The Beatles - Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Skit 1964 - Best quality (With captions)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Hello everyone, this is my first non-TUGS/non-TTTE related video, this time it's about The Beatles and their Shakespearean Play Skit from 1964. I combined high quality footage and high quality audio to make this "ultimate" version; you could say, complete with captions.
Hope you enjoy!
CAPTION GUIDES:
White - Introductory narrator
Orange - Wall
Light Blue - Pyramus (Paul McCartney)
Red - Thisby (John Lennon)
Yellow - Lion (Ringo Starr)
Dark Blue - Moonshine (George Harrison)
Grey - Audience members
CREDITS:
High quality footage by Kitsu Beatles: • The Beatles - Shakespe...
High quality audio by OxAeroBabixO: • The Beatles perform Sh...
Captions for this video inspired by ToastyFresh: • The Beatles Perform Sh...
MY CREDITS:
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Wow, this has become my most popular video yet, thank you everyone!
This is probably the closest I've ever seen Shakepeare performed as it would have been done in his day with loads of heckling and banter which would have been especially appropriate for this comedy play within a play.
yes!
😂😂😂😂😊 🎸🎤🎤🎸🎤🎸🥁❤ 🎭
Of course a lot of the wordplay and double meanings are lost with the changes in language. Still , very glad it is saved and on original color not the rubbish b/w which Britain had at the time.
They told George they could not hear him because he was always considered the quiet one. I loved it when he yelled at the top of his lungs back at the hecklers. LMAO!
What does LMAO stand for? 🤔
@@lisastillwagon425 laughing my ass off
3:50 the part of him so cute!! ❤🎀
How could we not love the Beatles. No band had 4 personalities that meshed so well together. And the music... Thank you God for this wonderful gift.
"not a word"
"not a word"
"not a word!"
"S H U T U P"
"How many times have you watched this? "
"Yes "
They were such good sports and fitted together so well. Mick Jagger called them 'the four headed monster'.
"This doggie-woggie here is my dog." I love this!
The greatest, most advanced, most sensible development here is the use of differently coloured subtitles. It is baffling why this brilliant idea was not widely used on foreign films for English speaking audiences.
As for the programme itself - compared to this the Magical Mystery Tour does not look bizarre at all!
AND THIS DOGGY WOGGY HERE IS MY DOG🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Of course john and paul play the roles that are in love 😏
This group changed my whole damn life.
Same dude
SAME.
awww that lion on ringo's head also had blue eyes，this is so cute
PAUL IS SO CUTEEE
3:24 TOP 10 CUTEST LIONS EVER SEEN, TOP NUMBER 1
Ringster is such a beaut
Help, I'm addicted.
2:55 is just the cutest thing.
I agree
I’ve been a huge Beatles fan since I was 5 years old in 1963 and I’ve never seen this before. Thank you.
I’m 5 years younger than you and I’ve never seen this either. I thought I had seen everything that the Beatles had ever filmed.
Wrong! 😂
I cannot believe that I have never seen this before! I had seen a couple of stills but NEVER SEEN THIS!! Yes, thank you so much for this!!
They seemed to capture the scene perfectly in all its intended comic ineptitude! Great fun!
"My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones!" Crikey....
Just as excruciatingly hilarious now as it would have been in Shakespeare's day... 😀
That AWRR part got me BAWLING ❤😢
Wow even in the end when they are saying “adieu” together, their voices blend perfectly ❤️❤️✨
I’ve never heard of this! It brings back memories of friends of mine in grad school performing in this play. This scene was particularly funny and I laughed until I couldn’t breathe. I think my sides hurt the next day.
I love the way the Beatles were game for this play within a play. They played it pretty much as Shakespeare intended and had a great time doing so. I was two at the time so it was one more moment of their fun side that I’m now catching up on, thanks to the internet.
Wow, I think I just travelled back to the 60s in a time loop with the Beatles! ❤❤❤
Ringo was so adorable with that ‘awwwrr’❤❤❤❤ this is why he’s my favorite beatle ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
As John once said, being a Beatle was totally humiliate yourself.
This excellent. Well worth a look at the talented Beatles in pantomime.
Great seeing this in Color and glad you had the captions because I could never understand what they were saying
Great! I had a lot of their material on bootleg videos from over 40 years ago. I'm so glad to see this again.
theyre so funny i love them so much
Thanks for the upload! I haven't seen this since I watched it on TV when I was an 8 year old. I laughed at it all - including the heckling. This got me interested in reading "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I had a little trouble with Shakespearean English, but a teacher helped me out with it, and pointed out the "play within a play", which the Beatles performed so hilariously! To this day, A Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite Shakespeare play.
I'm so glad they kept their day job.
im performing this exact skit in class and i cant help butbthink of this
*bloody mad*
-John
Thanks so much for this! I've known about it for 40 years and have always wanted to see it!
i love them so much omg
every time i watch this it gets funnier 💀
Delicious. And how sweet Paul gave John a cat and John gave the cat the name of Pyramus. Then, John gave Paul a female cat...Paul chose the name of Thisby.
For real ??? :0 that’s so sweet 😭❤️
5:28 someone says "roll over Shakespeare!" in reference to roll over Beethoven lol
For those who kept saying Paul's eyes were brown and later became green (after the so called death of Paul in 1966) John clearly mentions his eye color as "green as leeks". That rests that old "Paul is dead" theory.
Yeah, and the fact Paul's voice sounds so similar to the way Paul's voice still sounds now, proves those "theories" wrong.
@@A1-Pacific_SketcherJohn called them freaks in how do you sleep .
