Not gonna lie, even though I am now bilingual, English was my second language, and your performance almost instantly put me in a trance that took me back to being a 3 year old encountering the English language for the first time, as I listened blank-faced and blank-minded, and understood *nothing* .
Honestly, even as a native speaker, I felt like a 3 year old encountering English for the first time :P It was very much a case of "did I just have a stroke?".
Also bilingual, even if I did start early and my mother tells me I watched a four hour TV play of Hamlet at age 3 (How that didn't alert anyone to possible autism baffles me.), and four words into this my brain heaved the same heavy sigh it does when faced with long maths equations or explanations. It just nodded along with the same fake understanding as it does to Shakespeare normally. (That may sound contradictory, but 3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. _3x10 me_ is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences. Unless we're discussing pretentious coffee, naturally.)
@@Reicha "3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. 3x10 me is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences." Why are there so many of us?
"The language is the that of Mordor, which I will not utter here." "Mordor?" "In the common tongue it reads "One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them."" And holy smokes if that doesn't still give me chills, both Ians reading of it and Elijahs reaction... Tolkien is an equal, in my mind, to the brilliance of Shakespeare.
@@mistyrosemcconnell9586 Actually, going with Audio solutions is a good Idea for dyslexic children. You likely already know this, but having him do reading response by recording it with a voice recorder rather than writing it down, or typing it up is a great way to see if he is comprehending what he reads and listens too without the complexities that come with writing getting in the way.
@@sangralknight3031 yes, you are absolutely right. I had to argue for those accommodations with his therapists. It was amazing how his grades jumped when I switched over. Thank you. Not many people understand this.
@@mistyrosemcconnell9586 You are welcome, I had to fight the system for many an accommodation I knew my students needed. Never let him think that he can't learn because of tests or grades, in the end, that stuff really does not matter. If he finds a way to gain the knowledge and can demonstrate he knows it, it is well. Don't lose faith, and don't let him lose faith in himself.
Well, it's probably only pseudo-random. The word "or" appears more than once, so I don't think it's a true frequency list, just made to sound like one. Pretty convincing, though.
No, no, it's football score. "Night, Nature, two-nothing." "To" is a very common word and it's the fourth word in the play: "The and I, to of you my..."
As a Theatre person. This is High-Quality Shakespearean acting. There is an art to editing these plays down for a modern audience. You Sir, have perfected the art.
THANK YOU! I thought it was just me having those flashbacks. Took a bit of time (and some Cliff Notes) before I finally figured out that Shakespeare was pretty much the Shonda Rimes of his time.
I'm american and reading british spelling makes me feel like I'm having a stroke. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY U'S?!? Also, why is this->"z" called "zed" instead of "zee"
@@bryanthardin8481 - Why is this -> "r" called "ar" instead of "ree"? Why is this-> "w" called a "double-u" when it's clearly made up of two Vs? Why does the name of this -> "u" start with the sound of this -> "i"? If "i" and "e" are called what they are, why isn't "winner" pronounced "wai-neer"?
Why do you have to boil everything down to questions of nativeness and foreignness? This must be Europe's deeply fascist background, but still... English stopped being a national-only language long ago. It's an international, multiethnic language, and the British idiom is just one of the many idioms around the world.
*TRANSCRIPT:* Thee and I, to of you my; are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our. Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know. Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make! Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen; should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say. Eyes away -- Night -- Nature -- To nothing! _[exeunt omnes]_
It's funny, looking back, how underappreciated the original _Henry_ was at the time - and nobody remembers _Henry II: Henrier_ with much fondness. The less said about _Henry 3-D_ the better, of course. But even though I always felt splitting up _Henry IV_ into Parts I and II reeked of exploiting the fans for box-office gain, it has to be said that he pulled it all together pretty well in the end, yeah.
So, I'm not the only one confused then? I'm baffled at people who would pay to see this, as I respect it, but WOW, it's a long haul. I wouldn't call it "free time fun."
