj4691
    @ktj4691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The absolute accuracy of this is truly astounding. 10/10 content right here.

  • @rolandscales9380
    @rolandscales9380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    You do know that the Sumerian flood narrative as given in the Epic of Gilgamesh, took place in Glasgow? The writer of the Epic was very impressed by the newly-constructed ark (for want of a better word) and asked an incoherent old drunk hanging around nearby, "Och, yon's a bonnie big boat! Wha built it, mon?" The old drunk muttered something that sounded like "Utnapishtim", and so there we have it.

    • @gennadiyleyfman6920
      @gennadiyleyfman6920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah! And all those Sumer guys were wearing kilts! And nothing else…

    • @imokin86
      @imokin86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ah, old Gill McMesh, yeah.

  • @markdodd1152
    @markdodd1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    That is funny. There's a local theater group that does Shakespeare but in a comedy fashion and there's drinking involved. Instead of Hamlet they call it Ham lit . And they do a lot of other Shakespeare too

    • @louthegiantcookie
      @louthegiantcookie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Speaking of comedy Shakespeare: Did you ever hear about Peter 'O Toole's Macbeth? He apparently insisted on using inflatable scenery, so the entire play took place on the equivalent of a bouncy castle, and then began drunkenly cussing out the audience. I really wish we had footage of it, because it sounds amazing.

    • @markdodd1152
      @markdodd1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@louthegiantcookie I think I heard about that quite a while ago. But that would be epic if there was footage. I love his drinking stories too

    • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
      @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whereabouts doth ye thespians present said tales of humor and mischief?

    • @markdodd1152
      @markdodd1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 Fayetteville North Carolina. Home of Fort Bragg. And a bunch of microbreweries. Pretty cool place

  • @MichaelMaxwell747
    @MichaelMaxwell747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You remind me of Billy Connelly when I heard his stand up comedy in the 1970's!

  • @johnheart6890
    @johnheart6890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    If I was directing the Scottish play I would definitely cast you as the sleepy and somewhat inebriated guard who tells knock knock jokes and takes his time to let MacDuff into MacBeth’s castle the night that King Duncan (he’s the guy- remember) was murdered by Laird and Lady MacBeth! If it was in repertory I would also cast you as the most talkative grave digger in Hamlet! If I only had the credits and position we would take Stratford by storm! Congratulations, hopefully you will soon come across someone more powerful than I, a lowly TH-cam watcher. (Sigh)

  • @sentimentalcircuscurator
    @sentimentalcircuscurator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I dont know how or why.But I really needed all that ...... swearing right now.Thank you.

  • @MysticSkall
    @MysticSkall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just stumbled on your channel Eleanor. Can’t stop laughing me moons off. You are simply Superb 😂😂😂

  • @QuarrellaDeVil
    @QuarrellaDeVil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "And, eh, cesareans. Blockbuster right there!" This won the Internet for me tonight, thank you!

  • @bacul165
    @bacul165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watched this after listening to David Tennant's Macbeth in bbc radio. Two masterpieces!

  • @Pur9leRain
    @Pur9leRain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I never appreciated the plot when I did it for my A Levels (although I got an A). But as an adult who works as a nurse, all I am worried about is Caesarean sections in Tudor times. People didn’t survive childbirth or even pregnancy, how on earth did anyone survive C- sections. Also, I would like to analyse this again with more emphasis on shared psychopathy of the couple. I feel like I missed out so much, how on earth did I get an A (and it was top banding).
    Now focusing on your acting, are you really drunk or are you really that good!

    • @EleanorMortonable
      @EleanorMortonable  2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I think it was guaranteed to kill the mum :(

    • @DoomShepherd
      @DoomShepherd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      REALLY unlikely to be survivable for the mother. Even in 1865 the fatality rate for mom was 85%. I don't think it's ever mentioned that MacDuff's mother survived his birth, though.