You’re blind if you think Paul is 6 foot 3, but you’re obviously stupid so your mistake makes sense.
@@lisastillwagon425 Paul has hazel eyes so in some photos they show up as green and sometimes brown
Anyway, the real Paul "died" long ago. Today's Paul is an opportunist and hypocrite!
I wish I could've been there to see this live haha
Ha, Ha, I remember when this came out; right after I saw an old move of MND starring Mickey Rooney as Puck. I read the play later in the 7th grade.
This is great and such a great upload!! Thanks for this: a truly treasure!!🎼🎵🎶♥️
No entiendo nada ,pero solo verles las pintas (esas trencitas de Lennon) y esas caras a punto de soltar a reir😂😂😂😂
Parece que lo estaban pasando bien...❤❤❤❤
Nadie ,ningun grupo o banda(en esos primeros años ) ha echo tantas cosas,y ha *currado* tanto,
Its a Shakespeare parody
"George is the quiet beatle"
George: 3:57
Never heard him be that loud 😩
I feel in love
I'm currently rehearsing for Midsummer and this video is partially the reason why
Thanks for uploading!😍
Thank you for this! Made my day!
this video is priceless
I adore this band with all of my heart. They're just so damn delightful.
Thank you always, beloved Beatles, now and beyond my departure. You have been unique companions in my life, paving the way to help build a better and more just societies in
our techno-crazed World. Blessed are the ones who advocate for peaceandlove.
Fun! Note Andre Tayir is Wall and Trevor Peacock Narrator.
Wondering if Paul and Ringo have seen this video recently, and what their memories of this were …. 🤔
Thanks for posting, very entertaining.
Beautiful!!!
This looks really good in colour. Much more watchable! :)
Thanks for this. I played Thisby in high school. Never saw this before.
Completely insane!!!
I think I remember seeing this when broadcast on TV. Was it the same show when Peter Sellers performed Help as a Shakespearian actor?
Probably not as this was 1964 and Help didn’t come out until 1965. Sellers did do A Hard Day’s Night though a la Shakespeare so it might have been this.
This is "Around The Beatles".
Sellers performed "A Hard Day's Night" as a Shakespearian poet on "The Music of Lennon and McCartney"
Thanks for the info@@cesarmadero05
Sellers did it as a pastiche of Richard the third opening speech, Now is the winter of our discontent.
idk what i just watched but im laughing so hard
Haha wish this was uploaded earlier in my early beatlemaniac days, amazing quality!
Ringo is the cutest thing ever (≧▽≦)❤️
this is great
I cannot believe i'm watching the beatles doing this hahahah
Very good, but why was it not included on the Anthology dvd's?
Not sure, I believe the Anthology's focus was more on important and crucial parts of the Beatles' history, and this Skit probably wasn't part of that list.
Shakespeare's characters weren't skilled actors, & he writes the audience as ridiculing them the whole time. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EXACTLY THIS HORRIBLE
Anyone notice Trevor Peacock? Jim from Vicar of Dibley?
I also think one of the "hecklers" is Long John Baldry
I knew I recognised him from somewhere! Thanks for pointing it out! "No, no, no, no, no, no, no...yes!"
すごい‼️初めて観たよ🎵
To be or not to be Beatled o'er the dreadful summit of the cliff, that is the question...
A "colourised" version of the opening minutes from their 1964 TV special "Around The Beatles", which also featured Cilla Black, Long John Baldry, the Vernons Girls, Millie, P J Proby and Sounds Incorporated. The complete (black and white and unsubtitled) show is also available to view on TH-cam. (at th-cam.com/video/cHZ_6YKG0pA/w-d-xo.html )
Thanks... Long John Baldry also of course being one of the guys on the balcony playing the part of 'audience members' rudely heckling the actors, in true original Shakespearean era style. {He's the tall fair haired one on the left, for anyone unfamiliar.)
¡Cómo los quiero!
4:06 sounds like 'fuck you' , bad bad george !
Pmsl!!! Legend!
How come I've never seen it before? 😂😂😂
Who was Paul saying "It's alright! It's allright!" Too?
Paul was reassuring the audience when his character died in the story
Never heard about this. Hilarious! 😂
Long John Baldry doing the heckling?
Yep! 🙂
Long John Baldry heckcling the hell out of them 😂😂😂
The Stones version of Lear didn't go as well...
Of course Shakespeare, he’s English too
4人は千両役者！ そして、RINGOは今もRINGOのまま。
3:37
Who plays the Wall?
Where was this filmed. It looks like an Elizabethan Inn Courtyard
Wembley Park Studios, London, April 28, 1964
Yes, that was the idea, to set it up that way in the studio. Also the reason the TV special was called 'Around the Beatles' ie as 'theatre in the round'.
5:01 Was that discord notification
i heard that too i thought i got pinged lol
:D 👍👍
Oh I just hate hecklers. The Beatles were great sports about everything, though.
Wait. DOGGY WOGGY!?
Ups podrías agregar traducción al español latino
Can somebody tell me who the guy playing the wall was because I can't find a single answer on google
5:02 was that a discord ping??? ☠️☠️☠️
@@joeyorjohanna yeah lol
Excruciating😂
5:02 discord sound💀
uhhhhh 5:01
Why did they do this? 😅
Heh, we can never really know. I would assume that they decided they could do anything because of how popular they were, and they'd have a laugh about doing this!
erm what the sigma
Naturally funny men there's been no who do this without getting stupid or weird
🙅
😆😅😂🤣
6:43