@@HO-bndk gonna bet that they didn’t understand it, either. Most of them were illiterate, so I highly doubt they could understand it much better than an educated person nowadays. The difference is, they had literally nothing better to do.
@@thedestroyasystem So being illiterate and unable to read and write means you can’t understand spoken words as well? The reason why Shakespere is difficult to understand, is, horror of horrors, because it was written several hundred years ago when english sounded very different. You seem to think that he wrote it deliberately to be pretentious and snobby, and that you can only understand it if you went to a private school. In reality his plays where shown in the seedy parts of london and people would litter the floor with oyster shells and get a bj from a local prostitute during the interval. The elizabethan equivalents of Mary Whitehouse would campaign against them for promoting sex, violence and buggery. I have no problem with someone not understanding Shakespeare- just don’t say it’s his fault
@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 I wasn’t trying to blame Shakespeare at all. Looking back I agree my comment comes off as quite ignorant, this subject most certainly isn’t my forté and I probably should’ve just visit my mouth shut lmao. Thank you for educating me :)
A captivating performance, so much emotion emanating from the screen.. overwhelming my senses and almost tricking my feeble mind into believing that the dialogue made sense. Bravo, bravo good sir.
Can thy please bring forth this masterpiece, in word for word as thy so carefully has placed them down to paper, written, like a painter applying delicate details with a split horses hair upon is canvas to turn lifeless pigments into the finest art and infinite wonder for ye intellect. Yes, such a fine piece, ever so dear. So, I hereby ask of thee to summon before me thy words that makes up Alasdair Beckett- King's Lear. To sum it up, can you please post your version?
TRANSCRIPT: Thee and I to of you my, are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our. Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know. Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make! Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen, should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say. Eyes away - Night - Nature - To nothing! [exeunt omnes]
But the good kind. Not the fever dreams where you're surfing a Nutella wave while arguing with a dolphin if tuna packed in water tastes better with crunchy peanut butter or if tuna packed in oil tastes fish-ier with crunchy peanut butter cuz the oil in the packet heightens the tuna's "natural juices" and it devolves into a weird conversation about tuna sex lives and how many lady tunas have gotten knocked up by Charlie. 😳🤷
Some chap already made a similar observation, but watching this had me thinking "this must be how toddlers hear grown ups talking on tv." It felt familiar. Like returning to a house you grew up in 20 years ago.
Holy fucking WOW That was the bestEST of the best performances I’ve ever seen You should REALLY voice some old wise wizard (like you already are) or a voice-over telling a story about medieval ages!
This is like me visiting the UK for the first time and going to a play of Shakespeare: you love the atmosphere they present but haven’t got a clue what they’re saying
I see people with English as a 2nd language (as myself) commenting that this is what English sounded like to them before learning it. Man, I'm fully bilingual and this is still what Shakespeare sounds to me if I don't turn on the subtitles.
"I know words, I have the best words" Shakespeare as interpreted by Beckett-King But in all seriousness I really like the acting in this video. He absolutely went for it.
Without a doubt, the best performance of Alasdair Beckett-King's Lear I've ever seen
I don't know, there was that time John Gielgud performed it.
Liam Jay Yes, John Giel is really gud.
Of all the Alasdair Beckett-King’s Lears I’ve seen, this is the best.
Best I've seen this week
Same.
Not gonna lie, even though I am now bilingual, English was my second language, and your performance almost instantly put me in a trance that took me back to being a 3 year old encountering the English language for the first time, as I listened blank-faced and blank-minded, and understood *nothing* .
You had me in the first half not gonna lie.
Honestly, even as a native speaker, I felt like a 3 year old encountering English for the first time :P It was very much a case of "did I just have a stroke?".
Also bilingual, even if I did start early and my mother tells me I watched a four hour TV play of Hamlet at age 3 (How that didn't alert anyone to possible autism baffles me.), and four words into this my brain heaved the same heavy sigh it does when faced with long maths equations or explanations.
It just nodded along with the same fake understanding as it does to Shakespeare normally.
(That may sound contradictory, but 3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. _3x10 me_ is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences. Unless we're discussing pretentious coffee, naturally.)