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@EleanorMortonable i went to pinpoint the date of the first maternally survived c-section, and found I’d been thinking of the first one in the US, in 1794. Apparently some rare accounts of mothers living past the procedure exist since the 1500s?! Still can’t have been a good time with no anesthesia, blood transfusions or antibiotics

  • @nictheartist
    @nictheartist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "They kill some guy .." omg, and Macduff is in it, too. Best ever summary of The Scottish Play.

  • @IMDunn-oy9cd
    @IMDunn-oy9cd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As a Yank who lived in Scotland for four years, I can confirm that this documentary is accurate.

  • @RadishTheFool
    @RadishTheFool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love your sense of humour, and the way you portray your characters.
    Also, I think you would like the webcomic Hark a Vagrant. It's not active anymore, but you can still read everything on the website. It's humour about history and literature. Not similar to your stuff at all, but I think you might like it.

    • @EleanorMortonable
      @EleanorMortonable  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Love those comics!

    • @RadishTheFool
      @RadishTheFool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EleanorMortonable 😊

    • @armandj.8864
      @armandj.8864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      came here to say this!!!! @Eleanor Morton is kind of the next step beyond Hark a Vagrant combined with Sarah Cooper level impressions.

  • @hwmnbn
    @hwmnbn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Where do you get these ideas?!? Brilliant, funny, historically semi-accurate, and delivered with such conviction! I'm a fan. Subscribed and recommended to my friends. Coffee on the way!

  • @joanr3189
    @joanr3189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Omg she has got the boring deadly ignorant drunk down perfectly.
    Her powers of observation and mimicry are amazing.

  • @Warm_and_loveable
    @Warm_and_loveable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have alot of respect for you after I heard your titanic accent... you do have some real talent

  • @Cadfael007
    @Cadfael007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We had Shakespear at school in Germany. Now I know the truth! You're GREAT!!!

  • @tesiahennessy4946
    @tesiahennessy4946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm reading Macbeth right now and I have never seen a more accurate description of it

  • @VampiraVonGhoulscout
    @VampiraVonGhoulscout 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in Glasgow and can 100% confirm everybody speaks like this.

  • @sergiosaunier
    @sergiosaunier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "...anyhow, and then his wife, Gruoch, Gruoch, you might want to write that down..."
    I just lost it right there!

  • @chopin65
    @chopin65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Classic. You blew the story wide open!

  • @milascave2
    @milascave2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I worte a saga in my head in which a Scottish guy in pre-Christian Scotland got invloved with a real withc and took a potiont that made him potentialy emortal. Centuries later, he is hanging out in London with some play writier named William in a tavern. will listens to his fanciful tales about witches in old Scotland,and invites him to write a play about it, so he does. Will reads it and says "Well, this is good stuff. But I. am going to have to make a few changes. There is no way that we can get away with making the witches the horos and the early Chritian missionaries the bad ones" So he rewrote the play, and it was good, But he never gave the other guy credit. So the other guy, still possessing some. withing skills,put a curse on the play, such that even saying the name of it while you are performing in a play will make thst play fail, or the theatre fall prey to some disaster.Or some such thing,

  • @ritaireneguzmanaldeco6110
    @ritaireneguzmanaldeco6110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh, god! I haven't had such a laugh in a long, long time, thank you very much for this amazingband hilarious content, keep the good work!

  • @johncherskov5755
    @johncherskov5755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love everything about you. Good luck and keep that intuitive spark going.

  • @BegoneJonah
    @BegoneJonah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I need her and the Critical Drinker to meet and discuss... anything.

  • @patrickpullman8348
    @patrickpullman8348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    OMG! It's like you were channeling my dad when explains a movie he's seen.

  • @shughy1
    @shughy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is soooo good at Scottish mannerisms, absolutely nails it, I can't stop watching the Scottish ones

  • @DrCruel
    @DrCruel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Her drunken Scot impersonation is spot on. It's like she has years of personal experience.