Same here, love the prose in your comment! 😊
@@Reicha "3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. 3x10 me is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences." Why are there so many of us?
"Eyes away. Night, nature... To nothing." My god it's bloody beautiful
"Ahh...poetry."
- Sokka
*two nothing. "To" is a much more common and is actually fourth in the play: "The and I, to of you my..."
sounds like football
My heart weeps as my eyes bleed, for such performance is truly... marvelous
Genuinely beautiful way to describe someone passing away
Can't lie, this is basically what Shakespeare sounds like to me already.
I hit comments to say this exactly.
YES.
Me too lol
It's the moment when your start zoning out while reading and need to start over, captured perfectly.
(savages)
It’s some kind of elvish. I can't read it
Best description of Shakespeare I've ever seen.
There are few who can.
stop min-maxing and put some points into lore!
@@terrancenightingale1749 This is the Old Tongue
"The language is the that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
"Mordor?"
"In the common tongue it reads "One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them.""
And holy smokes if that doesn't still give me chills, both Ians reading of it and Elijahs reaction... Tolkien is an equal, in my mind, to the brilliance of Shakespeare.
"Its full of words"
As a teacher, I hear this phrase alot from my students.
My dyslexic son says that all the time! It's full of words.Can't you just tell me really fast what it says?
@@mistyrosemcconnell9586 Actually, going with Audio solutions is a good Idea for dyslexic children. You likely already know this, but having him do reading response by recording it with a voice recorder rather than writing it down, or typing it up is a great way to see if he is comprehending what he reads and listens too without the complexities that come with writing getting in the way.
@@sangralknight3031 yes, you are absolutely right. I had to argue for those accommodations with his therapists. It was amazing how his grades jumped when I switched over. Thank you. Not many people understand this.
@@mistyrosemcconnell9586 You are welcome, I had to fight the system for many an accommodation I knew my students needed. Never let him think that he can't learn because of tests or grades, in the end, that stuff really does not matter. If he finds a way to gain the knowledge and can demonstrate he knows it, it is well. Don't lose faith, and don't let him lose faith in himself.
@@sangralknight3031 thank you for the kind words and encouragement 😊 you literally made me cry happy tears.
I love this ginger British Weird Al Yankovich.
Ginger, British *and* weird? Clearly a case for the Department of Redundancy Department.
if Monty Python was one guy
@@Albert_Herring Thoroughly underrated comment
I was just thinking, "A Ginger Yankovich."
@@oldvlognewtricks Bwah-hah-hah!
The fact he managed to show emotion in random words and acctually kinda captivate shows how good of an actor he is
A really good actor
Yes but minus the word `of`
The dramatic accentuation and sudden weird looks felt exactly like any fancy Shakespeare production.
@@Donteatacowman There is no lie.
It also shows how little of acting is the lines said and how much is the delivery.
Well, it's probably only pseudo-random. The word "or" appears more than once, so I don't think it's a true frequency list, just made to sound like one. Pretty convincing, though.
Night, Nature, to Nothing! That's some profound randomness right there.
No, no, it's football score. "Night, Nature, two-nothing." "To" is a very common word and it's the fourth word in the play: "The and I, to of you my..."
“Who then king there take… or here would father?” is so close to meaning… something 😂
All jokes aside, this is actually mesmerizing in a most auspicious sense.
Yeah, I saw the transcript. This is intense. Lol. Hard to even READ it.
Auspicious means fortunate or lucky. It’s not the word you are struggling for.
As a Theatre person. This is High-Quality Shakespearean acting. There is an art to editing these plays down for a modern audience. You Sir, have perfected the art.
The nerd in me wants to actually sort King Lear by word frequency, and check Alastair's work...
"eyes away ... night, nature, to nothing!" actually genuinely feels like something Shakespeare could have written
This sounds exactly like how I remember it from high school
THANK YOU! I thought it was just me having those flashbacks. Took a bit of time (and some Cliff Notes) before I finally figured out that Shakespeare was pretty much the Shonda Rimes of his time.