  • @StephanieJeanne
    @StephanieJeanne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Haha, the poor gent never got any credit. He probably didn't remember this encounter the next day anyway. 😂

  • @graememckay9972
    @graememckay9972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel needs to be bigger. Deserves it.

  • @VladVexler
    @VladVexler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I laughed thank you! Brilliant introduction to one of our greatest meditations on the moral psychology of power!

  • @jimdaw65
    @jimdaw65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Are you Shakespeare?" .... Shakespeare makes rapid calculation as to whether Yes or No is the correct answer to avoid a punch in the face :-)

  • @nakatominocalamari2969
    @nakatominocalamari2969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It really helped me with my homework. Thank you!

  • @psihostrumpf6233
    @psihostrumpf6233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ''What? Naw.'' Even that bit is hilarious. I have no words for the rest of this show. Only laughing hyena sounds and tears... love it.

  • @fincrazydragon
    @fincrazydragon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the accent!
    Irish people aren't always drunk, they just sound like it! 😂

  • @petervandiest4358
    @petervandiest4358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is fuckin' brilliant! I could nae stop fuckin' laughing me fuckin' arse off! You must follow yer awn advice: Keep doin' it!

  • @jake_from_statefarm7209
    @jake_from_statefarm7209 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my gosh, this is brilliant! I could listen to you speak for hours 😁

  • @Actiontime70
    @Actiontime70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That play idea is a masterpiece Shakespeare would look up to you if he were alive in this day and time

  • @iOnlySignIn
    @iOnlySignIn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gruoch is my favorite Shakespearean character.

  • @WordyGirl90
    @WordyGirl90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I began reading Macbeth recently (I’m 31 and never read it!) and we haven’t gotten to the ghosts and moving trees yet! I’m excited!

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's a great movie, "Scotland PA", where the Macbeth story takes place in the 1970s over ownership of a burger place. It's pretty great; go see it. Other than a brief moment when people conspire to commit a "Godspell" (which was frankly inevitable in the 70s), it's a joy.

    • @EleanorMortonable
      @EleanorMortonable  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Try and see it live if you can! Plays are always better seen!

  • @micjam1986
    @micjam1986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I squint.... and you move your head around fast... it literally looks like your hair is on fire 🔥 😂

  • @clockworkkirlia7475
    @clockworkkirlia7475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent work! I could honestly just about believe it.

  • @ShankarSivarajan
    @ShankarSivarajan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Renaming her "Lady Macbeth" was a wise decision.

  • @Wednesdaywoe1975
    @Wednesdaywoe1975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are amazing. You've even got the Scottish head twist just before finishing a thought. Brilliant. And fuckin Gruoch.

  • @Evtheevil42
    @Evtheevil42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “It’s okay he’s the main character he can’t die” ~ me reading Macbeth

  • @davidacutchin
    @davidacutchin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your humor. This had me rolling.

  • @forstirling484
    @forstirling484 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE that you use closed caption speaking English with an accent

  • @debbieleija4466
    @debbieleija4466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OMG, new subscriber here and I’m watching you nonstop. We just came back from the museum of flight in Seattle and that TH-cam was spot on. You’re friggin hilarious

  • @albertlay8927
    @albertlay8927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just found you on YT. You're brilliantly hilarious!!! Went to watch more of your stuff and I have no other option than to subscribe.

    • @MisterTMH
      @MisterTMH 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too !

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have no idea how you showed up in my recommended section but I'm glad you did.

  • @bellringer929
    @bellringer929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shakespeare intoxicates you, and now you know why.

  • @williamt7664
    @williamt7664 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm from Abingdon, MD, USA. I think you're work is awesome Eleanor! So original to an American! I am sending your links to friends of mine hoping they catch on. However, some of my friends do not have much of a sense of humor. Oh well. Best of luck! William.

  • @EmpyrionBlackthorn
    @EmpyrionBlackthorn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is one of the best drunk impressions I've ever seen... or were you actually drunk? 😉

  • @ajax1137
    @ajax1137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good. God. Imagining myself as Shakespeare, I did a triple facepalm.