1:15 “eyes away” a stunning interpretation of one of the play’s most memorable scenes. exquisitely done
Which one?
@@anonymous-m7k Act 3, Scene 7-- the duke of Cornwall tortures the earl of Gloucester, gouging out one of his eyes
@@mirajara9149 OUT, VILE JELLY!
Eeeeewwww! Better had they just said this, than done the deed.
This comment made me cackle
What english sounds to foreign speakers.
What Shakespeare sounds like to English speakers.
I'm american and reading british spelling makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY U'S?!? Also, why is this->"z" called "zed" instead of "zee"
@@bryanthardin8481 - Why is this -> "r" called "ar" instead of "ree"? Why is this-> "w" called a "double-u" when it's clearly made up of two Vs? Why does the name of this -> "u" start with the sound of this -> "i"? If "i" and "e" are called what they are, why isn't "winner" pronounced "wai-neer"?
@@RFC-3514 haha, do you think it's phonetic or something?
Why do you have to boil everything down to questions of nativeness and foreignness? This must be Europe's deeply fascist background, but still... English stopped being a national-only language long ago. It's an international, multiethnic language, and the British idiom is just one of the many idioms around the world.
1:08 "Like then gentleman" So persuasive I had to pause and like right there
Where art thou Charlie bit thy finger.
I shall show this to students in acting seminars. Your breaks and your arches on nonsense are simply marvelous.
Bravo, Alasdair, bravo. I'm going to re-watch this so many times.
Your mannerisms make me feel like Im watching a far too well rendered Zelda CD cutscene
Oh... Damn recommendations again. This isn't Zelda?
Shoot. But thanks for the heads-up :/
*TRANSCRIPT:*
Thee and I, to of you my; are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our.
Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know.
Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make!
Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen; should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say.
Eyes away -- Night -- Nature -- To nothing!
_[exeunt omnes]_
Wow. That was almost impossible to say to MYSELF and English is my ONLY language.
GREAT use of punctuation there - you make it look like the real thing
Thy of most help be thank, forsooth, that this made me seen, yet was of meaning spoke.
Hmmm, technically, some words do repeat - but great nevertheless! :)
@@temporary0insanity: There are probably some homophones that I couldn't distinguish.
I am a little surprised to learn how frequent the word fool is used in Lear
Well, the Fool *is* a major character, as well as an insult.
@@Ajehy Ahh that explains it, thanks.
"A fool's fool fools fools who foolishly accept the foolishness of a fool's fool." - Shakepeare, probably
@@Kickiusz I love how - in English, we can go at something "fool tilt".
@@GedMaybury23 did you mean full tilt? I've never heard it used as fool tilt... is the usage the same?
King Lear is my favourite crazy mess, this is a close second
By far the most beautiful and lyrical stroke I have every witnessed.
How on earth did you memorize that, let alone perform it dramatically?? Brilliant work!!
Alasdair must be good at remembering new passwords.
Underrated response to a comment
That was the best performance of nothing that I've ever seen. Bravo, bravo.
Your performance really grants that gibberish the appearance of coherence.
No wonder it didn’t get a sequel like Shakespeare’s “Henry” franchise
The “Henry” franchise even got spinoffs called “Richard” and “John”. The most ambitious dramatic universe until the MCU.
It's funny, looking back, how underappreciated the original _Henry_ was at the time - and nobody remembers _Henry II: Henrier_ with much fondness. The less said about _Henry 3-D_ the better, of course. But even though I always felt splitting up _Henry IV_ into Parts I and II reeked of exploiting the fans for box-office gain, it has to be said that he pulled it all together pretty well in the end, yeah.
@@Somnogenesis Brilliant! I'm in awe.
Well played.
no idea where the fck ive ended up, but you entertained me well, good Sir
Is that, 'well, good sir.' or 'well good, sir.'?
Edit:
Thanks for the answer! 😆
@@Not_a_number_ Fixed it
@@Not_a_number_ Or, potentially, ", well good Sir", for some modern English..
@@fnordpojk or ", me well good Sir" for an additional Caribbean inflection
This is precisely how Shakespeare is if you see a play without having read and studied first
So, I'm not the only one confused then?
I'm baffled at people who would pay to see this, as I respect it, but WOW, it's a long haul. I wouldn't call it "free time fun."
Yet Elizabethan commoners went to and enjoyed these. Are you more feeble minded than they?
@@HO-bndk gonna bet that they didn’t understand it, either. Most of them were illiterate, so I highly doubt they could understand it much better than an educated person nowadays. The difference is, they had literally nothing better to do.
@@thedestroyasystem So being illiterate and unable to read and write means you can’t understand spoken words as well? The reason why Shakespere is difficult to understand, is, horror of horrors, because it was written several hundred years ago when english sounded very different. You seem to think that he wrote it deliberately to be pretentious and snobby, and that you can only understand it if you went to a private school. In reality his plays where shown in the seedy parts of london and people would litter the floor with oyster shells and get a bj from a local prostitute during the interval. The elizabethan equivalents of Mary Whitehouse would campaign against them for promoting sex, violence and buggery.
I have no problem with someone not understanding Shakespeare- just don’t say it’s his fault
@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 I wasn’t trying to blame Shakespeare at all. Looking back I agree my comment comes off as quite ignorant, this subject most certainly isn’t my forté and I probably should’ve just visit my mouth shut lmao. Thank you for educating me :)
‘Can some say’ is my favourite part, it simply melts on the tongue... ❤
A captivating performance, so much emotion emanating from the screen.. overwhelming my senses and almost tricking my feeble mind into believing that the dialogue made sense. Bravo, bravo good sir.
I love the dramatic pause and lean in with a new angle before "fool!"
Tonight’s featured menu item is King Lear Deconstructed.
Deconstructed indeed.
The timing in all your videos is fantastic I laugh every time I watch one
Can thy please bring forth this masterpiece, in word for word as thy so carefully has placed them down to paper, written, like a painter applying delicate details with a split horses hair upon is canvas to turn lifeless pigments into the finest art and infinite wonder for ye intellect. Yes, such a fine piece, ever so dear. So, I hereby ask of thee to summon before me thy words that makes up Alasdair Beckett- King's Lear.
To sum it up, can you please post your version?
TRANSCRIPT:
Thee and I to of you my, are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our. Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know.
Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make!
Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen, should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say.
Eyes away - Night - Nature - To nothing! [exeunt omnes]
(pulled from someone else's comment, I had no part in transcribing it)
@@UnknownVir thank you very much for bringing me this verse, kind unknown! I grant you some good mojo for your coming days!
EXCELLENT request. Beautifully written.
"Tis was us, love's sea must heart upon speak poor".
Classic Shakespeare.
*chefs kiss*
I hope for great things for thee. You have brought joy to many. You win.
'Tis was us! My new, favorite exclamation.
And will ever more be thus
A sign of a great performer is that he can take gibberish and make it sound interesting. Well done.
I hope coldplay doesn’t find this video, they’ll turn this into a song 😜
Fantastic work !
Bwah-hah-hah!
this feels too much like a real monologue yet every time you try to understand it you just become awash in the flow of it all
"Foooool" gave me chills. Exceptional delivery
You know youre a good actor when you can speak gibberish for two minutes straight without anyone clicking off the video
I’m hypnotized
That is the best-dressed word salad I think I have ever seen without speaking.
The way that almost makes sense but doesn't is amazing
Yes, it definitely has the essence of Shakespeare. He wrote whole plays like that
Happy to see you went over well in...1960s Birmingham....Alabama.
This makes all those years (four, four years) studying Macbeth somehow worth it in the end. God bless you, sir.
But it sounded amazing 👍🏻
When you actually have read it, but you literally don't remember anything and the teacher asks you to talk about it:
Yes. Ye. Yes.
Of all the ""Alasdair Beckett-King's Lear" performances this has to be one of them. When can we expect a Sydney showing?
Amazing. This is must be why they say presentation is everything.