  • @picarus2210
    @picarus2210 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Exactly like every conversion I've ever had at 3am outside a kebab shop with a Glaswegien.

  • @WoefulPie
    @WoefulPie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck to make amends!

  • @petereastwood7868
    @petereastwood7868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Keep doin’ it”. You, too, Eleanor: keep doin’ it.

  • @yaw613thewonder8
    @yaw613thewonder8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lol i can see why shakespear just called gruoch "lady macbeth"

  • @dbmail545
    @dbmail545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is hilarious. Her genetic test "99.9% white. And 0.1% also white"

  • @JariahxSynn
    @JariahxSynn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Came for jokes stayed for the accent

  • @manatee5936
    @manatee5936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is basically what I interpreted when having Shakespeare forced upon me in junior high.

  • @guilhermecaiado5384
    @guilhermecaiado5384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really like how self aware she is, even tho she's from the first world, she is aware of the priviledges, most people have no clue at all.

  • @technonarg5978
    @technonarg5978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad I came across your channel you're very funny,and I'm pleased you have lots more videos for me to catch up on. :-)

  • @mor8286
    @mor8286 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hedy Lamarr: The Incredible Mind Behind Secure WiFi, GPS And Bluetooth

  • @caitlinryan394
    @caitlinryan394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's the best version of Macbeth I've ever seen.

  • @hermask815
    @hermask815 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think she had some of that “hurly-burly” whiskey.

  • @michaelkopala3738
    @michaelkopala3738 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In an odd way, it's one of my favorite versions of mcbeth ever.

  • @Original50
    @Original50 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    THAT sounds like your average high-school presentation, heard anywhere between Fraserborough and Elgin... 😋

  • @lecturesonquantumfieldtheo4240
    @lecturesonquantumfieldtheo4240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please, do Shakespeare reads his hate mail, if you haven't ! Thanks for your stuff!

  • @jedinxf7
    @jedinxf7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    holy shit so that's why she's Lady Macbeth! hahahaa

  • @Eds_PanAm
    @Eds_PanAm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my god! 😂😂 I had tears in my eyes watching this from laughing

  • @mikerapp8163
    @mikerapp8163 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think I had that very conversation in a pub once. 😅😅

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, just in time for my English class book report - Thanks! 🙏

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favourite Shakespeare play fuckin' beautifully explained.

  • @thudor1
    @thudor1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This reminded me of Robin Williams doing the drunken Scot who invented golf!!🤣🤣🤣

  • @Krendin
    @Krendin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Seems legit. I'm going to update the Wikipedia page on Macbeth right now and cite this video.

  • @stlouisix3
    @stlouisix3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I definitively disapprove of all the swearing but this was brilliant humour!

  • @MrHominid2U
    @MrHominid2U 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just discovered you. You are HYSTERICAL!!

  • @yef122
    @yef122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I had a long talk with this "guy's" descendant in a Glasgow bar several years ago 😆

  • @herluka
    @herluka ปีที่แล้ว

    Would love to run into Eleanor when drunk and go like: "Great comedy! Love that stuff... that guy... what's his flippin name... CRAIG! Craig's great. But I also had an idea about this lad Josh who is like a manager of a garden center... You writing this down yet, Eleanor? You're gonna break the internets with this one! All the internets, not just youtube. Don't forget to give Josh a funny accent though, that stuff really matters. Like a Salisbury one or something..."

  • @IYAMNI
    @IYAMNI 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You know some of the Greek plays really do seem like they were inspired by a few rounds of ale. Like Oedipus Rex for example. "And you know what...? Turns out the guy at the crossroads was his own Dad... and you know what that makes Jocasta, right?"

  • @MysticSkall
    @MysticSkall 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trees that move. 😂😂😂 you are gonna be a star

  • @garywhitt98
    @garywhitt98 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eleanor knows her drunks. Spot…on.

  • @sandwich2473
    @sandwich2473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    has to be how it went down