This man is a genius. Looking forward to the Spanish-dubbed version.
Now I know what English sounds like to non-English speakers
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I love how it still kind sorta work
And so thy will shall be thy, and thee are the we of he. For unto this of me.....Unto this of me.
Jesus, watching ABK at night is like a fever dream.
But the good kind. Not the fever dreams where you're surfing a Nutella wave while arguing with a dolphin if tuna packed in water tastes better with crunchy peanut butter or if tuna packed in oil tastes fish-ier with crunchy peanut butter cuz the oil in the packet heightens the tuna's "natural juices" and it devolves into a weird conversation about tuna sex lives and how many lady tunas have gotten knocked up by Charlie. 😳🤷
@@aravenlunatic9028 This sounds suspiciously specific...
Some chap already made a similar observation, but watching this had me thinking "this must be how toddlers hear grown ups talking on tv."
It felt familiar. Like returning to a house you grew up in 20 years ago.
Bravo! Simply brilliant!!!🎭👏
That was awesome
Holy fucking WOW
That was the bestEST of the best performances I’ve ever seen
You should REALLY voice some old wise wizard (like you already are) or a voice-over telling a story about medieval ages!
Oh my God, he actually memorized it
I could barely READ it. I can't imagine memorizing it. Lol. Only language: English.
How normal mouth words sound before my first coffee
How did this weirdly make sense XD
That's what I thought, too
The rhythms are the same as the real thing, so it sounds like it might make sense. That's why it's funny.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Wow, you really got a point there. That totally makes sense and will be the explanation.
Indeed
"Eyes away. Night, nature. Two nothing."
Honouring the Beckett name I see.
It is a testament to your craft that you make it sound like you are saying meaningful phrases.
Why do you have so few subscribers? You're a comedic genius!
You actually just reminded me that I hadn't subscribed... Thx
This alone is high fantastical.
I remember seeing this performance at the Globe. It was truly rapturous performance.
Man, that's a great performance. Also funny. Thanks.
I didn't understand a word but I was entertained all the time.
You and Bill Bailey should have been born siblings. Awesome at almost everything. And funny as hell.
King's Lear sounds like the script for a Sims character.
Another brilliant performance!!
Effing. Brilliant.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
The it is that would be good! For my are here and all well go!
This is like me visiting the UK for the first time and going to a play of Shakespeare: you love the atmosphere they present but haven’t got a clue what they’re saying
That's poorly acted Shakespeare fyi. When you see it done well it makes total sense
I see people with English as a 2nd language (as myself) commenting that this is what English sounded like to them before learning it. Man, I'm fully bilingual and this is still what Shakespeare sounds to me if I don't turn on the subtitles.
It is important how words like nothing, love, king, and especially fool are recurring wirds in king lear.
And I understand it all! Excellent acting!
Breathtaking. Amazing!
I understood this literally as much as I understood Shakespeare when reading it for the first time.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
Marvellous adaptation of one of the bard’s great works. And a red headed orator! Gingers unit! (From a ginger.)
I love it!❤️❤️❤️💐💐💐😘😘😘👌
This is what a politicians listening to a several hour long expert debate feel like. In the end, they thank the experts and make up some random laws.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Hysterical!! A British Ryan George! Not sure which one came first!
I cried. Da capo.
"I know words, I have the best words"
Shakespeare as interpreted by Beckett-King
But in all seriousness I really like the acting in this video. He absolutely went for it.
This will be the interpretation our machine overlords will celebrate.
All subsequent interpretation shall root in this one.
Excellent delivery, it's like James Joyce throwing hands XD
This is a Fourier transform of the play and I'm here for it
It got me in tears
Interestingly enough, if you use the same process for this version, the result is the same.
This has instantly become my favorite Shakespearean play.
Sounds amazingly like Hamlet
😁😆
Didn't expect to enjoy this one that much but it snuck up on me. LMAO
Brilliant, just brilliant.
Regular Shakespeare sounds the same to me tbh
EDIT: Actually, it’s starting to make sense